The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-07
STATE FINANCES.
A PrevaricatiOn From Democratic Sources
is Nailed.


A PrevaricatiOn From Democratic Sources
is Nailed.
THE REPUBLICAN has the following
interesting and pertinent communi-
cation from a gentleman in the comp
trOller's Office at Annapolis, who is
well known in this county, and who
knows whereof he speaks:
EDITOR REPUBLICAN,: Those Demo
cratic editors are droll fellows. They
are just now engaged in the business
of furnishing Democratic thunder for
the campaign and they are going to
do it regardless of truth or conse-
Quences The field from which they
are TO draw raw material is a narrow,
barren range of Democratic imagina-
tion and if results are to be obtained
it must be worked with an unfiagged
zeal.
But the newspaper man is genius
| to De relied upon in any emergency,
and the material that he is now sup
| plying the unsophisticated rural edi-
tor of Democratic prOclivities shows
| that he is determined to fill space, no
matter whom he gets into trouble.
| One of the latest victims of syndicate
recklessness and contempt for the
| truth and the record is your neighbOr
of the Mail. | identify the editorial
in question as syndicate matter be-
cause no less than four Democratic or
| gans reached the comptrOller's Office
| the same dav last week, all containing
| the article, word for word, as editorial
matter
| The article goes on to say that un-
| der the Democratic rule in this State
the banks that held State funds were
required opay interest upon such de
pOsits; that such is not the case under
Republican rule; that Gov. LOwndes
and Treasurer Shryock used the de-
posits to favor banks in which they
were interested, and that the state in
effect was being defrauded of the in
tereSts which Democratic administra-
tiOns always turned into the Treasury.
| know that the average Democratic
editor is not particularly bright, but
| was not prepared to find such evil
dence of stupidity as the publication
of a charge as silly as the above ap-
parently disclOses. Had these editors
kept themselves even ordinarily in
formed they would have known that
during twenty-three years of Demo
cratic rule not a dollar ever went into
the Treasury from interests on depOs-
its in banks. 1t is notorious that dur
ing all that time certain banks paid
for the privilege of holding the States
money but they paid the Democratic
managers, not the State. 1t was not
until 1898, when public sentiment
forced the ring to give UP this i'll got
ten perpuisite, that the state ever re
ceiyed a cent as interest from it's
money on deposit. During that year
it received S2,49O11. In 1894 it re-
| ceived $5,61364. In 1895, S., ,678.57,
making a total of $13, 782.32 received
in twenty-five years of Democratic
/ rule.
Now note the Improvement under
/ two years of Republican management.
/ In 1896 the treasury received 50, 942,3 81
from this source, For 1897 there has
been received on this account about
| $4,000 to Sept. 1. The fiscal
year closes Sept. 80, and the rea-
/ son for the great difference in re
ceipts in favor Of the present year is
found in the fact that very large
payment was made on this account
Just after the close of the fiscal year
of 1896 In two years of Republican
rule the receipts from interest on de
/ DOSllS w Ill dllOuuU W NIo, Jf~,OI, VI
| $160,05 more than was paid into the
treasury from this source during the
quarter OF century of Democratic
rule.
Have these Democratic editors any
more charges of the kind to make?
Do not the facts from the books CON
Wet them of willful misrepresentation
and place them in the attitude of con
victed slanderers? And how must
their poor dupes, the ignorant coun-
try editors, feel at thus having their
ignorance of State affairs so merciless-
ly exposed? And these gentlemen de-
light to pose as educators of the peO-
pie, and purveyors of intelligence and
information. Instead of presuming
to instruct others they should first in
form themselves, and they might at
least avoid being made ridiculous.
The truth is that the finances of
Maryland were never managed so
ably as at the present time. The State
has never had a more pains-taking,
careful and prudent treasurer than
Thos. G. Shryock, and in all respects
the administration of the affairs of
the State have shown a most wonder
full improvement since the Republi-
can party has come into power.
Il. +. MCCARDELL.