The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-09-04

sounded by Judge Adams in an efpr
to rchabiIitatc the corpse 81 the Rus
sell administration i'm the garments o
sweetness and light. has been treatee
bv this paper i'm a spirit of argumen
and correction. 81 the expense %
much space we have now in two in
.nces the variations Of character and
I Of history underlying two Of his fiEIn-
| cial comparisons. The record must b.
kept straight. Therefore. we ave
taken the trouble to analyze statements
which have heretofore been exploded.
| At the cost of a weary spirit. We
cannot permit the truth To b silence
| by the reiteration Of Il ~palpable decep-
tion. And we shall continue along this
line.
This much in justification Of a fan
ure to yield to the quick temptation 70
backbite instead of answer. Some -
the exchanges which have come to this
office have been flIppant enough to re-
mind Judge Adams of that other Issue
which he sounded from the bench at
W]hitcville Court. They have proceed
ed on the theory that the keynote OF a
man who expressed his admiration OF
an assaulter Of Women needed no rel
utation. That is both true and easy.
But we prefer to wait. The memories
of DIR. Kirby Smith. the frolics of John
X. Smith, the blithesome attitude OF
the sanity DR.. Babb, the e~ccentrlcl-
ties of Treasury Clerk Martin, late OF
North Carolina, the matter of Hancock
and a number of other scandalouS and
interesting recOllections of the lays
when the name of jim Young was en-
gravcd on corner-stOneS n the thon
plain Tom PurneIl played pigs in the
pasture with the Pce-dy-Bees make
soft appeal. But they must wait. AS
q part of the administration of Rus
sell they are again legitimate topics OF
reminiscence by virtue OF Judge
note, but for the present, 1t
is to stick to a dryer mutton. Figures
it was, and figures it shall be till the
bitter end Today the matter of the
nublic printing-it, too. with no
of the scandal with which it's
is freighted by the years.
Of the public printing Judge Adams
sounded his keynote by saying:
'"The public printing in 1928, when
the Democrats charged We were eA-
especially in this particular,
cost the state $~10.596.69, while last
year our Democratic friends spent tor
purpose $30,916.1S. which SHOWS
that the Democrats spent the enormous
of 20,32O.O9 more than the Re
- ,,,,. l;I .,j ynt ihnN have the
audacity to charge the tepuplltal
with extravaganza, and claim that they
are
We prefer to believe that Judge Ad-
ans has taken the returns fol the pub
lie printing in his ~favorite year OF
comparison Of 1898 to include all of
sums 50 expended through a mis-
apprehension of the facts. 1t shall be
a pleasure to enlighten him. In the
first place, the reports of Auditor Hal
for the years 1897 and 1898 dis
close many items charged under con
ti~ngencies" which should properly
havc been charged to the public print
These include in many instances
payments for eXpresSage of matter out
side the State, hauling of supplies for
ne DuDlic printer, clc., en- Dc1lStS Ioi
The Audito to visit the public printer
IN his capacity as supervisor. and III
other instances payments of four dol
lars to the chief clerk in the auditors
office for inspecting the accounts of the
cubic printer rendered to the super
visinG auditor. Together with the sal
AIRY of thirty dollars a month paid to
auditor as supervisor. these items
IF petty graft, distributed through the
.ong contingency account. constitute Il
considerable sum, which SHOULD be
properly charged to public printing ac-
count. Their consideration will wait.
An examination of what the bona tide
printing amounted to under h Russell
administration results as usual in an
Increase of the figures given by Judge |
ADAMS III his comparison. 1t will be
noticed, also. that the year picked out
contrast by the Republican chair
was Il year when the Legislature
vas not in session: whereas the year
L905, With which he makes the con-
raSt, was not only a Legislative year,
out happened, likewise. to be the year
the new ReviSaIS were printed at
/ cost of over ten thousand dollars,
or which the state will be fully re-
in the sale of the books.
Examining the real expenditures for
printing in the year 1898. and
10 the figures given by Judge
dams the amOunt expended on ac-
CUNT of the railroad commission
which is now included in public
printing! it appears that the sum of
UGH payments so calculated was $13.-
as against the $10.596 given !
~ Judge Adams as the figures.
Now. taking the $30.916.7S
or public printing during 1905. it is !
ound that such sums include in add
ION to the printing done on count
If the corporation and tax commits
ion Gncluded in the figures above
as to the expense in the fusion
ear. 1889 printing done for the in
urance department and for the code
commission of 1905.