The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-07-28
IFrom the Ohio statesmanj
GOv. Hayes and his sEExtE.aV
Sanf'' Charges --

II
!. / Governor HAYES, inihlS speech &C
cepting the nomination of the Negr
I Suffrage Radicals for reelection q
G0vernOF, and, he and the eonyentioI
Of Negro Suffrage Radicals Whiel
! gave him the nomination, boil
! abused the Legislature that refuseC
its assent to the negro suffrage
amendment to the Federal Consti
tuition, with such fal5ehoods as malict
Ieould invent. The burden of thest
/. Radical songs was extravaganct
; high taxes and aTwastefub squander
ing of the peoples money. The
Democratic State Convention, by it
. resolutions, stamped these charges q;
false, as follows /:
10. .ReSoJoed, That the attacks o,
Governors Hayes and Lee upon the
dOings Of the late General Assembly,
are false In statement, malicious IN
Esprit, and unworthy their high po,
sition- 80
IL. Resozved, That the Fifty-efght
General Assembly was called upon
TO make large and extraordinary
appropriations to rebuild the burned
Iunattc Asylum to provide a Reform
School for girls to construct a new
Blind Asylum, to- make an aDpro-
priation to meeta Judgment against
the State OF more than eighty thous-
and dollars, for borrowed money, in
favor Of the Life and Trust Company
and TO supply deficiencyof more
that i've hundred thousand dollars
OF the preceding Republican Legis~
lature-alI OF which together with
The extra compensation paid to mem
bers under a law passed by a Re-
publican Legislature; was Rccomp-
lished, without an increase of the
State levy; Notwithstanding all these
things, the appropriations are much
less than those of the preceding Re
publican Legislature-and that, too,
without abstracting eight hundred
thousand dollars from the relief fund
for the manned and disabled soldiers
and their families.
II. ResoLUed, That we hereby re-
turn our thanks to the late General
Assembly for their economical ex--
tpeuditul es in the administration of
the State Government, and for the
exposure of the wholesale frauds in
the erection Of State buildings,
whereby the people were deffauded
out of halfa million of dollars by the
negligence land corruption of Re-
publican State officials, and the dis
honesty of their appointees and sub
ordinates. aFs a4s 40
These resolutions tell the whole
tale. They place the brand of falls
hood upon the assertion of the Gov
ernor and the Lieutenant Governor
of the State. And more than this.
They show that although the de-
mands. upon the Treasury to rebuild
the burned Central LunatIe Asylum,
and to. rebuild the Asylum for the
Blind-to- provide a Reform School
| for Girls, and to pay a debt incurred
by the Radicals for. money borrowed
from the Life Insurance and Trust
Company, Ia which Judgment had
been taken. Yet, Notwithstanding
these and other unusual demands
upon the treasury, that the expend-
itureS by the last Legislature were
largely reduced, when contrasted
with those Of the previous LegisIa-
ture, when the Radicals had a two
thirds majority in each branch.
= The economy of the Democracy,
In contest with that of the Radical
party is nonew thing. 1t is SO now,
and has ever been so. Two wears
since, we published In the STATES
MAN a table, made up with exceed
ing care, showing the taxation Inn
posed on the people ofzOhIO under
Democratic 1ule, and oOntrasted 1t
with that OF Radical rule, ana from
that table an exchange furnishes,
ready made to our hand an exhibit
which shows that in 1855, the last
year OF the administration of a
Democratic Governor, the taxes in
the State, for State sinking fund, for
general revenue fund, for State COM
monisehooI fund, for county expen-
purposes, for building purposes. for
road purposes, for railroad purposes
and debt, ,9l for township, school,
special, city and town PURPOSES, for
everything within the State. Cthe
taxes levied were S8, 954, ,5IE87. For
the year 1867, the year before the
late Democratic General Assembly
came Into control OF the hWSmaking
department, the taxes levied for the
same purpose were, $50, ,253. .61513.
In the short space of tioeLUe VeGTs.
under Republican rule in the State
under the administration of Re
publican Governors and with the
Law making department in the
hands of the Replt6tiod11, party, THE
TAXES FOR ALL PURPOSES
WITHIN THE STATE, exclusive
ofFederal taxes, WERE INCREAS-
ED THE ENORMOUS SUM OF
ELEVEN MILLIONS TWO
HUNDREDA AND NINETY-N NINE
THOUSAND AND ONE HUM
DRED DDOEEARS SANDTWENTY
THREE CENTS T AND SEVEN
MILLS. They were greatly more
than double. a
The aggregate vote poled in the
state Tor Governor, in 1866, was 302,-
o65. The average tax to the voter,
then In 1886, the last year under
Democratic administration, was
TWENTY-NINE DOLLARS AND
SIAT&-FOUR GENTS. lfi-
The aggregate vote in the State
for Governor in 1858, when the late
DEMOCRATIC Legislature was elected,
was 484, ,227, and inasmuch as the
taxes levied that year, at the instance
of q Republican Legislature and
under Republican State authority,
amounted to $40 ,253, ,615.I3; it made
THE AVERAGE. TAX no THE
VOTER -FORTY-ONE DOLLARS
AND FORTY CENTS! e.
The aggregate vote poled for
Secretary ofState last year-we take
that vote because it is. smaller than
the Presidential vote. and, therefore,
more favorable to the, Republicans
in this calculation-was 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 prosecution of the constitution
of the construction of sundry build
ings Of a benevolent character, the
construction of which were authoriz-
ed by Republican Legislature
amounted to $2o, ,489, ,15s.O4, and
averaged to the voter THIRTY
NINE DOLLARS AND SIXTY
FIVE CENTS-being A REDUC-
TION, ON AN AVERAGE. OF
TWO DOLLARS land SEVEN
TEEN CENTS TOTHE. VOTER ;
f. Thus the facts and the figures
which are OF official record, show that
the taxes, for. all purposes within
the State, frOms1S56 to 1868, during
which time the Republican party had
undispUted sway, were greatly more
than DOUBLE, and INCREASED
TWELVE DOLLARS AND
EIGHFEEN9 CENTS. Ior average,
l.P0lTHE VOTER, willie In the first
wear that-fhe T0DaOoratIeF nartV has