Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-08-29
TORN TO SHREDS.
clusivelv for The benefit of the farmers OF
West Virginia, Are you inclined 20

OPPOSE TIE NATIONAL GUARD
OF our State. of whom al should be proud
II not YOU Canuo; C0lecs 90 the law which
relieved the A3iUJant General OF tae
duties of State Librarian. The new mill
tarv law under which OuI NatlOn0, Guard
is organized, and which was prepared Oy
those eminent Republicans, Col. treer aeC
Major GIuc6, gentlemen Tor whose fairness
and ability as politicians, citizenS anu
military men 1 have high regard, mace
IL necessary 10 have il the AdluJaut Cen
eral an oficer who could give Gli his atteR-
tion 10 military matters, The Office OF
Librarian is one Of Importance, ITS du,eS
are combining and require constant aJtcn-
ton from one person 40 least Since U"
creation Of this Ceice, our vo,Ua'I 10
State Library has been well cared for anu
the service has been most efficient DO our
Republican friends want 70 cripple the
military organization or the state, or leave
the State Library without proper care ana
service Another new Office is tnat OF state
Bank Examiner, but In fairness 10 the Re
publican candidate for Governor, l must
not claim for the Democrapc party the eX-
elusive credit for creating this office. Mr..
Davis was author OF the Bank
Examiners law now or our statute book
and the most earnest advocate OF IT'S pass
age. Does the party watch has headed IT'S
State ticket with the name or MT Davis
object 20 this law, which aims al providing
secure and solvent banks tCrthe use OF the
people:
What other Offices have been created, un-
less 10 be an additional member or The Court
of Appeals and q few additional. Circuit
Judges, made necessary by the increase or
the States population and consequent ln-
crease in litigation. Do the Republicans
propose 10 deny 20 the people efficient
Courts
HOW ALL SALARIES ARE FIXED.
The Huntingdon platform next accuses
the Democrats of having increased salaries.
/ can only characterize this as a most I'M
pariOnable and del Oeratg false statement
The present salaries OF g. state Officers
are hNed Oy the Constitution. which was
adopted by vote OF the people, aud there
could be no increase or reduction except Oy
a constitutional amendment There mas
been no change iu the salaries as liked Dy
the Constitution or 1872, except as 20 t1c
salaries Of Circuit Judges, which were not
increased. but iu fact reduced from S-,ouJ
70 81 800 by the adoption Of the C0usttA-
tiOual amendment OF 1879. The salaries so
fixed by the Constitution of l,1- are sub
stantially the same as the salaries and Gl-
lOwauCes previously paid gudar kepuO.l-
can administration. In fact, they are O
trhe less. The difference is that now
State officers receive exclusively salary I,
then they were paid q salary and ma add
ton were each allowed several hundred
dollars annually as house rent. and without
very much color of law, either. Does 10
make any material difference TO the tax
payer whether the Governor is paid sal
ary of g, 100 year and nothing iuadaiuOu,
as under Democratic administration, or
g, 000 @ year salary aud 500 year house
rent, as under Republican administration.
The Slllr.es and house rent paid the
executive officers for 1870, the last wear OF
Republican rule, aggravated ti,''O more
than has been paid the same officers lu any
year since. The aggregate salaries or the
executive officer, ot the state during
seven wears OF Republican administration,
from 1864 20 1870 inclusive. exceeded by
s, 200 the aggregate amount OF salaries
paid the same officers In any seven years
since
Figure il up, fellow citizens, for your
selves, and see II the Republicans didu z
actually pay their State officers more than
the Democrats are paying. Their methods
Of getting money ont Of the Treasury were
purposely indirect aud intended 90 deceive
the people, Just as their charge that we
have increased salaries is q fraudulent one
and intended 20 deceive the voters Of the
Sta.e 10 this campaign.
ABOUT ASSESSMENT RATES.
In keeping with the other reckless and
unfOunded statements contained In the Re-
publican State platform, is tue charge that
the Democrats have increased the average
assessment for State purposes. ] want 20
show how utterly UufOuuCed is this claim
and contrast the records Of the two parties
as 10 the rate OF taxation ia this STATE.
Excluding the State school tax, which
has been the same. ten cents on the
the 500 valuation, under every a1m'nlstra-
tiOn from 1863 % the present time, assert
and the records viii show that the rate OK
taxation for general State purposes since
1871 under Democratic administration mas
been 20 per cent. less than prior TO that
time under Republican management OF
State affairs. The average annual rate or
taxation for an state purposes during tue
nine years the Republicans wcEe IN power,
was, including the State school tax, 20 Is
coats on the 400 valuation, or excluding
the school tax, 2G' cents. The average
annual tax rate for twenty years OF Demo
cratic administration since ISL, has been,
including State school tax, ~ cents. i,
Is true that, as iu the case or salaries TIE
Republicans dXed an apparent rate OF only
90 cents for State purposes, but iu addition
they levied a special tax usually called q
Building tax THAI averaged 6'5 cents
on tie eco per auuun, max
ing the average rate for state
purposes exclusive Of the school tax, 20
cents. and against 22is cents, the average
rate for twenty wears under Democratic au-
miuistratiOn From lNj3 90, anJ including
1867, the Republican rate OF taxation .u-
GLIDING special building taxes and tl5
State school tax was 40 cents on tae siyV
valuation. Thus while the outlay Ter pub
E rF
lie institutions, now the pride or the state,
then existed, 10 required an enormous tax
rate % support ''wGstCiul and eXtravagant
Republican administrations, which neither
collected closely aud honestly, crpracu-ej
economy ia public expenditures.
GIVING AWAY THE Peoples MONEY.
Why. my fellow citizens, from 1853 20
ISL Republican Legislatures actually ~
leased 70 delinquent and deia0fuS sAer.ls
and their sureties }43, 5Sc.l>, besides Inter
est and damages, and also released ten
sherifs and sUrcdeS from unascer'alued
amounts, all estimated 20 not less than so
900 more. (See Senate Journal or l>l-,
page $. for the record evidence Of this
fragrant special lerjSlat!Cu.l So patent
was the personal favOritsm involved in
these releases Of delinquent and
defaultiug officials, aud 50 un-
fair 70 the taxpayers, that a general pro
test came up from the people, aud the Con
stitutiOnal Convention of 1872, Demo
cratic body, for ever prohibited special
legislation of this character SO much for
q comparison of the tax rate under Demo
cratic and Republican Administrations and
the false claim that we have increased the
taxes Of the people, and have been waste
full, extrayagaut and Incompetent
THE BASIS OF TAXATION.
But they say we have increased the basis
of taxation by repeated rGaSSeSSmeDt, and
that while processing 20 be the friends of
the farmer, 1--WE have repeatedly Increased
-. .nrinnt r-rnnsns tho Llr.s Of