The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-11-02

to Partisans, or upon which a bonus is
paid for such uses. The immense ex-
Penditure itself implies corruption, and
shows it to be the systematic policy of
the party. Details as to the manner in
which this is accomplished would not
make the proof more convincing. This
proposition is also confirmed by state
ment No. 3, to which InOW call attention,
contrasting the amount of the revenue in
1866 with the revenue in 1915, and the
cost Of collecting it. This table shows
that it now costs near a million more
than in 1866 to collect two hundred and
twenty million less revenue. There
could be no reason for increasing the
number and pay Of those engaged in coll
lecting One-half the amount of revenue,
but to increase the electiOneering or
CARNATIONS. But the fourth statement,
which now submit, showing that the
expenses Of the government rise i'm
mensely at every presidential election,
and showing that it has added nearly
forty millions to the miscellaneous and
Indian expenses alone, to carry the last
three elections for the radicals, makes
the system by which they operate about
as plain as if we had receipts in the
treasury from their campaign committee
in Pennsylvania and other contested
states. The deficiency of receipts from
internal revenue for the presidential year
of 1868-69, as contrasted with the pre-
ceding year, amounting to nearly thirty
three million, and as Contrasted with
the succeeding year, amounting to more
than twenty-seven and half millions,
tells the same story. Hence BristOw's
determination to break up the whiskey-
ring and the system by which thirty
three millions were diverted from the
treasury in presidential years rendered
him an unavailable candidate at Cincin-
natl. The fifth statement contrasts the
army expenses ofthe last presidential year
with the years preceding and succeeding,
and shows that that election added
eleven millions to the account Add to
this the loss of internal revenue shown
to occur IN the presidential election,
more than thirty three millions, and the
increased expenditure charged to the ac-
count of miscellaneous and Indian ex-
pense in those years, and we can trace in
these three items alone an application of
about ffty-fve millions of public money
to the election of a radical president.
The centralizing policy aVOwed by the
radical party involves enormous taxation
and expenditure, and breeds corruption
necessarily; and while 1 myself felt it
necessary to act with that party in
maintaining the union, now that there is
not disuniOnist in the land, the &C.
casion has long since passed when the
agency of such a party could be useful,
and we are now suffering from the abuses
which its consolidating and despotic
Tendencies necessary entail. These are
the essentials of its existence. No one
who at all cOmprehended the philosophy
of parties could ever have thought it
possible that Secretary Bristow should be
nominated at Cincinnati. | told his
friends long before the convention that
he had not the slightest chance of a
nomination there, and that he altogether
misconceived the spirit and genius of his
party. Without the use of enormous
sums of money in the elections, the chiefs
of that party know that it could not be
sustained for an hour. We have not
General Hayes answer to Kilpatrick's
letter informing him that nothing short
of the bloody shirt and money could
carry Indiana for him; but we do know
that General Hayes partisans are re-
spending by pouring in the money which
they are collecting from the Ofice-hOlders
and contractors in enormous sums. Nor
has General Hayes publicly demonstrated
against Kilpatrick's proposition, nor
against the manner in which it is being
responded to by his partisans. He UNI
derstands better than BristOw the spirit
of his party, and General Fitzpatrick and
his party understand him.
THE TNTIlIID4TORS INTTMIDA TED
From the Marion Star.