The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-09-29


roads can only make the homestead act
OF any benefit Now the person who
desires homestead can reach the vacant
lands, by means ofthese railroads, which
never could have been built without
some kind of government aid. These
railroad companies will be compelled to
sell these lands for whatever price they
will bring. When just as good lands
can be had by a person merely settling
upon them, there is little danger Of the
price being too high. And you forgot,
Mr.. Leete, to speak of an act passed at
the late session of the Republican Con-
gress, giving the soldiers preference
IN locating homesteads along these
railroads.
Some things You say about the collec-
ton of the revenue are correct yet, af-
ter four years experience as Assistant
Assessor, | am of the opinion that the
plan you suggest, is not so good as the
present plan. All Republicans are not
honest. But are they not as honest as
the Democrats i? And how much safer
would the money ofthe Nation be in
the hands ola county Treasurer, than it
would be in the hands of a United
States Collector Are county Treasur-
ers SO very honest and safe? Why, it
is only just now that the Democratic
Treasurer of Hancock county has run off
with the public money, the third officer
Of the same politics who has done the
same. How long ago has it been since
the Democratic Treasurer of Coshocton
county stole the public money? And
now comes the news that the public
money of Hooking county has been sto-
len by Democratic officials. In Jackson
county, when the Democrats held the
offices, they used the public money for
private speculation, and more than ten
thousand dollars of it was lost to the
people.
You refer to the attempted passage
of law by your Democratic State Leg
islature, taxing United States bonds,
and you intimate that it should be en-
forced. In the first part of your speech
you still claim to regard the Constitu-
ton of the United States. Now you
are too good a lawyer not to know that
that pretended enactment, as we'll as
several others OF the same Democratic
Legislature, is in direct conflict with
the Constitution, and therefore absolute
ly null and void. You very we'll know
that the Supreme Court of the United
States so declared this question years
ago, and the decision ofthe court is un.
answerable. You are too familiar with
the decision Of this question to take up
further time on this point.
On the question of the tariff, you
would convey the impression that you
favor a tariff on pig-iron But like the
homestead question, your party plat
form, and the records of your party are
against you.
Your insinuations that Senator Sher-
man has been stealing, are hardly wor-
thy of you. If you have evidence of it =,
say 'oi if only rumors, you should not
give them currency. You charge him
with being banker, &c. You have been
charged with the same offence; but | no
tice the Ironton Journal and the Ports
mouth Times deny this. If people lie
about you, is that any reason that false
charges should be made about Senator
Sherman? | am not particularly an adj
mirer ofMr Sherman; but my opinion
is that man who is too worthless to
attend to his own business, is not fit to
be entrusted with the business of the
public. The Democracy in this county,
and perhaps in other places, support
men for Office who are so dishonest and
worthless that no milliner would trust
them for yard of ribbon, or butcher
for pound of meat, or a saloon keeper
for drink of whisky or cigar. Yet
these statesmen C) will talk by the hour
about the proper management of the
finances of a great nation. If either
you or Senator Sherman, or both, have
been Industrious and economical, and
have saved money, and got it in bank,
| consider it the best guarantee that
you would manage my business, as one