Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-10-13
FACTS FOR WEST VIRGINIA
VOTERS.


made supplemental assessment AL
so, to further increase the returns.
Notwithstanding all these efforts TO
meet the bills consequent upon their
extravaganza and misconduct, they
borrowed money every year from
1872 to 1895. In 1894 they borrowed
the neat sum of 100000, and borrow
ing the next year was avoided only
by the return to the treasury of the
state by the National Government OF
S154. 100000 of the 100000 hereinbe-
fore mentioned as having been paid
into the National treasury as special
war taxes under the Republican man.
agement of the state more than
twenty-five years prior to its return.
This timely arrival of Republican
savings at the state treasury in the
third year of the last Democra tic
state administra ton is the only
thing that enabled them to avoid bor-
rowing money down to the very hour
of the expiration of Democratic con-
troll of the state. With all these adj
ditions to the ordinary revenues the
obligations of the state went unpaid,
until they were in such disfavor that
they sold in the markets as low as 80
cents on the dollar, and at the close
of Democratic mal-administrati ton,
they handed the state government
over to the Republican party with an
empty treasury and a deficit.
Upon the return of the Republican
party to power in the state, they
found $233, 446. IA in the state fund.
OF this amount the legislature hal
already appropriated 1921 900 to pay
old defcieDcies-unpaid bills of the
Democratic administra ton. These
deficiencies amounted TO $4,000.
The amount in the treasury was
insufficient to pay them by
more than $4,000. This disclosure Of
the actual condition OF the treasury
under Democratic rule is very unpal-
atable To the Democratic politicians,
and they invite our attention 10 the
fact that they took the receipt OF the
Republican treasurer for 81, 100000
upon turning the Office over TO him.
They did, and 100000 of it was rail-
road taxes, belonging to the conn
ties districts and municipalities of
the state, and not to the state fund;
and it should have been distributed
before they went out of office. OF
the remainder, 100000 belonged to
the irreducible school fund. Another
large amouHt belonged 10 the general
school fund, and the balance in the
state fund applicable thereto was in
sufficient to pay the deficiencies left
by the Democratic administration.
Republican ,FrugaIity
In striking and glorious contrast
to this distressing, shameful and dis
graceful record of the Democratic
party, which for years retarded the
progress Of the state, stands the rec
ord of the results of the present Re-
publican admins tration. The ordi-
nary expenses of the state have been
fully paid. We have built an Asylum
for Incurables, an Industrial School
for Girls, and have sufficient money
in hand and appropriated for the
construction of a large and expensive
Annex TO the Capitol, three Miners
Hospitals, several expensive build
irgs at the State University, addi-
tons to the University branch at
Montgomery, for doubling the capac-
ity of the Colored Institute, and the
Reform School for Boys, and making
extensive improvements on all the
other state institutions, and pay the
expenses of the re-as sessment of real
estate, amounting to more than $780,
e00
False Pretense.
The demagogic character OF the
pretense of Democratic inability to
account for the difference of $500, 900
between the aggregate OF the appro-
priations for tn. years ending Sept.
80. 1893, and Sept 80, 1894, and the
aggregate of those for the years end
ing Sept. 30, 1899, and Sept. 80, 1909,
is clearly apparent, when these vast
appropriations for necessary inn
provements are remembered, togeth-
er with the fact that the Democratic
appropriations for 1893 and 1894 were
so grossly and schenectady inadequate
to the requirements of the public
service, that many thousands Of dol