The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-16
CAMPBELL OUTLINES POSITION
 OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
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trol of the state government The basis stitution of 1S6S which was the constitu- ton adopted and promulgated by the re- publican party while in power. The same basis Is found in the constitution of the United States, and Is the one on which the Electoral college is based and the one upon which we elect representatives to congress. The doctrine, as old as our government, that there should be no taxation without representation must be ignored if any other basis be adopted. And 1t speaks well for the new consti- tuition and bad for the republican party Lat the only provisions which they crit icise are those which have been in the old constitution for years. If the basis Is wrong why was not the wrong discovered in 1875 or in 1868, or when the constitution of the United States was adopted? From time to time efforts have been made in congress looking to the reduction of the south's representation in congress and the Electoral college. This was notably true in the bill known as the Crumpacker resolution. And who knows but that the republican attack on the representation basis in the new constitution Is not an- other move in the direction of accom- plishing the nefarious purposes of the Crumpacker bill?
 Room for Improvement.
 The republican party is organized in this state, and is seeking the suffrages of our people, It's leaders have announce ed the purpose to make that party 're- spectable'' There is certainly room for improvement in Alabama over what it has been, for in the past 1t has been held together by the "cohesive power of public plunder'' It has absolute control of the state government during the pe- riod elapsing between the end of the war and 1874, when an outraged people hurled it from power. Its acts during that pe- riod make the darkest pages in all our history. Corruption stalked in high placed and venality seems to have afforded passport to political favor. When that party took charge of affairs in our state, it found state debt of three and half millions of dollars. When it went out of power, and in less than ten years of its administration, the state debt had in- creased to the enormous sum of over thirty millions of dollars The states cre. was destroyed, and its revenues were squandered. Whilst there was prss,ic school system provided for in the law it existed In name only because the appropriations did not reach the teachers or the schools.
 Republican School Record.
 The records show that although the ap- organizations for schools for the year end ing September 30, 1875, was $524 452. 40, only s6S, ,313, ,93 of this appropriation was drawn for school purposes. The reason given for this was the depleted condition of the treasury of the state. When that party went out of power there was due the public schools the sum of s1,360,00O which had been appropriated by law. but which had been misappropriated or stolen by the officials of the party in power. They resorted to the issuance of treasury war rants, but as the time when these wae- rants would be paid was uncertain they could only be disposed of at heavy dis count which came out of the hard earn ings of the poorly paid teachers. As consequence there were no public schools in the state, save in localities where they were sustained by private subscription. This utter disregard of the right to have public funds honestly and economically applied was. indeed, more than twenty five years ago and the conditions then prevailing will, it is to be hoped, never be duplicated, but the republican party still remains true to it's record in extrav- agant expenditure of public money. It's policy is to raise all the money it can by iniquitous taxation and to spend 1t with reckless indifference to the burdens of the taxpayers. If the country was