The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-24

GuygeI concluded amid enthusiastic cheer
ing.
Radical Extravaganza and Cor
ruptiOn.
In speech recently made at Princeton,
Ind. by Senator Hendricks, he said:
81 will tell you where the body of your
money is going. The greatest burthen on
your shoulders to-day is the war depart
ment ofthe United States. General Grant
is the commanding general. For time
he was secretary Of war, and now they
seek to make him the president Of the
United States, and I see upon the poles
they are raising is a representation of a
man in generals clothing with three stars
upon the shoulder mounted en- horseback
" hat does it mean? On a de mocratic
pole was a representation of the old DEM
ocratic rooster who, as soon as the fox
should show himself to prey upon the
farm, gives the note of warning. That is
cur emblem. But the emblem of the rad
icals is an appropriate one 1t is the man
ou horseback with all the regala, and the
still commanding general who receives
eighteen thousand dollars year pay.
And this the man that on horseback rep
resents the party ;nat wants to put him in
power, that under the hoofs Of the war
horse the rights and privileges of the peo-
pie may 6e ground to powder. We don't
propose 10 have it. General Grant ought
TO be resarJed; and he has got very
hasdsonc Office now, worth sl7 600 or
$4,000 year.
How much do yoa suppose the army
costs? Grants last report says the army
is ifry-six thousand strong The secreta-
ry of the treasury, iu his report says that
295 .224 SIS Is were required to support
tie army last year. Over ninoty-ive mil
lions for one year-nearly twenty millions
more than it took TO support the whole
government in the time Of Buchanan I,
Near'y two thousand dollars to man
Nearly two million dollars to a regiment
More than it took to support Napoleon's s
army to man, when he fought all Eu-
rope, and more than it took to support the
English army when they fought Napoleon.
Why is it? The soldier don't spend the
money, for he only gets sixteen dollars a
month, and his clothing costs between
forty aud fifty dollars year, and his hard
tack don't cost much more. 1t don't 90
to the solder. 1t must go somewhere.
Somebody has heen getting rich, and
somebody has been paying for it, You
have been helping to Fay this, and you
have not been getting rich. They spend
$500 eco 600 year. What has been
done with it? We have not had any very
satisfactory account Of it. The judge of
your court here, if complain, is made
against an administrator, will Issue a cita-
tion for him and bring him to account,
and ii he Is found dishonest, he will turn
him out. You say this is right. Well,
gentlemen, the great common pleas court
of this couatry is in session, and the peo-
pie of the United States, who constitute
that great court, have issued their cita-
ton to the radical leaders to come into
conrt and settle their accounts. They are
asking, "What have you done with ST.
200.OO0,CO that you collected from the
people? What have you done with the
S300, 0,00O,O geo year that you have spent
of the peoples money? Do you recolect
what 4 fuss there was raised in Mr.. Bu-
chanan's S administration, one year, because
a military force was sent to Utah to keep
the Mormons and their wives in order un-
der the laws Of the United States? And
that yea Mr. Buchanan, in supporting
governme Mt in all its possessions at home
and abroad spent SS2,000GO0 A large
sum it seemed to me then, but now they
spend in year, over and above the inter.
est on the public debt. s222, 900, 900 more
than Mr. Buchanan spert for every pur.
pose of government. What has become
OF it?"
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The Chicago Times pertinently re
marks:
Nothing annoys radical cong, ess
mn than to ask him what that body ha.
done with the 81 500, 100000 in green
backs it has collected from the people i.
taxes since the war closed. This sum i
SO immense that it would nearly take vi
| $40 bonds But it has all been snent n,