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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26
A FRIEND ITO THE MINER?

All through his administration, Gov
ernor Dawson has fagrantly abused
the power given him by the law in the
matter of the appointments to the va
riOus places of honor and emoluments
in the public service. In filling these
places, he seems to have acted with
an eye simply and alone to the up
building of his politacal machine with
out respect to the wishes of those in
his own party who disagree with him
or the members of the opposition par
ty. The members of the majority par
ty on the different State Boards are
selected from his own political bench
men. while in making up the minority
membership on the same boards, he
has, as a rule, violated the true spirit
of the law. either in the selection of
persons who are not recognized by the
minority party Ss being fair represen-
tatives of that party, or else has Sc
lected persons who are more or less
favorable to his personal policies. But
in none of these appointments fas he
more grossly abused the executive
power than in the appointment of one
James S. Cunningham, of Johnstown.
Pennsylvania, a member of the State
Mine COMMISSIONS body of such
vast moment and Importance to the
miners of the State Not ony did Gov
ernor Dawson appoint Cunningham
member of this important commission,
but he also used his official influence
to make and did make, him the secre-
tary of the commission.
This man Cunningham is not only
not taxpayer but does not live in the
State, his family and home being in
Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He tempo
rarily resides at the Hotel Ruffner in
the city of Charleston, where, as an
Of the Berwin-White Coal Mining Com
pany. the great coal trust of the State
of Pennsylvania, which company was
was shown by the late Congressional
investigation made by the Interstate
Commerce Commission to be largely
owned by officials of the Pennsylvania
railroad, and the special beneficiary of
it's illegal policy of rebate and discrim-
nation against the smaller coal oper-
ators. This man is now sitting with
this commission and acting as its sec
rotary, in the city OF Charleston, and
there revising the laws for the protec-
ton of the lives of the miners and the
betterment of their conditions.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26
STATE TAXES PAID BY THE coUN
TIES AND COUNTY -EVIEs.

The amount of taxes assessed
against the counties in 1904 for sup.
port of the State was on account of
the State Tax, the State School Tax
and the State License Tax. in round
numbers, s1,327 900. In 1906 it is for
the same things, s1,333,0 600 That is,
the taxpayers of the State are paying
a little more into the State Treasury
in the first year of the new system
than they did in the last year under
the old
The aggregate of the taxes paid in
the different counties of the State on
account of the levy for general county
purposes was, in 1904, about $H,942,000.
In 1906 it is about 1924 900 That is,
the taxpayers are now paying into the
different county treasures for general
county purposes over a quarter of a
million dollars in excess of what they
paid in 1904. And this notwithstand-
ing the temporary restraining laws are
still in force. This ought to give the
intelligent taxpayer some idea of what
the increase in local taxes will be
when these temporary restraining
laws expire. as they will in 1907
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26
FORMER STATE CHARGES UN-
LOADED ON THE COUNTIES.

In comparing the appropriations
made by the legislature for the years
of 1905 and 1906 with those of pre-
Vious years, it must be remembered
that at the special session of the legis-
lature of 1904, when the new tax laws
were enacted, a large amount of ex-
penditures that the State had hitherto
paid, were unloaded on the counties.
Among the items so transferred were
the salaries of the judges of all Grim
NAL and intermediate Courts. por-
ton of the costs of maintaining in
mates in certain State institutions
charges generally. While the exact
amount of the items thus transferred
cannot be given, they will not fall
much short of hundred thousand dol
lars for the years 1905 and 1906. This
sum must therefore be added to the
appropriations for those years in com
pairing them with previous years.
The total appropriations on account
of the State Fund for the years 1905
and 1906 We're $3,00S.276. For the
years of 1895 and 1S96-the last two
years of the Democratic State admin
istration-the appropriations were on
account of the same fund $1,2S3,969
Adding to the first sum the amount
unloaded on the counties, it is seen
that the appropriations for 1905 and
1906 exceed those of 1895 and 1896 by
S1,924,507 That is, the people must
now raise, every two years, by taxa
ton in some form. $1,924,307 more
money for the State than they did ten
years ago. Is it any wonder that the
State machine had to devise. new
methods to get more money from the
people? And wasn't it to be expected
from the class of people at the head
of the State machine, that they should
try to hoodwink the people by claim
ing that they wanted to equalize as
sessments, when what they really
wanted was more taxes to meet the
enormous increase In expenditures
that their reckless extravaganza had
brought about in the short space of
ten years.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26
REGISTRATION LAW.

