The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-08-06
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The Repository Of July Slst says lN .ItAl 4
So the assertion that our taxes viii be increased
live vote yes Is not true, and sensible men should
not be led TO reject the good 1t ohen by TINS aise
pteteXt ...4 ~.
Sensible men" respectfully request the editor OF
the Repository to explain how the stateof Ohio can
support tlreit.one District Court Judges, inferior
IN nothing to the Supreme Judges, except author-
ty, and not thereby increase State taxes to the ex
tent of the salaries paid said judges
The Constitutional Convention dearly indicates
its opinion concerning the salaries to be paid su-
preme Judges so far as that opinion can intu-
ence legislation, the State Is to pay Supreme Judg-
es $1,000 per annum hereafter instead Of $4,000 |
District Judges (by the same Convention, being |
men Of equal capacity should have the same pay,
and the rentyone TO be elected will cost the State
Just slO5, 900 per annum. The judges Of the Com
mon Pleas Courts twenty years ago received u,oOO
per annum. Now they are paid $500. hany Iu-
dlcial ssryice deserves increased pay It's the Com
mon Pleas Judges 1.-THE Convention considered
&C per cent Just increase for Supreme Judge sala-
res 1t Is fair to infer &C per cent should be added
to the salaries Of Common Pleas Judges. This
year the State pays these judges sl275OO for fty-
one judges. Should the New Constitution be adop-
lent Lle luINl -hlA luukNn ~ oAN 't@As,-A~Nt
. the State $4,000 per annum. To this add the GO
a per cent which the Convention suggests and the
forty-sx c. p Judges will cost the State slV2OO IN
o round numbers.
d To the above add the salaries of the commission
IL to clean up the docket of the Supreme Court-hye
IS of then-s5OO each and we have $4,000 per an
mum for the next three years at least
Il Now, Bascom, let us state the case for sensible
to men,"
@ Supreme Judges, increase lo0S lol
Commissioners, new =9T0S
Common Pleas, increase ,a!!00O,
I'd District Judges, new VOpO'
a ro,o, ,roroo,e and new sg7OO
VI Add to this what was paid by the State In 1873
$4,000 for all lis judicial salaries, and we shol
aggregate the neat little amount of $4,000. "sen
sible men" ask you to explain how the State take
or are to be kept down to old rates under the ne'
w system you advocate You propose to do 1t indl
rectly, 1st. By abollShing annual elections nC
'lS by paying salaries to county officers.
~ what will be the effect by the trst method
i Never the voter and tax payer look so closely int
"S public expenditures when an election Is pen'
ho ing The result Ofhis examinations breaks ring
and smashes the political states" Of "Ring-ma
ter,p new deals are secured and official inegrit
lo' restored But the new Constitution provides th
ih this popular nqusitor shall not take place oiten
W" than once in two years in any case and the pow
to correct some Of the evils of corrupt administr
10 ton cannot he exercised oftener than once in
an yodrs Ifthcrc was any way by which 1t could
'uN shown, our annual elections would be found u
cheapest thing we dO-beCause, by means Of tho
elections timely preventive saves polite
I 900 gangreen from becoming Chronic-and incur
: II bic.
| 00 But your second method promises dearer rcsul
70 County officers are to be paid salaries and the ie
S of officers are to be paid into the Treasury. III
flee looks plausible. But upon what hypothesis? "
imply the fee system pays too well. 1t has eY
. been the theory of "oiical fees that they shou
be adiauatc to compensate for the service rend
ed. You propose to make these officers sour
o,,. of revenue us we'll You propose that the wid'
son. and orphan shall pay for the services Of the p
Rep, bate Court-and contribute also to the genel
~ funds Of county and State that the Judicial
and phantr of the late Convention may not eat up
le State by taxation Asa citizen of glorious Oh
) III. are Won prepared to endorse system that vo
and the widow and the orphan in the Probate coul
gSu s,ata the taxation in the Auditors Recorders a
i ut Treasurers offices, and the unfortunate litigant
: In the offices Of Clerks and Shers? II the pres'
' system of fees Is aliording too large compensau
TO county, or other officers cut these fees down
Igeu lust rates Don't resort to the disgusting trick
hogs robbing laboring Peter, that you may attain
out means of paying of judicial Paul, and keep
,ov taxes Of the state where they arc. BE "sensi
man"-lfyou can. JuSllOi