Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1886-04-23
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month of January, 1856, the COLLECTIONS
exceeded, by $44, Otis, those for the
entire quarter ir 1888 and that the col
le.lions for the quarter beginning jan
uary ], 1886, exceeded those OF the ike
quarter for 1888, by the enormous sum
of $2l5, 53S.63.
Our fiscal year begins on the lst day
| of October. The largest annual coliec-
ton heretofore made was for the fiscal
year 1888, when it reached the sum OF
$500. 992. So. The collections for the
present fiscal year, beginning October
lst, 1885, already foot up $SO6, AL So,
which includes but SEC, 96S.O3 of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway back taxes.
The year has yet six months to run.
1t is safe to say that by the end OF the
wear, the treasury receipts will largely
exceed 81, 100000.
The largest distrbutable School Fund
ever paid out in this State was for the
year 1882, when it amounted to S272,-
s42.3 The amount now standing to
the credit of that fund is $293, 2o6.24.
By the 10th day of June, 1886, at which
time under the law the distribution is
to be made, the fuLd will undoubtedly
exceed 1920, 900.
The amount of State Indebtedness
liauidated during the present admins
tration is 99.139.sl.
In recent issue the Grafton Senu-
mel declares that cit is not impossible
for the Republican party to have a ma
iority in the next Legislature, and that
the people are growing tired of Demo
cratic rule" We commend the facts
we have stated and the figures we have
anotcd to the careful and prayerful con-
sideraton of our Grafton contemporary.
Will it honestly point out any proofs to
be found therein that may indicate or
Justify the alleged popular WEAKNESS Of
Democratic rule?
Doubtless there are men in the State
who would rather see our State govern
ment go to destruction under the mis-
management of incompetent men, than
see it thrive under wise and judicious
Democratic administration given us by
Governor Wilson. But such men do
not constitute the majority of either the
Democratic or Republican parties.
The great taxpaying public will not
withhold a just recognition of that wise
administration which West Virginia
now SO abundantly enjoys. The fact
that it is thoroughly Democratic, the
fact that it is to some disappointingly
successful. will not abate its merits in
| the public estimation.
So far from being "tired of Democrat
ic rule" the people hunger after just
such Democratic rule as Governor Will
son has given and is giving us. He has
done and is doing more for the perma-
nence of Democratic supremacy in this
State than any man who has been before
the public for years. All the predic-
llOlIS SehbP"iS' "''
after, of the woeful results to follow his
| Inauguration, have been signally re-
futed. The State is at peace, her rev.
enues are closely collected and careful
ly expended; her schools are flourish
ing as never before; the laws are en-
ecuted faithfully and crime learns that
it cannot invoke at will the parGoning
power; the resources of the State are
being developed; capital is coming in;
new enterprises are going forward, not
withstanding the uneXamplcd financial
depression, and the indications now are
that during Gov. Wilson's admnistra-
ton there viii be more local railroad
building than under any of his prede-
cessors.
Doubtless all this is sadly disappoint-
| ing. Nevertheless, it is true. If this
is the Democratic rule of which our Re-
publican friends are growing tired"
We can all conscientiously ask and hope
that it may be indefinitely continued
Charleston Star.