Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1874-07-30
From the Indianapolis journal.
The R easOn for a Change.

The Democracy demends to be restor-
ed to power in this State. The reasons
of the demand are given in the demand
are given in the platform, which we have
examined with some care, so far as it re-
lates to State affairs. Let us now take
birds eve" view of what it has done, as
well as what it proposes to do, that we
NAV have the light of experience to in
struct rresen. faith. In 1850 Congress
gave the State thirteen hundred thousand
acres of swamp land" lying within its
boundaries, requiring only that they
should be reclaimed. On the recommen-
dation Of Governor Wright, the Legisla-
ture provided for the drainage and sale OF
the lands, ordering me excess ABOVE ex-
penses to go to the school fund. The
Governor estimated that the fund would
get 81 ,0G0, but with very slight care
the avails might have been raised to ST.
100000. The Democracy ruled the State
then and for ten years afterwards, ana
during the first seven of those years every
foot of that vast tract of lend was stolen,
and tie school fund got nothing. The
men who got il were Democrats, who, by
means detailed at length in the report of
Dr. Eddy, late Democratic Secretary OF
State, cheated the State and the children
out of every dollar of the 50, 10000 given
them by Congress. Auxiliary bitches"
and advance certificates did the busi-
ness. In 1851, the Legislature, failing to
make general appropriations, Cover
nor Willard closed all the asylums, and
turned the blind and deaf and insane in,o
the street. 20 get home or die on the
road. as they best could He reused to
call the Legislature together to get an ap-
preparation, and he refused to borrow the
money To maintain the institutions till
the next regular session. The emptying
then cost the different counties owe $780,
OOO for each county had 10 take care of
its own helpless. In four months Will
ard opened them again, by doing that
very thing which he had refu sed to do in
closing them, borrowing money. His
party endorsed his action all through.
Thus Inc buthened the people with Sl00,
coo OF '5ene VIOLENT" taxes rather than bor-
rowing money to keep the asylums open,
and after creating that expense confessed
that it was needless ard wrong by hor-
rowing the money. He undid his work
after il had cost 100000, probably more.
Here, in two items and SIX years, the
Democracy cost the people 2l00,0 900.
During the same Willard administration,
John w Dodd. State Auditor, was order
ed by the Legislature 10 sell certain State
bonds which had been redeemed but not
Cancelled, in ii clearly described mode. He
disregarded the law. made I'm illegal sale,
and cot for the bonds $4,000 less than
the State had paid for them This maKes
S2, 1}O 900 of Democratic losses TO the
people. During this same term the DEM
ocratic State Printer, with no order of
law or preiense OF authority, reprinted
$40. 900 worth o. old House and Senate
and Documentary Journals, of no more
use than Il piie sf chips. The Lesisia-
ture had ordered the stuff LETT over FROM
former years To be distributed to the
township libraries, to get rid OF the rub
bish ii made in the State house. There
not being enough TO 90 round, the State
Printer, abetted by the Superintendent OF
Public Instruction, re printed enough to
complete the circuit and got $4,000
for il. lie could just us lawfully and
benelicially To the people have reprinted
a million of old almanacs. This makes
So, lS0, 900 of Democratic peculations on
The treasury from 1850 to 1858 A little
, tier this operation, the Democratic
Agent of State, Mr.. ID. L. Stover, COM
menced forging State Bonds in New
York. in connection with one Hallet, a
broker, who used them 10 get loans upon
New York banks lie continued his
game as deputy to his successor, Mr..
James \ Cravens, also Democrat, but
was finally caugh. by Gov. Morton and
his friends, in 1862, after having forged
S2.30J, 900 of bonds. The Governor had
both the scoundrels indicted, but that
precious Democrat of the Tammany ring,
Judge Barnard, quashed the ind ctment.
Col. Hudson, then Stale Agent, and a
Republican, saved some Sl,0.0,G00 OF
more of the forged securities, and by ef-
iorts of Gov. Morton the remainder were
SO spotted" that they could never be sold
or used, and thus the Republicans saved
! 1880, 900 which the Democracy had lost
| by forgery. This, added 10 the preceding
total OF Democratic thetts and waste OF
public property, makes the grand total
To 1862, $4 100000. In 1868 the Demo
cracy had control of the Legislature, and
elected Gov. Hendricks to the National
Senate. 1t refused to provide for the
payment of interest on the Sta'e debt
which was square" reputation, and
Gov. Morton had TO borrow the money
and the people had to pay interest on il
(wasted money! as the penalty of this
Democratic operation. This same Demo-
cratic body made and entertained, during
its session, no less than forty-taco separate
propositions looking to the surrender oi
the government to the rebellion. 1t also
refused to appropriate anything for State
or military expenses, while the treasury
was full Of money, and Gov. Morton had
to raise the means to carry ON the State
Government, and to maintain the States
place in the war by individual and county
contributions and loans. This session
cost the people in interest of loans made
to avert reputation and resist the rebel
lion about 100000, to say nothing of the
encouragement given to the rebellion by
the legislative proposals for peace "a
trace" and separation of the State from
the Union," project of Mr. Brown, o.
Wells, and by the protection and instiga
tion of desertion, which sent home l0,00l
men during the war. and no less thar
300 in the single month of December
1862. This work and the murder OF Col
Stevens, Fletcher Freeman and Eli Nc
Carly, draft officers, can not easily be es
timated in values, so We leave it out o
tho total II, 1871 tho nop,ocrafc aro;,