The Adair County news., 1915-10-06

ncan Organization, mas only $11,210,0O0
bonded Indebtedness.
Republican MIsruIe In the South.
1t may be said that 1 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 chance at Mr
MorrowS remedy for extravaganza In the
administration of the States affairs. At
the close of the war they were compara-
been administered honestly and econom-
ically during generations of Democratic
control Then the blight of Republican
misrule fell upon that Inflated land,
ruins, her blackened fields billowed with
the graves of three hundred thousand
slain, dismantled and discrowned, Repub-
ncanism found her PROSTATE, and from
the lips of hunger, from want and naked
ness, it filched untold millions, and "re-
construction" Is well remembered with
more horror than the carnage of battle
or the famine and pestilence that follow
in the wake of war
The annual cost of the States admin
istration in Louisiana under Democratic
control was S1,162,624 in 1871. under a
Republican regime, it reach the appalling
sum of $7,57S,14S The average cost to
the State of each member of the Legis-
lature during the single session was
s113.50 per day. Ten years later, under
Democratic control, expenses were i'm
mediately reduced to s1,617,164, or one
ton period. On December 81, 1868, the
public debt of Louisiana was $11,1S2, 377:
After three years of Republican control
1t was s22,5S9,6 ,62S.
cost of maintaining the government Of
Alabama was $685., POS. In 1873, under a
Republican administration, it was 81, 237,
200. Four years later, with the return
0f the Democrats to mower. If i'm
mediately reduced to SS74,164.
A Republican administration between
1868 and 1874 fastened on the State Of
AEESasaS aso,ss4 bonded Indebtedness OF w.
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
a bonded Indebtedness of $S2S; SOP. 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 Demo-
cratic administration in 1860, carried "a
public debt of $29, 1O6,659. In 1870, under
Republican rule, this debt jumped to the
appalling sum of 1920, S39
Mr.. Morrow has talked much about the
Office furniture The State Capitol at
Columbia was refurnished during this
period. Quoting the testimony of a Con-
gressional committee, Honorable James
M int, duNAOA VI hC AOShA11C AoOuNh1
when the Legislature met the last
time the new furniture was all In the
House was furnished most superbly. A
great deal was said in the papers about
the extravaganza; great deal Of talk
was made about the carpets being so
fine and about the magnificent chan
deliers and spittoons, and one thing
and another for an impoverished peo-
pie Even several Republicans said to
me that 1T provoked them to see so
Il, row1<a1 I,
little able to afford it. . When the
bill came In 1t amounted to S95, 900.
The highest prices were paid
for this furniture, three or four or five
times its value-for instance, $3.50 was
paid for one mirror in the Speakers s
room; each official had separate room
for himself, most gorgeously fitted up,
with toilet sets and ali the parapher-
MALTA of a dwelling house; clocks at
$3.50 apiece; chandeliers at $3.50. Z"
There were two hundred fine porcelain
spittoons, at So apiece. There
were only one hundred and twenty-four
members"
at is says the same author, "the
Installation Of a huge system ten Of brig
men of tn State. they are professional
legislative robbers. they are the men
VINO have studied and practioed the
art of legislative graft. They
pick your pockets by law, they rob the
poor and the rich alike by law. They
confscate your estate by law. They
do none Of these things even under the
tyrant's plea Of the public good or pub
lie necessity. They do all simply to en-
rich themselves personally. The sole
base object is to gorge the individual
with public plunder."
Even If the intelligent citizenship Of
Kentucky should credit the exaggerated
statements of the Honorable Edwin p.
Morrow, In view of the huge burden Of
debt with which Republicanism has sad
died commonwealths in the North and
tha inter dAUa STA ffOn nj ffc reign in the
South, the violence, terror and bloodshed
that have marked its wanton and ruth
less course in Kentucky, 1 beg you be-
ware Of so desperate a remedy even for
the ills Of which he so loudly complains.
Railroad Fare Bill.
Mr.. Morrow complains that the Demo-
cratic party, by its law-making body,
passed 2h-cent railroad fare bill, but
in SO doing Joined ''the State House For
getter's Club" and forgot 20 insert an
enacting clause in the bill, thereby rem
dering 1t null and void. The record shows
that the President of the Estate House
llcan, the Honorable E. D. Stone, Of the
County of Crittenden, and that another
Republican, the then Superintendent Of
Public Printing, was its Right Honorable
Secretary. Much Is to be forgiven any
Republican who attempts any kind of
progressive legislation, since he must
blaze his legislative way alone, without
guide or precedent. Some sweet day
The Historian will record with a COM
miserating smile that one lone Republican
at one time did actually attempt to write
a bill lowering railroad rates; He did II
bunglingly, of course, but he deserves our
eternal gratitude for ever having attempt
ed to do 1t at all. He wrote headless
thing It was introduced in that ampu-
tated form, and, taking the usual course.
was referred to a Republican Superin-
tendent of Public Printing. who prepared
a caption, a sort of artificial head, at
tached 1t, sent the bill thus doctored
back to the House, so that no member
Of that body which Mr.. Morrow con-
demns without reason or warrant ever