Notwithstanding the people have, by
constitutional amendment, declared
in favor of a registration law that will
put an end to the fraudulent voting
that has disgraced the State of late
years, the State machine has steadily
refused TO allow the passage of law
that would require the names of all
electors to be listed long enough be-
fore election day to afford an oppor-
tunity for the detection of fraudulent
voters, and instead of such a genuine
registration law, has given the people
legislative pretense that places more
difficulties in the way of the honest
eleetor, and leaves the fraudulent voter
just where he was before
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26
REMEMBER THIS FACT.

Taxpayers of West Virginia will dc
well to keep this single fact before
them. The valuations throughout the
State have been increased to $3.50, 900,
600. This means that each cent of the
State levy yields exactly $50, 900. The
State levy being eight and one-hali
cents the revenue to the State on prop
erty tax alone for the year 1906 is
s751,000. Bear in mind the many
other sources of revenues that are NOT
included in this vast sum. What is
being done with IL Wheeling
Register.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26

he dared, and then secretly. 1t is true
that the voter cannot express himself
directly at the ballot box on Elklns'
candidacy, but the most ignorant vo-
ter must realize that when he votes
for a legislative candidate nominated
or supported by the Republican state
Machine, he is voting pure and simple
that Elkins shall have six more years
in the United States Senate in which
he may still further strengthen the
hold that the corporations have on
West Virginia, and still keep himself
what he has long been, the political au-
tocrat of what he has made a pocket
burrough State
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26
THE DAWsoN-ELkINs PROGRAM.

John Wallace. the West Virginia cor
respondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch.
is, perhaps. as closely in touch with
Republican politics In this State as any
newspaper man In it. In letter to the
Dispatch on the political situation in
West Virginia, he says:
THE Dawson-Elkins program is
clear cut. Elkins wants a Legislature
which viii re-elect him for a third
term Dawson wants a Legislature in
sympathy with his administration In
State affairs. Elkins win supply the
needful. and Dawson Will pass on the
merits or dement's Of the candidates
offered II certain candidate be right
on the Senatorship phase and at fault
on proposed or recently enacted State
legislation. the gentleman will be
blackbailed Ii is a powerful combina-
ton. backed by the Federal and State
machinery, with Dawson holding the
high cards. Dawson is in more init.
mate touch with the people and has
the issues With his only interest. his
retention at Washington, Elkins sees
the point. and viii not attempt to sub
stitute his credentials for any legisla-
tive seeker over the Dawson def"
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26
DEMOCRATIC POSITION.

The following from the conclusion
of the address lately Issued to the yot-
ers of West Virginia by the Democrat
ic State Executive Committee, will eX-
press the views of the party on what
ought to be done at once on the ques-
ton of the tariff and the new tax laws,
the two questions that are of absorb
ing interest to the voter at the ap-
preaching election.
The original and fundamental idea
of the American system of govern
ment is that the aggregate taxes of the
people should be kept within the limits
required by necessary expenditures,
while the inspiring motive and chief
objective of the entire new tax system
has been to get larger and still larger
taxes from the great body of taxpayers
without any reference to the necessity
or character of the expenses that have
made them necessary. That while
during the whole agitation of the tax
question, the interest of one class of
taxpayers has been skillfully played
against that of another under the spe-
cious pretense of equalizing tax bur
dens, there has not been single gen
uine effort to tighten the taxes of the
whole people, which could have been
so readily and easily accomplished by
reducing the annual legislative appro-
priations that have grown to such
enormous and entirely unnecessary
proportions since the Republicans
have been in control of the State.
The Democratic party earnestly be-
lieves that the interest of the people
in the whole country requires an i'm
mediate revision of the present tariff
laws, such revision to be made by the
representatives of the people, and not
by the representatives of vested inter-
ests, as claimed by the Republican
party.
1t also believes that the people have
failed to secure from the new tax sys-
tenn benefits at all commensurate with
those claimed for it or justified by its
cost. and that it ought to be radically
modified, changed and amended so as
to secure, as to all classes of taxpay-
ers, that equality and uniformity in
taxation that is the keynote of the
Constitution given to the people of the
State by the Democratic party.
1t believes that a fruga1lv and econ
omically administered government is
the best fruit of genuine statesman
ship and that if the State government
were so administered, expenditures
would be so reduced that the taxes OF
the people of the State would be les
sened, instead of being increased as
they now are under the pretense of be-
ing equalized
1t further believes that no single re
suit would be. followed by greater ben
=
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26
SYSTEM NOT INTENDED TO BE
COMPLETED.

