The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-10-08
Always the same,

AlW NA0 0ANAANe
Il is a common and iavorite boast
of Demoera ic ora ors aud pagers
that the pri ociples OF heir par y are
eternal" 'uuchangable," 'immu a.
BILE" "6xed," aud every thing else
that impnes permsnence. TheIe e is a
good oeal in the history of the parry
to warrant the statement. There are
some babi AID tendencies manifes;-
ed in the Democratic method of con-
Quoting public affairs which are so
uniform throughout the country that
we are compelled to attribute them
to the Inherent quail les of Demo ratio
princlpl S. Ona perverss Eablt OF
Den8c, attic officials is to so manage
local affairs that Ia the Democratic
counties of Indiana tbs local taxes
are on an average thirty four cents
on the hundred dollars higher than in
should be true of few counties would
not be singular and might be honestly
accounted for, but that an average of
all the counties in the State should
produce such a result is demonstra-
tive proof that there is some general
cause which makes Democrats more
prone to spend the peoples money
lavishly than Republican officials are.
Another significant fact ls,. that
Democratic officers are 10 the habit OF
using the public fund for their pri-
yate purposes. 1t cannot be charged
10 pure accident, that of the four last
Democratic Agents of State, two
of them carried large sums Of the pub
lIc money off In their pockets when
their terms of Office expired, and one
committed forgeries while in office
amounting to over $2,0O0,000l Are
not such things cha geable rather to
the influence Of some all pervading
Democratic principle2 And so strong
Is this tendency to steal thai the
plundering is indiserimina.e. What
could be more cold blooded and cruel
than the villiany by which Michael G.
Bright, Phineas M. Kent, Jacob Mer
kle James p. Drake, Allen May,
Ashbel p. Willard and John p. Dunn
robbed the school children of Indiana
of over one million of dollars? All
Democrats in high standing, they
used the facilities which a Democratic
administration furnished them, to ELL
their pockets by a Wholesale robbery
of tho school fund. It surely was no
accident that these rascals were all
Democrats. There must BE- some
thing in the claim Of the Democracy
that their principles are always the
same. Such unvarying uniformity in
official plunderings can only be ac-
counted for from the fact that the
disposition to steal public money is a
Democratic idiosyncracy. Occasion
ally an honest officer like Aquilla
Jones or Matthew l. Brett turns up,
but peIsistency In honesty soon de-
prives him of the friendship of the
party leaders.
Aud these tendencies are not az ell
peculisr to Indiana Democrats. The
Cincinnati Commercial on Sunday
gave q little chapter of Democratic
| financiering in Hamilton County,
Ohio, that helps to show that4he thiey-
ing propensity is not "hemmed in by
State lines" In March, 1862, there
was $47 $50 10 gold con, and 81 ,40C
of silver coin, and large amount a
demand notes, In the County Treas
ury of Hamilton County, Ohio. The
I Democratic Treasurer term of Office
IHo "a SEM nz1 h-z-. = ItsS- ssSSSsos "a Ia
silver coin and demand notes had
been disposed of with the exception
of $767 Of coin. and the premium on
gold had advanced to 16 20 e241. BY
converting the coin and demand notes
Into greenbacks, as was. done by the
Democratic Treasurer, he pocketed
the snug sum of $21 900, which be
i longed to the County Treasury. The
New Z ork Democracy are governed by
the same eternal principle of theft
10 New York city 100000 people
are provided with a government " hict
is disgrace to civilization at the rats
Of $23. 100000 per annum. Owe
half of this amount is stolen by Dem
ocratic officers. The same disposi
ton was manifested at the Demo
cratic State Convention in Rocheste
the other day. The Tammany chief
furnished passes on the Erie Road t
thousand prominent Democrats o
New FORK City. The rascals ''raided'
all the orchards and small villages -ol
the way up, and when at Roches.e
picked the pockets of the more re
spectacle delegates, including Nj
Tilden, President of the Convention
We are bound 20 admit upon due con
sideration, that stealing is one Of th
J eterpal principles of Democracy
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