Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-09-21

$a,S7O,464 O6
keyser & Co.
For plumbing and gas-works
in county court rooms and
offices. ............. $749,224 81
For repairs on plumbing
work in county court rooms
and offices. ............... 51,4G1 rs |
$sO0,69e Sc
For plumbing work and re-
pairs in armories and drill
rooms. =. .............. 431, 131 20
S1,231,s1 &c
j W Smith
For awnings to county
courts and offices. 1888 81
Grand total. Sc. 789. 1872 Is
In relation to these enormous frauds,
Secretary Delano, in his Sandusky, Ohio,
speech, says:
This example ought to be sufficient
1t illustrates the venality, neculation, and
political prostitution which cover the
Tammany Democracy, and render its NOR
i al atmosphere and presence feculent, OBJ
noxious and infamous. Here was paid
larger sum for repairs, carpets, and furni-
! ture for county Offices, than the present
Administration paid, in the same year, for
mail transportation throughout the Uni
ted States: nearly three times as much as
the diplomatic expenses for two years
past; as much as the yearly cost of col
| lecting the customs revenue; more than
all the miscellaneous expenditures of the
| Interior Department for either year ofthe
present Administration. and more than the
entire annual expenses of the Indian Blu
reau Here is larger sum paid i'll eleven
months for plasteTing than the entire ex-
pense of the United States for foreign in
tercourse during the present Administers
lion; and more for plumbing and gas fit
ting in one year, than the expenses at
tending all the public buildings and
grounds in Washington city. There was
f expenditures, in one year, than was paid
for the collection of the entire internal
revenue of the country in any year of the
present Administration more than double
r the expenses of the United States courts
for two years, and more than all the ex-
l penses of the Forty first Congress.
with such policy as this transferred to
4; Washington, the Democratic clamor that
f the national debt must not be paid off now
1 would be found full of meaning and full
:, of danger Public credit would fall and
e distrust of all public securities be openly
! avowed. The Governmentcould not long
S survive such mismanagement"
: The New York Tribune of Septembe
: 2, 1871, shows that between March, 1869
J. and December, 1870, the New Y ork Print
l. ing Company, for county printing alone
IS received 81, 669, 521.76, and that the chic
e of the public works sis one of the princi
e pal partners in that company! 1t is ais
h shown that carpets for which $350,000 Q
d your money was paid could have been pur
he chased for 1900. Do you suppose tina
v the men whose names appear on thes
Il bills kept the larger portion of this mon
he eys Of course not. They are silent.
it, Lest it may be said that we quote onl
ar from Republican authority, we will Civ
E. brief extracts from the speech ola life-lon
of Democrat, Robert B. Roosevelt:
to UNDoUBTEDG GUILT OF THE CITY OFFICIAL
a THAT they are guilty no man who hs
he read the statements doubts fora momen
nd and no one believes that any such sun
y, were actually expended on the cour
house. Nevertheless, have been inform
lg ed that this building, instead of costin
no $4,000, 600 or $5,000,000, as is alleged, Il
nd latter being supposed to be the extren
il limit, has actually cost over 100000
re To prove this l have been shown the Fl
We ures purporting to have been taken fro
,er the Comptroller's books, but hope W
nd deceived, and that they were exaggel
vii tons. But of the facts distinctly alleg
'rk in the public press there can be no que
per ton. 1t is admitted by default that m
Mt. lions on millions of the public mon
he have been paid to few obscure indivie
al ais, for which they neither did nor col
ted have performed equivalent labor, while
la little printing company of $4,000 CAPT
md has received 81, 100000 from the coul
ess alone in one year.
ma y
ex- "What am about to tell you har
Ter expect you to believe; yeti will give
eat every point of time and circumstance.
aon will finnish YOU with every detail and
az the minuti@ of the mode of operatio
efe and, large as is this meeting, were to
my witnesses together, / could fill
building as full as it is now | KIN
!, by whereof speak, and in exposing th
debt shameless iniquities, rather in defens'
Democracy than in arraignment of
the rather extenuate, and Get down naugh