West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-05-15

TIKI Republicans of Ohio county, the
home OF DR.. Logan, Dir. Archy Campbell.
and other shining lights, perhaps George
w. Atkinson amoung them, held email
convention short time ago, aud, we are
inclined to think, made great exertions e.
show what asses they could make of them
selves. Among many remarka able reso-
lutions, they adopted the following
That we are in favor of prompt col
lection of the large balances due the State,
which, through Democratic mismanage-
ment, have accumulated IN the hands of
delinquent sheriif5 and become due as
taxes from corporations; such faithful
management of the finances of the State
40 will prevent further deficiencies in the
revenues, aud such economy IA will secure
the administration of the State govern
ment at the least cost to the people,"
Upon which the RegiGte. comments edi-
torialiy as follows:
"'To show the utter recklesgnes1 of tho
above declarations of this Convention we
now assert, and appeal to the records of
The Auditors Office as the ground of our
assertion, and defy any member of the
said Convention To show from those rec
ords, that what we assert is not true i'm
every particular, to-wit:
VI That the records will show that
the amount of revenue due the State in
the hands of delinquent sheriTs, was ney
er less III the history of the State than
during the term of the present Admins
tration.
$50 That the records will show that
the amount of delinouences transferred
from the Republican administration as q
legacy TO the Democratic party, for the
last year of Republican supremacy i'm this
State, was more than the whole amount
OF delinquencies that have since occurred
since the Democratic party came into
power.
''(3.) That instead of the drlInquencies
| Being Increased, the present Auditor, with
tho assistance OF the present Attorney
General, have gone back and actually col
lected and tn. 'uCG into the State Treasury
between eighty tho usand and ono hundred
thousand dollars of dcnr ITCnt dues that
had been abandoned by the Republican
administration.
't4 That the records will chow the
remarkable fact that there is now less
IMAM TWO hundred dollars due the State on
account OF the delinquencieso Of Sheriffs-
condition OF things that no other State
IN the Union can show o-day
(o.) That the records will show TINT
WhlIe IL was an annual custom with q
Republican Legislature to release the
bondsnen and cancel the liabilities of
delinquent Sheriits, there has been no
such thing mentioned in a Democratic
Legislature, because there have been no
delinquent Democratic Sheriffs.
90 That the records will show that
the only tax now unco,lected from a cor
poratlon is that claimed from the Chesa.
peake u Ohio railroad, and that the re-
sponsibllity for the uon-payment rests
win Republican administration which
granted them charter, that is construed
10 exempt them from taxation, and that
this Int qultabe AMI unjust provision is
now being contested by Democratic ed :
ministrGtloD, which has carried the cues
tion TO the courts to determine whether
TINS Republican blunder shall be allowed
TO cheat the State out Of its Just revenues
I'VE do not discuss these assertions
we think the facts stated speak for them.
selves. They are either facts or false.
hoods.
III they are false the records ere Omen
TO the gentlemen of the conven'n who pos
SEQ the resolutions in question, and thew
have the opportunity of contradictinc
them If they can.
Ii they are facts, as we assert, thew
place the Republican party of this county
end OF the State. in q pitaful plight. il
uepriVes them of all claim to political hon
esty, and reveals to what desperate lengths
they are driven, in their Efforts to impeacb
the unsullied record of a Democratic admin
istration."