xt75736m0h92 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt75736m0h92/data/mets.xml  1895  books b92-151-29579468 English Courier-Journal Job Printing Co., : Louisville : Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Kentucky History. Kentucky Politics and government. Review of the financial and political history of the state of Kentucky for the past twenty-eight years under Democratic government  : and a comparative statement contrasting Kentucky with the government of other states. text Review of the financial and political history of the state of Kentucky for the past twenty-eight years under Democratic government  : and a comparative statement contrasting Kentucky with the government of other states. 1895 2002 true xt75736m0h92 section xt75736m0h92 


             A FREVIEW



                     OF' THE





FINANCIAL AND ROUIHIRA IISTORY




                     OF THE



        STATE OF KENTUCKY



FOR THE PAST TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS UNDER DEMOCRATIC GOVERN-
     MENT, AND A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT CONTRASTING
           KENTUCKY WITH THE GOVERNMENT
                 OF OTHER STATES.













                   LOUISVILLE. KY.:
            COURIER-JOURNAL JOB PRINTING COMPANY.
                      1895.

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DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.


            GOVERNOR.
          P. W. HARDIN.

        LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
           R. T. TYLER.

        SECRETARY OF STATE.
           H. S. HALE.

             AUDITOR.
          L. C. NORMAN.

            TXRMEASURER.
            R. C. FORD.

         ATTORNEY-0ENEkAL.
         W. J. HENDRICK.

       REGISTER LAND OFFICE.
          G. B. SWANGO.

  SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
        ED P. THOMPSON.

    COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE.
            I. B. NALL.

       RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.
   FIRST DISTRICT-J. F. DEMPSEY.
SECOND DISTRICT-GEO. H. ALEXANDER.
   THIRD DISTRICT-G. R. KELLER.

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A F E V I E WV



                            OF THE

FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL HISToY

                OF THE STATE OF KENTUCKY..


  A review of the financial and political history of Kentucky for
the past twenty-eight years, if honestly undertaken, with a full
determination to present the actual facts and figures accompanied
by results obtained, will not afford the most carping critic an
opportunity to show either inefficiency or incapacity in those
charged with governmental duties, and would fully demonstrate
that Democratic principles, when honestly applied in the func-
tions of government, result in producing the greatest good to
the greatest number.
  This period of twenty-eight years is selected because the Re-
publican party in its platform declares that, when the Democratic
party caine into power in Kentucky, they found the state able to
pay every debt and have millions of surplus left, and in the same
sentence they state, in substance, that this surplus has been
squandered by the Democrats and that the state is now millions
of dollars in debt.
  As the Democratic party was not responsible for the condi-
tion of the treasury as it was found to be in i867, since the gov-
ernment for the four years immediately preceding that period
could by no possibility be charged to them, we are willing to take
up the condition of affairs as they existed when the Democrats
obtained control of the state government in i867, and trace the
history of the state fairly and intelligently, as verified by its public
records, from that date to the present time.
  The Republican platform declares, in unmistakable terms,
that the Demiocratic party found millions of surplus in "he treas-
ury in i867. Is this true If false, would not such a declaration
show them unworthy of the confidence of the people of the state
  We ask y6ur patient consideration of the figures given in the
Auditor's report for i867. On page 14 of said report it appears
that while there was a balance in the treasury on October 10,

 

