The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-09-22

January l, 1s0s...........- Lo1s.o55.72
Democratic Administration from January
I, 1912, to August 81, 1915.
Receipts from all sources. .s2e. $40, 375.2s
Less deficit in Treasury jan
uary 1, 1872 290.6s7-h6
Total observation-disclosures 6. 27s. 677.72
The Democratic administration has re-
ef time dsan more than tbe Re
publican administration.
The official figures from the Auditors
Office show that the last Republican adj
ministration faced a deficit in the State
Treasury on August 81, 1911. Of 81, 10S.-
Gect in on the gtae EAST Of
445,o49.2O. or 1886, sSs:SS greater than
the deficit of August 81. 1911. That is.
has received in revenues for the same
relative period s2.169, SO and has ex-
preceding Republican administration.
The total appropriation made by the
Legislatures of 1912 and 1914 to carry out
widespread popular demand for progress
sive legislation in the interest of educa-
ton and agriculture, of humanity. in the
institutions, for the maintenance of aged
and dependent Confederate veterans, and
a 0f total Ie of ss's75. AZ Had the General
Assemblies of 1912 and 1914 made none
al rnsse 1 woud ba 5ne sbGn sea eh
balance of 50, 23O, 424.53 instead of a de-
felt of 81. 445.049.2o.
worse, stating that the State has been
plunged 81, us, 600 deeper into debt, MAX
ing a total additional expenditure in the
1908 more than is shown by the official
figures. Mr.. Morrow is either very badly
advised he is reckless guesser. This
is but one of many instances showing
that he is much more picturesque than
1t is reasonably certain and may well
be assumed that after the collection of
anticipated revenues on the 1st of Janu-
airy, 1916 the State deficit will not e&
coed s1,000,c00. Does that Justify the
reckless statement of Mr.. Morrow that
million dollars of debt bankrupt a COM
monwealth the value of whose property
exceeds billion dollars?
What assurance have we that this state
of hopeless insolvency, even If 1t actually
existed, would be remedied by turning
the successors of Wilson and Taylor. Do
those states which for fifty years have
Peen gn6er s an freeam fro Sf scb
prosperity as to justify this most perilous
remedy?
Bonded indebtedness of Republican
States.
Take Maine, Republican for fifty years.
the home of Dingley, Reed, Littlefeld
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 $s46, 454 .020. That prop
with no bonded Indebtedness.
Maine has less than half the amount
Of taxable property of Kentucky, !. e.,
$430, OBS, 1852, and yet the tax rate reaches
the appalling sum of $3.50 on the thou
sand dollars, with a bonded debt of
1858, 900.
Connecticut, Republican almost con-
tinuously foc the last half century. has
practically the same amount of taxable
1nr-fwr KnrafN nlrxr Until
a bonded debt of $7,O64. 100.
New Hampshire, with less than $780,
oU the u and da bonded indebted
ness of 81, Ice, 900.
The rock-ribbed Republican State of
Pennsylvania has a bonded indebtedness
of S125, GA, 702.
Little Rhode Island, the home of AID
rich, with 5000, 900, 900 less property than
Kentucky, has managed under the wise
economy of an unbroken Republican ad-
ministration for generations to get along
Utah, with one-fourth of the wealth of
Kentucky, under the benefcent control
of Reed Smoot and an iron-clad Repub-
Hcan organization, has only 81, 210, 900
bonded Indebtedness.
Republican MisruIe In the South.
1t may be said that I have mentioned
only Northern States and that for pur-
ern commemorative having a similar cit
izenship, alike in manner. customs and
3,
Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, Virginia and
South Carolina all had a chance at Mr..
Morrow's remedy for extravaganza in the
administration 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-
control Then the blight of Republican
misrule fell upon that Inflated land.
ruins, her blackened fields beloved with
the graves of three hundred thousand
icanism found her PROSTATE. and from
the lips of hunger, from want and naked
ness, it filched untold millions, and re
more horror than the carnage of battle
or the famine and pestilence that follow
The annual cost of the States admin
control was s1,162,s24 in 1871, under a
sum sum Of s7.57S.1zs The average Cost to
| the State of each member of the Legis-
lature during the single session was
Democratic control, expenses were i'm
mediately reduced to $1.617, 1854, or one
ton period. on December 81, 1853 the
public debt of Louisiana was $11,1S2377:
After three years of Republican control
Under Democratic control in 1866. the
cost of maintaining the government of
Republican administration, It was s2,2S7.-
200. Four ;-ears later. with the return
| of the Democrats to power. 1t was i'm
A Republican administration between
| 1868 and 1874 fastened on the State of
Arkansas bonded indebtedness of ST.
In Florida the cost of administering the
| affairs of the State more than doubled
In 1866 Georgia. which until that time
| had never known Republican rule. had
| less than three years Of Republican con-
| troll its bonded Indebtedness was increas-
ed to nearly sls;oo0.ooo.
public debt OF. s2s. 1Os. s5s. In 1870. under
| appalling sum of $40. 290. S39
| Mr. Morrow has talked much about the
extravagance Of Oemocr s in purchasing
Columbia was refurnished during this
period. Quoting the testimony of Con-
NJ. Pike. author of 1.-The PROSTATE South, y
writes:
| time the new furniture was all in; the
| House was furnished most superbly. A
great deal was said in the papers about
| was made about the carpets being SC
fine and about the magnificent chan
and another for an impoverished peo-
| pie. Even several Republicans said tC
me that it provoked them to see sc
little H able to afford II. when the
bill came in 1t amounted to $4,000
The highest prices were paid
for this furniture. three or four or five
times it's value-for instance, $3.50 was
paid for one mirror in the Speaker
room; each official had separate room
for himself, most gorgeously fitted up
| with toilet sets and all the parapher-
MALTA of a dwelling house: clocks al
$3.50 apiece; chandeliers at $3.50.
There were two hundred fine porcelain
spittoons. at IS apiece. There
] were only one hundred and twenty -fouI
| members"
"It is" says the same author. "the
installation of a huge system of brig
bndage. . They are the highway
ben OF the State. they are professional