Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-10-07
u millions on the same property in eigb,

erlod. The taxes were kept up to 'ho
mits of legal permission-general or
pecial--all the time. That is to say, the
,cal officials, in the eight years, not only
peut all the money the law allowed them
0 levy on the taxpayers property, but
orrowed and spent Sl7 900 600 besides,
nd mortgsged the property to pay Tor IT,
The foregoing four shocking facts, taken
ogethsr, show that the voters have not
,eeu careful enough in selecting and over
eeine their local officers, and that the leg
slatures have been vicious in authorizing
ocal Indebtedness by special acts and thus
prodigality and rascali'y
Both parties are prone to these sins. But
which is the more prone seems to be made
10 appear from another fact or two, as
follows
|. The prohibition racket, partisan and
non partisan, turned the state over to the
democratic party in 1888, for 1884 and
1885.
2. The figures of the state auditor
show that the local debt increased from
S39, 3ss, ,O95 so to Sl9,277 l7s.0O in 1884;
that is, nearly So, 600, 600 in the one year.
And it is calculated that the yenr 1888 will
foot up al increase Of at least $40 600 600.
AS reform OF this enormous evil can
he effected only through the legislature,
shall we be likely 10 procure it by voting
with the party that has given us a
.ixteen.mlli ion.dollar general assembly
like this We trow not In fact the intel
ligent reader of this must permit us to trow
otherwise. The Democratic party has al
ways and everywhere been an expensive
party. 1t is too much controlled by men
who are not taxpayers and who take
pleasure and often profit in wasting the
public moneys. For example, here is 8
recent fact or two:
|. The Scott Law brought into tbs
treasury 100000 year, mostly from al
element that paid no other tax. This eIe
ment, mostly democratic, demanded 1T
repeal. The party, not daring to repeal
manipulated its own supreme court so tha
the law was destroyed This to please tn
non-taxpsying class OF voters and at tn
expense of the farmers and mechanics O
| the state.
2. In the year ending November
1883, the penitentiary paid its expense
and q net profit Of SO 0il o.. In tn
nine months ending July 81 1885, tn
peniten,iary under the full control OF th
| democrats, was run at a net loss Of S23
| 5S337.
| B. In 1884 it cost the democratic part
$50 more for the support of a convict i
the peuteutiary, S23 Sc more for a bin
| person, $50. 32 more for an insane one, an
S52. % more for II girl in the Industrii
Home than it cost The Republican party i
1883
But the superiority of the democr at
party over the republican in the trick
. making the taxpayers money disappear
best seen in a comparison of republics
: counties with democratic counties. Such
comparison shows these facts:
!. 1t costs an average Of fifteen p
cent. more to run democratic. than
run a republican county.
. Counties that have changed from !
publican to democratic have done so at t
I expense Of the taxpayers.
n 3. In democratic counties fees increst
. and in republican counties they do not
s crease.
/ For example, take at random ten
liable republican counties, and ten reia'
, counties, democratic each ten of as nea
e the same total population as PRACTICAL
d republican, Ashtabula, Champaign, Cla
. Clinton, Columbians, Geauga, Gree
e Huron, Lorain, Trumbull, l,--demOcra
" Allen, Augluize, Brown, Butler, Crawt0
d Fairfield Holmes, Licking, Mercer, ?
1t mainland we have the following diff
euces:
/. The ten republican counties b
$4,000 more total population than the
" democratic counties.
~ 2. The republican ten have lar
" total territory than the democratic ten.
3. The republican ten have total
ustion of property greater by 734 mill
" dollars than the democratic ten.
' A. The republican ten pay twenty
~ cent. more taxes to the state than the d
~ ocratic ten.
'' ). Yet the democratic ten pay S2OS,
"' in fees to officers, whereas the republi
A'' ten pay only slS0,69O, That is, the
as' democratic counties, with their less p'
he lation, less territory, less valuation OF p
ny erty, and therefore less amount of ia
pay their officers 7,S2I more than
ost ten republican counties.
Sc 6. Moreover the democratic ten ha
hg bonded debt OF 1862, 1877, whereas the
i'e publican ten have one Of only 1923 So
on 7. But-per contra and explanatt
the ten republican counties paid into
OF state school fund $33, 24l.74 more
cts they received from it, whereas the
ted democratic counties received from it
nd 900. sc more than they paid into it.
TO From these contrasted exhibits o.
To- mocracy and republicanism in their str
my holds, the taxpayer should be able to 9
lew on which side his bread is bu,tered.
.n- wise taxpayer will vote the repub
IN ticket.
zip,
isls IN" - co
by The Trouble a Mid CeIebration of a
age n,icsi Victory Caused.
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