The Russellville Democrat., 1878-05-30
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 Mi. BArTErr1ELD: N nov md then have the p!easufe oi $ reading the DsnocRAr. and becaQse oK its trisd integrity, its pnrs morals its lofky senuments nd Nhroad patx5ots ism, ihave thought surtly this s'unst be \ pevspaper q telling Influence and rover, not only ins Pope county but the state overs ae Il moulds pub lie sentiment by its influence on the stAte press. And thiss II inc reason why | now do myself the honor to write through the DE,tocRAr as I hope that what may De written will be well considered by your m telligent readers, What ! desire to write ahont is the extrayagance Of this state government in aIIsits de- partments. sss s.ss &
 Tho fact is patent that 1t takes ten times as much to run this gov ernment IS it did under Conway, and much more than it did under Clayton with ali the Radical rascali- ties of his day. Our taxes today are twenty mills on tho dollar, in- cluding state and county when un- der Clayton 1t never exceeded that amount, and that in scrip at T very low rate, whilst scrip now is worth 75 cents on the dollar. Docs this not argue that there is something rotten in Denmark 2 The truth is that all the epartaents of the State Government have run wild with cx- travagance. The word EcoNoMY was Llotted out of the vocabulary Of the 1.-two last legislatures and the office holders do not know the meaning oi the word. It high time something was done to check this extravaganza. k It is high time to come back to the good old ante bellum days. The people in the coming elections con do much to relieve themselves oi much of the burden now upon their T. shoulders. In choosing their legis- lators they should have an eye sin gle to their own relief from this wild extravaganza. The per diem of leg ] islators should be reduced from $6 2 day to$3 2 day as in the olslen time. All useless ofilces should be abolish ed. As judgment will commence in the house of God, 90 let pruning and Capital. E cssas: shoald De limited ns to the time of holding courts. Magistrates should be cir lcumscribed 50 that they would not land csuld not foster and encourage litigation. Psosec,ating Attorneys should be held responsible for all |true bills found by grand juries. The falling through of So many in dictments IS q fruitful source oi much of the county levies for taxes It is said that Mr. Byers fails to con vict near 15 per cent of the criminal cases in his district. l have thought that when the courts otthe different counties are costsng the counties near $l0 every hour they are in scs' sion that everything should be done with dispetch md no ipdictments should be found only when convic. ton is certain. Our courts are . fruitful source of extravagance all over this state. The Judiciary is only one department of this state government, but all the departments need reformation. l verify believe this state government can be con. ducted with one-tMrd it's present expense, and at the same time g more healthy state of ofsthings exist But we will have to have set ol new men to do 1t. The preset prom
 inent men and leaders are eso sot' in their ways that there is no hope from them. Why is it you do not advocate yonr sfsllovsoeantyman, Col
 Embry, for Governor. Of all ths men of this state I do believe that he could so reform all the depart
 ments of the state as to bring us back to the good old days of demo cratic purity. e
 Our school system might be i'm
 proved and the taxes for it greatly reduced. But have written enough Economy and a going back to ths good old ante bellum days are wha
 we need. m the copm mg elections this thing can be accomplished. Al