The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-10-14

instance late ufbt Infug ne does ~ 70
convict the Democratic nominee for
governor, in whose favor he doubtless
intended his article to be. He refers
in the beginning Of the article to the
Tax Commissions recommendations in
these words: "Wisa suggestions of the
Tax Commission which mad been en-
braced in bills presented to the legisla-
ture in 1903" Now, mind You, he says
"wiee.1 What is Cornwell on record as
saying about them3 Why, ne said they
were .fimpracticable, impossible and UNI
constitutional" There ne conyicts Mr..
cornwell, If ne himself is right, and, If
he is wrong, Mr.. cornwell offers moth
ing instead.
Next he calls every Democratic news-
paper in this state liar, waen ne uses
these words. "Mr. Dawson became
aware of the fact that unless he receIed
from his position, mis- personal ambitions
would be defeated This WAS too much
for his followers and they met in wasa-
ington IN secret conference and agreed
to compromise bills"
Every one knows that all Democratic
papers and even Cornwell himself has
denied that Dawson did any suca thing
but they say he made mis- campaign on
the original bills, even after the agree.
ment was reached. Now, If Patton Is
right, the Democratic papers and Corn
we'll are wrong on this point, and. since
Democratic papers think Pattou's let.
ter is the trutn, they acknowledge that
they and Cornyell nave done some tall
lying. II they are right, then Patton
is consummate liar and they endorse
the lie by endorsing his utterAnees. 1t
seems to be a case of falsifiers endors-
ing one another.
Then to prejudice the real estate
owner, this gentleman forgets to state
that personal property is to be assessed
at its actual value just as well as real
estate. Why does he not say so2 Be
cause that looks too much like fairness
for him and would expose mis- false ar.
gument.
His ingenuity is again displayed, when
he interprets county levy and docs
not include roads and so forth in it. The
plain and sensible construction OF the
law is that 60 cents is the levy for all
county purposes, not including the dis
trict building fund, @hicn has been re-
duced from 20 to 90 cents.
Again, this argunentative freak un-
dertakes to say that there has actuslIy
been no change in road and school levies
and as the result the taxes will be hicn-
er than they were. because of the fact
That the state tax has been taken Off
In other words tde more taxes YOU take.
of the higher they are, and especially,
when the counties are relieved so far
a real estate is concerned, from sup
porting the state government. Besides
it is not contended that the expenses of
the state government will be any great
err than they have been and all this is
to be borne by tmoes derived in other
ways. Certainly an idiot would say
that taking off the state taxes is
great burden to the property owner.
Why not say the Dawson corporation
law tiat collects taxes in tha-shape of
licenses is a great burden to the prop.
erty owners of this state AMI ought to
be repealed so that those owners would
have to pay nearly half million dol
lars more to support the state govern
ment? Our friend, Patton, ought to
advance the idea by all means, since mis-
conception of relieving the real estate
owner is not to take any tax off of him
at all.