Boone County Recorder . year the government, in obe-dience to the legislation of the repub-lican party, will have exhausted all itsavailable funds and will begin the newyear with the certainty that its ex-penditures will exeeed its receipts. Inthese early days since adjournment itis possible, from the amounts knownto have been appropriated to figure outa deficiency of 970,000,000, and whenthe accounts have been finally statedthe excess of expenditures over receiptswill undoubtedly be found to be morethan $100,000,000. The result of it all is that In twoyears of absolute power the republicanpar


Boone County Recorder . year the government, in obe-dience to the legislation of the repub-lican party, will have exhausted all itsavailable funds and will begin the newyear with the certainty that its ex-penditures will exeeed its receipts. Inthese early days since adjournment itis possible, from the amounts knownto have been appropriated to figure outa deficiency of 970,000,000, and whenthe accounts have been finally statedthe excess of expenditures over receiptswill undoubtedly be found to be morethan $100,000,000. The result of it all is that In twoyears of absolute power the republicanparty has brought the government faceto face with the necessity of creating anew bonded debt or of pinching itselfto the point of starvation to meet itsobligations, while at the same time ex-travagances have been made part ofthe current annual budget, so that theemergency must be felt for years tocome—N. Y. World Stan a ahow of the northeast there hi one such democrat ha •and In th* west a datatalked abandonnMaA of th*. foe any speedily talk hhaasU out at the ] Western democrats are publican methods « currency aad they correct them, but fat th* abuse of the taxing, power they i nize the greatest evil of federal gov- ernment aa tt now meat againat all except a limited < in a few favored Tt*,*jn In the erm*ri*g eongre**, at fat th*democratic platforaa, the ***** of re-forming the abuse of th* tawfll be kept at the front fatof all other issues whatever. Thespeaker chosen wnl reartsBint thatissue. No one who ha* been doubtfulon it in the past will bechief representative of the iparty in the house. A ?ifettkii fat thatrespect would be aa uii**Jt<*wi blan-der, and it w ill not be made. The nasxtspeaker and the next chairman of theways and means committee of thehouse will be men fully reareaetrtingthe democratic Issue against the Mc-Kinley bill a* it represents am abuse ofthe taxing power to prevent compe-tition and restrict trade. The democratic party will abandonnone of its


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