The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-19
MAKES A GREAT ADDRESS TO
WYOMING COUNTY REPUB-
IICANS.
TELLS OF THE GREAT WORK
THAT HAS BEEN DONE IN
WEST VIRGINIA.

PINEVILLE, w. Va, Oct. Gov
ernor Henry D. Hatfield was the
principal speaker ut large gather
ing of the Republicans Of Wyoming
county here yesterday afternoon.
The governor took UP the matter
OF state expenditures and pointed
out that the charges of the Demo
Gratis that the present state admin
istration has been eXtrnvagant ia
without foundation of fact. He took
Zip the 1913 appropriation bill and
showed that the administration has
been economical in every particular,
especially where the executive de-
partmcnt has any control over the
appropriations.
The governor in part, said:
"The affairs of West Virginia
have been economically administer
ed during eighteen years of Repub-
lican administration. Figures tell
the story and it is only necessary to
turn back the pages of few years
and compare the records of a series
OF Democratic administrations with
Republican administrations.
1--WE are great and growing state
and while our expenditures have
been increased, naturally so, as the
population of our state institutions
has increased and new departments
have been created by the legislature.
our sources Of revenue have on the
other hand been lessened. Hardly
had we recovered from the half mil
lion dollar expenditure TO restore or
der in the Kanawha strike field,
than our state treasury felt the loss
OF approximately 100000 from the
saloon license this year due to the
passage OF the prohibition amend
ment.
with this condition, we are con-
fronted with an appropriation bill,
passed by the last legislature, carry
ing nearly one million dollars for the
construction of new buildings at the
various institutions. Many of those
buildings were needed quite badly
on account Of the rapid increase in
population and 1t would have graft.
fled ME immensely to have seen ev-
cry one constructed, but the revenge
was not available to construct all
and it has been necessary for the
state administration to proceed with
precaution. We have taken care OF
the most urgent needs, including the
erection of the new buildings at the
West Virginia Institute, the Tuber-
culosis Sanitarium, the Keyser Prep
atory school, and the school for the
deaf and blind at Romney.
"There has never been any qucs-
ton but that the state would feel
for time at least, the loss of reve-
nue. from tho licensed saloon. EV-
cry man in West Virginia who voted
for the ratification of the prohibi-
ton amendment realized that fact,
but they were willing to bear a little
more burden of taxation in order tn
make West Virginia a better state
for all of us to live in. But, the
Democratic partisan press seizes on
this as an opportunity to create the
impression that the peoples money
is being sQuandercd. The older res
idents OF the state have not forgotten
tho fact that during the administra-
ton of Wilson, Fleming and Mac
Corkle in ..the good old Democratic
days" extending from 1885 to 1895,
the rate of direct taxation for state
and general school fund was 50
cents, three and one-half times the
rate about which the Democratic
press is now raising such wall. You
no longer pay a special school tax or
i special road tax us you were COM
PEELED to do during the years that
the Democrats were in control Of the
state government.
"Among the items in the year
1914 which were in excess Of 1912
are, first, the Public Service Com
mission, which was created by the
legislature of 1918, ,effect.Y May, 4 ,