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1867, "not of millions of dollars," but of only 25,857.9i belong-
ing to the Revenue Fund of the state, which could, under the law
alone, be used for ordinary expenses of the government, there
was, on the other hand, a deficit of 137,03I.92 (see page 14,
Auditor's report, i867), and there was also due the Sinking
Fund from the Revenue Fund (see page 499 same report) the
sum of 38i,239.56, which had been borrowed from the Sinking
Fund to meet the ordinary expenses of the state government,
previously contracted, and also the sum of 28,465.28 due on
sundry accounts (see page 56 same report), all of which con-
stituted an actual deficit in the Revenue Fund of 546,737.76.
  There was in the treasury to the credit of the Sinking Fund,
on October i0, i867, the sum of 1,438,493.36. In addition the
Revenue Fund, or department, owed to the Sinking Fund, as
has just been stated, 381,239.56. The commissioners of the
Sinking Fund also had on deposit in the Farmers Bank i8,-
026.8i. There was due from the Revenue Fund on October I0,
[867, 8i,289.98, which could not be paid, because there were no
funds available for that purpose. The state also owned stock
in banks and railroads amounting to I,272,8I9.50, and stock in
Internal Improvements, "the present value of which is uncertain"
(see language of report), amounting in the aggregate to 4,830,-
475.oo. These constituted the entire assets of the state, except
the 25,000 in the treasury, and belonging wholly to the Sinking
Fund (see page 499, Auditor's report, i867).
  In order to understand these statements it may be necessary to
state that this Sinking Fund was created to provide means to
pay off the bonded debt of the state previously created, and
could not lawfully be used for any other purpose whatever (see
section 34, article II, Third Constitution of Kentucky).
  The total bonded debt of the state on October i0, i867, was
4,6ii,i99.46. Of available assets to meet this debt there were in
the treasury, belonging to the Sinking Fund, 1,438,493.36; in
railroad and bank stocks, I,272,8i9.50, and in bank, i8,026.8i,
making a total of 2,729,339.67. The loan to the Revenue De-
partment of 38i,239.56, and the 8i,289.93 due from the Reve-
nue Funds, and not transferred, were not available, because there
was only the sum of twenty-five thousand and odd dollars in the
treasury, in the general Revenue Fund, and these latter sums
could not be had until collected and saved from the excess of
future receipts over future disbursements of the Revenue Funds
alone.
  The stock in Internal Improvements, held by the Sinking Fund
Commissioners, was not available for the purpose, as will here-

 

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after be shown. To meet the bonded debt of 4,6i i,I9946 there
was only available, therefore, the sum of 2,729,339.67, which,
when so applied, left a debt of i,88i,859.79 to be provided for in
the future. Allowing as a credit the actual value of the stock in
Internal Improvements of 500,000.00, and the indebtedness of
the Revenue Fund to the Sinking Fund of 462,529.54, making
a total of 962,529.54 to be deducted from the remainder of
i,88i,859.79, the actual debt of the state would be 9I9,330.25.
  As, however, the state still owns these Internal Improvement
stocks, except as hereinafter noted, and as the bonded debt in-
cludes the total of 4,6iI,I99.45 the state and county school
bonds, amounting to 1,632,297.46, which are by their terms and
by constitutional provisions irredeemable, the correct compar-
ison of credits and debits, in order to determine the precise finan-
cial condition, is to exclude both these items.
  The bonded debt of the state other than the state and county
school bonds amounted on October i0, i867, to 2,987.891 98,
and the total available assets, if the bank and railroad stock
could have been sold for the amount at which they were carded
in the assets of the Sinking Fund, were only 2.729,339.6i, leav-
ing a balance unpaid of 249,552.38, to which must be added the
actual deficit in the Revenue Fund on October I0, i867, of 546,-
737.76 (see page 56, Auditor's report, i867), making a total in-
debtedness of the state at that date 796,290.i4.
  These are plain facts taken from the public records and stamp
the statement contained in the Republican platform as a flagrant
attempt to deceive the public by false and deliberate misrepre-
sentations.
  The stock in Internal Improvements consisted of 2,528,I-0
97 in turnpike roads, 90I,932.70 stock in Kentucky River,
859,i26.79 Green and Barren River Improvements, 372,520.70
Licking River, and i68,783.83 in the Owingsville and Big Sandy
Dirt Road.
  The stock in the River Improvements had no value, and the
works were carried on at a constant and increasing loss, amount-
ing in i867 to more than 75,000 (see Board of Internal Improve-
ments' report, vol. II, Pub. Docs. i867.)
  All these River Improvements have been ceded to the general
government, and the latter has expended on Kentucky river
alone one and a half million dollars, in repairing and maintaining
the system, and derives no revenue therefrom, no tolls being
taken.
  The Owingsville and Big Sandy Dirt Road is still on hand,
and probably in no better condition than when it was turned

