The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1910-10-13

0IuCb July lJU5t the RenltenLlary n
Board of Control is now carryi
The Penitentiary with double the
number of prisoners Is now being
run at a profit, without aid from the
State, It was burden of expense
on the people during Democratic
days: it is a source OF profit during
Republican administration. AS to
improvements, etc made, see state
ment elsewhere.
If We make the same itemlzed
comparisons of the expenses of the
University. Normal Schools, and
other institutions, for the Demo-
cratic and the Republican periods,
respectively, allowing for greatly i'm
creased attendance, rise in prices in
the fourteen years from 1896 to
1910, we win have the same result
in each case that we have in the
cases OF the Weston and Spencer In
sane Hospitals, which show really a
decrease in cost under Republican adj
ministration as compared with Demo-
cratic rule.
Democratic managers and news
papers charge extravaganza" against
Republican administration. To prove
lit they cite and print rows of figures.
To say that Republicans have been
extrayagant, because it cost under
MaeCorltle in 1896 $40, 69276 to run
the Spencer Insane Hospital, and
cost SCI, 694.10, or $27, 900 more in
the year 1909-10 under Glasscock, is
to mislead. 1t looks like deliberate
attempt to deceive, because there is
omitted the pertinent fact that there
were only 1877 patients to care for in
1896, whereas there are Sic patients
to care for in 1909-10. To get true
result we must compare all the facts.
They charge extravaganza, but do
not point out where it is. II the
Democrats are placed in power will
they cut down the appropriations for
the University, its branches, the
Normal Schools, and the other
schools? Will they cut down the
appropriations for the Hospitals for
the Insane, for the Miners Hospitals,
for the Boys Reform School, or the
Girls Industrial Home? Will they
reduce the amount spent in the in
terests of agriculture? Will they
cut down the salaries of the Judges,
of the State officers, or the wages
paid the employees of the State and
the State institutions? Will they re-
fuse to make additions to the insti-
tutiors necessary to accommodate
the constantly increasing growth Of
the State? Will they put the Peni-
Tertiary back to "a burden on the
Safe, where it was when they con-
trolled It?
Yes, they do make one specific
charge. That is the
Expenses of the Legislatures.
Principally in the number of en-
ployees about the Legislature and the
sums Of money voted those useless
employees. That extravaganza has
been practiced here is true. Both
Governor White and Governor Daw-
son did all they could to stop it, using
the veto power whenever they could
thereby reach 1T. But in this respect,
do these Democratic leaders practice
what they preach? Both parties are
guilty in this respect. 1t is a case of
"the kettle calling the pot black"
But who were they who, on the floor
Of the Senate, denounced Governor
Dawson in scathing words because
~ oONSAhOA u Sou 1IS LSSslSldluAG
in his message and communications
to stop the practice, ordered the
Auditor not to pay the unlawful
charges, and vetoed them whenever
presented In shape that he could so
reach them2-Senator Littlepage
and Senator Kidd, Democrats.
Let us go to the records of the
House and Senate OF 1905, 1907,
1908, and 1909, and see who was
responsible for this extravaganza. 1t
Is fact that the most liberal" man
the chief sinner Of them all-in
this practice of voting away the peo-
pies money for these unjustiiable
purposes was Mr.. Adam B. Little
page. Democratic Senator from the
Eighth (the Charleston) senatorial
district. now the Democratic nominee
for Congress in the Third Con-
gressional district
Session of 1908.
Journal of the House. page S4S:
Mr.. Hays (Dem.) submitted the |
following resolutions:
Whereas. Our assistant clerks and |
committee clerks have been required |
to do over-work because OF the great |
rush of work this session, and the
fact that 1t is customary to increase
the per diem at the end of the ses-
sion; therefore be 1t
Resolved, That all attaches OF the
House drawing the pay of assistant |
clerks and committee clerks be and