Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-03-28
New Series-vol. Ia, Mo- 10

! uonS pIllng up great amount of mon
ey. The wealth of the AstOrs, tht
Stewarts, and the Vanderbilts has nG
allurements for me. I believe GOD
made this world 10 grow good men and
womea, and MOTTO pile up money! Thai
Is my belief, and | want to see the men
and women who bear the burdens and
do thework have a full share of all they
earn, and that an honest days work
shall always have fair days pay
loud applause. - .r'..-.....
1 Why is it that the Democrats of New
Hampshire are circulating free-trade
documents, pictorial5 and cartoons over
this State? Why should they strive to
deceive poor labOring men, when they
were never 50 prosperous as now under
the system that tends to diversity our
Industries, incre use our production, add
| to our own wealth, and take care of Oul
own country? My heart goes out to
the eworkingmen of England and Ire
land, of Germany and France, ave and
of Asia and Africa, too. A man is a
man, no matter where he was horn. or
what blood courses in his veins, l be
lieVe that God made him and Christ
died for him, and that he is destined to
an immortal inheritance. I believe,
too, in that com prehensive policy that
watches over the poor and elQWiy and
takes care of the Interests of all the
world; but, after all, / am. for the Re
public of the United States, one and In
diyisible, and the people of the United
States, before any other country or any
other people, Applause. l. s.. -,
am for taking care Of our own in
terests, and not allowing the importing
hOusesof Englishmeq or Freuohmen or
Germans to control the financial or busi-
ness affaips of the people Of tho United
States, nor, to direct the policy os tae
United States, nor to direct the policy
of the United States. Ithink we are
old enough and large enough to take
care ofioarselves. Applause, adj q,
One would suppose, to hear our Dem
ooratie friends talk, tiiit we never had
any corruption befOre; that they had
always been pure, because they never
punished a thief. { applause and laugh
ter. 81 propose right here to lay down
this proposition: that the reason why
this Administration is so assailed is
not that it has been more corrupt, or as
corrupt as its modern predecessors, but
that it is doing much to expose thiev-
ing and to punish men who steal. The
Democratic party-I mean the modern
democratic party -oame into power in
1849, under General Jackson. s-i,r. -
One man, Samuel SWartout, in Gen-
eral Jaekson's day, when the Govern
ment raised only about thirty millions
OF dollars a year, stole a million dollars
in the New York Custom House-near-
ly as much money as has been, stolen
under hthis Administration in three
years. in collecting and paying out
nearly twenty-one hundred -milliou
dollars. The percentage of, loss under
the Administration has been less than
under any Administration since Gen.
Jackson was inau5urated President of
the United States. There is pota shad-
ow of doubt of it. I assert here and
now, that there has been a less percent
aga Of loss under General Grants Ad-
ininistrati0n than undeg thai of any
other Misunderstanding since the days of
John Quincy Adams, John Tyler, a
son of President Tyler,in letter re-
Gently published, states that there were,
in Van Buren'S administration, ninety
eightreceiyers of the public money,
ninety-sixof whom became defaulters.
Ninety-six ont of ninety-eigh! Laugh
ter. Is there any mau. here tonight
Whoiknows that any one of those men
WAS ever sent the Peuitentiary? ~ =
L believe that Republieaathiefis a
worse man than a Democratic thief.
{ Laughter He. has not had so many
bad examples Laughter, a Repuh-
lican thief is the wickedest and mean
est thief in all the land, He joins a
great party that was brought into be-
ing to givefreedom TO the slave, main
tain heunity of the country, and pre-
serve thelife of the nation. In the
ranks OF that party is a large mass of
the Intelligence of the country, of the
praying men and women Of the cOun-
try A man who Joins that political or
ganizatioh, betrays his trust, and steals
the money of the Governmental lis base
creature, and the peniteptiarY is the
only place where he should dwell.
The difference between Republicans
and. Democrats on this question is
this: The republicans try to discover
and punish leir thieyes;the democrats
never punish theirs. You cannot tell
me tonight of man who stole from
the national Government under a Dem
ooratiei administration who was. sent 1
to, the penitentiary. Under this, Ad-i
ministratien several, thieves have been
sent there. Most-of their stealing WIS
under the late Administration, for there
has been little Stealing under this.
Under Andrew .iohnson'S ,Adminis-
jtratien mean men got Office, He went
back on his party, on his record, up
right Democrats paid little attention
to him, honest Republicans kept away
from the White House, and mean men
of both parties sought benefits of his
patronage. About forty collectors Of
Internal revenue under his administra-
tion became defaulters TOR about a mil
lion and three quarters. Under the
three years of General Grants admin
istration four col lectOrs became default
ers, and for amounts less than two hum
dred thousand dollars. - -.
During the war we paid through the
pay-master's department Of the Army
more than thousand million dollars.
That money was paid sometimes when
troops were on the march, sometimes
when they were under fire, and we lost
less than q quarter OF a million dollars.
Never in the history of the human
family was there any higher evidence
paying out the little money we paid
during that war, we lost about Two.
million dollars. Since General Spinner
entered upon his Office as Treasurer of
the United States, SO, ,000, 100000 have
passed through his office, counted by
from three to four hundred men and
women. We have lost from fifty to
sixty thousand dollars in these eleven
y, I.
one man, fined him, and he is now try
mag made R gsr GTs pay r more ne tys tayys Se
stole. Laughter.l We have sent to
prison three trusted clerks, men of ca
pacity and ability, whom everybody
frnsted and rasnacinh Thnt l. tho r,,asr