 



over to the Democratic party, with the other fictitious millions of
surplus left by their predecessors in i867.
  The stocks held in the River Improvements, as well as the turn-
pike stocks, were not permanent investments made by the state,
but were merely cash subscriptions to the various enterprises,
under the system of Internal Improvements, adopted in or
about the year i834, to promote the development of all portions of
the state, by securing a system of improved roads and water-
wavs; and the turnpike stocks, with the exception of five roads
sold by special act of the legislature, for which the state realized
the sum of 24,7I3.83, and three other non-dividend paying
roads, donated to the counties through which they ran, by the
same authority, are still owned by the state. The remainder of
these stocks are carried in the assets of the Sinking Fund at
their actual value of 500,000 estimated upon a dividend-paying
basis, since they pro(luce an annual revenue, equal to about five
per cent on that sum; and it may not be a comforting fact to our
critics, but it is nevertheless true, that the remainder of these
stocks now yields more net revenue to the state than the whole
4,830,000 (lid in i867. It must be borne in mind that these
stocks can not be sold or otherwise disposed of without express
legislative sanction the power and duty of the Commissioners of
the Sinking Fund extending only to their control.
  that these Internal Improvements are not more valuable
than they are can hardly be attributed by men of intelligence
to the conduct of state affairs by the Democratic party.
  Modern modes of transportation, often by parallel lines, have
rendered them comparatively worthless; but they have served
their purpose in the developement of the state, and are still im-
portant to the localities for neighborhood travel. It might as
well be said that the Republican party should be held respon-
sible for the disuse and consequent failure of the White Water
Canal in Ohio, because its banks have been lined with railroad
tracks, as to hold the Democratic party in Kentucky respon-
sible for the decline in the value of its stocks in river, turnpike
and dirt roads, now that we have more than three thousand miles
of railroads traversing our state.
  During the current fiscal years from i867-8 to i894-5 inclusive,
the Democratic state officials have received and disbursed in
the way of taxes, public dues and public moneys, a total sum of
79.957,731.99. Of this sum 30,I41,667.67, or more than three-
eighths, have been devoted to education and the maintenance of
our common school system; 12,171,319.35 have been devoted
to the extension and maintenance of our charitable institutions;
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criminal prosecutions, and the remainder, 27,308,405.55 has
been applied to the payment of the other ordinary expenses of the
state government, which have averaged less than one million
dollars per year.
  During this long period of time there has been but one defalca-
tion by a state official. The aggregate of his misappropriation
of the public moneys was 247,128.50. But there has been recov-
ered and paid into the treasury on account of said defalcation
ii8,948.9i, leaving unaccounted for at the present time i28,-
I79.59, some portion of which is still the subject of litigation
and may yet be collected. But if we assume that nothing more
can or will be collected, the total loss to the state will be less
than one-sixth of one per cent of the gross sum received and
disbursed. Such a result bears favorable comparison with the
business management of any other state government, and is in
striking contrast to the fraudulent maladministration of public
affairs by Republican officials in the Southern states during
the period of Republican rule, and to the conduct of some of
the Republican pension officers, collectors of Internal Revenue
and United States marshals who have held office in Kentucky.
  The condition of the state finances to-day should be most
gratifying, not only to the taxpayer, but every citizen who desires
an honest and economically administered government.
  Only the minimum amount of taxes for governmental purposes
has been taken from the people, and these taxes have been so ex-
pended as to obtain full and absolute protection to all interests
alike, and law and order are everywhere secured.
  The material advancement of the state is shown on every hand,
and while our growth in wealth and population has not been
equal to that of some of the younger and mcre recently settled
states of the Uniop, it has far exceeded many of the older East-
ern states, and has been of the most substantial and enduring
character.
  Kentucky is to-day in the midst of peace and plenty, and it is
not in the power of the "Calamity Howler" to convince the peo-
ple of this state, surrounded by its full and overflowing harvests,
with prices for all kinds of farm produce improving and steady
and increasing demand for labor of every kind and character,
and every channel of trade open for the employment of its
capital, that the evil days resulting from Republican misrule in
national affairs are not passing away.
  Without a dollar of state debt that can not now be paid and
with a lower rate of taxation than will be found in almost any
other state in the Union the people of the state are to be con-

