Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 12 September 1874 — Page 3

$aturdag (fhcninjj Journal.

The Independents in Sugar Creek Towns!) i|. The Keform convention of Sugar Creek township, for the purpose of nominating a township ticket and bearing speeches from Mr. Stoddard and Mr. M. 15. Wiiugh, met on the evening of September 5. At firsl. there was lots of fun and considerable laughing. Chris. Hall said that they did not want any person there except Grangers. After Hal^had made his statement, Mr. Waugh came forward and moved that the house come to order. He stated that the object of tlie meeting was to nominate a township ticket, and to that end he moved that S. S. Martin be called to the chair. Mr. Martin excused himself, but finally toot the chair. Somebody moved that Milt Waugh act as Secretary. 'Ihe meeting being organized, and the work of the convention being all cut and dried, they soon went through the form, and announced the following ticket: For Trustee, John Allen for Justices, L. D. Coyncr and W. Mote for Constables, It. Harper and Or. IJlauker.

Mr. Waugh then introduced as first speaker Mr. Stoddard, candidate for County Auditor. Mr. Stoddard's aldress wa9 not long, neither was it marked by any flowers of speech. It was delivered in an easy manner, but was veiy tedious and tiresome. He said that ive had met for the purpose of trying to break up and oust the old political parties. They had become corrupt, and were composed of rings and cliques. He said that the two old political parties, tiie Republicans and the Democrats, reminded him of the duck that was hatched out by the cat. The cat lay on the duck egg until it hatched out, and the duck would quack at one end and mew at the other. It was the same way with the Republicans and Democrats. They can quack at one end and mew at the other, and they are neither cat nor duck, but both. He said "My friends, you have all read of Beecher and Tilton. Well, Beecher had a dog, and he also had a squirrel that lived in a hole in the jam. That dog would bark in the hole four years after the squirrel was dead." He said the Republican and Democratic parties reminded liiin of that dog. They still kept talking about our troubles in the South, and they were grinding the poor man and the laborer down with taxes. Mr. Stoddard closed by saying that he would be the next Auditor of

Montgomery county. M. B. Y,~. ugh then took the stand and said that he was a candidate for Representative, and that ever since his nomination the county papers were telling every bad act of his life, and they had told some things on him that he had forgotten long ago.

John Mitchell was then called for and came forward. He said that he was a Republican, and he supposed they did not want to hear a Republican, but «s they had calle.l him he would respond in a few remarks. He said that the principles and constitution of the Republican party put it naturally upon the side of temperance as against intemperance of freedom as against slavery of the people as against monopoly and upon the side of free schools and intellectual and moral progress. It is a progressive party, and whenever it ceases to be so and becomes conservative, then you may begin to talk about its mission being performed. It is qualified to grapple with every new issue that is presented. It has its face to the future, and holds that the work of reform is its normal and necessary condition. "For years to come the contest will be between the Republican and Democratic parties, and between them theie is no room for a third party, and every one that is organized will be feeble and ephemeral."

The convention then adjourned.

The While League in Tennessee. [From the Indianapolis News.] It is a notable fact that notwithstanding the zeal with which the citizens of '..'Memphis met and denounced the awful ^butchery of sixteen negroes at Trenton by tlie "White League," and the promptness with which the Governor of Tennessee issued a proclamation of §500 reward for the murderers, not a single man has been arrested, nor a single attempt made, either to arrest anybody or discover any of tlie offenders. This fact proves that though tlie sense of propriety of the people of that rebel region may have been shocked by the openness of the crime, the results are Dy no means so unpleasant as a confiding nature might have hoped they would be. The "nigger" is a mighty misplaced creature in that part of the world. So are capital, and skill, and business, and prosperity.

None of them will ever find a permanent place there till the spirit that performs, and the meaner spirit that tolerates such atrocities is as dead as the inquisition, •the people may pass resolutions by the square yard inviting capital, but while such horrors as this are possible nothing

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go that is worth having. They may exempt capital or manufactures from fixation or guarantee it a good dividend, but it will

Democracy at Both KIMIS. [From the Initiminpolis .Journal.] The average local taxation in the Democratic counties of this State is $1,011 on §100. The average in the. Re-: publican counties is 88 cents, or 21 cents. less than the Democratic rate. The dif-1 ference against local Democratic administrations is 25 per cent., nearly, of the I Republican rate. And this is not an ac-1 cidental difference. It is steady, per-! sistent and pretty neai:ly invariable. For the past ten years, at least, and how much longer nobody knows, the Jenio-1 cratic average of county or local taxation has exceeded the Republican from one fourth to one third. Local taxes, as appears by the tables published by the

State Auditor, form three fourths of all

the public burdens the people have to bear. Here is the statement:

Totnl county tnxntinn. IS7U.... Tumi State taxiuion, l«7

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tii[ fu,d a better place where

the owner can have his opinions without losing his social standing and endanger'"g his life. And that is what lie can't do where the White League prevails.

