The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-07-07
What tie People made by Ten Years
Republican Rule in the State.

Governor Hayes, in accepting the
denomination to the Governorship of
the State by the Republican party, in
State convention, on the 23d, used this
language:
"Twice since the organization of ex-
listing political parties the people of
Ohio have trusted the law-making pow
err of the State in the hands of the
Democratic party. They first tried
the experiment twelve years ago, and
such were the results hat ten years
elapsed before they ventured upon a
repetition of it"
We thank Governor Hayes for thus
publicly calling attention to the fact,
that "totce since the organization of er-
isting political parties the people of
Ohio have trusted the law-making pow
er of the State in the hands of the
Democratic party" and that between
these two periods the Republican par
ty had Observation-Disclosures sway
in the General Assembly-"in the law
making body of the State for stem
years." They held power from Janu-
airy, 1856, to January 1868.
Please recollect, and be sure to tell
your neighbor, that continuously for
twelve years the Republican party had
control of the State Government.
Governor Hayes has mounted the
Retrenchment and Reform hobby. BY
a denunciation of the Democratic Gen
eral Assembly as having been profit
gate and e%xtravagant, and by calling
upon the people to again put the Re
publican party into an ascendancy in
the law-making department, remind
ing them that for ten years right along
the Republican party had supreme as
cendancy in hat body before the late
Democratic General Assembly came
into power, he calls attention to what
the Republican party did during that
period.
Were those years of Republican rule
provident and economical? The Re
publicans were successful in 1865, on
the cry Of Retrenchment and Reform.
In 1856, the executive Office passed
out of the hands of a Democratic Gov
ernor into the hands of a Republican
| Governor, and from that day to this
the Governors have all been Republi-
cannot one of them a Democrat, or
| elected by the Democratic party.
Now, let us see what that party has
done for the benefit of the people,
| State-wise.
Did they, as they promised they
| would reduce the taxes and cut down
the expenses for every species of Gov
eminent in the State below what they
we're under Democratic rule? Ifthey
| did so, and if this late Democratic
| General Assembly has increased eX-
penditures over that reduction, it be
comes q serious question whether we
should not put the Democrntic party
into a minority and make voters aud
omce-holders out of the Negroes and
tax the mass of the people for the
maintenance and support of privileged
classes.
What say the facts and figures or
this subject, as they are to be found
in the office of the State Auditor?
In 1856, the last year of the admin
istration of a Democratic Governor,
the Taxes in the State, for State Sink.
ing Fund, for General Revenue Fund
for State Common School Fund, fol
County expenses, for Poor purposes.
for Bridge purposes, for Building
purposes, for Road purposes, for Rail
road purposes and debts, for Town
ship, School, Special, City and Town
purposes, for everything within the
State, the Tares levied acre, SS,954,511,'
1877. For the year 1867, the year be.
fore the late Democratic General As
sembly came into control of the law
making Department, the ta1es eUted fo'
the same purposes scere, S20,253,6l5 ID
In the short space Of taOelve years, un-
der Republican rule in the State-un
der the administration of Republican
Governors and with the Law-making
department in the hands of the Repub
kcan party, the tares for all purpose
aoithtin the State, exclusive Of Federal tar
er, were increased the sum O
eleven millions, t,Uo hundred and ninety
nine thousand and one hundred dollars
and t,centy-three cents and seven mills
They were greatly more than doubled
The aggregate vote polled i N the
State, for Governor in 1855, was 3O2,
065. The average tax to the voter.
then, in 1855, the last year under
Democratic administration, was tpen.
ty-nime dollars amd. .sirtyJfoHr cents.
The aggregate vote in the State 1ol
Governor in 1867, when the late Dem
~ocratic Legislature was elected, was
494, 227, and inasmuch as the taxes
levied that year, at the instance of a
Republican Legislature and under Re
publican State authority, amounted to
500, 253, 615, 10, it made the Average taa
to the voter forty-ons dollars and forty
CENTS
The aggregate vote polled for Sec
rotary of State last year-we take thai
vote because it is smaller than the
Presidential vote, and, therefore, more
favorable to the Republicans in this
acknowledgements SIG, 767. The taxes
levied that year-the first year that
the Democratic party had the control
of the Legislative department. OF the
Government for at least ten years,
having to make provision for the pros
ecution of the construction OF sundry
buildings of a benevolent character the
construction of which were authorized
by Republican Legislation-amounted
to 20, 4s9 ,14S Oh, and averaged to the
voter h,rty-nine dollars and sirtyjfUe
cents-being q reduction on, an average,
of tauo dollars and seusntesn cents to the
Uoter.
Thus, the facts AID the figures,
which are of official record, show that
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