The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-09-10
Political Items for the People,

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The municipal debt of New York
increases rapidly two and a half
millions during the month of july.
GRANTS friends are now running
things there.
The man who never soiled his
hands with ill-gotten gains in pub
lie or private life-WmLIAM ALLEN,
the Peoples Democratic candidate
for Governor.
GEN. GARFIELD says of GRANTS
connection with the salary steal
bill:
MY vote did not make that law.
His signature did"
REPUBLICANS are very anxious to
make it appear that certain Demo-
Gratis took the back pay grab, but
they are very careful not to tell
their readers that they never could
have taken it had not GRANT made
IT possible by'signing the bill and
making it allaw.
The BY Authority presses may
squirm and twist as much as to
them seemeth good; but the fact
still remains hat assuming the
truth of the Public Debt statement
made on June 1st, there is q dis
crepency Of thirteen millions of
dollars between the receipts and
expenditure of coin at the Treas
ury in June and those reported in
July.
Ten millions d~efalcation in the
United States Treasury is now the
rumor from Washington, coming on
top of the Credit Mobilier Radical
swindle, the squandering of the pub
lie domain, and the back salary
steal. What will be the next de-
velopment under Radical rule?
PRESIDENT GRANT manages to
| spend an hour semi-monthly at his
post in Washington. Poor man!
His salary ought to be raised to
100000 a year. He works too
hard for his pay.
The Republican portion of the
farming community still seem to
be unable to see that the "protec-
ton hobby of their party is Diet
rimental to their welfare. 1t is
because their partisanism blinds
them?
No Republican platform ever
recognized the rights of the farmer.
1t is entirely Republican legislation
of which the farmers of the victim.
The class really most commanding
in American affairs which has so
long been silent and accomplishing
under heavy burdens, is now likely
to say something, 1t is too late
for the Republican party, which
has always been the oppressor of
the farmer, to beg his support.
HURRAH for Governor BILL AL
LEN! There is no man in Ohio,
whose name has such magic to
arouse the Democratic masses to
action as his. ALLEN for Governor
and THURMAN for United States
Senator! CHOW by St, George! the
work goes bravely on"
A REPUBLICAN introduced the
Grab Bill; a Republican Senate
confirmed it, and a Republican
President signedit. If this dosen't
make the Republican party respon-
sible, then they are responsible for
nothing that they do,
Ben. BUTLER says, in his defense
of GRANTS SALARY %steal,'' "That as
a population of three and q half
millions paid WAsHlNGFoN q salary
of $3.50 a population Of thirty
eight and a half millions should pay
GRANT $275,0O0." And, because
the people have not seen fit to pay
this nice little sum, President
GRANT undertakes to steal it from
the United states treasury
Hence, BEN. BUrEER, the Ohio Re-
publican State Convention, and the
Republican press indorse GRANTS
steal.
IT was under a Republican Adj
ministratiQn that the salaries of
members of Congress were increas-
ed from $4,000 to $1,000 a year,
and that of the President from
$4,000 to $4,000, The Republi-
cans believe in a great and splen-
did Government, which must be
sustained by large expenditures.
That of the Democracy is plain and
simple. All those in favor Of low
taxes will vote the ticket headed by
WILLIAM ALLEN in October,
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