After the lapse of two sessions of
the Legislature devoted to the new
tax laws, it is plainly apparent that
the Republican State machine has no
intention Of giving the people com
pleted system of taxation in the near
future. but intends to protract this
question from year to year, so that 1t
may have specious excuse for ask
ing to be continued in Office.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26
THE NEW TAX SYSTEM A FAIL
LIRE

The new tax laws are now IN full
swing, all the assessments OF real es-
tate and personal property having been
made under them for the year 1910.
The official returns as made by the
county assessors. and filed in the office
of the State Tax Commissioner at
Charleston, show that the new system
has utterly failed to accomplish the
good results claimed for it. 1t is true
that the valuations of real estate and
ordinary tangible personal property
have been largely increased, but these
were the identical species of property
which it was claimed would be re-
lieved by bringing to the assessors
books large assessments of other class
es of property, which had escaped tax
alton under the old laws. In this re-
spect the result of the first assess
ment must be bitter disappointment
to the tax tinkers The returns show
that the species of property that had
always been assessed and the classes
OF taxpayers WHO Hdu alive yS DOInc INC
brunt had been struck harder than
ever, while the old tax dodger' had
Jared better under the new law than
ne had under the old. This fact was
made manifest by the very large in
crease in the assessment of real es-
tate and ordinary personal property,
while there was no corresponding In
crease in the amount of money, notes,
credits and investments, The very
kinds of property which, it was claim
ed the new laws were especially
framed to uncover and bring to the
tax books. 1t was also found that the
new laws had fallen down in the mat
ter of bringing oil and gas leases to
| Judgment, the assessment of this spe
| cies of property being too Insignificant
to cut any figure in general tax results
| It is not certain, however, that this
| last result is due so much to any de-
| feet in the laws as to an ante-election
agreement made by the Republican
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26
LEGISLATIVE EXPENSES.

The taxpayers can get an idea of the
difference in the cost of running the
West Virginia Legislature under Dem
ocratic and Republican control by the
figures below. The last Legislature of
which the Democrats had control was
in 1893, and the expenses of that body
are given, together with those of the
last body, which was Republican:
Amount paid by Democrats
for clerks, pages, etc, in
Senate for regular and ex-
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26

the new tax laws in returns for the
support of these interests in the cleo
ton.
If the taxes for 1906 had been levied
on the assessments made by the coun
ty assessors and a corresponding in
crease in the valuation by the Board
of Public Works of the property OF
public service corporations, the farm
er, the lot owner, and the ordinary
business men would have had their
taxes largely increased. Such a result
system and worked the political down
fall and ruin of its authors and pro-
moters
This was the actual situation that
existed when the first assessment I'M
der the new laws had been completed
and the tax reformers were forced to
take some course to redeem their new
system which they had foisted onto
the people at enormous expense, and
to save themselves from public con.
domination Only one avenue of es-
cape was open to them. The property
of public service corporations had not
yet been assessed, and the tax thinkers
constituted the assessing power for
this species of property They made
the assessment of the corporations six
times greater than the same board had
assessed the same property one year
previous, and the result thus obtained
is pointed to as complete vindication
Of the new tax laws. To more fully
understand the deception here prac-
ticed, it must be borne in mind thai
the large increase in the assessment
of the corporations was not due to any
special merit or provision of the new
tax laws, but could have been made
Just the same under the old law. The
Board of Public Works had all the
necessary legal authority and power
under the old law to have increased
the assessment of the corporations to
any extent it thought proper and right.
If the assessment of real estate and
the ordinary kinds of personal proper
ty at fair cash value" as it had been
ascertained by the county assessors
Under the old law, had been let stand,
and the property of the corporations
had been assessed by the Board of
Public Works at corresponding fair
cash value, the inequalities in taxa
ton, which were claimed to exist
could have been better smoothed out
and removed, and more equitably ad-
justed under the laws as they were,
than they have been under the new
laws, and the enormous cost of en-
acting and operating the new laws
could have been saved to the taxpay-
ers.
If the burden of taxation on real es
tate and tangible personal property
has not been increased under the new
laws, il is not due TO any merit pos
sessed by the new laws, but to the
fact that the new system proved to be
such a glaring failure that its authors
and promoters took fright, and to es-
cape the righteous indignation of the
people were driven. temporarily al
least, to cover up the gross defects
which the new laws, after a practica
application. were found to possess.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26
cAPiTATioN TAX.

