The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-09-28

the expenses We're more tnan tnree tlLnes
as much as the Federal Judiciary expen-
ses in the great State of New York. Put
all that together. i will tell you how it
came under this very law which Mr..
Taft is telling his very Marshals to en-
force the preservation of the election
What did he do when the election was
coming on in Arkansas? 1t was life
and death struggle between the Demo-
cratic party and the Republican party
When it was necessary to pay RepuDli-
can fellows to 60 out to electioneer, the
Marshal appointed Deputy MarshaIs.-
When it was necessary to have persons
vote, they summoned him as witness;
they summoned them before Grand Ju-
ries and Petit Juries as witnesses when
they didn't know anything more about
the case than you did. The men who
were to punish fraud were greater ras-
Gals than the men who were indicted
Cheers Now are not they nice set
of fellows to be armed with authority to
summon the whole United States Army2
Here are United States troops to be put
down there in the South; perhaps in Lou
isiana thousand And this lively Mar
shal, Marshal Packard, candidate for
Governor, if he has not recently declin-
ed; that very ring OF fellows who turned
out members of the Legislature by the
bayonet who were elected by the people;
this very perjured fellow who counted
out Democratic majority Of twenty-nine
and returned Republican majority by
throwing out whole counties; those inilu-
ences and those same ring fellows, repre-
sented by the Marshal, are to have au-
thority to summon one thousand five
hundred United States troops to execute
their will. Why, my friends, it is per-
fectly monstrous / tell you they are
trying to use the sword of the Govern.
ment to put down the will Of the people.
That's all it is. Cheers.
But there is another great reason why
we should have change Of rulers, and
that is in the official corruption that has
disgraced the country for so many years,
Now, my friends, am not accustomed
to make big or general declamations by
impugning honest men. | am not accus-
toned to make charges against corpora
tions if can't stand to them by testmo-
nv | don't make one now that has not
bee, proven, and successfully proven, in
the Courts of justice or before Investiga-
ting Committees in one or the other
branches of Congress. Haven't you heard.
the history Of the Union Pacific Railroad
and the Credit Mobilier? What does
that history embrace? First, that no
less sum than $435, 900 was employed by
that Union Pacific Company to get the
control of the corporation to get an
amendment of the railroad charter
through Congress. Now, can any one
tell me now it was necessary to use S435-
900 to get Congress to amend the railroad
charter, if the charter ought to have been
amended? Why. the reason for the
amendment was stated in pamphlet of
about forty-fve pages of printing, all Of
which didn't cost SIT need not to have
cost ostmore-and the drafting of which any
man of ordinary ability would have been
glad to do for $25. Any lawyer in this
county would have thought himself well
paid if he got S25 or $50 for it; and yet,
to get that amendment through Congress
that company spent $435,000. Why it
cot mighty we'll paid for it. 1t got its
land grant increased. 1t got It's bond
subsidy increased, which kind of benefits
in the end were worth $4,000, 900 or $40
100000 to it. That is the first thing it
got 1t got what was worth more than
all. 1t got the power of combining be-
tween its leading ck-holders to defraud
the people of this Government out OF ev-
ery dollar loaned by the Government to
that railroad and all the interest you
may pay upon it. And now, owing to
the fraudulent conduct of those men, the
people of this country will not have to
pay less than 81 ,OO0,000,000. YEl advanc-
ed to this railroad $62,0O0,00@by your
bonds, and owing to fraud in this Union
Pacific Railroad, the probabilities are,
ten to one, almost the entire amount will
be so much money sunk in the sea. Who
were connected in this business OF carry
ing Congress? Who were connected in
putting Credit Mobilier stock where it
would do the most good? Who was it that
put the Credit Mobilier, in wA2h Mr..
Colfax, the Speaker of the House, was
questioned? Who was that seduced Mr..
(Grosvernor) Garfield, of this State? Who
was it that did these things? 1t was pro-
ven bv sworn evidence that the men who
were the company's agents were leading
Republican members of Congress, sworn
to protect the interests of the Govern
ment, which they were bartering away
by faud and corruption. Cheers =
Take this Pacific Mail Steamship subsi-
dy for another example. A steamship
line which wants to get another subsidy
from the Government for carrying the
mail-a subsidy of half million dollars
for ten years. How did it 60 about to
getit? The report by the Committee OF
the House of Representatives that inves-
gated it shows how it went about getting
that subsidy-thatis, getting five millions
of your money by the votes of the Con-
gress of the United States. They went
about it by expending about seven hun
dred and. twenty-four thousand dollars.
Now. what did it want to enlighten Con-
gress as to? Whether they ought to hire
this Steamship company to carry the
mail or not? Is it so, that members of
Congress are so dull that they can not
understand a plain proposition that a
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that is another statement. Now let us 60
on and see few more. About three or
four years ago a committee was appoint
ed to investigate the New York Custom
House, and it was time it was investiga-
ted. The Government. complained that
it was defrauded out of amillion or more
dollars by importing merchants, who did
not pay duties on goods they ought to
paw on. One of the largest establish
ments, Phelps, Dodge & Co., men who
stood high in the Republican party, and
a very God-fearing firm, it was stated,
had cheated Uncle SAM by false valua-
tions out of a million and half of dol
lars. 1t was said, too, they must fork
over or they would shut them up. But
they compromised some way or other
Then the investigation was made, and
what does that testimony show? Why
that testimony showed, with hardly an
exception, that every appraiser of goods
in that New York Custom House was the
recipient of bribes and in collusion with
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