Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-05
Knox county's Object lesson.

Knox county finances alone. win
Candidate Davis and his organ ana tilc
army of Democratic spellbinders seek
| ing to make the people believe lildt 1t
| &c n Fundamental part of the policy OF
the Republican party to be eXtraN'-
CANT and OF the policy of the Demo
cratic PARTY to be economical, II Is most
embarrassing to them to have the case
Of Knox country brought up. Down
there. as we pointed out in thes"
columns the other day. the county en-
rcpees have steadily and largely in
creased under Democratic rule, and the
contrast between this period and tn"
t.riu,l Of Republican rule which pre-
c.,led it, shows up the Knox county
democracy il anything but the light
Of rcfoi1nrrs ana money-Sav"rs for the
p,onIe. The. case of Knox county is
rauch lik. that If the country at lals".
for the country has not forgotten how
the Democratic administration took
control of the surplus in the national
treasury and turned it into a deficit.
even having to issue bonds to pay run
nin& EXPENSES.
Judge Robinson of Camden, one of
The. b..st known men iii that part of tn"
state. made. Il speech the other night in
which IL made the following comments
,,.- ~.
own county:
IN county affairs our Democratic
friends make great pretensi"ns, but
they have never don, a thing to cntitle
them 10 the least particle of credit.
From 1894 to 1901 the County of knoH
WAS wholly under Republican control.
| The Republican party found the county
| in debt over SCI 900 and in six years OF
| its stewardship it wiped out the whole
Of that debt. and in 1901. the year the
democrats took control there vas a
| surplus Of nearly 5000 i'll the treasury
| and the county tax was reduced nearly
one thirl during the three years just
| preceding Democratic control.
| How much the Democrats moan by
| their loud talk about economy is shown
| from the fact that when they took con-
| troll they allowed the Democratic
| sheriff $2.25 per week for feeding his
| prisoners instead of 50 as it had been
| before. They elected one of their
political friends ianitor of the court
| house 1T q salary Of 5000 per year. three
times rs much rs the Republicans hal
| been having. Under Republican rule
the attending physician at the count V
i Jail got = salary of $50 per year and it
cost nothing moro. although there We're
sometimes rs many as 10 prironers for
tho wear. Last wear tho att"ndin"
rhysician. nr. Crockett. with so prison
crs rot tho so salary and accor ling to
! tho printed Democratic fnancial state
m"nt Of the county it cost in addition
s1GS. 80 for extra attendance and medi-
| cine
! While the Republicans had control
there vas n tynnwriter in the Registry
Of Dnotls office BOUGHT and owned ~
/ Mr.. Nillor. and the PnnnhIican count I
| commissioners had refused 70 b,v on
| with tho coUntv's rronoy. hut ct
the first things the Democrats did was
to bnv ono for the CIork of Courts. and
now thov have three in the Court
Houen. I'll naid for bv tho county, ~
tho oXnenso Of several hundred dollars
| Nv previous statements conc"rninn
those trnowritnrc senr7od to nettIo thr
RncNlard 0ninior. which cai' the frc4
| tvnevritor w?s bought nv tho Ron,'.li-
| cons. hut that Il was bought nv tn,
| Democratic BOARD can be easily nroved
The 0ninion cvcuses tho who'oeale
' lrnh1cn nf t,-nn h.,
| vent that II ic . necessary eu,1inron.
Of I'll nn'"rn Offices. hut in 60 doing i
admits that v costs r7ore to RIM tn
COUNTY, than 1t did four years arc
which IS = stran~e thine TO do. corcih
erin" that tho Dnnocratc gro rantinr
90 about tn" extra cost of rrnn;nr tho
stat" government. and nrotnnd to thinl
"" ought 20 got along "a cheaply as W.
did % years 1eo"
In commenting unnn this speech
which it publishes the Portland Al.
v"rtisor says: Here is presented n,
object Lesson which even n Democra,
ought to he able to understand. I,
there any reason for pretending tha
the Democrats of Knox county are diff
| | ~ ~ it'Iil IptliictisitS ELSEWHERE II
the State Do the people of Maine il
the face of this knowledge CONCERNING
what the Democrats of Knox count,
have done to increase county expense,
since they took control believe tina
there IS any real sincerity in the or,
of the Democracy Of the State FOR re-
trenchment and economy? The fact i,
the real nolicy of the Democratic lead
ers in Maine and in the nation is to ge
!. the other fellows out so that they ca,
set in And they are now busily tryin,
20 fool the people into helping them Il,
it. But fortunately the people are no
! fooled so easily"
Missouri exchange assures US thar
the eastern papers are taking too seri
ously the Hon. Champ Clark's threa
to cut the throat of man who inter
rupted him during a speech. 1t saw.
that as a matter of fact, Cham,
| wouldn't even harm the neck of :. hot