New Britain herald., 1924-10-22
BALDWIN EXPOSES
 B|NGHAM'S CLAIMS
Says (. Q. P. Candidate Should
 Take Course in Finance

The state debt of between S10,- 100000 and $ll.O00.0O0 at the end of the Baldwin administrations was due entirely to the methods of the republican Administrations lncud- ing the two republican legislatures during the Baldwin administrations, according to Roger Baldwin, son Of the former governor, in an inter- view in the New Haven Union.
 Furthermore, according to the in- teryiew, the son cites the efforts of his father to prevent a continuation of piling up debt, how he suggested financial reform in his inaugural messages, and how he was the au- thor of the plan having as its ob- ject the elimination of the debt through a term of years.
 The Unions interview is as fol- lows:
 Son Defends Father.
 Roger Baldwin, son of Governor Simeon E. Baldwin, was much in- censod yesterday over what he termed "a gross perverson of the facts" made by Lieut.. Gov. Hiram Bingham at the republican Woolsey hall meeting Monday night. Gov ernor Baldwin. who is confined to his home, could not be interviewed in regard to Mir. Bingham's state- ment, but Roger Baldwin, his son, when seen by Union reporter said:
 "I regret that my father is not well enough to reply in person to this attack upon his administration of our state government made by Prof. Bingham last night. It cer- tainly should not go unanswered, be- cause it is one of the worst perver- stons of the truth that this cam paign has yes produced.
 Tn my fathers inaugural message for the January session of the Gen. erai Assembly of 1911, in discussing public economy, one will find the following language:
 flFSt inaugural NufifGsS.
 "'Our invested capital has been used up. The state has contracted 2 debt of over S3,000,0OQ. Our an- nua1 expenses have risen from $5O,- GOO to S3.70QD0O for current ex- penses. Tho Connecticut of to- day is no doubt a commonwealth of far more diversified activities than the Connecticut of Governor Els more for the general welfare and uplift of its people; but whatever is thus done must be done with due economy as we'll as efficiency. It is our part 10 see during the next two years, 1t is secured, cut where 1t will
 Governor Baldwin then went on 10 point out a number of ways in which these economics could be cf- fected by providing a single pur- chasing agent for the state and by consolidating many of the existing departments. The republican logts- lature disrogIrIed inc governors recommendations and despite his protest. rolled up an additional debt of s4.0Q0.000. In his inaugural messag ge of January. 1918, with the legislature still republican and hos tile, he set before the legislators a table he had compiled showing the receipts and expenditures of the state for the then past 10 fiscal years and he showed that the cash bor- rowed during the years 1908 to 1912, inclusive, amounted 10 $l6,- 100000 and he pointed out that de- spite his plea for economy the re- publican legislature had in its ap- propriations created a deficit of SfS7,00o and characterized it as an unfortunate change in cur financial policy"
 Suggested Debt Finding
 He pointed out also that the in crease in bonded indebtedness had been rapid over a period of several year, with no adequate provision made by the legislature to meet it. He urged the passa ge of an act which would set apart enough of the current income Of the state to meet this bonded indebtedness of over s10,0oO.0O as it fell due and fOI this object the levying of a special state tax on the town of not less than three-fourths of a mill, and fl was the passage of this measure al the initiative of a democratic gov. ernor that paved the way for the wiping out Of a deficit created bl republican legislative extravaganza
 Prof. Bingham is now bragGinG about wiping out this deficit, Yher the result is really due to the wise forethought of a democratic gover nor and the application Of a fSca