Barton County democrat., 1914-10-23

cation of School Books
Begun-NO Increase
in Tax Levy.
Fellow Citizens:
The public thought this state
was upon a cash basis, and /
thought this state was upon a cash
basis until | was inaugurated as
governor and found out the facts.
The state accountants report
shows that January |, 1913, the
state treasury had been over
drawn 1907, ,51S-the state lacking
that much of being even. We
found that on December 16, 1872
a month before was inaugurated
the treasurer had drawn 1897 $50,
and on January IS, 1913, three
and a half days after l was inau-
gurated, they made a second draft
of $494, 1850 on the county treaSur-
erS of the various counties. These
sums amounted to $S32, ,31O-one-
fourth of the moneys that should
have been used to pay running ex-
penSeS for the first year of my adj
miniStration. This money was
used for paying November, De-
.cember and January bills con-
tracted under the previous admin
iStration.
Why is it that the Capper pa.
,perS and speakers do not tell these
facts to the public? Why do they
not tell you that the state had beer
spending more than its income
until it was eight months behindt
Emergency Appropriations.
The legislature made an emer'
gency appropriation amounting
to over $4,000, to pay bills left
by the former administration. Il
made an appropriation of $77,OO(
to replace buildings burned dur
ing the StubbS administration. WI
found there was a bond of S211,
600 due July l, 1914, and the for
mer administrations had only &C
cumulated $4,000 for its payment
We were compelled to take $3.50,
600 out of our funds to pay thi'
$211,OOO bond in July, 1914. Tht
1903 statutes provided that on Jan
uary |, 1918, there should be Sc
aside from the treasury $5O,OO(
to meet this bonded indebtedness
but the state accountants repor
shows that they had overdrafteC
the state treasury at the time anC
. consequently, to meet this obliga
ton, that $4,000 was taken out o.
our funds.
= Appropriations for Hospitals.
In 1911 the legislature appro
priated 100000 to build a new
= and absolutely necessary hoSpi
tai for the insane. The levy wa.
made and the public paid into tht
treasury taxes amounting to S1OO,
600 to build that hospital.
In the same year, 1911, the leg
iSlature appropriated $4,000 t.
build a tuberculosis Sanitariun
for the cure of those who had beer
stricken with the white plague
The levy was made and the pub
lie paid into the treasury thi
amount. Neither of these build
ingS was even started. The gen
eral revenue fund of the state wa
exhausted by the Republican
state administration and they haC
to use the big part of his none,
money paid in by you to built
these hospitals Ito pay the run
ming expenses of the state. TIL
Democratic legislature, realizing
the Importance and necessity O
these two great humanitarian in
StitutiOnS, appropriated $15O,OOl
OF our funds, and the hospital fo
the insane at Earned is complet
ed and full, and its big farm unde
irrigation is furnishing employ
ment for the patients. The tuber
. culOSiS Sanitarium is PRACTICAL,
completed and about ready for oc
cupancy. We completed these tw,
humanitarian enterprises out o
the meager funds left us afte
taking practically one-fourth O
our funds to pay The debts of tn
Former administration.
Sacred Fund Squandered
In the years 1908 and 1909 th
state of Kansas received S522,53
from the federal government OF
an old war claim. The legislatur
OF 1909 set aside the money for tn
purpose. of huildino q memorio