Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-05-27
EXTAVAGANCE.
DEPLEATING THE. OHIO STATE
TREASURY,
And Imposing Fresh Burdens Upon
an Overtaxed PeopIe-The Agri-
cultural Interests to be the
Principal Sufferers.

1t has been long time since the Treasury
of the State of Ohio was empty, but it has
been long time since so reckless and dare
devil gang of politicians were at the head
of affairs in any Northern State. Their only
prototype is the freebooting carpet-baggers
of the South, whom Judge West dragged from
the odorous cerements of dishonored and
infamous graves and set up for Ohio Repub-
licans in 1886.
If the leaders imagine that honest Repub-
licans take kindly to this new and revolution
ary departure, they are destined to meet with
crushing disappointment in the sweet by
and by. have talked with some of the best
Republicans in the State-men who are not
here crazed with the delirium for office and
plunder, and who are not trring to break in
to Congress by means of bargains and
chicanery--and they denounce the recent pro-
ceedings in good round Anglo-Saxon.
'The worst things charged against the
Democrats" they say, care respectable COM
pared with the revolutionary acts Of our own
leaders. We had the Democrats in hole
when they left the Senate but now the Re-
publicans are in a worse hole, by reason of
the advice of Judge West and the revolution
ary acts of the Republican minority in the
Senate. The burden that was upon the
shoulders of the Democratic is now upon the
shoulders of the Republican party"
That is fair expression of the sentiments
of the best elements of the Republican party,
and the revolutionary leaders will find it
grow to inconvenient proportions as time
passes.
But speaking of the bankrupt condition of
the State Treasury, the people will not fail to
note this condition is coincident with the
crowning act of revolution, under which ex-
travagance is to run unbridled. The false
cry of Democratic extravaganza will deceive
no one but the blind partisans who expect to
profit by the extravaganza of the Republican
leaders, which may now be regarded as fully
inaugurated.
There are certain facts which even the
most expert and case-hardeued Republican
cannot lie out of existence:
l. That, however extravagant the last
Democratic Legislature may have been, it
met all of its expenditures out of the revenues
derived from taxation, largely reduced the
State debt, and did not leave the Treasury
bankrupt.
2. That the Treasury balance coming over
from Hoadly to Foraker was rs large as the
balance coming over from Foster to Hoadly,
less only the extraordinary expenses incurred
by food, fire, cyclone and riot-expenditures
which could not be forseen, and, if made at
all, had to be made upon the spur of the
moment, and which were made with only two
or three dissenting voices.
3. That the local Indebtedness created by
the present Legislature during its first session
will exceed that created during the whole
term of the Sixty-seventh General Assembly.
4. That the revenues for 1886, which will
be as great as they were in 1886, will fall ST.
OOO, 900 below the sum total of this years ap-
preparation.
5. That never in the Legislative history of
the State was there such gross and palpable
extravaganza in appropriations.
6. That Mr.. Brown, the Republican Chair
man of the Republican Finance Committee,
admitted on the floor of the House that the
presnt is the most extravagant Legislature
that ever assembled in Ohio.
7. That it is proposed to raise the money
to meet this extravaganza and recklessness
by imposing so per cent. additional tax bur-
dens upon the agricultural interests of the
State, which already bear a disproportionate
share of the same.
These are facts that the people understand,
or will understand before they get done in
vestigating. Neither Republican revolution
nor Republican falsehood will wipe out the
true history of the Sixty-seventh General
Assembly.
The time was when the Republican manip-
ulators could escape justice for their own
misdeeds by casting odium upon Democrats,
but is is passed. The expose of the latest
Republican attempt in this direction, in
this mornings Enquirer, shows that they
have got to the end of that string, at least
Cincinnati Enquirer.
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