Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-10-10
&c st Per Annum.

An attempt has been made to answer this
table by getting up another table exhibiting
jugglery of figures to a degree OF which the
Governor and the present State Auditor alone
are masters. In the above table the per capita
cost under Governor Hoadly's administration In
based on the average daily attendance, or num-
ber actually in each asylum, and the total dis
bursements for current expenses and officers
salaries are combined This is the correct way
of figuring per capita cost; but when we reach
Governor Forakers administration a different
method is adopted. They report the total num-
ber of inmates upon the register (Which often
numbers hundred more in single institution
than the actual attendance), and thus reduce
the apparent per capita cost. This Is not alls
instead of showing
THE ACTUAL DISBURSEMENTS
For current expenses and officers salaries they
report only the receipts from the State Treas
ury Almost every institution in the State dis
burses more money every year than is received
from the State Treasury in advance as the do
ficiency appropriation annually shows. An
illustration Of how much can be gained by this
instrumentation is shown by the comparative
per capita costs below for 1888:
Per capita, Per capita,
Based on Based on
Receipts. Disbursem'ts.
Columbus Asylum. $40 81 $500 "a
DAYTON Asylum. lT7 81 lSI "
Blind Asylum. -.--...... 40 90 90 %
Institute FeeDle-mtnded
Youths ...... 40 - ~" "
Nothing but the per capita based on disburse-
,oen+s can give the real cost of maintaining the
inmates of public institutions, and the steady
and alarming increase in the cost Of maintain
tnp the inmates of public institutions under thT
present administration should command the al
tention Of every taxpayer in ONO
Tbera is one other matter relating 10 State
anonces IL YOU will bear with me, and VIII
trespass upon your time in that direction no
longer. lCries of go on."] l want to call your
attention to the very peculiar 1ugglery OF figures
that occurs in the Auditor of States letter,
STritten and published in the newspapers, in
which he undertakes to explain the condition
of the State Treasury. Tho truth Is that In the
S+ate Treasury there is but very little money.
Advance drafts are made upon County Treas
urers, funds are transferred from the Sinking
I1nnd and every imaginable contrivance is re-
eorted to to tide over the condition OF the Treas
nv nntiI after the election. One of the means
TO HAVE LETTER PuBIsHsKD
Rv Auditor of State Poe to show that the treas
-, 10 in fine condition. The financial reports
show that the Governor, in his speeches, and
the Auditor in his socalled financial state
ment-which he was not called upon oy any
law to make-are no; correct
We have been told, not only BY GovernoR
Foraker, but also by Mr.. Poe, that the financial
condition of the State had been greatly i'm
nroved during the present administration, and
that ssthe finances Of Ohio have never been in
a better or more creditable condition than they
are at the present time" The official reports
of the Auditor of State show that both Gov
ernor Foraker and Mr. Poe are mistaken, and
the record of the first year Of Governor Fora
ker's Administration is as follows:
1885,
Auditor of States report, p7ge says that
s'the actual receipts for the General Revenue
Fund during the last fiscal year were %, 1885,
1890 The appropriations for the same period
were SsO79S52 50. and the actual disbursements
Ea79.51l .4l-the appropriations 1924 1889 and
the disbursements SS23, Isl in excess Of the
receipts" Here is an admitted deficiency Of
ESe3, ,T7761 in the first year Of Governor Forak-
srS administration. 1t In useless for State Of