The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1870-10-14
Tho Radical Party Indicted.

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A FULL and substantial bill of in
dictment has been made out by the peo-
pie against the Grant or Long Branch
administration OF the general govern
ment. The counts are particular and
circumstantial, and each item backed
and supported by well knitted facts and
figures. These facts and figures are set
forth in document recently issued by
the Democratic National Executive
Committee. BY the paper it is shown
that $il1 ,255, ,479.63 were spent in the
first fiscal year of Grants administra-
ton, which is t5l, ,3ii, ,20l II more than
the whole expenditure of Bnchanan's
administration and the last year of
Pierce's administration added together.
Reference is made to items in Radical
campaign documents, one of which
states that the amount Of reduction of
the debt during this period Of nearly 16
months, which has elapsed since the
outgoing OF the johnson rule and the
incoming of that of President Grant
has been $l39, ,O69, 0S9.17 The answer
to this is crushing and conclusive. The
Radicals extracted from the hard earn.
idgs of the people during the last fiscal
year, a revenue of $411 ,255, ,477.63. They
could well pay off portion Of the
debt. But the question is what becomes
of the balance Of the money!. Was it
stolen by dafaulters, or pocketed by a
host of hungry ofiice-holders. The Rad
icals claim to have reduced the Internal
Revenue taxes fifty.five millions two
hundred and twelve thousand dollars,
after having just told us that they had
collected sixty-six millions more than
they had for like period under John
son. What are the facts ? The reduc-
ton Of internal revenue relieves twelve
Southern States in a round sum of four
millions sixty-six thousand and seven
Western States in the sum of four mil
lions two hundred tho usand, W hile the
single State Of Massachusetts is relieved
in round numbers in the sum of four
millions seven hundred and thirty
thousand. The entire government is
controlled almost exclusively by Mas
sachusetts, she having, until recently,
two members of the Cabinet, aud still
having the Secretary of the Treasury,
welding more patronage than all other
Departments combined, the Assistant
Secretary and Solicitor Of the Treasury
and the Chairmen of six Committees of
Congress. In the late war with the
South she furnished seventy-eight regi.
ments, and has been paid $3,4S7, 1868,
while New York, which furnished two
hundred and seventy.flve regiments has
been paid $2,30O,193 Other facts Of
like startling and pertinent character
are set sorth in this document, and each
count Of the indictment sustained by
the most irreversible proofs.
Senator Thurman recently delivered
speech in Ohio, in which he clearly
exposed the fallacy and falsity Of the
claims set up by the Radicals with ref
erence to reduction of the public debt.
He declared no credit was due to the
Radicals on this head, and that their
pretensions were false and hypocritical.
They did not mean to pay Off the debt,
nor to give up the national banks, which
depended wholly upon the debt. There
were not less than seventy stockholders
in national banks in the House OF Rep
resentatives. Senator Thurman had ad
mitted that so great was the power Of
the banks in the House that it had been
necessary to abandon all provisions in
regard to them in order to secure the
Funding bill. Senator Sherman charged
that instead Of wishing to rid the coun-
try of the debt, the Radicals mean to
retain it as foundation for banks and
as source of profit for stock jobbers,
to put m oney INTO the pockets of capi
talists by an annual drain of interest
from the people, and to increase the po-
litical power of those who regard ma.
tional debt as national blessing. All
these facts will find lodgment in the
public mind, and induce the people of
the nation, the "hewers of wood and
drawers Of water" to return verdict
OF guilty against the Radical party at
the polls.-Age.