Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1882 — What a Leading Republican Says. [ARTICLE]

What a Leading Republican Says.

Wayne MacYeagh, the Attorney General of the late Garfield, in a res cent speech before a reform club of Philadelphia, said: My party leaves me in this predicament. It has but three principles, and I find myself opposed*to all three. Its first great principle is the spoils system: the second is opposition to civil service reform, and the third seems to be repudiation in Old Virginia. Then the boss system is a degradation; it goes from the gut er to the White House; it subsists on the spoils of office. The duty of this as sociation and of the country is to supplant these oosses; until that is done your work will not be executed. You can not petend to be interested in the degrading spectacle of Mah neism in Virginia; the deliberate prostitution of government powers to aid repudiation of a State’s obligations. If we could charge that upon the Bourbon Democrats it would be some relief, but to our sorrow and humiliation these things are done in the name of the party of Abraham Lin coin. Instead of troing forward, the Arthur administration makes a retrograde movement. We submit the above candid and truthful arraignment by President Garfield’s Attorney General to the careful and candid reading of the young and thinking Republicans of Jasper county. Go to Kannal’s Drug & Jewelry Store to get your watch or clock re'paired— H. B Smith the competent watch maker.

Illation vg. The people. ▲ liCCfatetiwe Legaoy Given the Tax. Payera of Indiana by the Over Two Holders Createdla former issues of the Democrat we have had occasion to refer to several of the Acts passed by the last Legislature, and as time goes on the people become more and more dis gusted w»th the workings of many of these laws. On page 535 of the Actsmay be found an act providing for the election of Superintendend of Roads in each township of the State’ The act also provides for the appointment of Road Masters by these Superintendents. . We have in Indiana about 2,200 townships. The 1,200 Superintendents are allowed by the law $2 per day, for their employment, as may be shown by their sworn acir counts. There is nothing in the law that prohibits the Superintendent from putting in all bis time for the year, but we will be moreliberial than the law and say that he gives oneha f of the year to the roads of his township, or to be still more liberal* say one hundred days. This gives us 200 for each of these township officers annually, and in the 1,200 townships of the state will reach $250,000,00 in round numbers. Add to this the expense of 1,200 Road Masters and we have no less than $50,000 more, making in all ne ally $300,000,00 annually that it costs the tax-payers of indiana to suport these 2,400 officers to perform the duties that were formerly done by the road supervisors at a nominal cost to the people. As to the workings of the law, we hear complaint coming in from ever quarter. and already the masses sfre aware of the fact, that the $2 tax levied by the law upon every voter under fifty yearsjof age and the 25 per cent, upon property valuation are mostly consum ed to pay the Superintendent and Road Master.

We shall not now speak of the statutes establishing County Boards of Health, Jury Commissioners and enlarging the duties of Master Commissioners and some of their unjust provisions. The masses have had a foretaste of these acf« and w willing to return to the old order oi things as much more preferable, rather than maintain the newly created officers at a cost of not less than $60,000,00 an* nually. Onjiage 307, may be found an act requiring the appointment of two Ditch Commissioners for each county of the State, yaking in all 184 ap> pointive officers, whose duties require them to assess the damage and benefits to all lands affected by any proposed drain within their county. These commissioners receive for their services the sum of three dollars per day, each, out of the county treasuryThe law also provides that the engineer, chainmen. axmen and rodmem together with the commissioners to locate any proposed ditch, shall be paid for such work out of the coun ty treasury. It will be observed by a careful persual of the law that no provisions are made for taxing these expenses to the land owners whose possessions are benefited by the proposed drain, but that the expense is paid by the tax-payers of the county, for the establishment of every drain* Just why A. B. and 0.. of one township, should be taxed to pay the exs penses of establishing drains on the land of X., Y. and Z, in anothei township, is left for tho wise aolons to answer who gave us this very remarkable statute.

We shall not pursue this subject any further at this time, and will leave our readers to foot the expense* of the large number of new officeholders created by the laws of which we have referred. Tax-payers of Indiana, how do you like this showing? —Huntington Democrat.