The Republican State machine,
though specially protesting to desire
to increase the collection Of the CAPT
tation tax. has refused to allow the
passage Of law requiring the pay
ment of this tax as prerequisite to
voting. because the effect Of such a
law would be to deprive them largely
of the colored vote on which they
must rely for their majority In the
State.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26

was made by the E1kinses to buy1 Fuf
mer out, and that failing in that, Full
mer was refused cars and finally the
track was torn up.
Mr.. Brady said on the witness stand
that Senator Elkins had refused for
two years to pay him for certain work
and had even advised him to sue for it
but that on Monday he received tele.
gram from Senator Elkins telling him
to come to Washington and the bill
would be paid. The telegram was in
troduced as evidence"
If the voter still has any doubt on
this question, let him read Governor
Dawson's much quoted letter to Sena
tor Tillman of South Carolina on the
conditions in West Virginia as set
forth in the petition of the Red Rock
Fuel Company, which had been pre-
sented to the Senate by the courage.
Gus old Senator from South Carolina
1t is in part as follows:
Il have read with interest and sat
lsfaction your remarks in the Senate a
few days ago, in presenting the letter
of Mr.. Bullitt, of the Red Rock Fuel
Company, of Upshur county, this
State. You said that that such things
could be in this State was disgrace
to the State. Senator Elkins said that
we had law in this State providing a
remedy for the outrageous treatment
of shippers by railroads. You are
nearer right than Senator Elkins. =
West Virginia today is in the grasp
of a railroad trust, which practically
says what part of the State shall be
developed and what shall not be de-
veloped. how much coal shall be ship
ped out Of this State, to what points or
Parts it shall be shipped and when 1t
shall be shipped, OF course it makes
its own rates, and our people are help
less"
Any amount of articles from news.
papers all over the State, Republican
as well as Democratic, could be cited
to show that there was practically no
doubt that Senator Elkins was for the
corporations first. last and all the
time, until ii became evident that the
people would have the rate bill passed
In some shape, and would mark for DO.
litical death all who should dare to
openly oppose it, then the senator's at
titude changed, on the surface. while
he still endeavored to kill or fatally
wound the bill in secret When the
bill, as ii now is, had become law. in
spite of the open and concealed efforts
of Aldrich, Foraker, Ellxins & Co. the
West Virginia Senator took still
holder step, He did not hesitate
through the agency of his press bu-
reau to claim the best features of the
bill as his own offspring and try to rob
President Roosevelt of the praise due
to his persistent efforts to get all he
could out senate dominated by the
Aldrich, Foraker. Elkins & Co crowd
The reelection of Senator Elkins
viii not only make West Virginia con-
time mere pocket burrough State
for six years longer. II will be direct
slap in the face for President Roose-
welt Il viii be the endorsement of
one known to have opposed the Presi-
dent on the rate bill. openly as long as
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1906-10-26

One of the questions to be decided
by the voter before he puts his ticket
in the ballot box on Tuesday, Novem-
Der 9Th, is whether he wants stephen
B Elkins to continue to represent him
in the Senate of the United States. II
he does want him, all he has to do is
to vote for the legislative candidate of
the Republican State Machine. If he
does not want him, he must vote for
the Democratic legislative candidate,
or a Republican candidate who has de-
clared in advance that he will, under
no circumstances, vote for the reelec-
ton of Elkins. If a straight Republi-
can Legislature is elected, then. beyond
all doubt, Stephen B. Elkins will be re-
elected United States Senator For
this time he and the State Machine are
one and the same thing; if one wins,
the other cannot lose.