The advocate., 1894-10-17
HOWE REVIEWED.
HIg FOUR YEARS AS TREASURER
MADE HIM CLEVER.
Yet One of His Queer Tables Shows Large
Saving by POpulists "A Review
by D. o. zsrOhsr.

SluU0 b1e SbHbSmSnB5 UL " W AEouSE
have been published, showing that over
/ million dollars has been saved to
the state by the Populist Legislature and
administration OF state Offices, all the re-
publican figure jugglsrs have been at
work finding fault with the statements.
Senator Scott, Senator Parker, George
w. Crane and James A. TroutmRn, each
in turn attacked Zsrchsr's figures and
fell down in an attempt to make the
public in general SEQ tho facts in some
other light.
Senator Parker recklsssly stated that
the unexpendsd balances at the end Of
republican rule we're sSl5, ,143 56 when
in fact they were sl71, ,112 80. He got
the Douglass house journal and the
Dunsmors house journal mixed up in
his manifesto and then collapsed. Mr..
Troutmsn was even more careless in his
use Of figures, and it seemed that each
one OF the above named accountants
was trying to make himself more ridicu-
lous than the others.
Finally Samuel T. Howe -four years
state trsssursr) soffered his services to
Metropolitan committee, and produced
a pamphlet called "RscOrd Evidence" ,"
which was calculated to figure Zsrcher
right out Of his boots. To this Howe
manifesto Mr.. Zsrcher replies in an
other address to the public, as follows:
"Mr. Howe presents several tables and
then makes ingenious comparisons and
points out the favorable things to the
republican party and shrewdly covers UP
matters favorable to the PopulBts. Take
the executive department, or governor 6
department. Mr.. Howe fails to tell you
that Governor Lswellipg, on request OF
state board of charities, appropriated
5000 out Of his contingent fund for the
Industrial School for Girls at Beloit,
on account of an error in the RppropriR-
ton bill for that institution, which read
81 200 instead Of $4,000. Had he not
done 30 the institution would have been
compelled to close it's doors. This is an
extraordinary expenditure and when de-
Quoted from the $19,514 81 leaves only
S14.514 81 for the total ordinary expen
ditures Of the governor's.depsrtment fol
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1894, az
against $l6,70S % expended by the re-
publicans for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1892, showing clear saving or
the part Of this department alone o.
S2,18891 in favor Of the Populists.
"Then take the department Of secrs
tary Of state. Mr.. Howe again shrswdlI
evsdes telling you that in 1891 law wa
passed making the salary Of the BeCre
tsry. of state $500, instead Of $1,000
and then required the secretary to turr
over all fees received by him to the STATE
treasurer. Ex.Secretary Higgins refuseC
to turn over the fees to the state treas
urer during his last two years. In doinl
90, he was obliged to refuse the Rddi
tional $500 in salary, which accounts fO
$500 Of his unexpsnded appropriation o
$5O4.86, which otherwise would hsVl
been only $4.86. Observe that Sscretsr!
Higgins refused the $500 salaryin order Il
to get about $500 in fees per annum
You should notice also that Mr., Howe say
nothing about the unnecessary expendi
ture Of about $500 per snnum for extrr
clerk hire under republican rule, Will