The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-03-16

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made Of the boldest robbery Of the peo.
pie ever perpeLrated In ancient or modern
times. Bill Tweed-"Boss Tweed"-R
man who, a few years ago, went through
bankruptcy, and who Is said to have
boosted within a year that he had $751;
100000, and with him, the tribe Of Tam.
many Hal, have been discovered and ex.
posed. Some OF these thieves have gone 10
Europe, some Of them arc enjoying the
pleasures Of the lGallhlul breezes and
snow drifts OF Canada, some OF them are
In one part Of the country and some In
another. While we were trying Major
Hodge, aud sending him to the penIten.
tiary at Albany for ten years, with the
approval OF the entire Republican partyof
the country, Bill Tweed, the greatest thief
In all the history Of the human family, the
boss thief of the world, loud laughter and
applause, was sent TO Albany, not 10 the
penitcntlary, but to the State House as
Senator by twelve thousand Democratic
majority. Applause.
These two cases illustrate exactly the
difference between the two parties: the
one denounCing thieves and arresting and
Furnishing them when 1t can, the other
never Furnishing them. / am told BY
leading Democrats, some of them mem.
bers OF the committee OF seventy, men
who have done MI they could 10 expose
and break these Tammany thieves down,
that they do not believe one of these
thieves will ever go to the penitentiary.
They stole the Erie railroad; they stole
the State Of New York from Gen. Grant
in 1868; they have stolen their millions
from the city; they have stolen judges and
stolen juries, and they get elected to the
Legislature; they do not get sent to the
State prison. And the men who denied
this stealing, who denied that they stole
the State OF New York when they knew
that they did It, who denied the stealing
OF these Tammany Hall men, until 1t was
tlnallyi brought out and established so
clearly that nobody could longer deny it,
these very men are accusing the admins.
tration Of stealing. have heard before
oil satan's rebuking sin, but never saw
anything so brazen as this, Loud.ap-
plause
There has been collected, under Gen.
Grants administration, In three years,
nearly twelve hundred million dollars
nearly four hundred millions a year; there
has been paid out nearly a thousand mil.
lion dollars; making about twenty.one
hundred million dollars. We have lost,
out Of this immense snm, in all the depart
ments of the Government, a million and
q quarter-less than fifteenth part of one
per cent
We have paid out, during these three
years, ninety million dollars in pensions,
and We have had five defalcations,
all Of them soldiers, and four Of them shed
their blood for their country. But the
Government has not lost dollar, for the
agents made good their accounts, or their
bondsmen did it for them.
This Administration came into power
with the pledge to maintain the faith and
honor OF the country, then weakly or
wickedly assailed. During these last
thirty.tlve months there has been paid
$2S7 100000, saving nearly eighteen mill
ion dollars year in interest This money
has been mostly saved, on the one hand,
by an honest collection of the revenues,
for we collected tbs first fifteen months OF
General Grants Administration $67 ,000,-
600 more than was collected under the
same laws In the last fifteen months of
Johnsons administration; and on the
other hand, by reduction Of the ex-
penses Of the Government. From these
two sources we have paid this $29z, 900,
900. Throughout the financial world it !
is matter of wonder and amazement
that tho financial policy of the United
States should beso successful. We elect
ed General Grant pledged to maintain the
faith Of the nation, TO make our debt So
cred, and what is the result? Why, the
$780, 100000 Of currency is worth today
$40, 900, 600 twenty per cent more than
it was three years ago. The labor
ing man who has earned two dol.
lars to-day has received forty ceuts,
in real gold value, more than he
would have received three years ago this
day. There has been added twenty per
cent TO every dollar the laboring men of
this country have earned this, day these
manymOnths; and it has been added be-
cause Of the signal fidelity and ability
with which that pledge has been kept TO
maintain the faith Of the nation, honestly
collect the revenues, reduce expenses, and
eXtingush the national debt as fast as we
could.
Listen not to the seductive voices
which proclaim that the work Of the Re.
publican party Of the United States has
been achieved. The reforms of the past
are not only to be assured, but other re-
forms of magnitude arc pressing for &C.
complishment. At any rate, it has a
great, il not its greatest, work yet TO do.
That work Is TO humanize, convict, and
convert the Democratic party Of the
United States. [Applause Men cannot
be wrong all the time Tor forty years and
be convicted Of their folly in an hour.
Until that political organization has been
convicted OF It's wickedness, repents Of It's
sins, and brings forth the fruits Of repent.
ance, the Government OF the United
States cannot be safe in Its control. Its
history and the elements Of which II is
composed alike forbid that it should DO
again intrusted with power. The Demo-
cratic party has atleast one million voters
in It's ranks; men who fought against their
country with ballot and bulletImen who
are only sorry that they fought against
their native land because they failed. |
You must breathe into their souls the
spirit of patriotism and tn spirit Of lib.
erty, justice, humanity and Christian civ
ilization.
There are million and half OF voters
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