Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-04
STRAIGHT FACTS AND FIGURES
A Complete Refutation Of the Charges and Claims
of the Democratic Leaders.

Keep track Of. Consider how tba !.
tail has multiplied by the accession !,
new companies, and all the manItoI,
duties required in their control a..
year the receipts Of the State fror,
mat branch were 123,710.O3-mora
man ten times the volume Of bushes,
done twenty years ago in that year !,
1872 to which Democratic orators Ara
pointing with so much pride. Ana
yet the expenses of the office, salaria,
and clerk hire, are but $4,000, agajnst
sl,2Oo in 1882. If Mr.. Davis or M
McGillicuddy can figure out OF that
showing anything except a condition
OF ahalrS advantageous to the Sta,a
OF Maine. then their acumen as bust
ness men grows dull as they turn from
their private business to consider pub.
lie affairs.
Moreover, the commissioner and hs
deputy act as the fire wardens q,
Maine, investigating causes Of fires
holding hearings and protecting prom.
erty holders-their services for such
work covered by their salaries aboys
noted.
1t is small wonder that with this
showing as only one instance OF thu
damning verify Of detail, Candidate
Davis avoids anything except general
tiles when declaiming against extra
cost of service in the Maine depart
ments.
Does a Maine voter want his States
business attended to as it increases or
cIn tnI
mony in providing public servitors?
But If the showing in the insurance
department is thus so emphaticaIy
successful from a business standpoint.
the Secretary of States office reveals
a condition that may well cause voters
to sit up and open their eyes.
Were this a private business under
consideration the improvement would
be absolutely astounding.
SECRETARY OF STATE DEPART
MENT.
Receipts.
Tax on corporations - so 3l0Oo
New corporations ........ $500
Increase capital stock Of
corpora lions ............ 9fnna
eeS OF once ............ ,154.0J 44glS
Expenses. l'l'4-o' lS''SI''
Salaries of clerks . 10000 44yW
Total receipts of office !. ,154O0s 169 4D7 q
Total expenses of office 1.S00O0* $4,000
@In 1882 the expenses of office exceeded
receipts by $4,000
What does this show 1t shows that
in 1882. when there were two clerks
the receipts were 1916 less than the ex-
pensec.
Last year. with only two clerks ad-
ditional to do all the immense detail
of this busy office. the whole expense
Of clerks being only $4,000 the receipts
Of the department were 1852. 4O756
And in the face of that showing the
Democratic orators have had the
to complain about extra
clerks in the Secretary Of States
Office There was. moreover. none Of
the complicated machinery of the Aus
tralian ballot in 1882. This work is
now all accomplished through the Sec
rotary of States office.
These facts the voters are entitled to
know. be the voters Republicans or
Democrats.
The charge has been openly made
that your public servants are present
in the State House in extravagant
numbers and are extravagantly paid.
But here are facts about them that
Davis cannot evade nor mis-
conStrue. AS to his allega ton that no
more State officers are needed in these
days of prosperity and added RESPONSE
bilities, it insults Republican intelli-
gence to discuss such seriously.
In asserting that the department for
the protection of fish and game costs
more than it did years ago. Mr.. Davis
hoes not tell his listeners that this
extra cost is practically paid by guide
md sportsmen license fees. He does
not tell the truth and say that the pos
session of Names vastly increased
game reserves under the enforced
protective law means hundreds OF
thousands of dollars annually left in
the hands Of worthy and hard working
guides and camp owners.
He even digs up those buried por-
rupnies, deceased under the bounty
act. and waves them under the noses
Of his hearers. in order to make ii out
hat acceding to the demands of Joe
Bass and other Democratic wild-land
owners and granting bounty on these
destructive animals was an act OF
financial turpitude on the part Of the
Republican. party. Democracy has
been reduced to desperate straits FOR
arguments in years past. but in tins
its fine tooth comb mas
brought up some queer and minute
Most can be dismissed
as figures have dismissed those notea
above. The administration will al
tend to others at proper time ana
place.
AS for that porcupine affair. resur-
rected at this hour-pheugh Cyrus!
Take it off the table