Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-10-27

ly worthless IN law but is hacked
around at from 40c to 60c on the
dollar" What reason can he have
to say that the debts of the county
were worth 40 per cent or go per cent.
when the county received them as
redemption and set off, l cannot i'm
agine, unless as the saying Is he
Judges others by himself,x and
knows by personal experience that
his own accounts are not worth 1 per
Tcent. in any community where he has
resided.
He and the republicans have made
great boast of the big collections of
the republican administration. Let us
make comparative statement OF the
records of both, and in order to make
comparison we must place both up
on equal grounds.
According to their own statement
they collected $123,694. The levy un-
der republican rule was over 1 per
cent above the Union administration
| The total assessed valuation, $780,
| 236 One per cent on this would be
$33 ,662. That much more dueby the peo
pie, therefore, that much more to be
collected by Collector Romero. 1t is
said that he collected 85 per cent
of taxes, therefore he must have col
lected $29,612 of the additional 1 per
cent. levy. To place both on equal
grounds we must deduct from his col
lections $29,612, which leaves $94,-
OS2.
Now let us see what the Union ad-
ministration did, even without the ad-
vantages of the Duncan Law.
Their figures show that we collected
in actual cash $62,242.
That we redeemed county indebted
ness setting off the same in payment
of taxes, with the approval of the
court, the same being county floating
! llluSUJSuuSSS, YoJ,UAo.
The railroad company as stated by
the author of the pamphlet had always
paid its taxes two or three days be
fore due. In December 1898, they
should have paid as had been done
heretofore before the 1st of January
following. The money was here in
tne hands of the bank ready to pay
it, but through the efforts of some
assistant railroad attorney, payment
was withheld until the republican col
lector received the Office This money
should have been paid to Labadie
Romero's predecessor, and it was
ready to be paid, at least, $4,000.
Total Union collections $111,265.
Republican collections, $94,OS2.
Difference in favor of Union ad
ministration, $17,163.
70 arrive at these facts | take re
publican figures, not placing my full
faith in their correctness.
was much amu.cd the night of the
republican convention, to hear Chas
} Spiess say that he defied anyon,
to point to single instance wher,
the republican administration ha,
protected crime" 1t amused me be
cause it brought to my mind Mari
Hannas: There are no trusts"
: Let us see.
Dlonisio Castellano, and about ele
: ven other unionists. were indicted 70
: murder. The first term after the re
, publican administration took posses
4 sion of the judicial machinery, MI
2 Castellano came to his attorneys an
I told them that their services were no
7 needed any more. that their case ha
9 been settled He and his colleague
5 Immediately thereafter declared then
: selves republicans and today are worl
/ ing for republican success. Bu
the indictment is still upon the docke
T like Damocles' sword hanging owe
/ their heads so as to insure that o
; November 9th they win vote a
e agreed
t Nicanor Herrera. a unionist, wa
e indicted for murder. He ato0d tril
e without giving himself over to the RI
I pubIicans. He was convicted an
It sentenced to ten years in the penitel
It tiary. took an appeal and was r
manded to jail. He was kept closel
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