Springfield Daily Republic

We have rescued the state from bankruptcy and maintained and advanced her credit to the highest point it has ever reached. We have largely reduced the public bonded debt; we have cut down the interest charge so as to make, each year, a saving on that account alone of $87,200; we have stopped the decline of the aggregate of the personal property of the state on the duplicates for taxation; we have largely increased the aggregate, and thus, by bringing new values on the duplicate, have reduced the burdens that previously rested on the lands and other visible property of the state. We have greatly checked the growth of local indebtedness, and have, by taxing the liquor traffic, relieved the annual burden of local taxation to the extent of $2,000,000. We have secured honest elections in all the cities, and we have once more given Cincinnati a creditable government and a good name.—Governor Foraker's opening speech at Caldwell.