Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-10-24


taxes kef up for that purpose. The paving
| OF these demands by these means cannot DO
counted as paying any part Of the permanent
ascertaneI debt of the country. And Mr..
Johnson handed over at the end debt as
large as the one he found ia the
| beginning, lacking the thirteen mil
lion dollars I have stated, but he SO
manipulated it-bv increasing the interest
! bearing portion and decreasing that which
bore no interest-that, though he diminished
! the aggregate by thirteen million dollars, he
ACTUALLY increased the interest account.
Compare with this the splendid financial re-
cord of the present Observation-Disclosures.
ing the debt three hundred and fifty million
| dollars and the annual interest account more
than twenty-five million dollars in three years
and half 1t should be kept in mind at every
step OF the comparison that the present adj
| mlnstratlon has removed taxes and customs
duties Welding one hundred and thirty five
! million dollars annually, and still has kept the
revenue undiminished. To this exhibit of the
financial record of the present Administration
there can be found no parallel, and compari-
son is fearlessy challenged. And ! submit
that, when stated that it had been faithful
| in collecting tie revenues and frugal in ex-
pending them,n / did not deceive you.
Mr.. Dawes then proceeded to make an an
alysis of the records of the two elements of
the Greeley party, viz: Mr.. Greeley aud the
/ Democrats, IN reply to the question, Can
they e trusted?' He concluded
Aud now, fellow citizens, l will detain you
but moment longer, with the brief inquiry.
4 whether II tins separate examination has not
tended to inspire confidence III either Mr.
| Greeley, the Northern Democracy, nor the
eX-slave-hoders and rebels, can any possible
combination of these elemental parts be safely
trusted with that which it would be danger
Gus to rustic either alone? Can the whole
I be less dangerous than the parts ofwhch it is
! composedf IT neither can be trusted alone,
when the Enthusiastically combine do they
change character for the better, or then rat h
or gather strength by union and cOncentra-
ton for the accomp ishment OF that to winch,
! when single-handed inclination outstrlpped
! ability? When the uncontroyerted fact stands
ont patent on the career OF the Demo-
cratic party, through forty years Of eXemphti-
cation, that the Northern element was too
weak to cope with the Southern, and because,
all that time, hewers of wood and drawers Of
/ water to Its masters it Is folly to talk about
! the influence in the control of affairs which
the fifty thousand more or less honest Repub-
hcans, beguiled into tins movement,
can have among the three and one
fmilIions of voters which make up the old,
disciplined, compact organization OF the
Democratic party. Does the brook running
into the sed swallow the sea? Does the M
FAINT pulling at the apron-strings direct the
footsteps of maturity Why, these men could
not control themselves at Cincinnati, aud came
! they had done, or how it was done, or what to
do now it was done. They fell into the arms
! OF the Democracy as fainting women drops
INTO those of her lover, utterly unable to ex-
plain their own bewildermert. Free trade,
with Horace Greeley & head upon it, and civil
service reform, born of New York city politics.
were the first fruits OF a bargain, saws Mr..
Stanley Mathews, the temporary Chairman of
the Cincinnati Convention, the result Of which
was . the utter defeat of every just expecta-
ton based upon the aims and principles OF
that Convention.n The Democratic party al
ready treats the combination as surrender
b. it, The Boston Post declares that the
party has not disbanded nor abdicated its
functions, that 1t still exists as an independent
organization, and has deserted none Of its DIS
tlnctIvc principles for any man or measure.
| The World saws that the issue is between
Gree ey and Democratic Administration on
the one SIDE and Grant and Republican Adj
minIstratlOn on the other" Raphael Semmes
declares that "Greeey has cone over to him
and not he over to Greeley" Thurman
assures the anxious Democracy Of Ono that
the principles and purposes of their party
have been left intact BY the nomination OF
Mr.. Greeley, and Jere Black, the constltu-
tiOual adviser of secession IN Buchanans CAB
met, not only announces that he hal looked over
Mr.. Gu celeys record and is satisfied with but
also his expectation and hone tnat through
mn the Democracy VIII be enabled to neutral
ize in the effects of amendments to the CON
.tiution fastened upon II by fraud, Beck, the
organ OF the party il Kentucky, ayows his
support of Mr.. Greedy to be, that thereby
/ Il Democratic Congress and Democratic ieSlsla-
ton can ho obtained, to Which they can force
Mr.. Greclcy's support. Can these men be de-
cciVed? DO they not understand the relative
power Of numbers, and the inevitable direction
of resultant forces? They need not ne told
that by a law as certain as gravity, the lesser
is drawn to the greater, and already they eX-
nit IN this know ledge. In frank but cont mp
tuous terms does the World thus make haste
to stup Mr. Greeley OF all uncontrolled per-
sonal guidance -
we Will frankly admit that we ourselves,
although supporting Mr. Greeley, should be
unwilling to submit the financial policy OF the
country to his uncontrolled personal guidauce.
We have been streuuouslS comba ting his
economic notions ever since we came INTO the
arena OF journalism and 1t woulu be absurd
for us to profess implicit faith in bis financial
wisdom when, in fact, we have no faith IN II
whatever aud never had
No words nor professions, be they ever so
fair or fulsome, can change the inevitable.
No man can lay down IN the army OF the DEM
pcrauc Party without beng one OF them
- Walk into my parlor says the spider to the
nv" The potter hath not more power over
the CITY to make one vesse unto honor and
another unto dlshouor than has the party who
lit up then representative and exponent oven
him 70 mold and shape ana ulrect MN "hl'uel
it VIII. Ii is ide TO attempt TO sgulse the
issuc. The World has stated it correctly to b.
Grant and A Republican Administration on tbs
one side, and Greeley AID Democratic Ad
ministratlon on the other. 1t IS more manly
10 meet the issue sauarev, and, a God snail
Give us to see the right, determined our duty
IN respect to it. than by any art III dlaectiea Il
r endeayor to cscane II.
Z Turn. if YOU please, from the elements winch
compose the partyi opposition to the platform
upon which It stands, and yon will d SEQ 81
how admirably 1t is fitted to Democratic feet
If Won desire 10 understal d the full meaning o
o that declaration circulated IN p@mplct al tu'