Milford chronicle., 1938-06-03
THROUGH REPUBLICAN, EYES


Figures are generally rather dry
reading and the ordinary person
pays but little attention to them
but when it is your money that is
/ being spent by some One-sOme one
who promised you it would be care
fully and honestly spent for your
beneft-then it Is time to read some
I figures. Democrats. before the last
election. went up and down the State
telling one and all how carefully
they would handle the financial af-
fairs of the State il they were elect
ed and told the voters how badly the
Republicans had mismanaged the
State.
What is the answer? Let us have
some figures. Some figures that
were recently published and which
commanded our attention, and in our
opinion should be passed on to the
voters. Democratic State officials
recently announced with glee that
the general fund showed a surplus.
The first time it had showed a sur
plus in several years.
Let us look at the record. As a
matter of fact the general fund sur
plus was $92,067 when the new ad-
ministratiOn took over. During the
month of April, 1888, the State dis
bursements were $15O,O0O in excess
of the money taken in. To meet this
deficiency i'm revenue, S20O,00O was
taken from the highway fund and 50
with 100000 juggled over from our
gasoline taxes levied for good roads
into the general fund for State eX-
penses. the Democrats now boast
they have a surplus. Why not? As
a matter of fact they spent more
than the Republicans did over like
period Of time and then went Sl5O.-
900 in the red but covered it up with
the slice of 100000 from the high
way fund. That is your money and
mine. Are we going to allow this
condition to continue? DO YOU
WANT YOUR TAXES INCREASED?
That is what is going to happen if
this Democratic crew of experts are
continued in control.
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We have never underestimated the
mental accumen of National Com
mitteeman James Tunnel when it
came to playing politics. Don't let
any one tell you that he doesn't
know the answers. He made one
bad trip UP at the last election when
the third ticket out traded him and
got his votes which were going to
win anyway, and took half of the
Sussex county offices and half of the
General Assembly jobs away from
him. But even the best make mis-
takes. His was a bad one and lost
him a lot of voters but he isn't the
kind that quits. Now he is out with
another scheme that may throw
some confusion into one faction OF
his party but which is figured TO in
crease his present control of the
party and put him in the drivers
seat in Sussex county. We under
stand he is going to see TO it that
Baker is handed nice salaried
plum II Ralph falls for it, he will
be set in his job for time, but we
wonder If he has forgotten how all
former jobs were barred from him
by this same faction which is now
only offering him the plum because
they can in this manner get him out
of the way as Chairman of the
county committee and throw his
friends who have stuck by him so
faithfully. into the political discard.
We believe Baker has more sense
and more loyalty to his followers
than to sell out his entire faction
for the sake of job now when he
wasn't considered in the past.
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Misery certainly loves company |
and the Democratic writer's through |
out the State spend a great deal Of
space telling how terribly split is !
the Republican party-particularly
in Kent and Sussex counties. And
every once in a while it is New Cas-
tie county. AS matter of fact the
party is in harmony ]
more at present than it has been for /
years. There always have been
''kickers" who decry the so-called
bossism in the party. Anyone knows
the success of any party depends
upon the leadership be it called
''bossism" or what not. Delaware
are happy this election
in good leadership and so, notwith-
standing the attacks of the Demo
crats, they are in harmony. In Kent