The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1870-05-21
Judge Them by their Fruits.

ticularly on the eve of an important cleo
ton, has been economy in the public
expenditures" The present canvass is
no exception to the general rule. Every
little cross-road politician in the State
constantly and persistently harps upon
the word 4" economy" claiming that the
Democratic party is now and always has
| been welded to economy" Yet in
making this assertion they are entirely
without facts to prove it. Facts and
| figures are all against them, as we
have shown, time and again The
facts are, wherever the burdens of
debt and taxation have fell most heavily
upon State, wherever great wrongs and
absolute thefts have been committed upon
the people of State, the originators and
connivers at, and accomplishers of, these
wrongs, in every case, are traceable to the
Democratic party. You may look at the
history of any State in the Union, where
the Democracy have had control Of the
finances, and in every instance you will
find that the burdens of taxation have
been increased, without any adequate re-
turn You will find that instead of using
economy in the public funds, every spe
cies of robbery has obtained to put money
in the pockets of the " faithful" During
the late session of the Legislature of Cal
ifornia, which was overwhelming by Dem
ocratic, the doctrine was publicly an
nounced in the halls of the Legislature,
that to the I" victor belong the spoils,
and the doctrine enunciated was carried
out to the utmost. The history of the
outrages and corruptions perpetrated by
thut Legislature in the name of Democ-
racy, will forever remain as indelible
marks of the meaning of Democratic
economy and honesty. No pledges made
to the people previous to the election
were deemed too sacred to be broken,
and promises and pledges and sworn duty
were all cast aside at the dictation of
party-plundor. So palpably dishonest
and venal, outraging all precedent even
in the history Of this party of broken
promises and unredeemed pledges. were
the acts of this Democratic Legislature,
that bedrock jou nails of the party cried
out with very shame aud disgust. And
when this corrupt and rotten Leg islature
closes its session, the universal opinion of
every respectable journal in the State Is,
that it was the most corrupt, dishonest
and venal body of men that ever assem-
bled at any capitol to transact the bust
ness of a State
Where will you find a worse tax-ridden
people than are the denizens of New
York? Yet this great city, the metrop-
oils of the country, holding it may be
one half of its wealth in her Golfers, is
now and has been for years under the
iron rule of the economical and honest
party--the Democracy. Under Demo
cratic rule, in every instance, the burdens
of the people have been increased, and
that too by the most useless and extrava-
giant expenditure of the public moneys
to call it by no harder name. When
the great voice of the people took the
;" control of the State of Indiana out of the
Il hands of the Democracy and gave it into
the keeping of the Republican party
with it they gave as memento of the
" ECONOMY and honesty Of years Of
Democratic rule, depleted treasury aud
:. debt of ten millions of dollars; and thi,
debt was further increased three million:
of dollars by rebel Democratic warfare
To-day, by an honest and economical
administration of the finances of tn,
. State, the Republican party stand credit
ed with having paid seven millions o
this debt, created by Democratic " eco
nomical" administration, and before th'
first day of next January will have pait
the entire debt. The State Board o
Sinking Fund Commissioners give notic
to holders of State stocks, that said Ger
tificates of indebtedness will be redeeme,
in full, on and after July next, upon pre-
sentation at the office of the State agen
in the city of New York. Thus we NIGH
go on giving illustrations, showing tha
this Democratic cry of !" economy an
honesty" in the expenditure ofthe publ
moneyes simply means an increase of off
ces under Democratic patronage, and a
: increase of salaries and fee bills tor tn
!. benefit of Democratic Office holders
Wherever Democracy rules there 70
find prescription of the most persistsr
and radical type, and any measure that
thought to be demanded for the perpetr
alton and security of its power and emo
ument is adopted, no matter how wron
or unjust, or what its cost to the peopl
The facts Of history, the recorded even
OF the times, bear US out in these asse
tinns and thou cannot L. IL.