Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-09-12
For the year 1901, $l,SO7, 90 I
Deduct for:lI1 HbggI!TiIp = It'll
Tenn. Money Burned, % $4,000 -
Schools, $1,000
Interest paid, 0,0OO 915,0OI
Cost Of ordinary expenses,

| Cost of ordinary expenses, $S92, 0O(
You will thus see that these Democrats
have increased instead of diminished the
ordinary current expenses of the Govern.
ment. You will see that I have deducted
the cost. of the State Guards, the Metro.
politan Police, the Frazier Impeachment
| trial, the registration of voters, the Claim
Commissioners, the schools and the inter.
est paid on the State debt, because these
are all extraordinary expenses. On the
other hand, / deduct the amount of Ten
nessee money burned, and the cost OF
schools from the Democratic column.
But again: While the Republicans were in
power, the tax as an average was not so high as
it was last year, nor were so many things taxed
as these Democrats tax. And yet, in the three
years of Republican rule, the Republicans, with
lighter tax, paid over S4, 250, 900 on the State
debt But, although the Democrats taxed you
so much higher last year, they have not only not
paid out of this tax one cent on the State debt
they have not only flooded the State with over
$4,000 in State warrants as appears by the
Treasures report, but have actually borrowed
hundreds of thousands of dollars besides to run
the machinery of the Government While
the Republicans were in power, you had State
free schools in every neighborhood; but, since
the Democrats have been our rulers State free
schools have ceased to exist, and our children
are growing up in ignorance Indeed the mot.
to of Democracy is that Education is the
privilege of the fer, and ignorance the right of
the many" They hate free schools more than
Beelzebub hates Bibles.
rr-..r STATE CREDIT. -0.rsIF
And now what is the condition of your State
credit? The States warrants are low down in
the market and no buyers The honest creditors
of the State present their accounts at the Treas
ury and are told the State has no money. Our
Judges can't even get their salaries. Our
sherifs, clerks, jailors and States witnesses are
forced to sell their State claims for few cents
on the dollar. There is no State school in all
this land No interest has been paid on the
State debt since the Democrats got into power
Everything now is burdened with taxes. The
revenue collectors are wringing our money from
us and sending it to Nashville, and still the
State has TO borrow money TO prevent going to
pieces. And what is more alarming, while
the revenue was promptly collected and paid
over to the State while Republicans were rev.
enue collectors, Col. Pennebaker report shows
that these Democratic revenue collectors owe
the State over ttD0 million dollars.
OFFICIAL SALARIES.
You all recollect how the Republicans were
abused for increasing the salaries of some Off
GERS. But, gentlemen, these Democrats have not
only not reduced the salary of single officer,
but have actually created more officers to draw
these very salaries The cost of public printing
has wonderfully increased. l proved to the
ters had defrauded the State out of thousands of
dollars But the Democrats considered stealing
recommendation to Office, and these very Pub
lie Printers were reelected. 1.-THE speaker here
exhibited tho s'spocirnon pasn' of I.nsiSleti-0
journals as proposed to Sc printed y Paul
White 81 Co., candidates for Public Printers
What does this specimen page" show? Who
are paul, White s. Cof' Good Democrats,
ALL This specimen page" shows and say
that the present Public Printers cause
"a loss to the State, arising
from a disregard of the requirements of the
Code of about 200 per cent; and the loss does
not stop here, but enters into the cost of paper
and press-work, each of which items it increas-
es in about the same proportion" And thus
you will see that by the testimony of Democrats
themselves, these Public Printers charge the
State three times more than the law authorizes.
No wonder the Public Printing since Cover
nor Brown was elected has cost the State over
S8O,OOO The amount paid the Judges has also
swelled up to over 100000. The costs of State
Prosecutions amount to over Sl60OOO year.
The last year of Republican rule, State Prose
cutions cost only SIS, 900. So you see these
Democrats either did not bring peace with them
and good order, or did not bring honesty, or,
what is probably nearer the truth, did not bring
either.
TCONCIUDED IN OUR NEXT ISSUE.