 


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gratulated on having so far escaped the condition of affairs that
has followed wherever the Republican party, with all its ignor-
ance, prejudice and greed, has obtained control.
  The total bonded debt of the state, exclusive of the perpetual
school bonds, which by their terms can not be redeemed, and
are but endowments of the common school fund, is but 6I4,-
000, I14,000 of which is due in i896, and 500,000 due in
1905. The available assets to meet this debt are:

     In Treasury (to credit of Sinking Fund) ......... 139,891 ii
     Four hundred shares Bank of Louisville stock . . 30,450 00
     Turnpike stock, at present value .... .  .  .   . 500,000 oo
          Making a total of... .. .. . .. . .. 670,341 II

  In addition thereto the current rate of taxation for Sinking
Fund purposes would be amply sufficient to meet the entire
bonded debt at its maturity, without using any portion of the
assets now held by the Commissio ners of Sinking Fund.
  There is no other debt or demand of any other nature or kind
against the state, except current claims for charities, salaries and
the ordinary expenses of the state government. All of these
claims will be paid as rapidly as they can be audited and adjusted.


            DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE.

  To charge the Democratic party of Kentucky with lack of en-
terprise is not only absurd and untrue, but it is a slander upon the
majority of the white population of the state. To sneer at the
progress of the state's development is to ignore plain facts and
confess ignorance of the geographical and commercial conditions
Lhat have aftected the state's advancement.
  In common with all the country, the state keenly felt the
effect of the great panic of I873, and also of the depression follow-
ing 1893; blat through the general course of years there has been
I very notable advance of values, and with the last fifteen years
the increase in assessable wealth has been enormous.
  Following are some data touching the question, which may
tend to aid in correcting the false notions so industriously
fostered and spread abroad by certain Republican politicians:

              I. EQUALIZED ASSESSABLE WEALTH.
  (This for later years is exclusive of railroad, bank and certain

 

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other corporations, the figures here given being based on
equalized returns received from county assessors.)

     Increase of i895 over i88o .......... . 222,643,007
     Increase of 1895 over i885 ........... .1 i82,379,015
     Increase of 1895 over i890 ...........  . 60,601,458
     Increase of i895 over I892 ...........  . 20,442,440
     Increase of i895 over i894 .... .... .   1... i,986,636

  (On account of the panic of T873 there was a decrease from
I870 to i88o amounting to 6i,I73,76i; and there was a decrease
from I893 to I894 amounting to 25,578,734, of which there
was a recovery of nearly 2,000,000 in i895.)

                      2. MANUFACTURES.
  Capital invested in manufactures in i88o (according to U. S.
Census report) amounted to 45,813,039. Complete figures for
I89o have not been received, but for that year the census office
has reported the capital invested in manufacturing in four cities
alone (Louisville, Lexington, Newport and Covington) at
48,075,633-being more than reported for the entire state in
i88o-and it is probable that the total amount invested has
doubled. The Commissioner of Agriculture estimated it at 65.-
ooo,ooo or 70,ooo,ooo in i89i.
  In the decade ending with i890, the capital invested in woo!
manufacturing had grown from 890,750 to 2,766,683; and the
capital invested in cotton manufacturing had grown from 360-
ooo to I,376,I32.

                       3- COAL MINING.
  Despite the fierce competition that has marked the coal
mining industry in recent vears, the production of commercial
coal has grown from i6,120 tons in i870 to 2,483,144 tons in
i890, and to nearly 3,000,000 tons in i894.
  The number of commercial mines has nearly trebled in the last
ten years, increasing from less than 50 in i88o to I38 in i894.
  The number of employes at the mines has increased from about
500 in i870 to over ii,ooo in i894, representing a population of
35,000 or 40,000.

