The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-10-06
d'AE OFFICIAL FLCURESf'
Of Great Interest to Taxpayers.
Comparison Of Democratic and Repub-
lican Rule.
The Actual Expenses as Shown by the
Accounts Of Money Paid Out.
The PretenSss Of Democratic Economy Shown
to ba Without Foundation.
Nearly All the Money Received from tbs ex-
TreasureFs Squandered in Increased
Expenses.
Convention of Republican League in
Milwaukee, Sept. 10, 1894.
A Presentation Figures frcm the oea
gance ef+the Present State Administration
Speech Delivered by H A. Taylor Before the State
Convention Of Republican League3 in
Milwaukee, Sept. 10, 1894
Presentation OF Facts and Figures Taken frcm the 0ea
Bacerds that Prove Beyond Dispute the Extraya-
gance of+the Present State Administration.

Every department Of the state govern
a1aas, barring the secretary of state
| ONCE, has expanded more money unde
three years Of Democratic ruls than VT.
ever expended by the same department
under three years of Repui lean rul
All or the state penal and charitst tia IL
sEltutions, such as the hospital
for the insane, the schools TO
the deaf and blind, etc, have COS
more under Democratic than they eve
cost under Republican ruiz. The NEE.
beTs OF the board of control and regent.
Of normal schools and other officers ha4
besn allowed larger expense account
under Democratic than under Republ
can rule. l. has beea the same gtor
every where, in every branch of the stat
government. And expenses have cor
Einued 30 increase yearly. Each sue
eeeding year since the pretended reform
ere have been In power, expenses To-.
se purposes Asve been increased.
Now, before l present to you th,
official figures % expenses incurred re
spectively by the Republican and Demo
cratic administrations TO substantial,
she statements which I have made,
VISA 70 call attention to the unssirnee
and mathematical Jagg laYy employed B.
the Democrats 90 aecsive the psopls. l.
the fret place they compare the s.ss.
tsx levy OF this year, when owing to
large and uaususl income there ia
great amount of money GA hand, and g,
only smsIl s8x is Eeq hired, with to.
tax levy OF 1890, when there was u
money on hand, and the usual tax lew
was necessary. This is simple trickery
II they were disposed 30 be honest the,
would have compared the taxes of til.
our years OF Democratic rule with tn
last four years OF Republican rule.
This comparison they make is 8 yer,
ranspsrent fraud. Bat the most NOR
s.rous effrontery is the pretension tina
he money in the treasury hss aeonmu
lated there as the result Of Democratic
economy. Is has come, not dollar O
il, from reducing expenses, bus from q
sxtraordinary income. TIE Democra
aava not By exercising economy, p8it
out less money than did the Rspobl.
cEns, but from unusual sources the
have received more. This extra none,
came from the ex-treasurers, 1927, 902. 55;
the refunding OF the direct war tax
$50 ,466 10; tae interest on deposit
SAC, ga 70; and increased receipts fro
che railroads and other corporation
500 600. The total OF these unusu.
amounts received in the last two yea.
is largely In excess Of the money now il
the treasury. 7742 $40 co. Had not thee
extra smounts been received, the tax
levy for this year would have been full
up 30 she average foI. the past thres
years Of Democratic control, and much
larger than the sversgs under the last
years of Republican rule.
Tho - JoI -
credit for this unusual income, excep
or tsaE received from the ex-traasurerJ.
Bat the Eeceips of this extra money hes
lethlng TO do with the question OF econ
nv, which Is the matter Ia castro-
very.
Income has nothing 10 DO with esoR.
my. Is Is the expense account taa
ellis that story. Receipts may be larg
+ small, IL is the disbursements only
ass economy affects, The Democrats,
nstesd CT showing how and where the
ave reduced EXPENSES, point to she
aoney tn hand as evidence that the
nave done so. Ga that theory 2 nnsy
Eho earns bat $500 year and is obli9ea
o spend 10 all is egsravsgant, because d
ssvas nothing, while the man gho earn
IS coo and perhsps spends 81 600 of i
IS economical. because he has something
left. The contention OF the DsmoeTst5
that because they have money on han
they must have been economical, would
seem to be too absurd to deceive ans
body, and yes their papers and speskers
ars loudly Insisting that the money i
she treasury Is conclusive evidence 0:
their economy. The true and only tea
"a TO which OF the parties has been ths
most economical, Ia 70 compare the ex
psnses, for stuailsr purposes, incurred by
each party during a series of years
Teis will unmistakably decide the cues
ton upon it's merits. For this purpose ]
submit a series OF comparisons Tn
figures are cfhJisl, being all taken fror
the reports of the SEQ, OF State. Their
are but three years In which compari-
sons can be made, SO ths accounts TO-
the present year are not yet made up
in the Secrstary's office. | compare the
three years OF Democratic rule, 1912 8
with tire last three years of Republicg
rule, 1883 9 80. take the leading items
trou the general fund, such as the ex-
perses of the state institutions, clerk
h.rs, labor abou: Capitol, transfer
Is Dor, incidental expenses, etc. The ex
peEses for the different offices IN the
capitol cannot be gives for 1893 as they
were not published by the Secretary tbs :
yesr, but the aggregates outside OF the
stated salaries, will be found under tie
heads OF "clerk hire" and other ex-
pease accounts that are given. a refer
encs to the reports Of the Secretary foE
the years 1912. the erss two years Of
Democratic "ecoRomy," will show shss
the expenses wsre greater than unses
the last two Republican years, In all the
sxaS~ rA-aa An r.
One OF the greatest sources Ct expenses
to tbs state, and where tbs greatest
opportunity IL afforded for the
employment Of economy, Is In the msin-
tansDcs Of the state peaal and chsrita-
hla inssi In 1aak HaSa A1a thu fSuIan