The Springdale news., 1888-08-17
sALTING THEM DOWN.
COY. HUGHES SHOWS UP THE TWO
 RECORDS.
Ye,riblc Arraigpmept os Repubh.
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o,,isLed the4y hold Tn Arkansas in ls74. there existed a lack of conf dence in pubic affairs, an measi- ness. uncertainty, dissatisfaction, resulting from their rplsrnle, mal- administration of the state govern ment, speculation, plunder, prostl- ,ution ot the government to person al ends, and 8 state Df financial bankruptcy. that begRars dcscr'p i1op. Ne submit tns tsj let the rec ord speak.
 The public debt of ttc State, which in l8o7 amounted to about ss,25O, ,Ooo, had been increased under Republican rule about sl4, ,oooyooo, and tn, State had erected no pnbilc puljdinps and had made m pubic improvements that ought to cost nxpr s9ee.o0 Of this indebted
 ..Jou. oz.Juo 900 were Tn the form of Arkansas treasurcr's certlh- eates of indebtedness, or sstate script, some of which bore five, some eight per cent. per annum Ill forest Ii was receivable for all state, county and municipal taxes, except the tax 10 pay the interest on the public debt, and though thus secured being virtually hen on all the state, county and municipal revenues in the winter of 1874, 1t was worth only from twenty to twenty-five cents on the dollar. So utterly had the confidence ot the people in state government been destroyed.
 t5. .Ei likewise bur dened with enormous debts and county scripts were worth from ten to twenty cents on the dollar. The vicious habit had prevailed of lssu- ing $2, $4 and s5 Tn state and county script to cover one dollars indebt. edness.
 he expenses of the state govern ment for two years ending in 1874, under Republican rule, were s2,. 529,5S5, while for the two years ending in 1886, they were only s3s0,0O0, under Remocratic rule.
 Thc expenses oi tho general as- sembly of 1873, under Republican rule, were s360,206, while under Demo cratic rule for tic year 1885, they were only s95 ,040.
 The penitentiary from 1870 to 1s7l, under Republican rule cost the state $24s, 600, while for the two years ending In 1886 tAo reYen- ue derived from the penitentiary above expenses amounted to about sso,O0o.
 State printing for 1870 to lS7l cost Sl50,0o0. Under Democratic rule it cost only s45,6o0.
 The expenses ofthe Auditors of flee from le72 to 1874 were s22 ,3l0 from 1884 to 1886 only sl6. .540.
 Blanks, blank books and state. ments from 1872 10 1874 cost sl3S,- 765, from 1882 to 1884 only ss,667.
 The salaries of executive and ju- .dicial officers of the state from 1873 to 1874 were. under Republican rule, s2Sl ,S6o, from l8si to 1886, sl33,900.
 Publishing journals of the gener al assembly of 1873 cost s43,975, of lSs5, s4,932.
 Expenses of the land office from 1872 to ls74 was s5l ,6,5; recei pts of that office ahoye expenses, 1881 to l8s6, sll0,o27.
 Expenses of Secretary of States office, 1872 to 1874, S52 ,l32; receipts above expenses in lss4to lsS6 slo,. 00o.
 Cost of the state government from 1868 to 1874, Ss,532 ,2a5; from 1850 to 1885, al940, 0,000-dif- terence ln favor ot Democrat ad- ministratlon in six years, s7, l92,- 232-nearly sl.20o,0O per annum,
 4n 1871 and 1872 there were ten clerks in the treasqrer.s office, three at sl80O, four at sl500 and three at sl200 each per annum, and Tn 1872 and 1873, fifteen clerks, one at s2,a0o, three at sls00 and eleven It sl500 per aunum. Now there are four at $500, sl5oo, SI260 and 5000 per annum'
 In the Auditors office in ls7l and 1872 there were twenty-two clerks. two at sls00, eighteen at $500 and two at Sl200 eac per annum. In 1873 aud 1874 there were thirteen at slSo0 ahd $500 each per annnm. Now there are four one Ut $500, one at sl50o and two at sl2Oo each per abnnm.
 Concluded mex, week.