The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1909-08-12

OF the States funds has remained the
same. Our predecessors frequently
resC rted to the practice of borrowing
from the Sinking Fund to cover up
these fiscal-year deficits. In the year
1907 they borrowed half million dol
lars from the Sinking Fund to cover
deficit which totalled $476,000. This
trouble can easily be remedied Il
the next legislature will re-apportion
these various funds, and the matter
will be called to their attention.
Again, 1t has been asserted many
times that the Democrats built the
new capitol. The facts are that they
paid only a little over $l,000,000 on
this building. while the appropriations
that have been made for its compile
ton now aggregate over S1,700,000
Mark this prediction. 1t will require
S2,00O,OOO to complete this building.
And mark this further prediction:
The building win be completed by
the present administration, and debts
paid and a substantial balance be
left in the treasury without an in
crease In taxes. The present admins
tration has paid 100000 of the new
appropriation of the last General AS
sembly.
The Kentucky State Journal also
recently printed, without comment, an
editorial from the Stanford Interior
Journal, which among other things.
said:
Besides the useless expenditure OF
100000 for soldiers to put down the
nightriders. there have been other
leaks in the treasury not known to
Democratic rule. We should like TO
hear Auditor James explain the quite
remarkable fact that in the only two
Republican administrations that have
discredIted the State. the treasury
ha. suspended payment and its war
rants gone below par.
Perhaps the editor OF the Interior
Journal is too young TO remember
that the suspension OF payment was
made and State warrants went below
par under Governor Browns admins
tration, and that the Bradley admins
tration, found the State overwhelming
'ly in debt and the treasury practically
empty. AS to his reference 10 the
useless" expenditure Of money paid
for the suppression OF Night Riders,
we would like TO ask him what he
would have done had he been Cover
nor OF this State during this reign Of
terror. We do not believe that any
commonwealth since the establish
ment of this government was ever
called upon 10 witness such disgrace
~, scenes. Men and women cruelty
beaten and frequently murdered;
their homes and their property des-
troyed by a gang OF murderous scoun-
drels; property to the extent OF mill
ions OF dollars destroyed by fire;
reputable citizens driven from home
into other States All done In this
proud Commonwealth whose motto il
United we stand; divided we fall"
And yet. Democratic editors-not all
OF them, however. we are thankful TO
say-will speak OF the useless" ex
penditure OF money to suppress such
damnable outrages. The howl that
would have gone up from these same
Democratic Journals II Gov. Will
son had made no attempt TO suppress
nightriding would have been something
terrible to hear. Perhaps the Night
Riders-a heritage handed down by
the last administration-coul have
been suppressed long before It was,
and with much less expense, had
these same Democratic editors and
their allies, the Democratic officials
Of counties where these outrages oc-
CURED. united with Governor Wilson
In his efforts to stamp out this law
lessness. BE II said to the shame Of
the county officials OF the sections
where the Night, Riders committed
their depredations that there were
comparatively few instances where
the local officials made any effort
whatever to restore order and, we
might add parenthetically, that these
outrages did not occur in the RepublI-
can mountain sections. but principally
In "the Gibraltar OF proud Demo-
cracy." We suppose when the In
terror Journals editor says that there
have been "other leaks" in the treas
ury not known under Democratic
rule, he refers to the money that
has leaked in there. having been re-
covered from the various dishonest
officials that have held sway so many
years. We defy him to point to
single dollar that has been misapplied
under the present administration,
and we can point with pride to many
thousands OF dollars that have been
recovered to the treasury through the
watchfullness and efficiency of the