Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-09-13
PARTY pRoFLIeAOY.

adv. with which it may for a limited pc
Rod exc out a miserable existence, but
which, if not checked, and that right
speedily, must prove inevitably fatal
To-day the party is a reeking mass OF
corruption, and here and there even
modification hAs already set in. 1t is
actually dying by inches. Ere long Its
putrid and bloated carcass will be but
a phantom" very ghost Of its former
self" Disease has shattered its system,
and il perchance it has given evidences
of decay sooner than patriots and hon
est men had expected, it only goes to
prove even n more corrupt condition in'
ternally than was known or supposed
In California, Montana, Connecticut,
and perhaps Maine, we find the affected
members, so TO speak, where the malady
has centered and where its results have
been disastrous in the extreme, termi'
mating, as it were, in q species OF rotting
off or amputation by process OF nature
= The overthrow of Radicalism in Cali
fornia, Montana and Connecticut, and
the heavy party losses in the strong
holds of Maine and Vermont involve the
popularity and acceptability OF Radl'
cal rule with the great masses OF labor
ers and taxpayers. The campaigns con-
Quoted in these States, and those being
conducted in New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio have served to bring out the
political autecedents of both contending
parties, and have, so far as Radicalism
is concerned, exposed unparalleled
fraud, proAigacy and extravagance.
This is the disease which rendered Rad
icalsm leprous, and caused to flee from
its contamination affrighted thousands
in every State The taxpayer, led to
see in Radic9lsm perpetuation if not
an increase of his burthens, has left the
party, and the laboring man having
traced to the same source the deprecia-
ton of his toll and an enhanced valua'
ton of all he was required TO purchase,
has followed. Upon the charge of prof
legacy, recklessness by spending the
peoples money, and mercilessly OPP
pressing them with taxation, Radicalism
has stood trial, aud the verdict of Cali
fornia, Montana, Connecticut, has been
guilty" What the evidence has been,
upon which this conviction was based,
may bo worth the investigation. Sup.
pose the allegations to be fraud, profit
gacy and extravaganza, let US see
how far they are rested upon
facts ? In the New York Constitutional
Convention, last week, Mr.. Brooks, in
speaking on the subject of increased ex-
penditures, alluded, incidentally, to the
fact that the annual expenses of their
State government had grown from
$75O,OOO in the year 1856 to $3,5OO,OOO
in 1866" New York is Radical State.
The following from the Philadelphia Age
is sufficient in itself to tell the story for
Pennsylvania:
In l847, when Francis R. Skunk was
Governor of Pennsylvania, the expenses
of our State Legislature were $42,3 1916 l9.
In 1867, when John W. Geary is Cover
nor, the Legislative expenses are $780,
SCI l6. The peculiar blessings of Radi-
cal rule, therefore, cost the people OF
Pennsylvania exactly S223,48l 10.
In California, even the Radical press
makes the frank acknowledgment that
their party had become VIGOROUSLY
corrupt that corrupt combinations
of Adventures and spectators governed
the State, regardless of the public well
fare" Other States, in fact every other
State under Radical rule and manage
meut might be enumerated in the same
category, but the above iS4uite sufficient
to show that the corruption, fraud and
extravaganza of the party is felt through.
out the nation, from the Atlantic even to
the Pacific seaboard. States, counties
and cities everywhere are in woful finan-
cial straits under Radical administration.
The aggregate national and State debt
of New York alone is estimated at $780, |
100000 According to Mr.. Miller, a
member of the State Convention, the
city of New York alone owes $50,000,- |
900, the town, county and city debt is
500, 900, 900 more, or Sl4O,OOO,OOO in all,
which, rating the portion of the national
debt due from New York at one-ffth Of
the whole, is its established share,
and the people of that State are liable
for an aggregate debt of S64O, 900, 900. |
How the matter would have stood
had the Democracy of the North
been in the ascendancy for the past five
or six years, during which time debt has
accumulated with such rapidly, can only
be inferred. Kentucky, the most
thoroughly Democratic State in the
Union, and deemed so disloyal as to for.
felt all right to representation in Con-
gress, exhibits financial condition to
which no Radical State can present any
parallel. In his farewell message, de-
livered last week, Gov Brsmlette, of
Kentucky, abiding to State finances,
said:
When | came into Office the debt Of
the State created before the war was
s5.sl5. 234 O3. We borrowed and ex-
nanAed dnrinp the war. in supporting |