Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-09-15
Extraordinary Expenditures by
the Republican Party.
Their Expenditures in Seven Years
Three Times Greater than the Ex.
penditures of the Governments
for Seventy-tyvo Y ears before
they Came into Power.

Grafton under the present Constitution Oh
the 4th OF March, 1889. On the 4th OF
March, 1861, the Republican party came
Never before had the Republican party, or
any party possessing similar views, pos
session of the Federal Government. For
seventy-two years, therefore, the Federal
Government was administered by the
Democratic and Wing parties, and most of
the time by the Democratic party. Within
chat time two foreign Wars were fought to
a successful conclusion. The one was
the war with Great Britain, known as the
war of 1912. The other was the war with
Mexico, fought upon Mexican soil, and car
ried into the city of Mexico itself. This
war, by reason of being so far distant from
the United States, was necessarily costly.
Within this time, too, the United States
acquired what is known as the Louisiana
rerritory-a vast acquisition, out of which
great States have been carved; and Florida
and Texas and California and New Mexico
mighty empires all, terrftOrially. Then
there were Indian wars and Indian treaties,
all of which cost much money. Pensions
to soldiers i'm the Revolutionary war, and
in the war of 1912, and in the Mexican war,
were paid. Intercourse with Foreign Gov
ernments was kept mp. The Navy and the
Army were maintained. There were mis-
cellaneous expenditures. Interest on, and a
public debt had, at times, to be paid.
All this and the expenditures of the
Civil Government for seventy-two years,
it needs no prompting to suggest it to every
mind, cost excessively. But it did not cost
by one-third as much as it has cost to ad-
minister the Federal Government by the
Republican party seven years. The report
of the Secretary of the Treasury to the
the expenditures of the Government
from the beginning of the Gov
ernment on the 4th of March, 1889, to
June 80, 1866, under the several heads of
civil list, Foreign intercourse, Navy De-
partment, War Department, Pensions, In
dian department, and miscellaneous, with
interest and principal of the Public Debt,
these various heads for the year ending
June 80, 1867, as reported to the Fortieth
Congress by the Secretary of the Treas
ury, we find that the expenditures un-
der the Republican party for seven years.
were $6,379, 9,55l,2OO AZ
And for the seventy f'
two years preced-
ing, under Demo- III
cratic and Whig ad- a
ministrations, they '"i
were only %, ,s2S I2
Here, then, we have on the part of the
Republican party an expenditure in seven
years of MORE THAN THREE TIMES THE
AMOUNT that was expended during the
seventy-two years that the Democratic
and Whig parties administered the Gov
ernment.
Is this not astounding? ~ -.rt "a
Think it over in your minds.
At this rate, the Democratic party could
administer the Federal Government. chas-
tise foreign aggressions, and buy all terri
tory lying adjacent that we might need,
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN YEARS, FOR
THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT 1T WOULD
REQUIRE TO CARRY IT ON TwENTY-oNE
YEARS UNDER REPUBLICAN RULE!
Now, it is matter that addresses itself
to every rybody-Republican as well as DEM
ocrat-whether there is not demand for q
change?
What has become of the money?
We have Republican authority, that the
first year of this Republican administra-
ton there was as much stolen by officials
as it cost to carry on every department of
the Government under the last year of
President BUcHANAN's administration; that
from the hour of LINcoLN's Inauguration
until his death, the thieves ,oere all IN office
and they stole so as to amaze and astound
all honest men; that they needed not the
cries of shame; that men went into Office
as poor as church mice and came out mil
lionaires. ir
This, in part, accounts for this astound-
ing expenditure of the peoples money.
Is it not time there was change?