The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-10-10
Cold Figures.

Adjourned until Wednesday evening.
Cold Figures.
COLUMBUS, O., Oct. 3.-John P. Stem.
mons, Chief Clerk of the State Treasury
Department, in signed statement, says
that Gov. Campbell expended $879, $685.
96 in excess of the amount expended by
Gov. Foraker during the same length of
time. Mr.. Slemmons, after reciting
Campbell's promises Of economy before
his election in 1889, says:
II have before me q little book, the
Annual Report of the Treasurer Of the
State of Ohio to the Governor of Ohio.
1t contains table show ing totals OF the
yearly financial business of the State
for the past fifteen years. This table
shows actual cash transactions, and cor
responds with the report of the Auditor
of State, except as to outstanding war.
rants shown in the Auditors report
that can not appear in this.
"In comparison the 18th of Novem.
Der is taken as the end of the year, it
being in fact the end Of the financial
year.
"In the four years of Governo For.
akers's administration, beginning id
1885 and ending November 15, 1889,
there was expended from the general
revenue fund the total sum of S12,S51,.
1852, an average Of $3,212,s9e 45 per
year.
"During the two years OF Governor
Campbell's administration there was
paid out of the general revenue fund
the total sum of $7,O26, ,662.3s an aver.
age of So 513, ,331.l9 per year. This is
5000, ,434.74 in excess of the amount ex.
pended by Governor Foraker In one
year and $500, ,s69.4s for his two years
more than the Foraker administration
spent in the same length of time.
sat the close Of the fiscal year 1891
(Campbell's last year, there was an un.
expended balance of appropriations
amounting to $l,1S1, 1,7l4.48 against an
unpaid appropriation remaining at the
close of Governor Foraker's last fiscal
year 0f 81, ,l02, 1856; q difference vi $11o,.
828.48, which, added to the differences
in the expenditures of the two admin.
istrations, and you have the enormous
sum of $679, ,697 .96, the exact amount to
cent that James E. Campbell fell short
in doing equally as well, in q financial
way, as his predecessor, Joseph B. For.
aker.
"These are figures that defy anyone
to successfully contradict.
"When Mr.. Campbell turned over
his Executive Office to Gov. Mckinley
in January, 1892, he pointed with pride
to the balance in the general revenue
fund to the amount of sl6O, ,69l.S7 actual
cash in the Treasurer's safe.
81 will tell you where he got this
balance. In the December preceding,
when the Auditor of State commenced
to draw his warrants for the payments
due the State institutions, he found he
would be short of funds, so he drew
advanced drafts on County Treasurers
on February settlement in the sum of
100000. Thus it will be seen that
instead of having balance at the close
of his term he was just short $39,20S.63
of any true balance whatever, and had
he not received during the year $780,
025.93 going to the credit Of the general
revenue fund, and the sum OF $50, 900
from Wayne County a. q donation,
Oampbell's actual deficit would have
been $456, 6,33364
"At the clese of Gov. Foraker's ad.
ministration the amount OF the. grand
duplicate was 81, ,77S, ,l3s, AT, and at the
average increase Of $40, ,OO0, 900 per year
should show present duplicate Of ST..
89s, 900, 900, but it is in fact only $751;.
600, 900, yielding revenue for general
expenses, S200, 900 short Of that which
it should yield annually. This falling
off in values in personal property
should, however, be charged TO the ex.
Governors political elder brother,
Grover Cleveland, and Democratic
Congress, who have drawn the sheep OF
the country into the butchers stalls,
and the business prosperity into the
deep, deep, sea At Gray Gables Com
merciai Gazette