Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-10-30
OHIO TREASURY
ALMOST FIVE
MILLIONS SHY
NOVEMBER Is
Frank B. Willis Turns Search.
light Upon Cox Mis-
statements.
State Will Pay Dearly for Its
Saturnalia of Extrava-
{ gance Under Present
Administration.

Ms at a monster meeting here turned
the ~searchlight upon the condition
Of the state finances. He showed, in
q carefully prepared statement, that
instead of the state being eight mil.
lion dollars ahead, as the Cox admin
istration has falsely lead the people
to believe, there will exist a deficit of
almost five million dollars on the 18th
Of November, and more Is to come
next year. 1.-The state will pay dearly
for the saturnalia of extravaganza in
which Governor Cox has been indulg-
ing at the expense of the state, and
taxpayers must face the music and
pay the bills" Mr.. Willis said. The
figures, he said, bore the O.. X. Of
State Auditor Donahey, a Democrat.
The statement made by MI. Willis
vas as follows: d,
1.-THE report of the auditor Of state
exhibits the actual condition of the
states finances at the close Of the fis-
cal year. It shows not only the cash
amount of outstanding appropriations
which are a claim against the respec-
tive funds for the use Of the various
departments. The difference between
the cash balance and the outstanding
appropriations Is the net surplus to
the credit of the state at the end Of
the fiscal year.
ION this basis we have the following
interesting comparison between the
last two years of Republican admins
tration under Governor Harris and
the administration under Governor
Cox to date:
Administration OF Governor Harris.
Auditors balance in the gem
eral revenue fund Nov. Is,
1907, ....-...... 1885, 75.4z
Outstanding appropriations,
subject to draft. Nov Is.
Assa 80. ..-............. S's4o,sofoi
Actual SURPLUS ............s 74s.4l7.s3
Auditors balance In the gen.
eral revenue fund Nov. Is, :
1908 ........ .476. 1850
Outstanding appropriations,
subject to draft, Nov. 10.
1905. 4.244.372.27
Actual SURPLUS .........$ 232. 0Se.3S
administration of Governor Cox.
Auditors balance in the gen
eral revenue u Nov. 10,
1913 $3.50. .................$5,12S,11 0.b2
Outstanding appropriations,
subject to draft. Nov. Is,
1918 ............ ........... 8,638, 897,SS
- Actual DEFICIT .410, 1885
AUDITORS balance in the gen.
eral revenue fund Sept. Is,
1914 .................. ....$3,S11.575.S7
Outstanding appropriations,
subject to draft, Sept. IL,
1914 ................ -. S,644,6SS.os
Actual DEFICIT ..............4.sss.1 o7. "a
Applying the identical method to
the two administrations we have this
Illuminating result:
Under Governor Harris there was
an actual cash balance in the state
treasury above all outstanding appro-
priations amounting in 1907 to S749,-
<17.83; in 1908 to $685., 0S6.3S.
"Under James M. Cox, outs4and-
Ing appropriations in excCss Of
cash balance In the general rev.
snue fund amounted to $3,410,-
1866 In 1918, and $4,833, 1922
on Sept. is, 1914.
Governor Harris had on Nov. s,
IN 1907 and 1908. in the state treasury
q SUFFICIENT sum to pay all money ap-
propriated by the state and a COM
Portable surplus. He did not have to
draw upon the paid in after
Nov. Is to discharge the obligations
of the state.
Governor Cox in his first rear
drew upon the revenues collected
after Nov. Is $3,410,7SG.86, and he will
have to draw from the same source
this year the unprecedented sum Of
t~4,833,1O7.22.
Governor Cox Is levyine upon
The future to pay the extravagant
debts that he has saddIed upon
the state.
What has been said here applies
only to the general revenue fund of
the state. The money raised by direct
tax levy is all appropriated and is not
considered here as these funds to
date would exhibit neither balance
MOI deficit.
"This is only part of the story of
the extent to which Cox is making the
future pay tribute.
ain a single day the Cox spe-
eial session slaughtered TIE levy
for the little red schooIhouse,'
and reduced the returns from this
source for the coming year about
one and t~hree-quarter million dol
lars. In other words, Cox, by re-.
duclng the levy for the coming
year, has not diminished the
funds Of his own war chest. but,
for advertising purposes In this
campaign, he ! = taken S1.741, 055