                       4. IMMIGRATION.
  Criticism of Democratic administration on the score of inatten-
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facts. For six years the state maintained a regularly organized
Immigration Bureau, through the efforts of which thousands of
selected immigrants (reported at i0,000 in i887) were brought
into the state, and the distribution of immigration literature and
the attendant correspondence are kept up to this day. The numer-
ous flourishing colonies that have been planted in the state
directly through the efforts of the bureau are satisfactory wit-
nesses for Democratic administration on this subject. Nearly if
not quite all the work now going on in other states is being done
by railroads-some of them land-grant roads-and by private as-
sociations. Perhaps no state, with no public lands at its disposal,
has done more for immigration than has Kentucky. Mr. Bradley
says the triumph of his party will encourage immigration, because
"it will be an assurance of safety," etc., and yet most of the feuds
and assassinations to which reference is made as hindering immi-
gration have occurred in Republican strongholds.


           OUR COMMON.SCHOOL SYSTEM.

  If there is any one thing in the history of the Democratic party
cf the state, over and above all others that can successfully
.:hallenge investigation, it is the devotion shown by the party to
the common school system, and its intelligent and successful
management of the funds devoted to that purpose. It has in-
cr-ased the funds used for the maintenance of the common
schools from the pitiful sum of 233,365.77 collected in i867, to
the magnificent sum of 2,029,557.42 paid to the schools in the
year ending July I, 1895. It has increased the tax rate for school
purposes from 5 to 22 cents on the hundred dollars in the same
period and the per capita from 72 cents to 2.8o, and in addi-
tion provided for the payment of the interest due on all school
bonds it has devoted to the cause of education, out of the
other funds of the state, practically making this aid out of
the public treasury amount to over 25 cents on the hundred
dollars of taxable property in the state. No child, white or
black, these funds being used alike for each, need be deprived
of an opportunity to obtain a good education in the public
schools of the state; and this, too, when the whole amount of taxes
for all purposes derived from the negroes of the state would not
amount to over one-sixteenth of the sum paid to educate their
children out of the public funds. It has increased the length of
terms to be taught, raised the standard of efficiency in both
teachers and ini the system, and devotes more money to the cause

 



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of education fi om its public revenues than almost any other
statein the Union. It pays four times as much money for public
schools out of its state treasury as does the state of Kansas, twice
as much as Michigan, and nearly one-half as much as the great
state of New York, with three and one-third times our popula-
tion and six and one-fourth times our wealth. A favorite
practice with certain Republican politicians of Kentucky, which
is in line with their general habit of defaming the state, is
to sneer at our educational conditions, and to "point with pride"
to those states that are "blessed" with Republican rule.
  Compared with such rock-ribbed Republican states as Ohio,
Maine, Michigan, Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire,
Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the Democratic state of Ken-
tucky, according to the last United States census, leads them all
in the number of pupils, per thousand of population, enrolled in
the common schools. Omitting Ohio, Kentucky also leads them
all in the number of pupils, per thousand of population, enrolled
in all schools-public, private, university and parochial.
  The following figures, based on the census returns, speak for
themselves:

     ENROLLED IN COMMON SCHOOLS PER 1,000 OF POPULATION.
     Kentucky..       .    ......... 220
     Ohio.. ........... 27
     Maine.. ............ 211
     Michigan..       .    ......... 204
     Vermont . . .............                        197
     Pennsylvania. .............                      192
     New Hampshire..59. .        ....... .19
     Rhode Island. .............                      153
     Massachusetts.. . ............ 12

