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CAPE MAY HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 ,1904.

In the Original Draft of Their • State Platform They Showed

That Thej Reared It

If Parker does aaj talking it will be wltto the coneent of H11L who hold*

.the key.

•rty*' were ■track out. In conformity with the earlier correction, leering tb* ■tete. under the Democratic plan, ah aolutely not a penny of revenue from the railroad* except from the tax on

francblaca.

The atate now receive* in round numbers $1,000,000 a year from the railroad*, but pay* every cent of It back to the municipalities. The Democrats urge that under their plan the municipalities, by taxing railroad property at local rate*, would more than make up the amounts they now re ceive from the atate. but they most conspicuously forget to add that rail rand valuations would first hare to be reduced to a fair equality with those on the property of Individual owners. The average aaecmed valuation per acre of all the real estate In New Jersey. Including betterments and Improvements, Is fl«7; >hat of railroad real estate. Wfrm. Outside of Jeraey Clty there is not a municipality in the state tliat would not lose money under

Voto tb. Dement tie pl.n of -ettmli ■>* Defoenttic pl.b If ntlltetd prop. . „ .. ,, . . , erty were assewied at equal valuations taxation the state would not receive w , th oUht property, x^o ainitratlens a cent of revenue from railroads and j wU1 ^. rve to show how the pUn would canals beyond the franchise Ur. Any | operate throughout the state: In AtImpreaalon to the contrary Is an erro-1 lantlc county the assessed valuation neous one. due no doubt to the fact! per acre of all real estate, including that the original draft of the Demo^ | betterments and improvements, is *J7. era tie state platform was printed In a ^ twilroad real estate were taxed

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BUT TDEY REVISED PLATFORM.

Were Afraid to Let the People See tfcr

SUie Tax Specter Hoverinj Over “Eqaal Taxatioe.”

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THE ABOBIGIHAL TIKES To THE PBESEHT DAT Embaacino An Becount of the Aborigine; The Dutch In Delaware Bay; The Settle ment of the County; The Whaling; The Growth of the Village* The Revolution and Patriots; The Establishment of the New Governir.cnt; The War of i8ia; " The Progress of the County; and The Soldiers of the Civil War -BY LEWIS TOWNSEND STEVENS.

480 PAGES. 48 ILLUSTRATIONS. 31 CHAPTERS. 5 APPEDICE6

number of papers before Its authors discovered Its absurdity and hastened to send out a revised and reconstructed

substitute.

From the moment the Democrats clutched at “equal taxation" for an issue, as a drowning man clntches at e straw, the lender* began to figure out a platform to suit their purposes. They worked on It for months, for they found It a difficult problem to handle. They revised It and^emodeled It again and again before tliey finally succeeded In evolving a document that they thought would hoodwink the people into again Intrusting them with the •tnte govenimdht; hence when their •tnte convention met In Trenton this platform, thin child ot genius, this off•prlng jf "**part" taxntten and political expectance, was proudly handed to the reporters premint who Immediately sent Jt to their several newnpaDuring the recess of the convention, however, K was dlncovered that the child had a very serious deformity. Dr. Allan McDermott had looked It -over carefully and discovered that one of Its feet was turned backward, so that If the child attempted to walk It would try to go In opposite direction* at the seme time and so would make no progress at all. In other words, the original draft demanded "equal taxation of all real estate." etc. “In each municipality* at the local rate and then proceeded, asfolloira: “The personal pruperts'jJf'cnllrond and canal companies la of a character that justifies the imposition on It of only atate taxes.” McDermott aaw that this was In violation of the constitutional provision that “property ahsll be assessed for taxation under general laws and by uniform rule*;" that It was an impos aible proposition to have tba munld pshties taxing the real estate of railroads and the state their personal property at the earn# time. Therefore the platform was made to read. “We demand equal taxation on all tjT (Instead of real eetpte). etc, and tba endrs aantepes, ~tb* psemmal eity of rabsead ar- '

to of a

poafttoe _ was eliminated. Hadithe origins! Ian stood, the atate. an'ocratlc plan, woald have receive the revenue ft now the taxation of $KjKX*fi&b of

r — »»»• anrua u> vans the Democrat* maks certain spoclJk pledges to regard to what they would do on “equal taxation" If elected. Is the original draft pledge Ho. 2 read. “That the personal property and fran

cblaes of railroad and canal

shall be subject to a state tax of one half of 1 qer cent for state uaea." “

on that valnation theamonnt the county would receive at the average local rate of $2.02 per $100 would be $L704.64. The county now receives as a refund on the state school tax $51,461. Hence Its loss under the Democratic plan would be $48,688.46. In Essex county, at the other extmmlty of the state, the loss, computed on the same

principle, would be $174,484.

That the Democrats foresaw this Inevitable result should they be given a chance by the people to “make good' becomes evident by a further comparison of their corrected platform with the original draft. The specter ef a state tax was before them, and they could not drive It away. Hence among ths promises they made to the people to the unexpurgmted document appear

od tha following:

“Fourth.—That If in any year ths Other revenues of the state shall b*

sity ef a general stats tax ths governor shall by proclamation announce that faot, giving in detail a statement of all revenue necessary for that year, whereupon ths legislature shall direct the.retention for state uses of such common percentage of the funds col looted for each municipality a* will prevent the imposition of a general stats tdx." But when the schemer* read that over during recess they vtere oelxed by another fear. It was that If they directed the attention of the people to the state tax specter the people would flee from them In dread and have nothing to do with them. So the “saving” provision was also eliminated. They know their proposal to divert so

ily result In the necessity for a direct state tax should tb* stats rovsnus from

Judge Parker counseled his party that nothing should bo said “that nflocte on the personal honor and Integrity of the president." It was a wash man's act, himself to do tba vary thing ho urgod his friends not to de-an act which, onhapnQy, the.country M 00mfeg to regard as characteristic of the Democratic pruqfdentlal candidate. His chargo that Reooevait has sold oat to tbs tnate and that Ua cabinet Mateten an mot agonte te (BomTsoia as shoot tb* sort of thing that might bars been expected from Parker. It Is a

tog in tbs swirl of defeat.

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