Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-07-23

ing a total of S567,9 redeemed
under Governor Foster IN two
years, while under Governor Hoadly's |
in 1884 there was paid
$3.50, 900, and also on the debt due in
1886, 500, 635, making total in the
year of 1884 of S4l9,635, and in 1885 |
they paid S35O,OOo Of the debt due,
and IN addition have redeemed up to |
this date S32,650 of the debt due in
1885, making total of $SO2, ,2S5 paid
under Governor Hoadly's administra-
ton, and showing that 1924, 1897 more
had been appropriated for the purpose
during the Democratic administration
than for the two years preceding un'
der Governor Foster, and by this
means saving to the taxpayers the
interest on this sum of over 1924, 600
for number of years"
"Did you see statement that the
Democratic party found $5OO,OOO In
the treasury when they came into
power?',
eyes, sir"
ITO what purpose was this money
applied?"
"Three hundred ahd fifty thousand
dollars was used to pay an installment
of the public debt due July, 1884, and
portion of the balance was applied
toward paying the interest on the pub
lie debt not yet due, and part of this
fund ($69.635 lS) was used the same
year taking up the State bonds not
due till 1885,"
MONEY JUDICI0USLT HANDLED.
This statement of yours in regard
to the public debt seems to show that
this matter has been handled judlc-
iously, economically, and in the inter-
est of the taxpayers of the State by
the present Democratic Administra-
tlon."
II say so emphatically, and it can
not be successfully denied"
care there any items you recollect
which 90 to swell necessarily the ag-
gregate of the appropriations by the
present Democratic Administration
over that of Governor Foster'?"
cat present can cite you to a few
which count into the hundreds of
thousand of dollars. For instance we
had to pay deficiency of $46, O6O for
printing constitutional amendments
under Governor Foster. And then
look at the appropriation made for
the support of our common schools
under Governor Foster. They only
appropriated for this purpose in the
year 1880, $l,5l4,494 SIS; in 1881,
$l,5l7,027 Is, or total in the two
years of $3,O3l,52 80, and under
Governor Hoadly and Democratic
Administration there was appropri-
ated for this purpose in 1884, Sl,6l2,'
400, and in 1885, $l623 ,442 SO, or a
total in the two years Of $3,235,742 so,
making the sum of $l05,22l 70 more
appropriated under Democratic Ad-
midistration in the two years
for the support of the COM
mon schools than was appropriated for
the same purpose for the same length
of time under Republican Admins
tration, and yet the Republican party
say Democrats are opposed to the free
school system. | think the laboring
men and mechanics who are compelled
to send their children to the public
schools will think differently when
these facts become generally kno wn!'
OTHER ITEMS OF FINANCE.
GAS you seem to be in the humor,
there are perhaps other items you can
name"
"There are plenty of them, but as it
is no easy task to enumerate them. es-
pecially as I have recourse to but few
books or memorandums with which to
refesh memory. But who has not
heard of the great flood along the
Ohio River and its tributaries during
the spring of 1884, and the untold
suffering of the poor people living on
their borders in Ohio. Well, the
Democratic General Assembly appro-
priated 100000 for their relief, por-
tion of which was not expended and
was afterward covered into the treas
ury. Is there single tax. payer in Ohio
who begrudges the pittance they
paid as taxes toward this appropria.
ton? I don't believe there is, and yet
the Republican press would have you
believe there were some, and they
claim this as one item of expense
which should not have been INDUCED
in by Democratic General Assem-
bly,.
Then again the people by their
own act created Circuit Court COM
posed of twenty one judges, whose
salaries have been fixed at $4,000
each per annum, adding thereby 1884,
900 annually to the taxes; yet who is
1t that believes such court was not
absolutely necessary to give the peo-
pie that confidence in our judiciary
system that was much needed in this
State.
LIBERAL DEMOCRACY.
"Have the Democratic General AS
sembiies as rule dealt more kindly