Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-23

| Democratic Administration from January
I. 1912, to August 81, 1915.
Receipts from an sources s26 57os75 rs
Less deficit IN Treasury Jam
uary !. 1ei2.,....,......... 900, 6el. So
Total ................... s26. "a. o77.72
The Democratic administration has re-
ceived durfne the same relative period
Of time S2.1ta,272.53 more than the Re-
publican ADMINISTRATION
The official figures from the Auditors
mlnstration faced deficit IN the state
81; that on August 81, 1915. there was
eeac s6 in the SO sa sso Treasury Of &
the deficit Of August 81. 1911. That II.
has received in revenues for the same
pended IN all S3.506. lao more than the
preceding Republican administration.
The total appropriation made by the
Legislatures Of 1912 and 1914 to carry out
platform pledges and In response TO a
widespread popular demand for progress
slve legislation In the interest OF educa-
ton and agriculture, OF humanity, ~ the
better care OF inmates In our charitable
institutions. for the maintenance OF aged
and dependent Confederate veterans, and
for other worthy purposes, amounted 70
a total OF s3.675,f72. Had the General
OF these appropriations. the Treasury on
August 81, 1912, would have shown a cash
balance OF t2.230 424.53 instead of a de-
felt Of s2.445, O4s.20.
worse. stating that the State has been
plunged S2,71e 900 deeper into debt, nak-
Ing a total additional expenditure in the
public revenues Of IS, 1871 .000." or N,37S,-
i6O.1S more than is shown by the official
figures Mr.. Morrow Is either very badly
advised or he is a reckless guesser. This
is but one of many instances showing
that he Is much more picturesque than
II is reasonably certain and may well
be assumed that after the collection OF
anticipated revenues on the LIST OF yanu-
airy, 1916, the State deficit. will not ex-
coed $1,000, 900 Does that justify the
reckless statement OF Mr.. Morrow that
"this is a bankrupt Slater Can three
million dollars Of debt bankrupt COM
monwealth the value of whose property
exceeds a billion dollars?
What assurance have we that this state
OF hopeless insolvency, even II II actually
existed would be remedied by turning
Kentucky over, ''boots and breeches," to
the SUCCESSORS Of Wilson and Taylor. DO
those states which for fifty years have
been under an unbroken Republican re-
gime show such freedom from debt such
prosperity as to Justify this most perilous
remedy?
Bonded Indebtedness Of Republican
States.
Take Maine, Republican for fifty years,
the home of Dingley, Reed, Littleheld
and Blaine. Let us compare the condi-
ton Of poor old Kentucky. this Repub-
The real and personal property Of Ken
lucky is valued at sS46, 454. 020. That prop
erty pays a tax rate OF IS per thousand
with no bonded Indebtedness.
Maine has less than half the amount
of taxable property of Kentucky, l. e.,
$3.50, 025.462. and yet the tax rate reaches
the appalling sum of $3.50 on the thou
cQ nd h0nnR0 dent
s659,000.
Connecticut, Republican almost con-
tinuously for the last half century. has
practically the same amount OF taxable
property as Kentucky, SS4s, 1893, O19, with
a bonded debt OF $1,000. 100.
New Hampshire. with less than $780,
900. 900 of property, has tax rate OF SIG
on the thousand and bonded lndeDted-
The rock-ribbed Republican State of
Pennsylvania has bonded indebtedness
little Rhode Island, the home OF Aid
rich. with 5000. 100000 less property than
Kentucky, has managed under the wise
economy of an unbroken Republican adj
with only s5.O41,572 Of bonded Indebted
ness
Utah. with one-fourth OF the wealth OF
Kentucky. under the benefcent control
OF Reed Smoot and an iron-clad Repuh-
lican organization, has only s11,2lo.o00
bonded Indebtedness.
Republican MIsrule In the South.
1t may be said that have mentioned
only Northern States and that for pur-
poses of comparison | should take South
ern commemorative having a similar cit
izenship. alike In manner, customs and
laws. At one time Alabama, Arkansas,
Georgia, Louisiana. Florida. Virginia and
South Carolina all had a chance at Mr..
Morrow's remedy for extravaganza In the
OF the States affairs. At
the close of the war they were compare
lively free from debt. their affairs had
been administered honestly and econom-
ically during generations Of Democratic
control Then the blight Of Republican
misrule fell upon that Inflated land.
swept by fire and sword. her cities in
ruins. her blackened fields beloved with
the graves of three hundred thousand
slain, dismantled and discrowned, Repub-
licanism found her PROSTATE, and from
the lips of hunger. from want and naked
ness, 1t filched untold millions, and re
is well remembered with
more horror than the carnage. OF battle
DR. the famine and pestilence that follow
In the wake OF war
The annual cost OF the States admin
stration in Louisiana under Democratic
control was $1.162.624 In 1871, under
Republican regime, II reach the appalling
sum OF H.57S.14S. The average cost to
The State OF each member Of the Legis-
ature during the single session was
,11350 per day Ten years later. under
control. expenses were inn
reduced 10 Sl,OlfslOfs Ut One-
fifth OF the cost during the reconstruc-
ton period. on December 81, 1868. the
public debt OF Louisiana was N1. 1887.
After three years OF Republican control
4 was $22.589.62S.
Under Democratic control in 1856. the
cost OF maintaining the government Of
Alabama was 1855, 205. In 1873. under a
Republican administration. Il was S2.2S7,-
700, Four years later. with the return
0f the Democrats to power, II was Inn
mediatelv reduced to sS74.164.
A Republican administration between
1868 and 1874 fastened on the State OF
Arkansas bonded Indebtedness of ST.
260, 1854.
In Florida the cost of administering the
Affairs OF the State more than doubled
under a Republican administration.
In 1866 Georgia. which until that time
had never known Republican rule, had
4 bonded Indebtedness of $S2S.S02. After
less than three years OF Republican con- |
troll it's bonded indebtedness was increas- |
ed TO nearly $4,000. 900.
The State OF Virginia. under a Demo- |
cratic administration In 1860, carried
public debt Of $z9. i06. $50. In 1870. under
Republican rule. this debt jumped TO the
appalling sum OF S49 900. 500.
Mr.. Morrow has talked much about the |
OF Democrats in purchasing
office furniture. The State Capitol at |