Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-28

The Wateryille Sentinel has at last
discovered a party at the State House
who thinks he remembers that Bur-
leigh & F'lynt, sometime or other, sent
a bill which was not correct. They
feel pretty sure of the memory that
the auditor found the error and had
the bill corrected before paying.
OF course this memory is hazy, but
they have hopes of raising it to real:
sure enough recollection that a bill
with an error in it was sent in and
actually DETECTED.
Under the revelations of the last
few weeks this. is surprising, but we
don't see why they should wish to
pose as being able to discover errors
in the bills of Republican workers and
totally unable to see them in the bills
rendered by the Democratic Teams
personally conducted plant.
And just why the Sentinel should
wish to put forward this surprising
feat of suddenly aroused dormant
faculties as Justification of its own
shortcomings at the expense of the
auditors office, is past understanding.
But there you have 1.-THE Water
vile Sentinel publicly admits all the
charges we have made of crookedness
and official laundering, and points
Mortified finger at Burleigh & Flynt.
shouting:
"We think we remember that they
made an error once and we NO.
TIcED I'll"
Why does not the Sentinel, or Davis
or Pattangall for it, or the auditors
office make this horrible accusation
explicit? How much was it? When
was it? Where was it?
The dreamy way in which it was
presented, Tuesday morning. makes it
look unsubstantial, sort of like q
Plaisted campaign promise.
1t is "a disconcerting thing to be ae-
cused of having made an error in
rendering a bill, And to be assured
of it in this way suggests the awful
suspicion that perhaps the error was
on the wrong side of the account, ana
that we are out that Aforementioned
sum. One, whose forgettery bothers,
seems now to think it was $3.50 or
5000 and perhaps it was thirty cents!
But the auditor DISCOVERED it,
ana that is the amazing point! And
he could NOT have discovered it il
the official, administration printing
plant had made it!
But it is not the making of the err
ror by the Pattangall-Davis PRINTING
plant, or even the failure of the au'
diting Office to discover it, of which
the taxpayers OF Maine complain.
IT is the failure to show propel
spirit of determination to correct TIN
| hlunder and promptly return thu
| States funds to the State treasury.
The promise of the Sentinel, in botl
| poster and editorial type, not to maxi
! campaign material out of their CLAIM
that the Burleigh & Flynt plant ono
made an error-they don't know whel
or how much---is highly amusing
The spectacle of Burleigh & Flyn
attempting to raid the estate trea
sury," with all those economy ex
perts on guard, ought to capture tn
bun for humor.
Just imagine an error in a RE
PUBLICAN bill getting by Lamon
Stevens ESQ.,, the Hon. Secretary G
State, the Hon. Attorney general an
other red-hot Democratic gatling guns
Whew! What an imagination ha
the Sentinel mani It is even worse
dream errors than in his cartoon
into which he puts the terror and pal
in the face Of the nightmare. instea
, of into the face Of the peaceful Haine
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