The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-13

Iers aud Captain Coke. ne says: y
don't say it was applied to the Demo
cratic fund. ! don't say anybody stole
anything" But while not saying 80.
his language suggests that imputatiOn.
Now as 10 his contention that MY ex-
PLANTATION Is not sufficient. il viii he re-
membered that the license tax of in
surance companies is collected In April:
and that while ] was in office during
one April only. he was in office two
Aprils: aud thus be collected 1870 an
nnal license taxes 20 Dgy one. He col
lccted in the spring Of 1887 S2sj-ZIS H.
cense tax and IN the spr5ns> 81 1898 s2T,-
507.T1: and az he admits that the license
tax yields $1,000 more TO him than the
old law yielded 10 me. he has the ad-
vantage here Of a fun tax. S27.5fsl. and
of $4,000 ON the other. making S37 .:-SB1
advantage 10 him on the license tax
alone.
He collected the seTni-snnual tax on
insurance receipts (which arc due in
February aud in August. as follows:
February. 1897; August. 1897: February.
1898: and $13.240.34 due in August,
1898. In the Democratic period there
were collections in August, 1875; Feb
ruary. 1896: August. 1896. So he had
two spring collections where / had one
His spring collections i'm 1897 yielded him
S3S. 21S.12 His August collection in
1897 yielded him S21 1906. The spring
collection runs much heavier than the
August collection. DIR. Thompson de-
MES this. but the figures are against
him. His denial hardly counts for much
against the figures.
And so he had one spring collection
running. say $4,000, in excess of mine:
and besides he had the increase of So
600. according to his own admission to
each of his three semi-annual collections.
making $4,000 in addition TO the 100000
In all, on these taxes upon receipts he
has had the advantage of $4,000 which
added to the 1915 on license. makes
$4,000 advantage. due to the operation
of the new law and to the greater num-
her of his collections. Now add that
to the $50 130.50 collected, he says, by
the Democratic Secretaries, and the
amount is S15S,G30.50, which is substan-
TALLY what he says he collected. And
so it appears that my statement is cor
rect. And although DR. Thompson tried
to juggle with the $4,000 received by
him OH Aug. taxes GS9S) by embracing
them in his alleged collections, up to
July 31st, yet | wilr not withhold the
fact that in September he has paid
in S10,520.03 additional insurance taxes
that were payable also in August. Nor
do | hesitate to admit that when | went
out of office there were taxes due and
payable by some Of the insurance COM
panies which ought to have been col
ected by me, and which he collected,
thus swelling his receipts. / do deny.
however, that any of those would have
been lost to the State by reason of the
delay of those companies in paying
promptly. And while repelling all of the
allegations of looseness in my office, as
baseless fabrications, gotten up for po-
litical effect, perhaps as a sort of flank
movement, because the Democratic
speakers have made charges against
some of the officials under the present
fusion administration. | suppose
ought to refer to the fact that Dr.
Thompson admits that when he came
in | had settlement and paid over all
the public money then in my hands to
him. And so | have Or. Thompson's
certificate that / fully settled up what
Ccrv t5at is worth
Now for that part Of DR.. ThompsOn's
speech which refers to the time of the
payments made by me, and the balances
which he says were left in my hands.
He calls attention to some figures APP
pearing in statement made by j. w.
Denmark, clerk of the Treasury Depart
ment. Let no zone be misead into the
conclusion that this statement is Il copy
of the records in the Treasury Depart
ment of payments during my term into
that office. If it We're, it would show
specifically the amounts paid in on Sep
tember 18th, 1899 on account of I'LL
collectionS-agg regating 100000,
which is not embraced in it, But the
printing of that would have spoiled a
good part of DR.. Thompson's speech.
Nor is Mr.. Denmark's statement copy
of the accounts in the Secretary of
States office; if it had been. Incorporate
ing into it that statement would have
spoiled all of DIR. Thomps0n's speech
This statement is Mr. Denmark's CON
cluson--from what he claimed to have
ascertained in each of these departments.
BY the way, l have seen a statement
CONTINUED on Third Page.)