New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-13
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rue OF the state. This assertion IS
both inaccurate and indefinite. The
fact is that in recent years the state
has been in Tammany control. II you
have regard 20 Republican adminlstra-
tions, recent or remote, your statement
is wholly without foundation.
you make nine specifications OF
financial achievement. You say that
YOUR first act WAS 10 prevent default
in the interest charges on state bonds.
The party which is now seeking con
tinuance in power behind your mask 10
alone responsible for the fact That
there was any possibility for such de-
fault, and it put you in the position OF
making necessary to save both its own
and your face from the consequences Of
its own unconScionabie neglect. You
were forced to send an emergency
message to a soldidly Democratic
Legislature with regard to 80 solemn
and so cynically disregarded duty.
Unpaid Debt Mystery.
'Your next step was TO collect the
unpaid debts Of the preceding year,
amounting to Sl,300,O0O, and cause
their immediate payment through a de-
doubtedly know what this means; do
not believe any one else does. But DO
know that the Tammany party had not
made the proper provision for the pay
ment of the states debts for the pre-
vious year, and that the attempt is
row made TO hide the actual facts and
to claim a credit for Tammany Hall
and for yourself for doing something
the necessity for which your party
alone created.
at is next claimed that you directed
the state departments TO contract no
debt which could not be met by money
already available Such direction is
one of kindergarten finance; but II Wa
made without the proper limitation as
to departments where the statutes re
oure them 10 proceed with their work
end incur debts, If necessary, whether
the money is Immediately available or
not. The fact is that there have been
grave delinquencies in Democratic
Offices; that they had improperly IN
volved the state in debt, which debt,
becoming an obligation, was inescapa-
bic. If it were not an obligation n
should have been contested. Your pres
ent claim to merit is nothing more
than that you saw to II that either the
tracks were covered or removed.
"The statement is made by you or IN
your behalf that you notified the Legs
jature that YOU would veto any appro-
rriation bill that exceeded the state s
revenues and that you vetoed special
apDropriations amounting TO S6,OOOOOO.
The fact ia that the states revenues
arc not Understandable. They are de-
pendent upon hundreds of varying con-
ditions. For instance, who is 20 de-
termine what the states revenue from
the inheritance tax Is 70 be We nave
occasionally "a year in which IT rs eN-
tremelv large, as in the year when the
taxes from the Brady, Morgan, harri-
man and Astor estates came INTO the
Treasury. Such things are entirely un-
foreseeable, and for Governor to treat
them "a being subject 10 exact ana
scientific recurrence, and therefore as
a fundamental and steady basis OF reNe-
rue. is TO commit financial error.
"The fact is that relying upon for
tuitous revenues and vetolng appro-
nriations which were absolutely de
manGed for continuing the state
proper work as an administrative agent
OF the commonwealth was an attempt to
make an individual record at the ex-
pense of the efficiency and Of the very
reason for the existence Of the state
itself.
THE reference TO former governors
who have signed special bills amount
ing 10 over S8.OO0.000 is not scrupulOus-
" straightforward. You have failed "a
name these governors, who happen 10
have been Of your own party, not o.
mire. and you have failed to state what
the bills were or their Importance.
1914 Slate Not Clean.
"You claim that you secured from
the LEGISLATURE a general appropria-
ton bill Of $4,000 600 less than the
appropriation bill of the year before
In that year your party was dominant
m the executive chamber and bOtf
houses Of the Legislature, and its ap'
p1opriations were marked by the most
CHASTITY wastefulncss. You secured
nothing from the Legislature Of 1919
IL which the Assembly was predomI
nantly Republican. This Legis lature
acting under the initiative OF the Re
publican Assembly, refused 10 make
appropriations which you and thi
Democratic Senate desired. II j. fol
their work for which you are layins
claim to appreciation. The characte'
Cf YOUR own effort 10 reduce the dppTO
priations passed by the Legislature il
sufficiently demonstrated by genera
reference TO your veto messages, II
which you repeatedly refer TO appro
priations as. being capable Of belnl
taken care of in the coming yeal. thus
deliberately classifying the states &C
counts for purposes Of comparison tt
your individual credit.
"You carefully avoided leaving &
YOUR successors in Office the very clear
slate which you gave yourself by IN
sieting that the expenditures OF tn,
Sulzer government should be met bl
appropriations char~"able against th'
Sulzer year 20 the extent of over 50,
coo. 1000.
at is true that TO direct state Ia,
bin will be levied this year, and also
true that $23. 100000 have been levieC
in direct state taxes since the elec
ton OF Governor Dix, as against NJ
direct taxes at all in the five proceed
ing wears Of Republican rule. II j.
not true that the failure 10 levy such
tax this year was the result either
of your financial policy or Of your
financial activity. II is the result o.
the joint work Of both houses Of tn,
Legislature. And In this connection
The fact cannot be overlooked that YOU
sent q message TO the Legislature up
proving Of a direct state tax, anC