Oxford eagle., 1919-05-22

month, upon the coming in Of the
taxes collected for December, there
will ben in the vaults of the treasury,
by estimation, between 100000 and
$500, ,OOO"; thus showing that all of the
money left in the State treasury by
Longino was put there by the tax
collectors Of the state during the
month in which Longino went out of
Office. We challenge ex-GOv Longino
and his five leading agencies, which
are so loudly calling him back into
the Governors Office" to show that
there is ever in the state treasury any
less than 100000 or 100000 at the
time of the year when county officers
are making settlements for state taxes
collected by them. 1t is matter of
common knowledge that generally at
some time during the year there is
from $1,OOo,0o0 to $2.00o,o0o in the
state treasury when the taxes are
paid in, and before the summer is
cut the state has to borrow money
lust as Longino did in August of the
last year of his term as Governor.
Another thing to which these pa
pers do not call attention, which is a
part of Governor Longino's record, as
shown at page "a of Senate Journal
of 1902, is that during Governor Lon
gino's term nearly $500, 900 was paid
into the State Treasury for lands be-
longing to the A. M. College the |.
II. & c., and the State University, as
we'll as to the Negro Alcon A. M.
College. This 100000 as stated in
Governors Longino's message, was
paid into the state treasury, and not
withstanding the fact there was prac-
tically not one dollar in the state treas
ury .,..en Lrngino went out Of Office,
exceu, what was being put there by
the tax collectors of the state for cur
rent taxes due the State.
1t is a lamentable fact, and one for
which Longino is not alone to blame,
that the officers Of the state had so
little foresight at the time Of the sale
of these lands belonging to the state
institutions as to sell them at price
which would be about one-tenth of the
actual value of the timber standing
upon these lands if these institutions
owned them today.
Thus falls plank number two Of Ex-
Governor Longino's platform, and thus
it is shown by the record that there
was a half million dollars more money
in the state treasury when Longino
went into office than there was when
he retired from office. He not only
used the money from the sale OF the
lands of these institutions but he also
lpaid six per cent interest on it when
the bonded Indebtedness of the state
Twas issued at a much lower interest
rate.
The next plank in the platform OF
the Ex-Governor is that the new State
Capitol was built by him without the
Issuance of bonds. The new State
Capitol was built by capitol COM
mission of which the Ex-Governor was
a member. 1t was built with the $4OO,
900 paid into the state by Writ Adams
Revenue Agent, as the states part OF
the $l,OOO,OOO recovered from the Y &
NV C Roads. See page 18 Sen
| ate Journal 1902. And the balance OF
the money which went to pay for the
new State Capitol was the $6OO,OOO
which governor Longino borrowed
from the funds belonging to the state
institutions above referred to, and
which were derived from the unfOrtu-
nate sale of the lands of these insti-
tutions. The money which went to
pay for the new state Capitol came
not from general sources Of revenue
but from the two sources above nam
ed. Thus falls plank number three.
Another thing to which the ex-Gov-
ernor's friends cannot refer with any
especial degree of pride is that Gov
ernor Longino recommended the sale
of the old state capitol and all of the
states property in Jackson except the
new Cpitol grounds and building, and
it is a well known fact that the old
state capitol is today almost as sub
santial as the new one at a cost OF
s1OO 900 and was put in shape where
it is ample and commodious as capi-
tol building.
AS the Commonwealth says, let us
be fair; and since governor Longino
himself has made his record as COVER
nor the platform upon which he asks
reelection, and since the above are the
true facts as shown by the record,
signed by the governor himself, in the
various Senate Journals mentioned,
we presume that he will be willing to
stand or fall on the record he has