Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-09-22
WILL GOV. DyNNE
EXPLAIN NATTER?
PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHAT
LIEUTENANT-GovERNOR DID
WITH $4,000 He GOT
FROM TREASURY.

When Governor Dunno takes the
stump this fall to defend his admin
istration and explain some of the CO.
lossal blunders that have been per-
petrated by and under 1t, how will he
explain the mysterious disappearance
Oh 10000 from the state treasury that
was ostensibly used for the purpose OF
investigating and putting a stop to
the white slave traffic?
Democratic leaders all over the state
are quaking with fear for fear the
/ governor will make bad matter
worse by even referring to the sub
ject.
Better let bad enough alone" said
well-known down-state Democrat re-
Gently in discussing the infamous
OHara investigation which cost the
state of Illinois $4,000 and then some,
! with no tangible results other than
voluminous report that contains moth
Ing worth the reading.
What became of that $4,000 has
been asked thousand times, and as
many times echo has answered.
"What?"
Governor Dunno and his coterie OF
speakers will have a fine time during
the campaign trying to explain this
scandal.
The Demoaratic committee on
speakers may try to forget this dis
graceful affair. accounts of which
filled the columns of the daily papers
during the early stages, OF DUNES ad
ministration, but the people will not
efface 1t from their memory so read
fly.
Illinois long-haired and dramatical-
ly inclined lieutenant governor recent
ly appeared IS one of the stars in
film play. the story Of which was
founded upon the Infamous and dis
graceful investigation OF the under
world. conducted by o'Hara at cost
OF $4,000 and by paying the price OF
admission to one of the film houses
where this play is being screened. the
dear peepul may have the privilege OF
seeing their investigating lieutenant
governor in real action-and that is
about all the people of Illinois will
ever receive for their $4,000.
Just how the treasury of the state
of Illinois was raided TO the tune of
/ $4,000 is still fresh in the minds OF
the people and It will require some
unusually strong and pointed argu-
ment upon the part of Dunno and his
cohorts to convince these same people
that the deal was on the square, open,
and above board.
The AFFAIR is being investigated by a
Legislative committee and O'Hara has
not yet explained, to the satisfac-
tion of the people, what was done with
the $4,000 that WIS misappropriated
from the expense funds of the sena-
torial committee.
0Hara first sought a direct appro-
priation of $4,000 for the purpose of
investigating the various phases of the
white slave traffic but when he saw
that such an appropriation could never
pass the lower house, il by hook or
crook 1t managed to pass the senate,
IL is charged trick or device" was
resorted to whereby the fund desired
was obtained.
j. u. Fergus, a taxpayer, brought
suit, charging that this trick or de-
vice consisted of a plan to secure
vouchers In the names of certain dunn
mics for certain services rendered to
the state of Illinois"
The upshot of the entire matter was
that $4,000 was drawn from the fund
used for the defraying the expenses
of the committee Of the upper house,
and so far as can be learned every
cent of the money so drawn was ex-
pended, just for what no one but
O'Hara and his celebrated investigat-
ing committee seems to know.
The records show that Ralph Pope,
who has since died, received money on
three of the nine vouchers which to-
tailed $4,000, and which, according to
the Fergus suit, were used to trick the
state treasury out of $4,000.
Mrs. Pope, during the early stages
of the sessions of the O'Hara inves-
tigation, denied that her husband had
received any money on the vouchers
and O'Haras answer to the accusa-
tion that Pope had received money
was Whether Mr.. Pope confided in
his wife or not was a matter OF judg-
ment exclusively with Mr.. Pope
1t is also charged that f. H. O'Hara.
a brother of Lieutenant Governor
O'Hara, received vouchers drawn on
this same fund and they were cashed
by some unknown person. So much
has been said concerning this mysteri-
Gus affair, and so little has been ex-
planned, that the people of Illinois dc
mand thorough and absolute ex-
PLANTATION from Governor Dunno him