The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-10-06
Republican Extravaganza.

The loud boasts of Republican economy
as exemplified IN the present national Ad-
ministratiOn have recently met with two
eminent and convincing replies-one N
the speech OF Hon. S. s. Marshall, of Hi
nois. at Springfield, on the 14th inst. !; the |
other in the speech Of Senator Thurman,
of Ohio, st Cincinnati, last week. Both |
are able and mastery efforts; but DIR. |
MarshalPs is the more elaborate and par |
ticular, and will be found the more diff |
cult for the Republican msthematlcisns to
reply to.
Mr.. Marshall understands Republican
fnanciering thoroughly. He was one OF
the most lsborious and dillgent members
of the last Congress, and exhibited Ia
miliarity with the fnancisl features Of the
Administration that caused the champions
of the ruling party to avoid collisions with
him. In the speech which we print to-
day, he sets orr by exposing the surpsss-
ing absuTdity of the Republican boast
that Grants Administration spends less
money than JobnsOn's- suppose the
Wanted claim be correct" asks Mr., Mar
shall, "what does IL amount to? Simply
that Repu blicanism, under Andrew John
son, was more extrayags0t and corrupt
than RepublicsDism under Grant. An
drew johnson was placed IN power By the
party that elected Lincoln and Grant and
ii he separated himself from his party, thst
party sill ruled Congress, ANDREW John
son and the country, ana Andrew johnson
did not and could not spend dollar that
Republican Congress did not direct
him 10 spend. TO compare Grants
Administration WIN Johnson's is TO
compare one era of Republican rule
with another. To say that Grant
spends less money than Johnson. is only
another way of saying that johnson
spent more money lasn Grant, ami as
both Johnson and Grant spent only the
appropriations o. Republican Congress.
the comparison Is nothing more nor less
than q condemnation OF Republican ex-
traya2ance under Johnson.
Bur does Grants Administration &c
serve the praises that Ar. Colfax and
other Republican leaders awsrd TO IFS
"economyg" Mr.. Marshall answers this
question with crushing effect. During
the year ending the 30th Of June last, It
received from customs S194, 53S 374 from
internal revenue SfS4, S99, 756; fc8,n sales
OF pubic lands S3,350,451, and from mis-.
cellaneous sources $29, 1856 64. which,
with the $102 800, 1J9 balance on hand
from previous years, made up the en0r-
nous aggregate OF $513, Gas 637, which
went in one year from the POCKETS Of the
people into the hands of President
Grants Secretary O. the Treasury. What
has been done with this money? Mr
Marshall traces 500, 0G0 900 of it through
Congressional appropriations. deficien
cjes, ana baisnCes; leaving $t10 0G0.G00
whose disposal the organs Of tire Al
ministrsti0n nee2 TO explain. OF the
$4,000 600 actually spent By the GOV
ernment il one year, $l5S, AZ, AS vas SO
sDrbed IN pensions, interest, and Indian
payments, leaving ior the betrayal Of the
general expenses of the government over
$780, eco. This is SO 600 90 more
than the total EXPENSES Of the GOV
eminent from 1871 down 10 1914
three times as much IS tie total
expenditure of.lhe government (fxcius-
i've of payments On pu6l.c dsbt) for any
one year, from the foundation OF the gov
ernment down to the inauguration Of
Abraham Lincoln. 500, 000, 600 no-e than
the whole cost Of j sckson's eight years
Administration and S7000O,000 moTe
than tie ef.tirc expenditures IF Polk
four years Administration, including tie
cost OF the Mexics war. L is this eno1-
YGCUs expenditure OF the public money IL
enc year, By the present Administration
shat the Republicans cali "Gcf aomy,'
=
whst tie same party squandereG under
other Administrators. Buchanan's Id
ministrarioR was justly called ex.raya
CANT, and it was partly on this ground
tnst the people condemned i but the ex
pendi5ures Of the entire four years Of Blu
chaasn's Administration are eQu.lled ~
tie expenditures OF single year O.
Grants.
In al these conn arisons, the usus
items Of payments On the public debt
pensions, and Indian annuities are omit
led On lO'h sides, and Cnly the regular
expenses a the government considered
But This vast expenditure Of norey
does not exhibit the full measure OF Re
publican prohigacy under the fo8stet
Administration of President Grant Tha
party has gwen away the peoples lands
as recbjessly as they eaye away the peo
pies money. In 1862 it gave away K
railroad companies 1860 900 ceres; il
1864 it gave away 1860 OGO acres more
and at the LAST session of Congress It gave
additional areas sufficient to swell IN.
entire amount to 1853 .493 SIC acres. II
other words, tie Republican psrty has
during its ten years. rule, given to mon
star Railroad corporations enough OF tbs
public dOmain to make seven States d,
large IS Ohio Mr. is tbs ell. "Some
thing Ike : CARLOAD of bills" says Mr
Marshall, fare now pending in Congress
asking fer additional grants" So-Ge Q
these bills have already passed the Senate
and orlJ want to be passed by the mex
House, if il should be Republican, to take
away from the people another large are,
of their domain al the men who mad,
these grants" says SIr Marshall, ''are en-
dorsed by reelection, then farewell to I'll,
homesteacs Of the homeless, sud or IN
born generations. The poor viii be Civ
en- over to oppression, and one-half o
our country to the heartless domina.iol
of monster corporations"
Tia. portion Of the speech which treat
Of toe tariff and Of Republican Legislation
tor the benefit of the Itch and powerful
Is no less convincing and interesting thai
the portion we have referred to- Til
whole speech is q timely warning tina
the nn0Dl0 rx-Ot- IL y - h.