The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-10-13

administration
To asyIums we paid $4,000.
Penitentiaries. $4,000.
Idiot claims. $4,000
Trustees OF the jury fund. $1,000.
Criminal procedure, $4,000.
Eastern Kentucky normal school,
$500.
Attornev fees. s2.550.
Feeble minded institute, S5.4f0.
Jefferson court fees. ss.552.
Making the amount which We paid
out Immediately upon going irto Of
fee, and which the Democ attic ad-
ministration should have paid-leav-
ing out one item to which I will call
your attention later. total Of $751;
216.
II they had paid that sum them
selves, which they should hav, paid,
they would not have had the great
big balance which they claim to have
left there. In addition to that, we
paid 1896, 229.05 school money in adj
dition to the 1851, 299 that called
your attention to, making the total
paid out by us s1,073,6i5. They
would have you believe that they
turned over to u.s. million and near
ly a half and that we have squan-
dered 1t, but you see, my friends,
when you look into the facts, 1t Is
not true. That money. every dollar
of it. was paid out on Democratic
debts.
Republicans Increase Collections.
Now then, let me show you another
thing. They tell you that we have
been favoring banks. We have col
lected more money from the state and
national banks than did the Demo
cratic administration preceding us.
We have collected more money off
Of railroads; we have collected more
money on whisky. For instance, the
highest sum they ever assessed
whisky per barrel was $500. We
raised the assessment to SO, and we
have collected more than rs per cent
more than the Democratic administra-
ton from that source.
They assessed the Southern Pacific
railroad on its franchise for years at
only $4,000 per year. This admins
tration, and under my advice as at
torney general, raised that assess
ment on the franchise tax of the
Southern Pacific railroad from $4,000
up to $4,000, and over. And yet they
would have you believe that the Re-
publican party favors corporations.
We did more than that. There are
millions OF dollars Of assessed value
of property owned by the distillers of
whisky. Now listen, my friends. The
Democratic party has been in power
all the time save, as Mr. McDermott
says, for two terms, and they had
the legislature one of those. Now,
listen: Every distiller- in this CON-
monwealth sells the output of his dis
tillery Immediately upon mating it.
1t is sold to people in New York and
other foreign states. and they issue
what they call receipt for it, and
in that receipt it is stated that the
holder of that receipt. when he calls
for this whisky. shall pay cents per
barrel per month storage, or so cents
per barrel per year. On that charac-
ter of property the Democratic party
had never collected a single solitary
cent of taxes. And yet we brought
suit, this administration brought suit,
against these liquor people, these dis
tillers, claiming that these storage
accounts were just as much sssessa-
BILE for taxation as your mortgage
note or any other property which YOU
hold. And that case was fought out
IN the lower court and taken to the
supreme court of the state and the
court OF appeals held that those ac-
counts were subject to taxation and
made them pay on IL, and the state
VIII collect for five years back. and
will collect more than $500 900 from
that one source alone; and they
never had collected dollar from
these people.
State Nearly Out of Debt.
Another thing the Democratic leg
stature did. They made appropria- |
lions out of the current revenue of |
his state amounting to a little less
han $1,S0O,000. They said to us. you
nave got to pay these aprropria-
IONS" and yet they made no sort
II provision at all for raising a sin
'le dollar to pay-any part OF those
They left us to run
he state, to pay the ordinary ex-
lenses and these extra appropriations
or charitable and other institutions.
Now, in the management of this
tate OF affairs in the state OF Ken
lucky, We have wrestled with those
appropriations, We have paid nearly
il that was appropriated to the nor
nal schools and to the state uniyer-
ity, and we have paid all that was
appropriated TO these various char
liable institutions, practically. Yet.
Notwithstanding these heavy appro-
riations that were made, when the
republican party goes out of power
December there will not, in my
Augment and according to the fig I
res, be exceeding $l25,O 900 Of indebt-
dness OF the state of Kentucky. GAP 1
lause) And this is due not TO any ,
llsmanagement on the part of tha