The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-10-06

lhis question, used the following Ian
guage: ..aa
"But, sir, this is not all, by half !
have been speaking of only so much Of
our debt as'we have given our notes for.
Besides this we owe, at the very lowest
calculation, SO 900, 100000, not to the
bloated bond-holder, of whom we have
heard so much, but to class OF. our
people to whom of all Others we are IN.
der the most sacred obligations to pay.
We owe 1t to the poor, whose horses
and cattle and sheep and hogs aud corn
and wheat, and everything else, were
taken from them to sustain your armies
in the field.
Your armies !" mark the words.
"Your," not sour" armies He used the
term consistently, and he knew and
meant what he said"
Ifthe Union army had the right to
make war for the maintenance OF the
Government, it had the right to ''forage
on the eDemy;"' but the Democratic
proposition now is, that every rebel in
the Sonth, shall be paid for what he lost
during the war, and we have leading
Democrats authority for saying that the
amouht required will be three thousand
millions Of dollars.
What the Democratic party would
do, if clothed with entire power in all
the departments Of the Government
will, we trust, be left for a long period
to the imagination ofmen, without Civ
ing us the bitter fruits of its practical
realization. WHIST forms of repudia-
ton of the National faith would be re-
sorted to, may be inferred from the
declarations of their conventions and
the speeches of many of their leading
men. .r.. ,rsga at+ -gs. ,..
In all the leading measures of the
Forty first Congress for tightening the
burdens of the people the Democratic
party, as represented in the Senate and
House, were found stubbornly resisting.
They voted in almost solid phalanx
against the bill whereby the tax on tea,
coffee and sugar was reduced, whereby
large free list was added to the tariff,
and whereby sixty millions of internal
taxes were entirely removed. They
voted with equal unamity against the
bill which proposes to fund the public
debt at four pei cent interest, and thus
immensely decrease the annual charge
upon the people. With very few ex-
ceptions they voted against the bill
which gives the South and West some
thing nearer to fair proportion of ma
tiona banking capital, and which on
the specie basis makes the banking sys-
TEN free to all who wish to engage in
it as by right and justice it should be-
These measures were carried through
in spite of the Democracy. The taxes
have been decreased SO that they are
$25l, 900, 900 less this year than in
1865, and Sls7000,000 of last years
interest has been paid; Sl43, 000,OOO
Of The interest bearing debt has been
paid, aud S26,OO0YO0O paid that did not
draw interest. vsfy % Il .sya- az
The cost of Johnson's government
was 81 to Grants S5, and the cost per
capita of Buchanan's government was
81 to Grants s.. .' -.h h.
Such is the Democratic history, such
their record and such their aims aud OBJ
iect. 1t becomes us now to study well
their tactics that we may meet them un-
derstandingly, and whether they en-
trench themselves behind falsehood,
demagogueism, Democratic naturaliza-
ton, or ''repeaters, they must be ex- /
posed and beaten again. Three years
ago, five Demo cratic judges in Ohio
were arrested for issuing fraudulent nat
uralization papers, and it will do no
harm to watch them now in that branch
of Democratic tactics. The refusal to
allow one to vote who bas a 'visibIe
admixture" may require attention too.
The "Repeaters' constitute the most
dangerous part of the Democratic tao
tics. A sample or two which the coh-
sus has brought to light will serve as an
illustration on this point.
A section in New York city in which
the census shows population of %,
6l5 (entitled by liberal estimate to less
than 5000 votes) gave Democratic
majority of 43, ,000yotes, the whole num-
OF votes being 47,269.
In the tenth district, which lies east
of Broadway, between Canal and Walk
er streets, the last election showed fifty
Republican votes and eight hundred
and eighty-fow Democratic votes.
The entire population as shown by the
census, men, women, and children, and
unnaturalized foreigners, is eight hun
dred and seventy. A fair vote would
have shown a poll-list of about one
hundred and twenty-four, and yet the
Democratic majority was eight hundred
and thirty-four ..tikt
There are tactics for you! And
there are the little jokers of figures that
won't lie! Here lies the source of that
vexatious and humiliating disappoint-
ment of that great, proud, intensely
Democratic city in finding by the CEN
sus that instead of her estimated popu-
lation of 100000, she has but 100000
They multiplied the vote by five, which
il n Oood and safe rule in an honest.
full vote. They now see that under the
tactics Of The Democratic "repeaters,"
a safer rule would be to divide by FIVE
The New York Post says: "When
this is done in one out of more than
four hundred election districts equally
in the power of the same men, it is easy