The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1870-09-02


Twenty Years--Republican Ex-I
travagance and DecepIiOn--In-I
territorial Dishonesty of the
Journal and other Republican
| Papers.
For months past the Republican press
and Republican leaders in Indiana have
taken great credit to themselves for, as
they allcdgc, extingushing the State debt.
Even as late as the 2Oth instant, the
Journal stated that when Governor Lane
and Governor Morton, in 1861, took
ichargc of the administration of State af-
fairs, the foreign and domestic debt
amounted to $l0,179,s67, and that the
Republicans had paid it entirely of. The
address Of the Republican State Central
COMMITTEE, recently published, charges
derilectiOn OF duty on the part of the
Democratic party, for not paying OIL the
State debt during its sixteen years of
uninterrupted ascendcncy in the admin
Iistration Of State affairs.
The whole history Of State govern
ment does not exhibit such reckless and
|extravagant expenditures OF money, such
disregard Of the interests of the people,
and such intolerablc burdens as have
been. and now are imposed upon the tax
payers of Indiana, as have marked the
|; administration OF the Republican party
during the last ten years.
! The boast Of having paid the State
debt is gross deception upon the tax
, payers Of Indiana, and evinces want
, of confdcnce in the intelligence of the
people, by the leaders Of the Republican
, party. The last report Of the Auditor Of
|. State shows a State Indebtedness Of
lS5,65O,597 g., and that there was collec-
tied of Of the people the sum Of $377,-
COL 81 to pay the intcres thereon. The
, amount of the State debt, November !,
1861, as reported by the Auditor OF State,
!, lion. Albert Lane, was $7,770,233.
u The Auditor Of State reports now, but
lunoiilcially, that since his last annual re-
!, port there has been retired Of the State
debt, and that there is now a fund on
hand sufficient TO pay the bonds that
| have not been returned, to reduce the
: routstanding indebtedness of the State
Ito S3.6i4,9Ol Is, upon which there is
: lpaid an annual interest of S2l6,7l4 o..
!, For the year ending November !, 1861.
according to the Report Of the Auditor
,lof State, Hon, Albert Lane. the State
,ldebt, was S7,770,233, and the interest
! upon the same was S3O9, ,54S %. But
Inow, with an Indebtedness of $3,6l4,-
9 l90l Is, the annual interest is So 6,7l4 o..
/ So that while the debt Of the State has
/ been diminished more than one half
wha; it was November !, 1861, the inter-
I est has Increased to more than two-thirds
of what was paid in 1851. Under this
state OF facts which can not be truthfully
lcontradictcd what becomes Of the boast
Iings of the State organ OF the Republi-
lean party, and all the lesser lights, that
the Republicans have in the past nine
years paid oil all Of the Indebtedness OF
: the State.
We call the attention of The people of
Indiana to the following contrast OF the
: management of the State finances under
u Democratic aud Republican rule:
{ The following table contains the re-
4 ceipts and expenditures of the State OF
clIndiana during eace fiscal year, COM
lmcncing November !, 1850, and ending
October 81, 1S70, period Of twenty
$ slycars- ten years, ending October 81.
: 1860. under Democratic rule, and ten
: -Iyca-s. ending October 81, 1870, under
; Republican rule: .