Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-31
PARTIES ACTIVE.
Many Speeches as the
Campaign Closes.
Of Republicans Are
More Convincing.
Secretary Taft Pays Respects to Can.
ddate Parker.

Buffalo. Oct. 30.--Judge William II.
Taft, Secretary of War was the p,ir
cIpal speaker ut It mass meeting here
last evening. He took NJ the discussed
in detail 4 number of points il Judge
Parker'S recent speeches. contradirting
several Of his statements. In closing he
said:
Except by Democratic figuring of a
fearful and wonderful character the
prospect of Il deficit under this admin
iStr:ltion is Very Remote Judge Par
ker'S theory that there is to he Il de
ficil rests apparently on the idea that
the receipts must always exceed the
expenditures at the ana OF each month
whereas anyone at all familiar with
the customary variation in the receipts
and expenditures from month to month
knows that there are apparent def it,
growing out Of tn" fact that tn. re- is
much Greater monthly regularity III
receipts than in expenditures, 50 ;hat
in the month Of Srpte nher thu. deficit
which troubles Juig.- Parker for thp
months Ut August aut July il redurcd
bv the surplus of $f.rn0 900 for that
month and the same thing will prob
ably occur in the month Of October.
ION the whole, then. the voters of this
country. having hal experience in the
promises Of the Democratic party to
reduce the outrageous expenditures and
cxtraN agance existing in Republican
administrations. and the failure t.
keep those promises ave rot likely to b.
n:isled INTO accepting similar promises
made without any real specification as
to where the reduction is 10 be made.
There remains only one thing further
in Judge Parl<trS discussion of eX-
p.nSeS that call 70" answer. and that
is fhe statement which he has mad
in his letter of acceptance and repeat
ed in his speech of oct. y. In speak
Ing o: the apparent deficits for the
months of Judy and August of this
year. he said:
How much more w have ran behind
since, we are not able to state, owing
to the recent administrative orders for
bidding Government officers from max
ing public any settlement of estimates
on which future ;tppropria tons are
based. 1t is safe TO assume from the
making Of the orders that there has
been no Improvements. otherwise tn
public would not Le denied all iniur-
ration pending thn campaign.
This statement OF Judge Parker inGi-
Gates q lack of knowledge as to de-
partmental methods ana government
affairs. The expenditures and the re
ceipts for each month are published at
me end of the month by the treasury.
and thu receipts and Expenditures for
the month OF September have been
millions OF receipts over expenditures.
The intin,atiOn that The present esti
Taat"A Of the bureau officers for tho
year ending June 81 1906. has any
thing to do with a probable deficit for
the year ending 1875 is Of a piece with
the contemporaries and Atkinsonian
reason py which the expenses of inn
proving rivers ana harbOrs in this
country is charged 10 the Philippines,
Of the claim of Ir. Rourke Cochran
or Go:rrror ,;arvin that riots in Colo
ado r." due to the Philippine polly
Of the administration.
The administration order to which
Judge Parker refers is m executive Or
der which was issued forbidding bu-
r"au officers to give out for publica-
mates had been passed upon by the
head OF the department. This order
was made before any criticism by
Judge Parker had been made upon
National expenditures, although in his
letter Of acceptance ne enormously as
siI,ned that his m nntion of the sub
ject III the address to the Democratic
editors was what lei 20 the order. !
He is also mistaken in this, for the
order had been determined upon ami /,
directed some time before his illumin /
atiug speech to the Democratic edi-
tors As matter of fact, tn" totals
Of the estimates Of many Of the de-
;,artrents have been given out by the 4
heads Of the departments as those es p
inmates are determined OH. The bureau
estimates. are not withheld at all be- =
cause Of the campaign, but only be- I
cause il is wholly improper for bureau
officers to give Out their estimates OF {,
the expenses when the same have not !
been considered by the only persons
responsible for the estimates. to wit.
the heads: of departments. The esti-
mates Of all departments will be. pub
lie property long before the election. Il