Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-03-10

.ha b. adniln 81. red in -om9 patti doses,
att tn stylr of Ire gu -er Fnller. When
thew sas tue r. port Of Auditor Turner they
were sghast at its fatal frenkness. They
were astounied that one from whom they
had hoped so much. should be so painfully
Licking in political sagacity. Their con-
sternation as Increased when the Journal,
taking the figures of Mr.. Turner, procee ded
to 81 ow up the incompetency of the Demo-
cratic city government in all its astonish-
ing details, aud to clearly establish the fact
I'll Il SO far from rede- ming their pledges
to the people of this city they run up bills
amounting to many thousand dollars which
they would pass over to the next city
government as deficit.
Clearly Democratic city official who
would furnish the figures for such an e1-
pose was lacking in political judgment
and must be promptly dealt with. When
the Democratic bosses meet to consider his
case i. was disposed of somewhat as fol-
lows:
"WnEREAs, City Auditor Turner has not
D lnned cut as We hoped he void, there
fore, be it
Res1ired, That he be bottled d."
Immediately Mr.. Turner vanishes from
the political arena.
But who was to ct p into the breach
and endeayor 10 counteract the dam
aging effect of the JOURNALS analysis
of Mr.. Turner's figures. Clearly Mr.. Full
Ter was the man. He was, it is true, handi-
capped Ike Mr.. Turner by the fact that be
would rot, knowingly, state anything not
q richly true. 1t was evident therefore that
Mr. Fuller could only make a partial state
ment if it should be one that made q show
ing at all creditable to the City government,
and bills enough would have to be held back
to enable him to show a small cash balance
in the treasury. This has been done al
though in rler to accomplish the feat
bills dating back number of months have
been heId and not presented for p0yment.
Of this fact the Journal furnishes its
readers conclusive proof elsewhere in this
issue. This statement of Mr.. Fuller was
exploded upon the public with loud
blast of trumpets in the desperate
attempt to make the public be-
lieve that it told the whole story. The
scheme has failed. AS usual the Demo-
cracy underestimate the intelligence of the
people. The voters were quick to see
through the shallow attempt to draw tie
attention of the people from the main
question viz: H0w many bills contracted
By the present city goreraDtem are there
lrhich get renaja unpaid
As DR.. j. w. North, one of the
gentlem who signed the call for
reformation 10 which Mr.. Fuller re-
spends, very clearly points out else
where in this issue, the city hcosurer's
rfpou stops short Of the rcry focts ,rhich
the roters Of augusta are most anTiouS to
knor oboW. This i, the pith of the whole
matt ar ard the very reason why the report
in question has, as political move,
fallen to the ground with dull thud.
But we have been well nigh guilty of fall
ing into the error of the New Age and for
getting Mr.. Turner entirely. Where is the
city auditor and what has become of his
figures which our genial contemporary was
so proudly parading only a few short days
ago? The voters of Augusta demand to
know what the Democratic party has done
with this good citizen whose only failing,
from the Republican standpoint, is his
Democracy, and from the Democratic
standpoint, bis truthfulness.