The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-10-05

-Fscts for rhs Consideration OF the People.
The public expenditures thus far In
Grants administration have been 81.
600, ,OOO, ,O0O-asum nearly large enough
ID pay the National debt twice over.
y The aefhlcations by Republican otIi-
cialp durihg that time have been near.
ly$,OO0bOO.
The Whisky Rings which grew up
during that time and were fostered by
the White House, for attempting to
break up which Mr.. Bristow was
driven from the Cabinet, have de-
frauded the government of over $780,
The number of Federal office-hold-
ers have been increased under Grants
admintstratio from 54,267, to 94,1l9,
or at the rate Of more than GOOO year,
and during q time of greater CONNER
cial distress than this country has ever
suffered before. $50 =" ~
Graht's reconstruction policy has
increased the debts Of the Southern
sstates, whicn were next to nothing at
the close Of the war, to an aggregate
of sls4 ,Ooo, 900. The property of those
Statesis practically confiscated by To-
cal taxation, and their country has
been laid waste by carpet-baggers
more completely than was done by
Sherman's March to the sea.
The Republican Indian policy is
simply a grand system of thieving,
robbery and blood -shed, and has now
fculmihated III 1 costly war which has
been brought on alone by violation
of SOLEMN treaty obligations.
One member Of Grapt's Cabinet has
been impeached for high crimes al. d
misdemeanors, and only escaped pun
ishment because he was tried by q
/ Republican Senate. He confessed his
crimes and his resignation was accept
ed with regret" by the President OF
the United States.
l. Another member Of Grants Cabinet
has for many years violated the laws
| governing his action, not only with.
i out rebuke from the President, but by
Ills approval, as is shown by his reten
ton in the Cabinet after his corrup.
tions have been exposed, and only
awaits the final action of the House
when he, too, viii be impeached 70,
high crimes aud misdemeanors.
Under another member of the Cabi.
net frauds amounting to many hun
dreds Of thousands of dollars have
been perpetrated with impunity, alike
against the taxpayers aud the Indians
This member retired carrying with
him vast fortune acquired during his
term OF Office, and handsome testi
monial from the President.
| Every honest man who happened to
obtain position underG rants admin.
istration has been turned out of office
the moment his character was discov-
cred, and his place filed by those who
were known to be corrupt.
These are facts of record, and are
known Of all men.
| And yet here is what the Republi.
can party thinks about such an admin
istration. The Cincinnati platform
4 says:
- ssrhe National administration merits
j lcQmmendafion for its honorable work
4 in the management of domestic and
foreign affai:s, and President Grant
deserves the continued gratitude OF
tife American people, for his patriot
liism. and his Immense services in war
aud pesce.Hn - si@- emu ,@s''
And. here is what Gov. Hayes thinks
about it.: .,.i.. rsfl,e ,gg.'.a -
Hi"I do not deem it necessary to enter
into any extended examination Of the
federation of principles made by the
convention the resolutions are in ac-
cord with my views. and l heartily
concur in the principles they an
7 nounce."
IN Comment would be supernuous.
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The Great Radical Lie squelchsd.
The silly and idiotic ealumny started
by the New York Times against Sam
uel j. Tildcn in reference to his in
come tax, aud which has been re tier
ated in every conceivable form by all
the Radical newspapers and stumpers
throughout 1.-THE land has been COM
pletely and effectual!y refuted. Judge
Sinnot, the confidential law clerk of
Governor Tildsn during the year in
which he is charged to have made q
falsc return. of his income, makes the
statement over his own signature, and
the communication is understood to
have been authorized by Mr.. Tilden
himself. 3n,e. sI -
l. This charge made by the New YerL
Times, aud reiterated with additions
and lamentations by all the little
Hayes "organsy in the country, was
that whereas Mr.. Tilden had in 1869,
an income, derived from various spec
fed sources, Of $lO8. COO he only re-
turned 81, lis as his true income and
thereupon the Times accuses him OF
fraud i'm concealiag the true amonnt,
and of perjury in sw earring that his
| return was true. These charges, be
remembered, were made by the Times
without any other evidence of their
truth than the suppositisn of that pa
per that Mr.. Tilden's income during
that year must have been large.
Taking mp the items seriatim as
stated by the Times, Judge Sinnot
shows that most of them are entirely
destitute oftruth, that Mr.. Tilden was
not employed that year by the corpo.
rations alleged by the Times, and re-
ceived not one cent from them during
that year; that out Of thirteen items
nine of them we're lies made out of
whole cloth /; that one item of $4,000
was true only as 10 81 900 and that the