Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-09-27
MIX THE FIGURES Up.
Mr.. Taylor in the Role of a
Mathematician.
HONEST DEMOCRATIC RECORD TOO
MUCH FOR HIM.

state Affairs "heh hepuDllcanS were
Not-ue Assumes There Is Something
Wrong and Tries to Find Facts to Fit
gled Up in Maze of Figures-The Facts
Directly Contradict His Theories
Some Woefui Blunders-The Brilliant
Record of the Democratic Administra-
ton brought Out in Stronger Light by
the Attack.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 2i.-The latest victim
TO the very bad habit of fooling with fire.
arms while not knowing whether they are
loaded is the venerable Uncle "Hod" Tay-
lor who has lately attempted to tell the
people of the state just how the state adj
ministration has been run. According to
Uncle Horace the Democratic state officials
are n very bad lot.
Mr. Taylor is something of a reformer
himself and is naturally jealous of the
handsome record made by the state admin
istration the past four years. He believes in
business administration with proper per-
Sonal dividends. His record is clear on
that point. No one can forget the gallant
manner in which his white plumes waved
in the forefront of the assault on the rail
roads in 1880 and it is still matter of
wonder how suddenly the plume disap-
peared when he was given sinecure job
by President Harrison as railroad commits
soner Mt a salary of $1,000 q year with
nothing to do and luxurious private cars
IT,. ,t,h 10 Il fhnr hns a rs u
Tiers who insinuated that Messrs. Sawyer
and Spooner had to get Uncle Horace out
OF the state and took this golden argu-
ment in order to attain that end. Possibly
this Is caumny 1t found general Gre
dence at the time. Perhaps, however, his
record as a railroad crusher had something
to do with his sudden recognition. How
ever all this maybe, Mr.. Taylor is reformer
or says he is. Reasoning from his inti-
mate knowledge Of how state affairs were
run under Republican administrations he
assumed that the record made by Gov
ernor Peck's administration was due to
trickery rather than to an honest, bust
ness-like attention to affairs. Educated
Ms he was In the school Of Sawyerism it
was reasonable that he should think SO.
No one who has attempted-and with
measure of successful trick the people
can recognizes honesty OF motive in rival.
TANGLED UP IN FIGURES.
Acting on this assumption Uncle Horace
armed himself with bundle of reports
and started in to maintain his theory.
The result was startling even il not true
Still 1t was amusing ms an illustration of
how an elderly gentleman riding hobby
can get tangled up in Il thicket of figures
and what strange things he will believe he
has found.
One of the first things Uncle Horace
thought he had discovered was m unwar-
rantable extravaganza about the capitol
He told his fellow Republicans he had
found every office in the capital. with the
exception Of that Of secretary of state, had
been run at n greater expense under
Democratic than under Republican rule.
He asserted his statement was based
on the records. Ii SO he must have
been troubled with obliqueness of vision.
Az n matter of fact every office in the CAPT
toll, with four exceptions, the records
show, has been run at a less expense than
under Republican rule. In some instances
the difference runs into thousands and in
others Is but few hundreds The total
footings show TINT in the first three years
Of Democratic rule as compared with the
last three years of Republican rule, which
was the period taken by Mr.. Taylor for his
computations, the gain to the Democrats
was SIS, 26S. 73-in other words it cost that
much less to run the offices.
The detailed report is rs follows:
Governors Office. Loss GAIN.
S2S,04,w