The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 5, 1916, Page 19

' ‘ooooouonoooooqooootttt“ fe Demm : xtravagance Ex,. ! the rate the present Démocratic admlnrstratlon is travel- . ing the authorizations and appropriations of the 64thcongress Wlll reach the stupendous total of $4,226,368,968; or in other Words, the total of appropriations and authorlzatlons for the 64th congress will equal or exceed the total cost of the-civil War, Wthh amounted in round numbers to $4,000,000,000. o A Democrat on Democratlc Extravagance 0 And what do Democrats think of their own record of extravagance" Glance at the remarks of Representative Sisson q of Mississippi. (Democrat), delivered in the House April 3, 1914, at a time when the first Congress of the Wilson ‘adminis- tration: was rolling up -appropriations aggregating only; $1 116,118,138 ‘in one session. What Mr. Sisson thinks of the $1,626,439,209 appropriated at the recent session does not appear in-The Congressional Record. But this is what he sald “in 1914 (Congressmnal Record; Apnl 3, Page 6209) : “We are writing ourselves down in the hlstory of the country as being the most outrageously and the most criminally extrgvagant Congress that ever sat on the American continent. Republicans are always extravagant. They are not to be blamed for extravagance; they do not know any better, but Democrats know. better.. They have had better training. (Applause.) I said this in a speech before, in the last session; i and when I made that speech members of the Democratic House came to me and asked me not to put it in the A P T \ Record, because it. would be used by the Republicans in their campaign book. Let them use it. You may use X I s { 3 the statement now, gentlemen, because when Democrats get to be-so violently extravagant that it makes our e : i record look bad as compared with the very wicked record of the Republicans, I must apologize to you _Repub- B licans for having ever uséd the words ‘criminally extravagant’ in criticizing the appropriations that you made, for if that expression ‘criminally extravagant’ was proper to apply to you—my God’ the Enghsh language has _ never found an ad_]ectlve strong enough to: apply to Democratic extravagance.” The‘ North and West States Pay the Taxes, and the South o States Get the Money Under Woodrow Wilson The largest sum ever expended in one year under a Repubhcan admmlstratlon s s g was $1 295 099 289—that was in 1865 the last year of the civil war - Rehéf From Heavy ’l‘axes and Extravagance Can Be Assured by the Electlon of All f&. 4 I — State Tlcket Governor—LYNN J. FRAZIER Lieutenant Governor—A. T. KRAABEL i . Secretary of State—THOMAS HALL ' s 2 State Auditor—CARL R. KOSITZKY. : ? ; ' State Treasurer—JOHN STEEN : : Attorney General—WILLIAM LANGER . Commissioner of Insurance—S. A. OLSNESS: : Cofilxgimer of Agncnlturo—JOl!N Nede s Commissioners of Raflmads——-M. P. JOHN-' 1 SON.‘ E .T AANDAEL CHARLES : ]