The Ashland Union

A Republican State Officer using Treasury Money as a Broker!

The following article from the Newark Advocate shows anything but in keeping with the promised reforms which were to be worked out under the Administration of the Abolition Know Nothings:

In the report of the Investigating Committee appointed by the State Legislature to look into the past and present management of the State Finances, there are developed many facts that must create surprise, if not pain and mortification. Not the least of these, is the fact that the late Attorney General, Mr. Kimball within three months after entering upon the duties of his office, yielded to the temptations by which he was beset, and borrowed from the Treasurer of State thirty thousand dollars of public money with which he started an office in Cleveland to carry on the business of a private BANKER and BROKER! Mr. Kimball is now deceased, and the money in question still remains, (as the report shows,) in the hands of his surviving partner.

A transaction of this kind on the part of Judge Bowen, Treasurer Gibson, or any other of the well organized sharks who have been raised to power by the Republican party, would have occasioned no sensation of wonder. But it is otherwise with Mr. Kimball, for among the nine men who stood on the Republican State ticket of 1855, it was thought that the views and purposes of none were so purely unselfish, and honorable as his. Yet the developments made by the Investigating Committee of Mr. Kimball's own party friends, shows but too conclusively that even he, the very flower of the ticket on which he ran, had no rightful claim to the confidence which his Democratic opponents were disposed to place in his disinterestedness.

It is truly a sad day when men think less of the honor conferred by a public trust, and of the service which they may render the commonwealth, than of the facilities which their official positions may give them to acquire money.