The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-25
Partisan Expenditures.


our powder on distant game when IL ls very
large. A Mr. Eden, who is running against
General Palmer for Governor OF illinois, some
what rs bull would run against locomo-
tive, has discovered that the revenues OF the
Government for three years have been
$500 100000 q year, and he calls on the Re-
publican party to explain what they have
done with the 81, 800 000,0 of the peoples
money. The question displays the same
charming modesty which Judas Iscariot might
have shown had he demanded of the eleven in
what manner Of dissipation and deviltry they
had been squandering the apostolic treasury,
when Judas himself carried the bag. But the
minority apostle did not venture to put
question which would have placed him
eternally on par with the modern Demo-
cracy. However, as Mr.. Eden probably
does not know what the money was paid
for, and as the Chicago Times asserts
that 1t was "squandered for partisan Objects"
it is well to see what objects the Democratic
party regard as being of interest only to the
Republicans. During the three years begin
ming July /, 1865 there were paid out of these
revenues for interest on the public debt an
average of $40, 900, 900 year, or for the three
years exactly $4lS, asa, SS5. Therefrom we
infer that to pay the interest on the public
debt is Republican partisan object, in which
Democrats have no lot nor sympathy. They
loaned no money to feed olothe, and pay our
soldiers they own no bonds, and would pay
no interest.
In the first six months after the close of the
war, there were paid $233, 49l, IT'S as back pay
and transportation to send our soldiers to their
homes. This, too, according to Governor Eden
and the Democratic journals, was Republican
''squandering of money on partisan Objects"
In order to make it Democratic or non-parti-
san, our soldiers should have been sent home
beggars and penniless, or the amount paid
should have been equally divided between the
armies of Grant and those of Lee. Still more
Democratic wsuld it have been to lump the
Union and Rebel debts into one, and then re,
pudats the whole.
Out of the same sum $49, 3S2, $50 were paid
in bounties to Union soldiers only. Clearly
Republican "squandering of money on parti-
san Objects" as no bounties were paid to
Rebels.
Eleven million dollars more were paid to
Union men for property lost and destroyed
during the war. AS none of this was inten-
tionally paid to Rebels for property destroyed
by the Union armies, this also was "money
squandered on partisan Objects"
Should the Democrats come into power they
would rectify this injustice by paying Rebels
for the devastations committed by the Union
armies on the property of Rebels. This is
what the Albany argus means by saying that
the "unascertainsd" debt of the United States
amounts to about two and half times the
ascertained debt, or $4,000, 100000. The
balance of the debt will never be "ascertained"
until the Democrats come into power.
Ten million three hundred and thirty thou
sand dollars We're reimbursed to Northern
States for sums advanced by them to aid in
suppressing the Rebellion. This is clearly
partisan and Republican, as not dollar was
reimbursed to the Rebel States, nor to the
New York rioters, nor the Sons of Liberty,
nor the st. Albans raiders, nor the Confederate
bondholders, nor the English pirates and
blockade-runners, for the losses incurred by
them in sustaining the Democratic Rebellion.
Sixty million dollars were paid to the navy,
the brave sailors of Farragut, Porter, and
Foote, for back pay and contracts made during
the war. AS nothing was paid to Semmes,
Lynch, and the Rebel pirates, this is evidently
''mOney squandered on partisan objects.''
So are the $lS5, 426, 127 paid in army ex-
penses, including those of our Indian war; and
the S50, ,00O 900 paid in pensions, and $73, ,000,-
600 paid in the expenses of the navy, and the
$247, ,OO0, 600 paid toward reducing the princi-
pal of the debt.
1t is rather more difficult to explain how the
$l47, 373, 969 paid during the three years as the
ordinary expenses of the Government or civil
list, almost wholly to Johnsons forty-one
thousand Democratic ofice-holders, who are
now contributing to pay the expenses of buy
ing votes tor Seymour and Blair, can be re-
garded as "mOney squandered for partisan
Objects though doubtless some of it may
Inadvertently find its way into political
channels. . =.
Then the expenses of reconstruction,
$2,344, 700, were 80 equally divided between
the Democratic "policy governments set up
by President Johnson, and the final State
Governments authorized by Congress, as to
render the pickings moderate, when it is con-
sidered that the officers of both Governments
have stood nearly as much chance of being
murdered by the Rebels and Ku-Klux as of
being paid. ..... ... ....
Finally, $944, $50 has been expended in re-
moving the exposed bodies and bleaching
bones of both the Union and Rebel soldiers,
without distinction of the cause in which they
fell, and burying them decently in the national
cemeteries.
Having answered their inquiry, will the
wiseacres Of the Democratic party inform us
what are the other and Democratic objects on
which they would have expended the same
money?
The Mismanagement of the Campaign by
the Democratic Leaders and Organs.
From the NJ Y. Herald
Beginning with the Tammany Hall Conven-
tiOn, the Presidential campaign on the part of
the managers, leaders, and organs of the De-
mocracy has been a budget of blunders. The
Convention was offered a fair field for glori.
ous victory over the radicals in the nomina-
tion of Chief Justice Chase; but, by ''coup de
thtmbLerig," as disgusted Western Democrat
has expressed it, the Chase movement was
extinguished, Pendleton was slipped away
and Seymour turned up 'the little ioker,h
With the ink hardly dried of his printed
speech against Pendleton, he accepted the
Pendleton platform, with Wade Hampton's
revolutionary reconstruction amendment, and
thus, in overlapping himself, the blundering
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