Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1906-08-14
What the State Repays Oxford County
Some Facts and Figures Pih out of Mr. mcoc"ooy
}, Dissertation on State axes and Expenditures

money? The Office holders. Do you suppose
thew care how much money IL expended in
salaries 30 long as they are the ones 70 Do Dene'
hted? noh
men In Office JUST b. cause Senator Frye says soY
(Lauehter) For one don't want 70 pay for IT,
At this juncture turn once again and
peruse that grand total and then ask
yoarself what the Hon. Daniel j. Nc
Gillicuddy was trying to ''get through
himself" Didn't he know any better,
or did he know and was he simply trying
to exercise his inimitable wit upon his
audiences?
1t is apparent from what he said that
Mr.. McGillicuddy believes that Oxford
Is having too much money spent on It..
Out of all his clamor arises the natural
belief of his listeners that the first work
of himself and his ilk, we're they to gain
power in Maine, would be to 60 back to
the financial basis of twenty years ago
a time when expenditures were sufficient
for the needs Of the State affairs then
conducted, but a basis that would DC
parsimony in these days Of legitimate
progress. The Democratic party through
its spokesman Mr.. McGillicuddy thus
declares that 1t will spend less money
than is spent to-day from the State
treasury. 1t declares In effect that u
will stand at the door of the State House
during the legislature and club away
those who come with proper and earnest
requests for aid.
As to just where the Democratic party
will insert the knife of retrenchment Mr
McGillicuddy is discreetly silent, anc
for palpable reasons will no doubt re
main so. Glittering generalities have
always characterized Democratic
promises. Will Mr.. Mac and his con
freres trouble the school fund of OXFORD
or of any other county? Any retrench
ment in that line means that the OXFORD
cubs get less schooling-and even thu
Democrats are not going on record as
party disposed to niggardliness In tina
direction. The grateful showers o
school money fall on Republicans ant
Democrats alike. Will the great econO
mists who are reaching for the keys o
the state treasury take away the none.
from the twelve high schools in Oxfort
or any part of the modest sums appro
priatedP The railroad and telegraph ia,
is re-converted to the various towns b.
law, and the matter is largely one o
Observation-Disclosures from it
actual fiscal standpoint. Probably Mr.
McGillicuddy will not tell the farmer
of Oxford that his party will refuse T.
pay damages caused to flocks by viciOu
dogs. Does he think that the sums pai'
to towns to assist them on State road
| 49, o~oooo;yaO Thooo ANNA oro Il vad n,
statute.
There are three academies in Oxford
Will the Democratic woodmen spar
those trees? Undoubtedly. II not, tn
voters of Oxford would undoubtedl
like specific information. What sum
will Mr.. McGillicuddy withhold frou
the paupers? This subject may not az
peal to him especially, since the McGilll
cuddy family represents fully half a mil
lion dollars in property holdings, and
gentleman in those circumstances SUI
veys complacently the woes of the poor
Perhaps after taking away the few do
lars the State allows the paupers of o.
ford County Mr.. McGillicuddy woul
follow the example of certain New Yor
millionaires at banquet board assembled
and "give three cheers for the poor"
Having no wish to misrepresent MI
McGillicuddy's more gracious tendencies
it may be safely assumed that he w0ul
not refuse the burial expenses Of soldier
and sailors of the war, and being CO.
lege man himself, would not object (
the library cash stipend that the Stat
turns in to enterprising towns that wan
to have books.
There is where, then, the State
money goes to, 80 far as Oxford Count
is concerned-and it is upon Oxfor
that Mr.. McGillicuddy has first playe
the electric fountain of his humor.
When the facetious orator, after hi
period of much needed rest, is ready t
20 chuckling through the other countie
in the district, he will find just as har
facts following on his merry trail-jus
as cold figures wiping the tender sprout
of his abundant fancy.
One wonders why Mr.. McGillicudd
arose and asked for figures anyway. On
is forced to the conclusion that ma
who insults his bearers intelligence b.
stating that salaries to State officers tC
tailed in 1902 more than $500 aunua
ly-a McGillicuddy mental raise of owe
100000 above the actual expenditure
is himself ignorant of conditions in hi
own state.
Finally, when the Democratic spokes
man swings his laughing way into hi
own county, will he advocate retrenct
ment in State expenditure in, say, sue
special grants as those to the Centrs
Maine General Hospital and the Sisters
Hospital-for which his law partner, Rel
Frank A. Morey, and that sturdy Demo
cratic war-horse, DR.. A. NJ. Garcelor
have toiled so strenuously in lobby an
before committee?
Reckless is-statement in Off-han,
generalities is easily slipped from tn
tongue, but in this campaign the voter
are asking for the detailed figures, an
the States archives have them. It
admitted, even by the Democrats of til
better posted class. that Mr.. McGilli
cuddy did not make wise choice o
butt for his humor when he assailed tn
method and the scope of expenditure O
States money. 1t is stated on good au
thority that advisers have suggested t
him that he dodge State issues after thi
and attend strictly to explaining how a
statesman he can discount the Hon
Charles +. Littlefield in the halls o
Congress.
TO REPUBLICANS: