The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-22
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.
State Finances and Democratic aIisrcpre

State Finances and Democratic ,Iisrcprc.
~ tE-- xentation. qs
Mr.. T.. Willis Wilson and other Demo
cratic stumpers are stalking their slender
hope Of success on the gross misrcpresen-
ton Of facts OF record. Their aim is to
divert attention from the disagreement
! Of this State by their party-the frequent
assessment Of lands; the supplemental
assessment OF the haystack, the chickens
and the pigs in the face OF a long.standing
1 exemption; the spendthriit policy which
has run the State largely into debt; the
unlawful taking OF money from the
irreduciblc school fund; the high crime OF
! the Supreme Court Of Appeals short
all that constitutes Bourbon misrule in
I West Virginia, all that has aroused the
I people to revolt.
n The people are told by these stumpers
and some of the Democratic newspapers
that the Republicans went out Of power
leaving the State in debt, and they point
to an alleged deficit OF $50, OOOin the school
fund. The glaring untruthiulness Of these
+ statements is clearly shown by the official
Z records.
81 a. The Democratic party went into
power March 4,1S7l. Tho Auditors re-
port for 1871, page %, shows that the Re.
publican Treasurer turned over to his
4 Democratic successor cash to the amount
OF s243,0l5 CT. Besides the general fund
4 an irreduciblc school fund Of So5S,0OO was
turned over. Every dollar was there that
lithe books showed ought to be there. The
State owed no man anything. But this
was not all. In 1871 the Democratic adj
ministration received (Auditor's report
1871, page ~ s5G,529 25 in taxes dclin-
qucnt for years prior to 1870 and not paid
in by Sheriis and Collectors. Altogether
the Democrats received more than 100000
from delinquent taxes that were levied
and ought to have been paid in under Re-
publican rule. Leaving out the irreduci-
!; bic school fund, which does not belong in
a general treasury statement, the Demo-
cratic party, upon going into power re-
ceived from the retiring Republicans:
Cash In treasury. -. 80. . n O5 "A
Delinquent taxes mid in iST.......:..... 5S'SS q
Total turned over In 81, 81
NJ The Democrats had in round numbers
100000 to begin housekeeping on
strangely enough just about equal to the
debt they had piled up when the last
4 Legislature adjourned without doing any.
thing TO provide for it. There has been
no war, disturbing every normal condi-
ton. There has been no founding of !,
new State in the face OF armed hostility
and secret intrigue. There has been pro-
found peace--with a.cash capital OF $780,
900 to begin with. No Democrat can get
away from this record and no honest
Democrat will try.
e. About them G0,0O0." Tho Lccis-
.laturc of1s7O levied u special tax OF five
cents on tho Sl0o for the Insane ASYLUM
in order that accommodations might be
made promptly, to receive tho insane who
crowded tho county jails. !, The Lcgisla.
turc had appropriated $4,000 and with.
out waiting for the money to come in
under the special levy the Treasurer paid
it out Of the funds on hand, taking it from
the school fund as it appeared, though the
funds were not kept separately. This
money was paid back when taxes came in.
In the Democratic Legislature OF 1871 there
was m effort to use this transaction to cast
rcproach upon the Republican adminstra-
ton. The majority Of the Finance Com
mttcc set UP the charge that there was a
deficit. The minority reported that the
charge was untrue, and on 4 call OF ayes
and noes the minority report was adopt
cd. Here is an instructive extract from
the report that was adopted:
!. The majority OF your Committee on
FINANCE have endeavored to SO controyert
truth and fact by ingenious figuring, as to
create tho impression that there is at this !
Time deficit in the Treasury, which We. !
after careful examination OF the records
81 the offices charged with tho finances Of J
our State, and apart Of which is herein
mentioned, utterly deny--and to tho con.
'rary assert that the finances OF the State
never have been in a healthier condition :
han. .El at the present moment. j5,.i'@ :
This ought to silence Mr.. Wilson and 9
MS fellow stumpes, but it will not-thcy 5
must lst% misreprcsent or they have no shadow
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