The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-10-05
The Democratic Platform.

. Several of the propositions contained
in it are utterly fallacIous; others ar
thrown in for buncombe, Tor electioneer
: ing purposes, and when stripped Of thes'
there Is scarcely anything left of it which
creates tangible issue wifh the policy
OF the Republican party. The first reso
luton on the subject ofeconomy will no
bear investigation for a moment. " her
the democracy were in power in this
State the receipts of the State Treasurer
were about $500. 900 per annum. Now
they are about double the amount. We
do not know the population Of the State
tor 1885 but In 1850 it was 305. 39I and
in 1860, 775, SSl; If we divide the differ
ence between these numbers and add the
population of 1850 it will give US not far
| from half million Our population in
| 81 was .O55, I67, our about double
that Of 1855 that being the year the de-
mocraey surrendered the control of the
state government But the charitable
institutions of the state were then in
their infancy. Some OF them were not
IN existence, noEe Of them had compile
ment of permanent buildings, and, of
course, the revenue needed for their sup
port had not been created, Last year
these institutions asked for appropria-
| tions, for maintenance and the erection
| OF new buildings, of oyer $4,000 So
that the increase in the amount of mon
ey expended annually by the State under
republican administration over that ex-
pended when the democratic party was
in power, is fully accounted for by the
increase IN population, and when We de-
duct the amount Of last years appropri
alton, needed for buildings, we see that
the question of economy is largely in IA
vor Of republican administration. 1t
must be remem bered also that during
the period since the republican party
came into power the capitol has been
built. We deem it safe to say that dur
Ing the past ten years more than two
million of dollars have been expended
in State buildings aud they are paid for.
No, gentlemen, this kind OF clap trap
is LOO transparent. The people remem-
Der too distinctly for you to make any
impression on them by this economy
dodge the condition the treasury of the
State was in when you left it.
No republican can probably be found
who would dissent from proper and
just observance of the reservations con-
tanned in the tenth amendment to the
constitution Of the United States; but
the people cannot forget that it was un-
der just such declarations as the one con-
tanned in the second resolution that the
pretenslon ofthe secession were nurtured.
such declarations are meaningless until
we know what powers the States claim
as reserved. II they are such as have
heretofore been claimed by democrats,
we protest. A tariff for revenue only; is
advocated by three-iourths ofthe Repub-
Iican party, and will doubtless become
the established policy of the country as
soon as 1t can be reached without Great
ing too serious disturbance of existing
interests. The stop-thief cry of profiga-
cy and corruption, is one that the demo-
cratic partyls always ready to raise, but
Its practices are not In harmony with it's
pretentions. We approve the endorse
ment which the democracy give to the
late amendments to the constitution We
approve them because they are eminent
ly wise and just and not solely because
they have been declared by the consti
tuted authorities to be a part of the fun
damental law. And we regret that the
democracy have required several years
OF time to ascertain that these amend
ments are upon all the people.
The democratic organs have not here
toioTe either deprecated or denounced
aw!cSSnesS and violence at the South.
Their course has been either to deny
that any laWlessneSs or violence existed
and charge that the reports of outrages
committed there were manufactured by
republicans FOR political purposes, or,
when the facts were too pal pa5le for de-
nal, to place the responsibility not upon
those who were guilty but upon the Re
publican Administrations