L.Hemmingway was declared elected.

Yet when the change took place it was found that every dollar of the public money was accounted for.

During the whole period of Republican administration not a dollar had been misappropriated, nor had there been a single defalcation, although millions of dollars had passed through the hands of the fiscal agents of the State and of the different counties.
How was it with the new reform administration?
Treasurer Hemmingway had been in office only a comparatively short while when the startling information was given out that he was a defaulter to the amount of $315,612.19.

William L.Hemmingway a defaulter! Could such a thing be possible?
Yes, it was an admitted and undisputed fact.
Mr.Hemmingway had been quite prominent in the politics of the State; but those who knew the man, and I was one of those, had every reason to believe that he was an honest man, and that he was the personification of integrity.

He was neither a speculator nor a gambler.