The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-09-19
How they intend to do Tread
Tax PaversK

Tax PayersH
By reference to the fourth Resolution
Of the fusion gopvention, It will be seei
thnt it resolves ID favor Of a "propeI
re~trenchmont IN an pu5lfc expenditnrct
"a thoroughly eeonomical administra
tion of our State Government. +" It vii
also be remembered thatMr.a BaINk Err
uorF, in his acceptance of the nomina
ton for Supreme Judge, stated tina
our taxes have increased and are in
creasing until they have assumed til,
portentous magnitude of a severe rem
charge. "They ought to be diminished
From some little attention given the
subject, he was satisfied that, without
essential injury to any of the great in.
~terests of the State, they could be, and
indeed, they must be, materially dimin-
ished.
The statement of Mr.. BRINkERHoFF,
if true, would certainly meet the hearty
corporation of Y taxpayer in the
County; but he fails, as does CARDINAL
WooLsEY, of the Times, to specify how
these wonderful changes are to be bro't
about-how the State government is to
be carried on upon a more economical
plan. If it was so PLAIN to that saga
cious fnnctionazy, that the taxes could
be . materially diminished, /" why did he
not, at that time3 the most proper of all
Others, disclose his mode of retrench-
ment, and not leave the impression be-
hind, that he was "gassing,n and did
not mean what he said !? He failed to
specify hop this diminution could take
place, when he could have informed the
GonYentionsin a few words IN what man
n~criteould bedone fhisssilence on his
part is certainly aomipousi to say the
least, Of the weakness of his ~pretensions
and his utter inability fospoint ont
any modePdof retrenchncHt which
Wonld carry out his proposition.
We have repeatedly requested speei-
i6eations-have challenged the GARDI-
NAL, to point out distinctly wherein they
propose to work reform, and received in
reply deuuneiation of the Democratic
party and the Stnte officers as. corrupt
and prodigal in spending the peoples
money and on all occasions fails to give
either facts or figures; and hence we
begin to despair of getting a single item
to enlighten US in regard to the mode
of retrenchment which they mean to
palm uponthe country.
Amid these evasions and d edges, a
communication written atsaG Cleveland,
and appearing ia the Ohio State Jour
nal, signed e QueUedo," Gscloses; mad
Vertently, the manner in which these
new pa:riots intend to retrench the f.
nanciad expenditures of Ohio. 1t will
bsreco,lected that the Demo ,raaio leg
stature was violently and bitterly de-
bounced by the opposition for increasing
Inc compensation ofIgthe State officers
soIthe sum now paid them. This was
seized upon as a pretext for opposing
he workings of the New Constitution,
md by charging wanton ex.ravagance
and waste of the peoples money upon
The democratic party. The Auditor of
States salary was fixed at 1000 per
year, The duties of that office are ar
iuous in the extreme, and the present
Auditor is an industrious, capable, hard
working man whois willing to discharge
he ouerous duties of this station
With his usual fidelity for the fees as
hey are now fixed by Law.
"QUEvEDo, 1.-THE Journals correspond
mt, commentinglin glorious terms upon
he respective candidates of the Fusion
,arty, and especially of Mr.. WRreur,
avs, I" to this Office {Auditor of Sfate)
hould not be attached such a niggazdly
The pay should be zat least
g 600 per year'H This would in a
rease the salary of that officer only +
II ,400.per annum p aHere, then, leaks I
ut the manner i1s sohich they expect to
ecomplish aaretrenchment of the State :
nances, should the Fusion party be ele1
ated to7poBer-Th This is the glorious
sform which Mr.. BR1EKERHoFF and that y
reh demagogue, s. P. CHASE, intend to :
trust upon the country, and it certain :
: fully explains their uominous5 silence :
q fthat question. G iHsr Z :
Will the people of Ohio embrace this :
IL so, when will it istop-to
hat extent will it lead them? Arc !
to bestow upon their off
srsaprincehy salaries, that theymay be-
,me enriched out of the peoples treas )
ry? If so, BY all means support the !
id~sionistsi if mot, support the men and :
he party which have always advocated ;
a economical administration of public !
Think before you act. ,1ad5o
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The Fusion County Ticket. Il
The whole of this ticket with one ex4 a
option belong to the Know Nothing +
rider, or have belonged, This ticket. u
is expected, will receive the hearty /
lpport of Foreigners in this County,
0 far as The private character, of the G
andidates is concerned, We have roth
g to. say, but we do protest in the G
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