The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-08-26

oHe VI the lIemS showing tnat Ill
certain period of time there Was al
increase of 20 per cent at the Stat
University. No doubt Of it. WOult
George and his cohorts reduce the eX
pcnSes Of the State University to tn,
old figures? If so, it would reduce
the attendance below the old figure
Tor our people have learned tina
there are good schools in easy reach
IN other states, and unless our Stat,
University gives equal advantages
they will go away from home. Per
haps that would suit our Democratic
friends, We do not know. At the
time the Democrats gave over the
rClnS OF government in West Virgins
there were from three to four hun
dred students in the State University
per year; now there are over twelve
hundred. In 1896, when West Vir-
glnla broke loose from its Demo-
cratic moorings, there We're lit
students in the six State Normal
Schools, while in 1908, twelve years
later, these same schools enrolled
1872. according to the records and
the attendance for the school year
closing June so, 1909. was more than
three thousand. Would our Demo-
cratic friends reduce the appropria-
tons for Normal Schools to the old
basis and drive the students out of
the state? Is that what Mr.. Byrne
proposes to do?
IN the Byrne correspondence men
ton has been made of the awful fact
that the governors salary has been
almost doubled, the increase being
from $4,000 to $4,000 Wonder i:
Mr.. Byrne knows that West Virginia
now pays just the same salary to its
governor that is paid by sixteen other
states. while ten pay moreo Illinois
pays its governor $4,000 a year, and
ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
New York $4,000 each. Why should
the state ask a man to sacrifice too
much from a financial standpoint in
order to serve his state as COVER
nor? What man competent to be
governor cannot earn twice five thou
sand dollars a year in many other
lines of work in West Virginiao Be
cause a lot of ne'er-do-wells can't
make money even in good times is
no reason that everybody else need
be put in their class. Everybody
who knows anything about the case
at all is aware of the fact that it
was financial sacrifice for Mr..
GlaSscock to give up his law practice.
leave his elegant home at Morgan
town, make campaign, entail the
cost of moving to Charleston and re-
sign the $4,000 a year place as Col
lector of Internal Revenue in order
TO serve as governor. Now, honest
and truly, would it look right as Ee-
tween man and man, for the state
TO have asked Mr.. Glasscock to give
up a job in the government service
paying 4,5O0 and which permitte I
MIN TO live in his own home where
he mad lived for years and engage in
private law practice for a job paying
only $1,000 and which added trc-
mendously to his personal and fam
lily expenses? Mrs. GIasscoci1 could
probably tell a very interesting story
as 10 the difference in expense in li>-
ing as the wife Of the Collector of In
ternal Revenue at her old home in
MorgantoWn and in being the wife OF
the governor and living in the COVER
nors mansion at the state capital Mr.
Byrne and his Democratic friends
must not forget that there are social
demands that state officials cannon
shlrk or get away from. And the Sc
increase as the state grows in i'm
portance. 1t costs a great deal fer
state officials to live in Charleston.
and yet we don't know that if costs
100 much. 1t may look that wav to
some Democrats, but We don't be-
lleFe our state officials have very
many automobiles or fine Iiveries or
le!lnues or servants. In fact we
.hlhk thcy all lead what might be
termed the simple life" as compared
with many private citizens in the
state.
Now, we submit, in all candor
would the Democrats want to change
the order Of things back to the old
days OF 1926, when they were last
IN power? Would they reduce the
salaries Of the state officials to the
old nsnres and abolish the new Offices
hlddc necessary by the states growth
and advancement? In short, what
Is the Democratic programme. if they
nave one? Or arc they at their old
stunts Of merely complaining of
Mhat kcpu1ilcans arc doing with no
'nouSht OF trying to do anything
themselves? If George Byrne wants
&c 90 something worth while let him
forget the disfranchisement and cter
MAJ damnatlon Of the black man for
snort time and outline a programme
Wnlch the Democrats propose to fol
~" II they get in power again, and
tiirH his stuff may be worth reading.
we G"n want to impose too great
d TASK on the willy George, but the
nights are getting cooler now and the
aoS Gays az" over, SO he might find
,inr 1rOm his extensive law practice
~ .Or!hnIato Il programme. Then
III" people could have Il chance to
p'S" on thr proposed line Of action.
VIE GocrG" Dc kind enough to tell
as what ihc Democrats would do in