The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-06-30

let us look at the facts: When tn
Republicans came into power, in Is
81, the National expenditures wer,
}, $4,000, 900. Of this, Ohio had t.
: pay one-tenth, or 81, 900, 1000. Cur ex
penditures are now $3.50, 900, 900
year. Ohio's share is S45, GOO, 900, o.
more than six times that which it wa
taxed in the days of Democratic as
tendency. Our State taxes proper
are less than $4,000, 600. In other
words, the increase of our Republican
friends, to which Hayes belongs, in
taxation in the General Government,
would pay u whole legitimate State
expenses for more than nine years.
Hayes is for making a present to
the bondholders of the difference be-
tween a payment in leg~al-tenders,
which we agreed to pay, and in gold,
to which we did not agree. This diff
ference in payment is about $500, O00,-
600. 1t would pay our entire State,
county and local expenditures for for
ty years. Hayes, who would surren-
der all this, talks about the merit of
his party for economy.
He makes it a point against the
General Assembly that it authorized,
in a larger degree than any of its pre-
decessors, the people of the different
cities, villages, municipalities and
townships to create q debt, if it so
suited them, by their local authority,
for local purposes. Why should it
not do so! The General Assembly is
not the guardian of the people. We
have such a principle as local selfgov-
eminent If they desire it, the Gen
eral Assembly is not responsible for
its abuse.
Among these acts to which Cover
TO- Hayes refers in condemnation
n of the principle acts, indeed-is
that for the Southern Railroad in Gin
%cinnati. There are thousands of Re
publicans for that measure. VIII they
support a man for the chief office of
the State who makes it q political OBJ
to a person that he was friend
ly to It'll If the people of the cities
and villages can not be trusted with
their own local expenditures, for which
they have to pay, who can? Govern
OF Hayes calls attention to the time
that the Legislature was in session.
Whist does that amount to compared
to the period that Congress was in
Washington? And it was partly to
watch it that the General Assembly |
so long in consultation. In
notice of the extravaganza of the
Democracy, he includes among their
appropriations the Morgan Claim,
which arose in the days of the Repub-
lican ascendency, q time when they
made no suitable provision for the pro-
lection of the people. The claim is
Just. 1t ought to be paid, and for it
the Republicans, although they oppose
it now, are by their negligence justly
responsible.
The Governor expresses the opinion
hat the discussions of the present can
vass will turn more upon State issues
Than at any period since 1861. In
ibis he is wrong. Ohio is not for ne
gro suffrage, which is sought to be i'm
posed upon her by the General Gov
ernmcnt. She voted it down two years
lgo, and is opposed to it now. She is
to paying the bonds in gold.
Her people are against the policy pur-
sued by Grant, Of making his appoint
nents from those who made him pres
ents, and who arc related to him by
blood and to his wife by marriage
We never had a deeper interest in ma
.ionA matters than at present. Our
State affairs and State canvass are but
| tritie compared to them. Upon
heir consideration, as well as upon all
State matters, our people should give
IN overwhelming majority against the
Republican policy.