The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1895-10-09
POE'S CONFESSION.
HE GOES TO MUDsOCK no FALSIFY
HIS OWN FIGURES,
And Offer Evasive Excuses for the Ex-
trayagance and Corruption Of the
Republican 71st General As

sembly.
COLUMBUS, o., OCT 8, 1S95.-The
other night State Auditor L. w. Poe
went to the town Of Mudsock to
make speech and offer up excuses
for the corruption and eXtrava-
gance of the Seventy-flrst General
Assembly and its immediate pred
ecessor, two overwhelmingly Re-
publican bodies.
gestive of Mr.. Poe's effort. His
sole mission was to muddle the Of
fetal figures, and cover up with
misleading verbiage the real facts.
While he was doing this he dem
onstrated that Governor Campbell
really underestimate and def
ciencies with which the State trea.
sury is charged.
In his speech on deficiencies, or
rather one item which goes to make
up the sum total, Mr.. Poe said:
"rhe deficiency authorized for
the fiscal years 1S94-95 is $22S,70
in place of S675,0OO, as claimed by
Mr.. Campbell, of which $l55,00O was
authorized to pay expenses incur
red In suppressing the strikes Of
1904, which were caused ly the
evil effects of the Democratic fed
eral administration"
Mr.Poe's language and admission
not only prove what Governor
Campbell said, but show that this
particular deficiency ia S53,704
greater than he claimed. In this
item Governor Campbell included
the 50 10000 in deficiency or short
time bonds, which The Republican
Legislature exempted from all
forms Of taxation as soon as they
pnssed into the hands Of the Re-
publican millionuircs, Herrick and
Hanna. Add TO them the other
S22S,70I as the true deficiency, in-
stead of$G75,d00 as Governor Camp
bell conservatively stated 1t.
On the question OF the increase
OF the local bonded Indebtedness,
MIR. Poe in lists that the total
amount is hut 500, 900, instead
of 300, ,000,0 900, and that the 10th
and list General ASsp nblips only
added S2S, ,300,000. But Mr. Poe
knows one or two things in this
connection which prove the accu.
rncy Of Governor Camphpll's fly
urcs, and which he suppressed in
accordance with the rules and reg
ulations of the Grand l.o lge Of Si.
l"nce and Concealment.
First, he knows that his figures
ony reach the beginning Of the
year 1894, and not To the end of ii,
as Governor Cnmphell's figures did,
during which $4,000, 900 more Of
lonls were Issued under the acts
of the Legislatures and which
brings the total Increase up TO $751;
1000 or $3S,O00,0G0. as Governor
nmpbell stated.
Second, he knows, as he has often
stated to the writer, that many Of
the counties Withhold the true
amount of their bond Issues in
their reports to the Auditors Office
least their credit be impaired.
Governor Campbell not only took
the figures in the State Auditors
report, but got the amounts with
held by certain of the counties,
making the total Si09,0O0,00O.
BY a studied, deliberate and Jug
CLING misstatement of his own
official figures, and by the suppress
sion OF the most important of them,
Mr.. Poe attempts to create the i'm
preston that the Democratic Leg
islatures OF 1890 and 1891 under
Governor Campbell made larger
appropriations than the Republi-
gan Legislatures in 1892, 1893 and
1894, under Governor Mckinley.
The complete, the unanswerable,
the crushing reply to the Poe the
apologist Of legislative corruption
aud salary grabbing, is to he found
on page 43 Of the annual report for
1894, of the same Mr. Poe as Audi
tor of State in which he gives the
appropriations of each of the years
as follows:
1880 ...........t.,..$3 VI, ,4S3, ,30l.20
1S0l................. 3,G78,4l6.l+
1892 ,...,..,,....... 3,740,298 10
1893 .....,.,...... 4,055698 l6
1871 .,.........,....... 3,9lS,95O.3O
We are moved to ask; Which is
true, the Mudsock figures of Mr..
Poe or the official figures of Audi
tor Poe as he gives them on page