  Compared with all the states, Kentucky stands tenth in the
number of pupils, per thousand of population, enrolled in the
common schools, and eleventh in the number enrolled (per
thousand of population) in all schools, according to returns of the
last United States census.
  Certainly there is nothing discreditable to Democratic adminis-
tration of state affairs in this; particularly in view of the fact
that the per capita has been more than doubled within the last
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                    PENITENTIARIES.
  The Democratic party on coming into power in the state found
the penitentiary conducted under the old lease or keeper system,
and was not enabled for some years to effect a change in it. In
i88o, however, the warden system was adopted, and with recent
amendments to that law, by which the state feeds, clothes and
guards its prisoners, leasing only the labor to be worked within
its walls, under such reasonable regulations as the law imposes,
it has at last succeeded in making its convict system one that is
fully up to the standard of that of the most enlightened state in
the Union.
  Large expenditures were necessitated by the constantly in-
creasing number of these unfortunates, and has made an addi-
tional prison necessary, which has been constructed, but these
outlays have been fully repaid by the improved condition of the
entire prison system, which is readily apparent to all concerned.
  That these radical changes have been made under existing cir-
curmstances and without materially increasing the burdens of
taxation is cause for congratulation, and demonstrates the sin-
ceritv and earnestness with which those responsible for the con-
dition of our criminal classes have labored.


               CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS.
  In the five counties first named below, where law and order
are enforced by Democratic officials-some of them having
therein the principal cities of the state, and others taken from
the agricultural portions of the Commonwealth, with a popula-
tion made up of all classes of society-contrasted with the five
counties that follow them, where Republican officials have had
charge, a fair comparison can be instituted between the cost of
the administration of justice by Democrats and by Republicans:

                   DEMOCRATIC COUNTIES.
  In the ten years preceding July I, i895, the cost of criminal
prosecutions in the
                     County of Jefferson.
With a population (U. S. Census i89o) of i88,598,
    was .....    .    ...... .. .     . .. .    . 447,428 56
      During this period there were convicted in
this county and sent to penitentiary I,079 persons
charged with felony, at an average cost of . 414 67

 

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                      County of Kenton.
With a population of 54,i6i, the cost of criminal
    prosecutions was ..............
      Convicted and sentenced to penitentiary, I28,
at an average cost of... . . . . . .     469 35
                     County of Bourbon.
With a population of i6,976, the cost of criminal
    prosecutions was ..............
      Convicted and sentenced to penitentiary, 91,
at an average cost of......    ..  .   . 399 14
                     Count of Harrison.
With a population of i6,914, the cost of criminal
    prosecutions was . ..      .......
      Convicted and sentenced to penitentiary, 27,
at an average cost of ...... . .. . 756 29
                      County of Bu//itt.
With a population of 8,291, the cost of criminal
    prosecutions was .. ............
      Convicted and sentenced to penitentiary,'20,
at an average cost of......    ..  .   . 526 35



60,077 37





36,322 39



20,422 33



10,526 97



Total average cost in five Democratic counties. . . . 427 34
                 REPUBLICAN COUNTIES.
                   County of Whitley.



With a population of 17,590, the cost of criminal
    prosecutions was . . . . . . . . . . . . .
      Convicted and sentenced to penitentiary, 72,
at an average cost of. . ..  . . . .   . 794 12
                      County of Knox.
With a population of 13,762, the cost of criminal
    prosecutions was ...........           . . .
      Convicted and sentenced to penitentiary, 54,
at an average cost of..... .  .  .  .  i,o96 76
                     County qo Pulaski.
With a population of 25,731, the cost of criminal
    prosecutions was ..............
      Convicted and sentenced to penitentiary, 71,
at an average cost of .......... . 677 72



57,136 92



59,225 02



48,Ii8 15

 


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                      County oJ Perry.
With a population of 6,331, the cost of criminal
    prosecutions was . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34, I 29 35
      Convicted and sentenced to penitentiary, 21,
at an average cost of......   . . .   . i,625 20
                       County of Clay.
With a population of 12,447, the cost of criminal
    prosecutions was .... .   . . . . . . . .   .  56,485 96
      Convicted and sentenced to penitentiary, 59,
at an average cost of .......... . 957 38
    Total average cost in five Republican counties .  920 92

   NOTE.-For first seven and one-half years of the period named, in
Perry county the county officials were all Republicans, and the circuit
judge of the same political party, and for the last two and one-half years,
while the county officials have remained Republican, the circuit judge has
been a Democrat, and the cost of criminal prosecutions has been
decreased several thousand dollars.



