Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-09-21

Some of them are III prison, ana
Democratic allies are there with |
Joyce, Avery, Hesing, Rhem and
others, showing conclusively MIR. |
Bushnell's mistake that the Republican |
party does net purify itself. If it
ever punished its own thieves it does
so now If ever a political party
purified itself from within it is the
Republican party of this year. 1t
does it boldly and fearlessly notwith-
standing by its temerity it drives out
some who do not sstire" in the pursuit
of their ends.
Another evidence of Mr.. Bush
nelps pure Democracy is that like
Democratic wild bulls he is "crazed
and made blind mad by the faunt-
ing of red rag ?" Alb, Mr.. Bush
nell, there is your great mistake.
No good judgement will ever lead a
nam into the party which first lifted
that bloody garment. Our country
will never be safe until those men
are ashamed of their blooiy work.
Now they make men in the South
ashamed to own they were ever for
the Union. The passport to office
and honor there, is service in the
splitting the blood of Union men,
while here we are called upon
to bury the recollection of the past,
clasp in friendship their bloody
hands and make them our rulers
The work of the Republican party is
not done until loyalt is honorable
and treason q shame on every part of
Columbia's soil.
But Mr.. Bushnell has allowed him.
self to be deceived by the solid lying
of the Democracy. He is under the
influence of strong delasion to be-.
Iieve lie. 1t is the Republican
party that is maglined while he
thinks it is poor Tilden, People have
been made to believe that the Re-
publican office holders were band
of robbers and wore robbng the
people at wondersul ratio. Gao OF
their u. S. Senators even was so sure
he could prove this that he offered
resolution of inquiry upoa the sub
lect. He wanted the book~keepers
to show him by figures how much
had been squandered of every thous-
and dollars handled during Grants
administration. Another Senator
added 10 the resolution in inquiry to
go back 10 1884. The figures show
ed that Grants adlnini stration vast
ed less prop t OF the
money handled thany any other,
and that Van 3 u en- 5
was the most profigate. This inquiry
originated with a Democrat who
sought to make campaign capital, yet
Mr.. Bushnell says
at is infantile to show the small per centage
of Losses on ST. 900 under republican rule.
Those losses are only what the books show to
have been illegally distracted. 1t is the
| legalized stealings, and extravaganza, and rob-
berries, that don't appear on the books, OF
which the people complain"
The figures for Grants present ad-
ministration show loss of but 26
cents on each 81 900 handled. Those
for Van Buren's administration show
a loss of 81 dollars and Is cents for
each 81 900 handled. Oh but it is
the 'legalized stealings" that they are
in horrors over They have no COM
plants about what was illegally alb
stracted. Does Mr.. Bushnell forget
history? Does he not know that it
was the "legalized stealings and ex-
travagance and robberies," that the
people complained of against Jackson
and Van Buren, ? And is it not prob
able that their legal stealing would
be greater in proportion than their
illegal stealing. "Infantie ! Van
Buren's was the most profigate and
thieving of all the administrations,
and it is not strange that we
find Tiden TO have been the bosom
friend of Van Buren,. HIS biograph-
ers tell us that he drew his poll tical
inspiration from that old profigate
scamp. We find Mr.. Bushnell re-
minding us that Tilden was Free
Soiler il 1849. That was the year
Van Buren, was the Free Soil candi-
date and Tilden was for him because
of his personal friendship and because
by nature they we're both profiigate
with other peoples means and by
| nature treacherous. Van Buren,
proved to be the bitterest enemy TO
the Free Sellers. And so has Tilden.
Again Mr.. Bushnell, after the man
ner of Democrats, states and relies
upon the following figures:
Since June 80, 1861, the people have paid
over So, S04 100000 taxes to the general
government. This is more than double the
whole national debt at the close of the war.
| Since the close Of the war, the people have
paid s4,5O0,000,000 of taxes to the general
government. This is over "a, 100000 for
Grant County over $500, 900 for the town of
Lancaster over one.aird Of tie assessed valta-
ton Of all our property. This has been paid
as surely as we have paid our taxes to the
Town Treasurer, and yet our national debt of
g, 6l5, 100000 at the close Of the war, has
only been reduced to s2,2lS, 100000 now.
In other words, that debt is only S97,0o0,000
less than at the close Of the war. This amount
paid to the general government since the
close Of the war, exceeds the interest on the
public debt and the amount applied to its re-
duction by over S2,695, 100000.
Can extravaganza and prohigacy go further?
The 60 millio ms a year that ran Bucharan's
corrupt administration is more than multiplied