The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-07-23
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ArroHEEY-G EY-GEEERA1.-FRANCIs B. POND.
Bo4Rn PuBLIo WoRk-RICHARD A. PoRTEK.
= = Democratic Economy.
1.-The old song Of the Democracy has
been, time out Of mind. rstFenchment,
eccuomy and reform. No matter how
wen their entsIadministersd tie
affairs of State, how economically they
msnaged its fnsnces how little of debt
shey incurred or how much Of debt
they removed, the resultyWas all the
same, TO Democracy; and as soon as a
campaign opened they took up the old
Esfrsn where they left off the year pre-
Eiouu, and repeated the old story.
soTwO years ago, partly upon the
pledge Of economy, and partly because
some of the Republican friends we're
aavsged by a prejudice, unworthy of
them and the advanced liberal ideas
they supported in theory, but hesitsted
toTeduoe TO practice, the Democracy
ebtained control Of the Legislative
branch Of the State government Here
was the opportunity they sOught-here
the chance for a demonstration Of the
righteousness of their professions and
the honesty of thsir motives; and
through the two years that followed
they made their record upon which
their party was again to enter the arena
and contend for control
Their State Convention has met; it
has incitbated and put forth its platform,
but search it ever so closely you fail to
perceive any endorsement of the re-
eor6sits Legislators had made for it,
only a pitable excuse or apology for the
enormous expenses they had incurred,
and the extravaganza they had indulg-
ed You do not even find the thread
bare profession Of being in favor of re-
trenehment and economy, made use of
in thai verbose. document that would
have been too unblushing even for Dem
ocrstic efrontery. The record of its
Legislature was Of more recent date,
and they could not gulp it down as they
did Rosecrans' letter, which was only
six years old.
That model Legislature, which was
to put Repubhcanism to blush, only
held three sessions during its existence
-one more than any other Legislature
ever held, and were so conscientious
that they charged the State mileage for
each session. Nor did their consider
stion for the States welfare stop there.
They were SO conscientious that they
even gOted mileage to the clerks, ser
geants-st-arms, and messenger boys, an
unheard-of-before proceeding, all Of
which was economy and retrenchment
Their first session in a time ofIprofound
peace, was ls4 days, while the longest
session ever held by a Republican Leg
islature was 1871; and that session was
prolonged thirty days after it had con-
cluded to adjourn, by the intensely
Democratic economists of the South, in
1861, who stole the nations guns, ap-
pristed its forts, confscsted its ships,
and indulged in a war, the suppression
of which entailed a burdensome debt
upon the nation. For. that session of
1s4 days, the Democratic economists
in the Legislature allowed their chief
clerk, pay for fUe hundred and eighty
days ($2,eOO) at S. per day. Their
clerk in the Senate was allowed about
the same. Though no exigency Of the
StaIe required it, this Legislative body
Of Democrats, held sn extra session Of
three days last fall, for no reason but to
benefit If possible, their party, and OBJ
hged the State to pay the expenses Of
their trip to Columbus. The Republi-
cans even in time of war, did not in
dulge in an extra session. The session
of 1859, lasted 12s days while the
longest session held by the Republicans
during the dark days of the wal, was
but 1IS days. At the close of the last
session, the Democratic economists al
lowed the clerk Of the House to add on,
hraldrsd and nintyJfVs days more, and
if his bill is made out in proportion t.
that Of the previous session he will re
ceiVe pay for seven hundred day
(sS5OOI in single session. Economy
Re!renchment.
The last Republican Legislature, il
1867, cost the State $ll9,655 81
The Democratic Legislature of ls68-'
cOe the people $s2l,Os9 s7-nOr
than t.so-a,sd-a-kaLf times as much as tn
prvys03s Legislature. The Democrati
ecomoists cost the people just $2Ol,
443 so in excess of what the Repubh
cans received for the same service. !
it any wonder the Democratic Stat
Convention failed to insert a plank i
the platform fsyoring economy and rC
trenchmentl If it costs the people s
much to try the experiment Of trustin
one branch of the State Government
the Democracy, what would it cost
trust the entire machinery of govern
ment to their hands for q single term
THE Democratic Platform threaten
reputation. The Cincinnati Enq'irl
openly prOclaims it as a Democrat
doctrine, and declares there is nOthin
dishonorabIe in it. The Plaindeal'
thinks that it may become a deplorab
necessity. The fact is there is no di
ference among them, although the d
gree of positiveness with which Il
,,-o,,ov;t;on "a ur0ad IL Fec1ilated