The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-02


Wages and Salaries 49,. .S4S. 704IS
Mileage per diem, 2,435.69
+, 81, Total ..,.....e..s.$51, 14027
UNDER FUSION ri
Wages and salaries $57, 619.93
Mileage and per diem ~. 3,165.OO
Total ~. =. $50, 7S4,95
Difference in favor OF Democrats in
two items OF expense $9644.6S, or Asp
bales Of cotton at Mckinley gold stand
ard prices.
WILL FIGURE IN THE FRAUD RE-
PORT.
When the Legislative Investigating COM
mittee of 1899 finishes it's work, the mis-
management of the pehitentiary will re-
quire an hundred pages in the new Fraud
Report that it will be necessary to issue.
But there are some facts that have come
to the surface, showing how in addition
to salaries and per diem. the Flu
siOnistS began to waste the peoples
money" Hon. A. Leazer sums it up
thus:
"'The Democratic administration
hhu III us tlhIlO! 1T th' L ChItVhiihlH
only so many men as by diligent at
tentiOn to business could perform the
needed service The new powers.
Immediately upon assuming control,
crowded by an eager horde. began to
prepare at once to satisfy their clam
OrOus demands for places. There
were not enough to go around.
They made others and filled them
with their families and political
heelers. A private secretary. never
needed before. was installed at a
good salary. 4 typewriter soon fol-
lowed, never employed before. An
extra dOOr-keeper or two, an extra
warden. an, extra. steward, IN OK
ira assistant bOOk-keeper, an extra
supervisor for general control of far
more competent men on the Roanoke
farm, Il more than useless place. at
n big salary by way Of reward as
surety on the bond Of one of the Of
ficiais; more men and increased salt
ries; and this inclHded all the mem
hers of one official family, except
two feeble females. and all the
brothers Of the Chief Executive so
far as known"
I1L L Z Dl4lC 1 hIN 1INNT.
under the head of executive scandals
comes the public printing scandal. When
the Democrats were in power the General
Assembly selected Il Public Printer and
paid him such prices as the Topographic
al Union, one of the greatest bodies OF
organized labor in the world. approved
When the Fusionists came into power
in 1895 they made great show of re-
form and passed bill instructing the
committee on printing to let the printing
to the lowest bidder. The firm of Ed
wards and BrOughtOn. of Raleigh, made
bid which was $5S1.SS less than the
bid accepted, but they did not get the
contract. Why? Because the lowest bid
der talk was u sham intended 10 fool
the people. The contract was given to
Republicans, and not n great while ago
State Treasurer Worth brought suit
against the Printers Printers Sc
lected for $13,2131S alleging that
they had collected that much
more money from5 the State Treas
ury than was honestly due for the work
done Did they commit fraud? | do
not charge it, State Treasurer Worth
says they did. If they did not. he is
putting the State TO needless expense
to sue them. At the session of the Legis-
lature of 1897, the pretense of letting
the printing to the lowest bidder, which
Republican printers had exposed was
abandoned, and the whole matter turn
ed over to the Governors Council. What
did the Council do? 1t gave that part
of the printing, which is profitable, with
out competition, to Guy Y. Barnes, y
POpulist Printer. and it has been stated
in the public prints and not denied, that
in consideration of getting the printing,
he prints the Caucasian without charge.
But that was not all. The clamOr Of
the States Auditor for higher salary, so
he could get ''out of touch and sympathy
with the oppressed masses" was so loud
that the State Council created n new
Office-Superintendent of Printing. at n
salary Of 80 a month. and gave it-iO
the State Auditor. The Constitution for
bids any man holding two offices. hut
with this administration Tim CaG:pbells
saying, What is the Constitution be-
twixt friends" is accepted and acted
upon. The State Auditor wanted more
salary. The Constitution stood in the
way. He had to go without the money
or the Constitution had to ba tr0dden
under foot. 1t is needless TO say that
the Constitution was made II door mat
and the new salary was provided.
But, the taxpayer will say: ~ car
not determine as to the best system Tel
me whether the printing cost more under
the Democratic or under Fusion rule"
Here are the figures of the last three
years of Democratic rule and the three
Yea RS of EuSiOn rulp,