Daily Kennebec journal., 1912-09-07

With the election of a Democratic county
commissioner. greater economy was IN
troduced." Well. this Democratic county
commissioner has been In Office -
months and he told NE this week that we
still owe these same notes calling for
$500. Now that advertisement goes on
to say: And the tax rate was increased
to wipe out this Indebtedness" This is
also credited to the Democratic member.
y most creditable thing in amy man to
make provision to pay his debts. But
how much was the tax increased? Why,
between $4,000 and $1,000 for the years
1911 and 1872. See how simple. Why. If
the county owes $500, Just let it raise
S14000 by increased taxation and it can
pay that $500 just as easy as lying. 1t
is just as easy as il is for Plaisted to pay
the alleged Bernald debt of i,525,O00 by the
Democratic increased tax levy and coll
lection of 81, 10000 during the present re-
ef,ne. BY the way. State Auditor Stevens
claims to have paid SSS7, ,S031I of the debt
during the year 1911. and the State Treas
urer's report for that year shows that
every dollar of the money used to pay
that was raised under tax laws passed
by Republican legislatures, and NOT one
dollar was used which was raised by any
law passed by the Democratic legisla-
ture. 4Snd8 I challenge any official to
show to the contrary. But let us return
To our Democratic bargain counter adj
veftisement. 1t says: Two years ago
the Democratic candidates told you that
you Were paying more taxes than was
necessary" And yet this one Democratic
county commissioner has succeeded in
raising the county tax over $lS,0a0 in
two years. or in his full term of six
years, over $50,090. So if we had FULL.
board of Democrats they would probably
raise 1t $4,000 apiece or Si20000. Truly
great is Democratic finance and economy
One might have more confidence in this
advertisement If it did not appear in
newspaper that after the last State cleo
tion published a statement that il had in
its safe official ballots Of the town of
Houlton which were picked up en- Belfast
bridge. l went to the Office and the
young lady went TO the safe and showed
me just what / expected to see. In
printing the ballots for the last State
election the printer in making up the
form" got the name OF one of the can
didates for representative to the legis-
lature in the. wrong column. / discov-
cred it and had him take what he had
printed and put them under the cutting
machine and cut them in two in the
middle. These We're thrown into the
waste paper and sold with the other
waste of the printing Office to the Belfast
Leather Board Co. and in carting them
across the Belfast bridge some of them
rattled out of the old sacks onto the
bridge and few of the UPPEAt
HALVES of the ballots We're picked mp
and carried TO the newspaper office
Simply the UPPER. HALE of the ballots.
no whole ballots We're shown me. and
she said they had no whole ones I
told her the circumstances, and said that
did not believe the Editor would in
tend to give the public any misinforma-
tion Intentionally and trusted he would
be glad to state the facts of the case in
his paper, as l had given them to her
do not take the paper. One cannot
take all the papers. Has any one seen
the correction which | presume has been
published long before this?
c. L. SMITH.
Thorndke, Me, Sept g.