The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1872-03-28

ufated President of the United States.
q, There is not a shadow of doubt Of ill.,
1 assert here and now that there has
been less percentage of loss under
Gen. Grants administration than any
other administration since the DAYS oil
4 John Quincy Adams. John Tyler, q
son Of President Tyler, in letter re-
Gently published, states that there were
in Van Buren's administration ninety.
eight receivers Of the public money,
ninety-six of whom were defaulters.--
lNinety-six out of iiinety-eight!--
laughter. Is there any man here to-
night who knows that any one of these
men was evor sent to the penitentiai.y |?
I believe Republican thief isa worse
man than q Democratic thicf. laugh
ter. He has not had SO many bad
examples. Laughter and applause, i
A Republican thief Is the wfckedesf
aud meanest thief in all the land. He
Joins great party that was, brought
into being to give freedom to the slave.
maintain the unity of the country :siid
preserve the life 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
organization, betrays his trust and
steals the money Of Che government, is
base creature, and the penitentiary is
the only place where he should 60.
THE DIrFEREscE BxrwEKNaErusLrcAs
AND DEMOCRATIC THIEvEs. \
The difference between Republicans
and Democratson this question is this q
the Republicans try to discover and
punish their Thieves; the Democrats
never punish theirs. You cannot tell
me tonight Of . man who stole from
the national government under DEM
ocratic administration who was sent to
the penitentiary. Under this adminis-
tration several thieves have been sent
there. Most. Of their stealing was un-
der the present administrator, for
there has been little stealing under
this. Under Andrew J0hnsOn's ad-
minfstrati0n mean men got Office. He
went back on his party, ON his record,
and upright Democrats paid little at
fention to him, honest Republicans
kept away fr0m tho White House, and
mean men Of both parties sought the
benefits of his patronage. rs
Since General Spinner entered upon
his ONCE rs Treasurer of the United
States, ffty-flv thousand millions Of
dollars have passed through his ofiice,
counted by from three to four hundred
men and women. We have lost be-
tween fifty and aixty thousand dollars
In these eleven years, while forty-five
thousand millions have gone through
the Office. Wepuniehed one man, ,6ned
him, aud he il now trying to get back
i've thousand dollars, for he says we
made him pay 1--WE thonsand dollars
more thu he st0le. LAughter. We
have sent to prison three trusted
clerks, men of capacity and ability
everybody trusted and respected them.
That is the way we have treated our
thieves.
THE "Boss THIEF" OF THE WORLD.
About the same time the discovery
was made of the boldcst and most
gigantic robbery ever perpctrated in
ancient or modern times. Bill Tweed
Boss Tweed'--a man who q few
years ago went through bankruptcy,
and who is said TO have boasted, with
s. s-ae- that he had eighteen millions
OF dollars, and with him the trff,s Ur
Tammany Hall have been discovered
and exposed. Some of them have
gone to Europe, some of them are en-
joying the pleasures of the healthftil
breezes and snow drifts of Canada. and
some OF them are in one part OF the
country and some in another. While
we were trying Major Hodge, and
sending him to the Penitentiary at
Albany for ten years, with the approval
<St fhx, oy,fs Rox,nblsa1u &c L.
country. Bill Tweed, the greatest
thief in all the history of the human
family, the boss thief, of the world
loud laughter and applausel was sent
to Albany, not to the Penitentiary, but
to the State-house as State Senator
by twelve thousand Democratic ma
jority. fApplause.l These two cases
illustrate exactly the difference be-
tween the two parties; the one de-
nonncing thieves and arrcsting and
furnishing them when it can, the other
never Furnishing any of them. | am
told by leading Democrats, some Of
them members Of the Committee of
Seventy, men who have done all they
could to expose and break these men
down, that they do net believe one of
these thieves will ever go to the
Penitentiary. They stole the Erie rail-
road; they stole the State of New
York from Gen. Grant in 1865; they
have stolen their millions from the
city; they have stolen jndges and
stolen jnries, and they get elected to
the Legislature; they do not get cent
to the State prison. And the men who
denied this stealing, who denied that
they stole the State Of New York,
yhen they knew that they did it, who
denied the stealing Of these Tammany
Hall men, until il was finally brought
out and established SO clearly that no.
body should have denied it--these.
| very men are accusing the Administra-
ton Of stealing. / have heard Of
SATAN rebuking sin, but l never saw
ANYTHING SO brazen as this before.
| Loud applause.
SEE THIS!
There has been collected under Gen.
Grants Administration, in three years.
| nearly $l,200000,O0D 10000
year there has been paid ont nearly
SI,0C0,OOO,OO0, making about $2.lOO.-
000,OOO. We have lost, out Of this inn
mense sum, in all the Departments OF
tine Government, *I,250, ,UO0--less than
j0.WtccHGs pfSt ~ OtC pcf CcstGs. LUCK
at the Post-office Department. With
5000 postmasters, clerks and mail
carriers, the loss has been less than one
tenth of one per ceut.in these three
years. In no part of the world has
such integrity been shown, under like
circumstances. We have paid out.
during these three years, 10000, 400.
in pen sions, and we have had five
defalcations, all of them soldiers, and
four of them shed their blood for the
country. But the Government has nor
lost dollar, for the agents made good
their accounts, or their bondsmen did
iii for them,
WHAT HORACE GREELEY CALLS .gAp
RECORD"
This Administration came into
power with the pledge 10 maintain the
faith an honor OF the country, then
wickcdly assailed. During these LEST
thirty-five months there has beea paid
$2S7, 10000, saving nearly siS,0nl,000
year in interest. Tnis money has
been mestly saved on the one hand by
an honest collection Of the revenue
for we cclected the first fifteen months
Of Gen. Grants administration $67 ,O0O.-
| 900 more than was collected under the
same laws in the last fifteen months Of
Johns0n's administration--and on the
other hand, by reduction of the ex-
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