Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-08-20
GREAT REPUBLICAN mEETING
AT WILMINGTON.
speech of Governor Hayes.

The campaign was vigorously and
grandIy opened on the Republican side
at WILMINGTON, on Thursday, the 18th
inst. From every section of the sur
rounding country the people came in
crowds by every available species Of
conveyance. Governor Hayes and
Senator o. P. Morton, of Indiana, ad-
dressed the great concourse, number
ing, it is said, not less than ten thou
sand.
Governor Hayes remarks were as
follows:
Mr.. President, and Ladies and FellotQ-
CjtizenSs
I have to congratulate the people
here assembled. that for the first time
in eight years, we are a bic now to give
our attention more largely than at any
time before in that period to our State
affairs to our home affairs During
all of that eventful period, the great
questions in respect to liberty, and to
Union, and to the reconstruction of
the Union, have been such that the
smaller matters as to our own towns,
and counties, and State were postponed
until the Union and liberty were made
safe.
But to-day we feel that at last the
great cause is substantially won; that
this year, when there are no Congress
men to be elected. neither Senator
nor a member of the House of Repre-
sentatives, we may give our attention
almost exclusively to our State affairs.
1t is, therefore, my purpose during the
canvass upon which 1 am entering to
endeavor to direct the public attention
to matters that have been, perhaps,
neglected during the last eight years
to State affairs. And I regard it as ex-
ceedingIy fortunate that in entering
upon this discussion am able to come
before the people under circumstances
that enable me to compare the Two
great parties, and their action upon the
important questions which are still
living issues.
The most important questions which
were discussed prior to the last n atlsn-
al and State elections which still re-
main unsettled, are those which relate
to expenditure, to debt and to taxation.
It is nv purpose on this occasion to
present facts and figures showing hrst,
the manner in which General Grant is
dealing with these questions IN the ad-
ministration of \ ational affairs, and
secondly, the action of the Democratic
majority in the last General Assembly
upon the same question in the manage
ment of State affairs.
THE NATIONAL FINANCES.
What was the condition of the Ma
tional finances in November last, when
General Grant was elected
The leading popular debater of the
Democratic party of Ohio, in speech
at Dayton last year, gave the pith of
the whole difficulty about the national
finances, when he said that the idea of
the Democratic party could be best ex-
pressed by paraphrase of a celebrated
resolution against the royal preroga-
tive offered in the British Parliament
q hundred years ago. The public
debt" said he, 'thas increased, is in
creaSing, and ought to be diminished. !"
This is the gist of the whole matter.
The moment the people of the country
can rest in the belief that the national
debt is permanently diminishing, that
moment all schemes for the repudia-
tion of the debt, either in whole or in
part, will speedily come to an end.
Judge Thurman, in his campaign
speech at Sanduslxy, on the 7th of last
September, said, 'tOn the 3lst of July
last the debt was over twenty-three
millions more than on the 1st of the
preceding May, the money in the Treas
ury being deducted at each date. Think
of that, - said he, ian increase of TWEEN
ty-three millions in three months, and
the increase still going on"
President Johnson 8 Secretary of the
Treasury, Mr.. McCulloch, in his last
report, says the debt increased between
November, 1867, and November, 1868,
S35, ,625, ,102 80.
Alexander Delmar, the Democratic
statistician, in document which was
published and circulated by the DEM
Ocratic National Committee, predicted
that the expenses of the then current
fiscal year, ending June 30, 1869, would
exceed S475, 600, 600, that the receipts
would fall below 1922, 900, 600, and that
the deficiency for the year would be
more than SI54, ,0O0, 900.
These were the predictions, and these
the facts on which was based the DEM
ocratic claim to be placed in power.
Now what reply did Republicans
make Some general facts were un-
disputed. High taxes, a diminishing
revenue and a growing debt. But we
claim that the fault was not in the
laws, or in Congress, but in the Exec
utive department as administered by
Andrew johnson. We maintained that
under faithful, honest and economi-
cal execution of the laws, which might
| confidently be expected under General
Grant, very different results would fol
| low.
! Now bearing in mind that the pres
ent administration has been in power
only about five months, too short a
time for its efforts toward economy and
retrenchment to have their full effect
let us see what has been accomplished
! The official statements of the public
| debt are as follows
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