The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1889-09-26
Az Foraker Lives In PattOn's
House lilo Must Know
All About IL.
Other Handsome" Shortages Fig
ure on the Books,
And Make a Grand Total In Excess OF
sBl,ooo,oo
How mia Auditor Of state Poe Overlook
These Things In Ills "omelal"
nolier Plate ileportY

COLuMHus o., Sept l9,-G'he "mag'
niaeent showing OF tho Ohio peniton'
tlary % o money'malger for q beiooled
people Is simply
ONE OF TiiE rArER MYTHS
WheFowith Forakerism botrlga Itself
withal 10 strut and display itself 10 tho
largo school OF political auek0ra who ara
willing 10 swallow any thing that has
81, u, H." blown In the hottie,
was looking over the books IN tho
State Auditors Office to-day and there,
on four pages Of the ledger-irom 20
10 10 lnclusiyo-l found one Of tho CON
tractors
| Oven TWENTY'eEVEN THOUSAND not
LAHs SHORT
In his payment for tho cheap labor oi
that instltutIon
The nam0 Of the contractor In Colonel
A, q, Patton, head Of the Patton Manu-
featuring Company,
The books are only posted up 10 the
sth day Of August, owing TO the Illness
Of the clerk having them In charge, Tho
entries up 10 that date show
riR FOLLOWING STATE oP FACTS,
Which will probably interest great
number Of peoples
On the lst Of December, 1883, there
was due from Colonel Patton 10 the
State for contract labor q balance OF
e0,909s7 and on "plooo proo' sl2, ,076,5a,
a total Of Se9, S1O,a0,
On the sth day Of August there was
due on contract labor s2iO15aO, with
credits 20 July ~ aggrogating si5,5OO,
leaving u shortage Of ss,b7b,dg, On the
same day there was due on "ploGo price,
s3i, i,0lL05, with credits aggrcgatlng siO,'
900, leaving o shortage OF Sls,0i7pb, or q
grand total Of s9I b98,a4 shortage Of pay.
mcnt, somo $1,000 greater than n was
nine months ago,
In the State Auditors books found
A PRIVATE MEMORANDUM
In pencil, which stated that thorc was
due from Colonel Patton on contract
60,o75,A0, on picc0 prioo s2O,4iL05,"
grand total OF $50, ,bo8,ai,
This memorandum was probably made
by the Auditor OF state yesterday or TO-
day, and is what he figures the shortage
10 date.
next called on Attornoy.GenorAl
Watson, who informed me that his
books show that Colonel Patton IA short
S28, ,b93,8l, which indicates . payment Of
-, 900 since the Auditors books were
posted, over u month ago,
But at the same time General Watson
admitted that the indebtedness for Au.
gust had not been certified over 10 him,
and, as this is little over $4,000, the
shortage ~ not decreased below s91.
900, and is psobably In excess Of $40, 900,
as the Auditors private memorandum
shows
The Attornoy.Goncral informed me
that no had Colonel Patton's bond for
$4,000, and lien on 700 tons Of pig
iron, and considered the State safely 80.
cured
II may be and II may not, Time will
probably tell that as II did once before.
Az all events Colonel Patton has had tho
use of $4,000 Of tho States money for
nearly year without interest,
Governor Foraker resides In Colonel
Patton's palatial residence on Broad
street.
Years ago Colonel Patton got bohind
with the State 10 the extont OF from
$50 900 to $4,000 and simply
WIPED II OFF TR sLATE.
And tho Treasurer has been whlstlinR
for the money over since,
In addition 10 Colonel Pattons Snug"
Il borrowed this from Auditor Poe, "be.
hindhandodness,n tho State Auditors
books show several other Handsome
shortages OF payment as follows
Frank Klotts, S0,4Ol,2O; Columbus
Bolt Works, SO, bOI6i and the Columbus
Chair Company about S9,5OO
In relation 10 these General Watson
said that the Klotts account
WAS PRACTICALLY vALUELEss
And had passed out Of his hands, In
the other instance no said the contract.
ors were all right and paid every two
months
Tho Auditors books, however, show
big red ink balances coming over from
November, 1883, in each account,
Altogether the shortage In payments
foots up the 'snug sun" las Auditor Poe
would say---of SOL ,iO9.35
Query2 Did State Auditor Poe count
this as cSsh whom ho made up his recent
report for Billy Capollcr's boiler
plate factory
II not, why didn't ho say something
about IL 30 that
THE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE a CHANCE
TO understand the true condition Of the
treasury?
Is IL possible that shortage Of S5l 900
Is so small or 30 common as not TO he
worthy Of note In an official" boiler.
plate report2
Or was this boiler-plate proclamation
only intended TO fool the people and
sound tho praises az Foraltnrism2
otatos issues aro coming well TO the
front.
And, en- passant, don't the Republican
ForalSerans begin TO realize that State
issues serve excellently AZ sauce piq-
uante with sayory dieh OF tariff ro-
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