People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1897 — HEAVY DEFICIT SHOWN. [ARTICLE]

HEAVY DEFICIT SHOWN.

Ex-State Treasurer Bradley of Nebraska in Trouble. A statement of the financial condition of the state treasury of Nebraska shows that ex-State Treasurer J. S. Bartley, republican, had a deficit staring him In the face of over $500,000. Coupled with this is a little item of $27,000, which ex-State Auditor Eugene V. Moore, also republican, needs to account for in order to balance his books. Both these officers have enjoyed the greatest confidence of their party and the people of the state. Mr. Bartley is the victim of a too lenient policy in assisting his friends in a financial way. He saved many banks throughout the state from failure during the late financial stringency, and now the money then loaned can not be readily collected.