A New York auctioneer says that twenty-five years experience has taught him that people are willing to pay as nnich for old things at auction as new things would cost at the store.

than Republican counties

do by enough to pay the whole State tax at 10 cents on the present valuation, and more than enough to pay it at 15 cents on the old valuation. This fact is worth thinking about in an election which is to to trust one or the other of the parties with the taxes and business of the State for the next two years. Now, by the way of offsetting this enormous excess of Democratic local taxation, Uir Democratic Legislature of 1871 thought to do I a big thing for the party by cutting down the State tax. It would make a I capital campaign cry, "The Democrats have reduced your State tax from 15 or 20 cents to 5 cents. That's the way the Democracy treats the people." It is a nicc "way" in the talking, but it don't! look half so well in the doing. The 5 cents tax would not pay common yearly expenses, under the old valuation of taxable property, by §(500,000 on "of! years,'' and by §800,000 on "legislative years," and the result was that the Democracy left the State deep in debt for just those expenses, to say nothing of: debts held valid by the courts, and other expenses as indispensabie, as salaries and interest on the bonds held by the school fund. Thus while the Democratic local administrations were putting upon their tax payers one fourth more burden than I the Republicans did, the Democratic State administration was running the lillC. tax payers in debt at the rate of $G00,000 to §800,000 a year for current expenses, aud leaving all legal and honest debts unpaid, by making the tax rate too little. It is not often that a set of men manage to miss on both sides so completely, to pull too tight at one end of their policy and too loose at the other, but the Democracy has done it in their local or county administration and their State administration. The Republicans have had the State Democratic debts to pay, aud that is the way they came to raise the rate of taxation for State purposes. Twenty-seven Democratic members of the Legislature agreed with thenv! and voted for the 15 cents tax in 1873.

And Governor Hendricks agreed with them, for he approved the 15 cents tax I bill. He wouldn't have done that if he hadn't thought the rate necessary. By the way, that eleventh resolution of the Democratic State convention, denouncing the increase of the State tax, must have sounded as sweetly as music in the ears of the President, who as Governor had approved the act thus denounced. It is much to be regretted that his elaborate opening speech' did not contain some allusion to this tax bill, as it did to the Baxter bill. Fear of the effect of our exposure of the merciless way Democrats stuck local taxes on made the convention adopt a resolution in favor of a limitation of these taxes, both in counties and cities, but it stole the policy bodily from the Republican platform of the 17th of June, and from the

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Of this aggregate it will be seen the Slate taxes form but a little more than one fourth, the other three fourths being

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articles urging that policy. The only sensible thing it did about the whole matter of taxation was what it stole from the Republicans. Its own absolute property in the way of tax policy is the proclamation that 5 cents must be the utmost extent of State tax. That rate upon $950,000,000, as we have repeatedly shown, won't pay common yearly expenses by an average of $500,000 a year—§400,000 in "of!" years" and §600,000 in "legislative years"—and the effect will be a steadily growing State debt which will run out the whole revenue of 5 cents tax for interest alone in ten years. Men who deliberately propose a system ot constantly increasing State debt are not lit to manage State affairs. No business man alive, no railroad company, would keep a set of clerks or managers who allowed expenses to exceed incomes, year after year, eating up his stock as well as profits, and making the way out of trouble longer and harder every day. The people will do pretty much as sensible business men and corporations would.

Immediately after the adjournment of the State Temperance convention at Indianapolis the Excutive Committee met, and resolved to set apart the 8th of Octo-" ber as a day of fasting, prayer and humiliation among all Christian people of the State favoring the success of the temperance cause. The preachers throughout the State were requested to preach temperance sermons on the first Sunday preceding the election.

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tairly when it says that those who think Beecher's downfall would ruin Christianity have made a mistake—they have been worshiping Beecher instead of Christianity. That's it, exactly.—Attka

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made up of county or local taxes. Now, of these the Democratic counties assess' one fourth more than the Republican. The two assess nearly $9,000,000. Con-' sequenlly the Democratic counties assess §5,000,000, the Republican §4,000,-, 000, the difference, §1,000,000, being one fourth of the Republican assessment. The Democratic local taxes of the State exceed those of the Republicans §1,000,-1 000 per year. This is more than the I whole revenue that would be obtained from a State tax of 10 cents on §100 at I the present valuation, and a little, more than a tax of.15 cents would yield on the old valuation. In oilier words, the Democratic counties of Indiana tax their citizens

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