The Kosciusko star. (Kosciusko, Miss.) 18??-1898, 1895-09-20
Rurkitt's Assertions Are as 'Chaff
Before the Wind.
wcLAURIN SCORES THE POP
Text of His Speech Before a
Scott County Audience.
standard Bearer Successfully v
Refutes the Charge of Party
Extravaganza.
Clarion dger,

|Claron-Ledger,
Forest, Sept. 16. Hon. A. j.
NcLaurln. Democratic candidate
for Governor, spoke here to-day,
|devoting most of his time to reply
ing to the ISLANDERS and misrepre-
sentation Of Frank Burkitt, saying
lin effect.
"Capt. Burkitt asserts that the
administration Of the State govern
ment under Ames was more eco
nomical than that under Stone.
| AS an illustration of the deception
| he practices upon those who be-
lieve his statements | call atten-
ton to the fact that he claims that
there was in the treasury 1924,
3S7.3S on the first day of January,
|1S76. He makes this statementin
the Messenger Of the 2Sth Of Au-
gust, and he makes it in such a
way as to leave the impression up
on the mind of any reader that this
sum of money was in the State
treasury on the 1st of January,
1876. l think any fair-minded
man will say he believed it was in
tended by Capt. Burkitt for mis- as
sertion to be understood that this
amount was in the treasury in
money. The fact is it was COM
posed Of bonds, State warrants, etc,
that had been paid and not audited
except the sum of S93,26S.8S
which was the only amount in the
treasury, in money, on the first
day of January, 1875. =,
Then again in the same article
he says that the actual number OF
dollars extorted from the people in
1875 was, according to Ames, ST.
$50, 1928. This is not true. The
Auditors report shows the collec
lions to have been 81 ,SOl, l29. II
To show how insincere and Olsen
genuous Capt. Burkitt is when h'
makes the statement that the Re
publican administrations were
more economical than the Demo
cratic administrations, or even a
economical, we will take the frs
year of the Republican administra
ton, in 1870, and this years Dem
ocratic administration. In thu
We will take the appropriation
made to the benevolent institution
and for the payment of the inter
est and the principal of the publ
debt. There was no debt whe
the Republicans came into powe
IN 1870. 1t was new start. Th
appropriations for 1870, as will b
shown by the Acts of 1870, for tn
running expenses Of the State go,
eminent were more than $377 I
10000. In 1895, for the same e,
penses the appropriations wer
S256,7S0 In 1870, as will
found on page "a of the Acts
1870, there was levied a State ia
OF five mills on the dollar, whic
did hot include the tax for runnir
OF the tublic schools. At th'
time the expenses of the publ
schools were paid by the counti'
exclusively, and the board OF s.
pervisors were allowed to levy t.
mills on the dollar for school hou
purposes and five mills for teac
ers' fund, making a levy of TWEEN
mills or two per cent OF the pro
erty of the State for State al
school purposes, to say nothing
general county taxes. Now +
this year the tax levied is fl
mills on the dollar, and this il
cludes 923,500 appropriated
the State to conduct the CONNIE
schools. With these facts befo
his eyes no man can truthfnlly a
sert that the administration of 4
Republicans was as economical