Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-04-16
The Golden Stream From the
State Treasury to Lafe's Cot-
ters Was Stopped
IOWA PAID LAFE s147os5.s1
Figures From the State Records-7-he
cummins Administration Made a
Difference of Over $4,000 Year in
Amount Lafe Young Was Taking
From the State Treasury and the
Reason for His Fight on cumnins
Is Apparent.
Special to Times-Republlcan.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, April 16.-The people
who have taken as gospel truth the
statements in Lafe Young's paper that
Governor Cummins has drawn ellor-
nous amounts from the public treas
ury and has been the most expensive
executive the state has ever had, were
today given some plain statements
concerning Mr.. Young himself, and are
being shown the records, which show
that he and his three children were on
second general assembly.
In a speech at Winterset today, Hon
Thomas A Cheshire, of this city un-
rolled before his audience piece Of
paper five feet and eleven inches in
length, on which was recorded the
figures showing that from 1874 to 1901,
when Governor Cummins was first
elected governor, Lafe Young drew
from the state treasury an average of
S5,446.5O, and that since Governor
drawn but $131.21 year. Lafe Young
has drawn a total of $147, ,o65.Sl from
the state treasury, and added to this
the amount drawn by his three chill
dren, he has had total of $149.504.3S.
1t took one man six weeks, working
nights only, to go thru the records In
| the office of the state auditor 10 get
| all the items of money paid to Lafe
! Young since 1874, when he was state
senator. Every item was shown to-
lday on the strip of paper exhibited to
1.-The gaze of the Madison county peo-
pie by Senator Cheshire. On this pa
! per the lines are close together and
there are eight items to every inch of
|space The items for Lafe Young, Sr..
alone make four feet and three inches,
not counting the margin of the paper.
Including the items paid to his three
children, 1t makes four feet and eleven
inches, and including the headings Of
| the columns and the margin on the pa
per five feet and eleven inches or
strip of paper longer than Lafe Young
lis tall.
| During the last general assembly
Lafe Young wrote vigorous and indig-
nant editorials on the corruption of al
lowing newspaper men to hold commit
| tee clerkships In the Twenty-sec
general assembly, when Lafe Young
was a senator his son, Lafe Young,
Jr.. was a page, and his son. Harry
Young. was a page, and his daughter,
Nellie Young, was a committee clerk.
Thus four members of the family were
on the pay roll during the twenty
second general assembly
During the time he was senator
| from 1874 to January, 1895, Iafe Young
! drew from the treasury $4,209.s0. Thls
| includes the compensation he drew for
the time between the adjournment of
the Twenty first general assembly
| April 13, 1886, and the convenf1rg OF the
senate for the Brown impeachment the
last Of May of that year, amounting to
$22O.1O, during which time he did no
work for the state but was at his
home in Atlantic The number of the
warrant was 1870.
From January, 1895, to January.
1901. Mr.. Young was state binder and
he drew S142,S5661 1t was during
this time as state binder that he ov-
er-charged the state something like
$4,000, that is known of, and for which
he escaped having to pay back on the
j theory that a state official had paid
the money and therefore the state
could not.
From January, 1901, to June 80, 1905.
period the greater part of which has
| been covered by the administration of
Governor Cummins, Lafe Young has
drawn from the public treasury $656.O7
or an average Of but $131.21.
Lafe Young has three children, two
sons and daughter. Lafe, Jr., has
drawn s2SS from the public: treasury,
Harry $765, and Nellie, the daughter,
$529.5O, total of $1,5S250 This
amount has been drawn from the state
treasury and does not lncluose amounts
they have drawn from the: treasury
when at different times they
have been on the pay rool OF the PEN
sion office, in which two members of
the family were employed, nor the
Columbian exposition at Chicago. nor
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at
st. Louis.
When the five feet and eleven inches
of paper was unrolled before the peo-
pie of Winterset and the closely writ
ten lines were inspected there was
something of a mild sensation created.
The paper was open for inspection and
critical examination. 1t gives the date
of every warrant, the number of the
warrant, the purpose for which drawn
and the amount of the warrant.
RUTHERFORD TO LEAVE AMEs.
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