The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-08-21
FIGURES DO NOT LIE.

From the Greenville Advocate.
The Johnston campaigners have pro-
claimed 1t far and near that their favor
lite, the ex-governor, was the whole thing
when it came to making money for the
state and saving it for the people, but
the facts do not seem to bear out the
contention. For instance, in 1900, the
last year of Johnston's administration,
the total receipts from the convict de-
partment from all sources were only
$120, 996.42. OF this amount Sl14471.eO was
taken out of the fund for expenses as
follows:
Salaries 49,. $50, 1888
Current expenses $500. as, 46570
Cost in criminal cases 34,82132
Supreme court COSTS. 2SS.7o
Total expenses ........s114,4 r.60
Net income ............ 6,524S2-S12O, s96 AZ
It will be seen from these figures that
the net Income to the state of Alabama
during the last year of Johnston's ad-
ministration was only s6,524S2. These
figures form a marked contrast to those
of the first year of Jelks administration,
and Show that the claims made for the
5oNIAiiOA feHANs
and without fact or foundation. During
the year 1900 under Governor Jelks' wise
administration the total receipts from
the convict department was S1S9,SO6.51,
while the expenses were:
Salaries -. ......... $26, 001.67
Current expenses 49,. 81 1882
Costs in criminal cases 80, 2ei.70
Supreme court costs... 1900
Total expenses ......... s96, S3l.S9
Net income ............ 81, 97462-$1S9 ,SO6. 81
1t will, therefore, be seen that during
1901, the first year of the administration
the net income to the state from the con-
Wet department was s92,s7462 as against
$6,524.S2 for the last year of the Johnston
regime. Which. dear voter, is, in your
opinion, the best and most business-lilte
governor, the one who brings into the
state treasury In one year net amount
of S92, 974.62, or the one who boasts about
what II saved the state and can only
show up in one year little over six
thousand dollars as a net balance from
the same department. Are you better
pleased with your business when you
iHdht d billdil dAHOhiL VI WITCH Sou hoNO
piled up a large bank account to your
credit? If Johnston is the business gov
ernor that he claims why did he not make
the convict department pay the hand
some amount into the state treasury
which the present governor has done?
Johnston may have saved the state
paltry hundred dollars by having tele-
phones moved from all the state offices
except his own; but when 1t comes to
giving the people a truly business adj
ministration he was an utter failure as
compared to Governor Jelks, Jeks has
done things which the people commend
because they were full OF wisdom and
were good for the state, while Johnsto n's
administration was thing of beauty
and joy forever, in his own estimation.
The people of Alabama will hardly be
content with the chaff given them by
Johnston and his managers, but will
seek for facts and when they have learn
ed of such facts as the above the small
number who are now clinging to the
frail Johnston craft will abandon It and
take passage on the sturdy vessel piloted
by the hand of one of the best men the
state has ever had in office, Governor
William Dorsey Jeks.