                       STATEMENT

COMPILED FROM THE AUDITOR'S REPORTS AND THE UNITED
    STATES CENSUS, SHOWING THE GROSS RECEIPTS, TOTAL
    EXPENDITURES AND AMOUNT PAID FOR SCHOOLS, ORDINARY
    EXPENSES AND IDIOTS, FROM OCTOBER IO, i868, TO JULY I,
    i895, WITH PER CAPITA COMPARISONS BETWEEN REPUBLICAN
    AND DEMOCRATIC DISTRICTS.
  Period of one term from I868 to i871. There was but one
Republican judicial district in the state between the years men-
tioned, and W. H. Randall was the judge and H. F. Finley the
commonwealth's attorney. The district was composed of the
following counties:  Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Harlan, Jackson,
Knox, Laurel, Letcher, Perry, Rockcastle and Whitley.
  The records show the following:
                       TOTAL DISTRICTS.
                                                     Population.
Republican. .. . .. . . .. . .. . .. . .. . . .. . ..   71,500
Democratic.1. .                      ... .,38I,500
                                                       Gross
                                                       Receipts,
                                                       Six Years.
Republican .......................  207,424 26
Democratic .......................              . 11,946,797 60

 


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Republican.
Democratic.



Republican.
Democratic.



Republican . . . . .
Democratic.



Republican .
Democratic .



                          Total
                      Expenditures,
                        Six Years.
..... . . . .... 547,13i62
... .. . . . . . .            .8,584.4i9 65
                        Total for
                        Schools,
                        Six Years.
..... . . . .      259,363 II
.... .....    .            .3,831,453 30
                        Ordinary
                        Expenses,
                        Six Years.
.... ..             287,768 5r
.... .. . . . . . . 4,752,966 35
                        For Pauper
                          Idiots,
                        Six Years.
 ........ . . . . .  30,64I 33
..... . . . . . . ..  i 0 8 , 2 6 41 2



                     PER CAPITA COMPARISONS.
                                              Fifteenth Dist. Rest State.
                                              Republican. Democratic
Gross Receipts ................. .2 90                     8 65
Ordinary Expenses . ..  .............              4 02      3 44
Total Expenditures. ............                   7 65      6 21
Paid to Idiots.. ............                        428     0 078

  Period 0/ one term, from 1871 to i88o. There were two Repub-
lican judicial districts in the state between the years mentioned,
Geo. M. Thomas being the judge in the Fourteenth and A. E.
Cole the commonwealth's attorney; and W. M. Randall the
judge in the Fifteenth and Jas. H. Tinsley the commonwealth's
attorney. The counties composing the Fourteenth district were
the following: . Fleming, Greenup, Lewis, Mason, Nicholas and
Rowan. Those composing the Fifteenth were as follows: Bell,
Breathitt, Clay, Harlan, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, Letcher, Perry,
Rockcastle and Whitley.
  The records show the following:



Districts.                 Population.Gross Receipts Total Expenditures
           Districts.       Population. Six Years.    Six Years.
Fourteenth ........           73,800    546,931 00     506,945 33
Fifteenth........             75,000      210,707 84      728,583 9I
   Total Republican.148,800             757,638 84   I,235,529 24
                                             Ordinary      Pauper
 Districts.                    Schools.     Expenses       Idiots
                               Six Years.    Six Years.   Six Years.
Fourteenth ........           256,697 38  250,247 95   I5,434 07
Fifteenth........              326,827 38   401,756 53     69,579 07
    Total Republican.583,524 76            652,004 48   85,013 14

 


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  The totals for the rest of the state which contain Democratic
districts show the following:
Population  . .. . . . . . .. . . .