The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1857-09-09


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than aug administrator ever before proui- |
ded for tie payment gifts expenses. This
the Jovraas dare Eos deny.
s Yet in the face of all these facts the
Journal undertakes to make the people be-
Iieve that the $l2S, ,675 was saved through
the economy of the administration. True
ii does not say so. but it tries to leave that
impression. The editor evidently knows
nothing about the subject, or his object was
to array his figures so as to make his read
ers believe that which is grossly untrue.
For the good ofits party the Journal
hid better not again venture off of its fa-
vori:e hobby, the negro question. And
,es ;,ecially it had better not provoke COM
pa ison between the present administra-
tion and its predecessors; for every man
who can perform simple subtraction can
prove, beyond all doubt, that the present
administration provided itself with more
than twice as much money for the pay
ment of its expenses as any that ever pre-
ceded it in the history of our. State. ..s
| So much for the stats taxes, and now
/ for the local taxes. % G D35g4
The first session of the Republican Leg.
islature passed an act limiting the levy for
township purposes to half a mill, "a sum
not more than half large enough p defray
the expenses of any township. aItwas here
that the great saving was made. The
Legislature as We have shown above, pro-
yided more money by one half for the ex-
penses of the State government than was
ever provided before and then limited the
township to sum scarcely half sufficient
for their necessary expenses.
Now behold the miserable trickery re-
sorted to by the Legislature to secure their
success at the following election They
passed this law limiting the township
levies last year, SO that they could claim
that they had reduced the taxes, But un-
less the townships were permitted to levy
more taxes many of them must soon be-
come bankrupt Thereupon this set Of
demagouges permitted the townships to
levy any amount they chose for debt
This is the way in which they intended to
make capital of it and claim it as retreneh
ment and reform. s5 Fl @teiss2zfe =
Lastyear the townships were limited and
The Republicans claim that they lessened
the taxes; and this year the people will
have to pay their township expenses of
this year and the debt of last year; bit
not until after the election.
i What sense was there in saying to the
township officers, "you shall only levy one
half a mill this year, but next year you may
make it all up by levying tax for debt"
1t does not lessen the taxes one cent and
it does not in the end limit the township
1 levies one cent 1t did limit them last
year and never was meant to last longer
/ than after the election this fall.
/ Such piece of trickery was never be-
fore attempted to be practised by Leg
islature on their constituents. 1t was in
tended to be imposed upon the people as
retrenchment, and the article in the State
Journal referred to above is the signal
4 for raising the cry.
And now comes an extract which fol
cool impudence stands -withous u parallel
Speaking OF the Democrats the Journa
says: .tssa - go -.
'.They have been trusted and have mis-.
erably failed to redeem their promises
All their talk of re:renchment and reform
, has been to deceive the voters, that they
might root in Office" c{b
The impudence of this extract is per
fectly sublime. Every man in Ohio, who
has not had his ears steffed with WOO
for the last two years, knows That the quota
,, ftion applies exclusively and forcibly to tn,
Republicans. Humbugs is loo milda nam,
for these impositions; they are frauds
manuf. cured by the Leg stature, and ped
: died out by the Journal
3 Bent on Beating Chase. ~
The GAINESVILLE Courier, Republican
; paper says that about one hundred ant
fifty of the Fillmore men of Muskingun
tcounty. held a meeting at GAINESVILLE OF
Saturday and decided to support tn
g whole Democratic State ticket. The ne