Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-04-02
NOT A DOLLAR LOST
The Herald Shows the falsity
of the Statement
The HeRALD'S WORK REVIEWED
II Has Persisted in Probing the Corup-
tionists and Its Reward Has Been
Complete vindas.s,on Evry Time.

sequences or telling the unvarnlshed
truth, The HERALD, at the beginning
of the city campaign boldly declared
itself, announcing the policy II would
pursue. That policy has been adhered
to with fidelity to the truth and with
out malice toward any man. Ii has
insisted that the wrongs and corrup-
ton abounding IN the city hall were
not the creatures of imaginative parti-
sanshlp, but cold, immoveabe fact.
| In doing tins II has been necessary TO
wound the sensitive feelings of some of
lis warmest friends. The questions
asked have been construed into person
| al attacks, but the truth or the con-
eiusions, IN every instance, has hot
| been assailed.
IRE HERALD was the hrst and
only paper to bring home TO the
the people with startling distinctness
the indIsputable fact that George K.
Perry embezzled over $4,000. and was
| permitted to go scot free.
The HERALD WAS the first and only
paper to prove that the investigation
| of his accounts WAS limited TO two
| years OF his four years OF service.
| The HERALD was the first and only
! paper to demand in behalf of the peo-
pie TO know why the investigation was
| thus confined.
The HERALD was the first and only
| paper to publish all the information
| concerning the matter obtaInable from
! authentic sources.
| The HERALD is the first and only
paper to charge that If Perry stole $780,
| 0OU In his last two years, 1t is reasonable
to suppose that he stole something IN
his first two years.
The HERALD Is the first and only
paper courageous enough to ask that
| another investigation be made.
For all OF these public services The
| HERALD has met with the silence OF
those In position to answer and the
abuse of It's contemporaries.
| Other Wrongs Uncovered.
| THE HERALD was the first aud only
| clan Wright and to demand his re-
administration removed hlm from office
| In disgrace.
| THE HERALD was the first and only
IN the Office of Director of the Poor
Kruse.
The HERALD was the first and only
paper to force an investigation. That
investigation resulted in the discovery
that Kruse was short in his accounts
| with the city. He was publicly cen.
sured and disgraced.
| The HERALD was the first and only
paper to publish the fact that John
Rozema, a democratic otficeholder and
| .f thu Cof h0t1yno N,
the democratic convention, VINO in q
ringing speech nominated the demo
| cratic candidate for mayor. is snort in
his accounts and is fugitive from jus
tice.
THE HERALD has done all OF
these things and in return has been
charged with waging a war against
somebody or somebodies from mallg
nant motives.
FaIsehood Refuted.
In closing the work of the city cam
paign THE HERALD has another duty tc
perform. That duty is to prove by the
figures that the statement, "The city
has lost not dollar by the dishonesty
of democratic officials" is false and un
true. That statement was made in 8
public meeting of democrats by the
chief executive of the city, and Wa:
reiterated IN the columns of the organ
of the party.
I 1t Is false and untrue in the frs
place because nobody knows the exact
amount of George Il. Perry's embezzle-
ments.
1t is false in the second place
because the experts who examined thu
books for two years only of his tern
filed q claim against the city for suct
incomplete services amounting tC
S567.50. That bill was reduced to $500
and it was paid out Of the public fund.-
of the CITY, paid into the treasury by
the taxpayers. 1t is false in the THIRD
place, because inside of five months
from that time a stenographer wa!
paid, upon the order of the council
SIS for taking stenographic notes II
the Wright investigation.
Here are $3.50 actually taken out oi
monies raised by taxing the bom,
owners of this city for other purposes
to pay for investigating and fixing thu
amount OF shortages in the offices o.
dishonest democratic officials.
Can any truthful man rise and say
that the "city has lost not dollar by
the dishonesty of democratic officials
If he can and does, he deliberately
lies.
Here THE HERALD rests for the time
being from its efforts to tell the truth
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth of and concerning the demo
cratic record in municipal affairs TO
the years 1912.
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