Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-10-15
10 the state has been sham and Q
deception Let us see abou this:
WHERE BIG SUMS ARE SAVED.

WHERE BIG SUMS ARE SAVED.
In the first place, the secretary of
| state and the auditor. when they re-
ceived a salary and the fees besides,
paid no clerks They were paid by
| an appropriation made by the legis-
lature-the same as they are today.
My report, which will be out In few
months, will disclose the fact that
the secretary of state paid into the
state treasury during the fiscal year
ending September 80, 1909. the sum
or $l6,72191 from fees which he col
lected AMI which would have gone
into his pocket instead Of the state
treasury had it not been for the con-
stitutional amendment adopted some
Blk years ago. This report will also
show $41,31492 collected in fees by
the auditor, which would have gone
into his pocket had it not been for the
constitutional amendment adopted.
Again, the report win show that 1922
$4,000 was paid to the auditor during
the last fiscal year as fees for acting
as attorney intact for all foreign cor
porations. This also went into the
state treasury instead of into the
pockets of individuals, making grand
total of $50, 1882 saved the people in
this one matter alone Is this vast
ing the peoples money? This amount
will pay the governor a salary Of S.
900; the auditor $4,000; the secretary
of state $4,000; the attorney general
$4,000; the superintendent of schools
$4,000; the treasurer $4,000; the tax
commissioner $4,000; five members
of the supreme court $27 800; three
members of the board of control $15,-
600, and leaves $4,000, which will go
long ways towards paying the cler-
ical help in the auditors Office. This
is only sample Of the statements
made relative to the extravaganza
practiced by the state administration.
Mr.. Chiffon further says, and while
he did not mention the auditors of
fee directly, he did mention ii indi-
rectly, when he spoke of the fire mar
shall: "**fThey appointed a state
fire marshal at salary of $500 per
year, whose business it is to look into
1hS Vase VI LII % anu W prosecute
those who burn buildings" Mr..
Chiffon must have known when he
made this statement that the expense
of the fire marshal department of the
auditors Office Is not paid by the
state at all, but jig paid by the fire
insurance companies doing business
in this state. The fire marshal re-
pniuns 60 mn Jnc 1P
and, by the way, this department is
doing a splendid work.
Mr. Chiffon pays his respects to
the various other departments of the
state government in the same way.
Time will not permit me to speak of
all of them, but | will mention one
more-the department of the state
tax commissioner. / am and have
been from the incipiency of this de-
partent, in position to know what the
tax commissioners office has accom-
plished. and it has had much to do
helping to make possible the results
above referred to, and hundreds of
others too numerous to mention;
even the figures shown by that de-
Poi ItpOit Ndut ia Ohiy
feeble way, show what the machinery
of that department is and what it has
accomplished. 1t Is one of the de
partments of the state government
that is as necessary as the Office of
auditor, secretary of state, or any
other of the state departments. and
the results speak for themselves. 1t
is only those who do not want to pay
their fair share of the taxes that de-
sire to discontinue the Office of the
tax commissioner
ENEMY CAN'T FOOL THE PEOPLE.
misrepresentation have been made
so often and so openly by our OPP
ponents that they have succeeded in
deceiving some of our people. On
August End l received a letter from
one of the prominent Democrats OF
the state, asking me to give him the
number of people on the payroll of
the state and saying he understood
II was either $500 or 5000 and he
remembered the speaker of the house
In 1875 had said there were then 4S0
on the payroll. ! gave him the cor
rect number, which Appropriated 1926.
This number includes all the peni-
Tertiary employees, and the employees
of all other state institutions men
toned above.
My friends, the Republican party
has made good. We invite investiga-
ton Governor Atkinson's admins
tration stood the test; Governor
Whites and Governor Dawson's ad-
ministrations fought every inch OF
the way to secure the progress made
possible by adequate laws. Governor
Glascock's administration has It's
face TO the enemy, and challenges in
testigation. The administration is
looking forward to equally important
legislation for West Virginia, among
which is a direct primary law with
proper safeguards thrown around, to
oitf1aD and