Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-11-02

mandi1g "Retorm"-Grant's loss to
the l. :. Treasury eighty-one times
less than Van Buren's; forty times
less than JnhuSon'>; and twenty-six
times less titan Buchanan's, in time of
peace, lree from load OF solid South
war debt. " hn, from official figures
are the greatest thieves? Whose fig
ures look most Reform like?
Against these facts and official figures
Democrats set off eXparie distortions ia
which they have a life and death party
interest, as the Congressional Investi-
eating Committees of last winter, for
electlOneering purposes, as part of Dem
Ocratic Tactics. Not one of their party
figure tables are truthful, bat of design
.deceitful. If the one hundredth part
of the charges of stealing were true of
Grant and MS officials, surely in course
OF SIX months concerted search of dOZ-
ems OF Congressional Committees, with
closed doors, ana open with or without
presence OF accused, by every form,
kind and sort OF search, by every kind
and Class Of evidence legal and Illegal,
sane witnesses or insane, spiritualist or
materlalist, penitentiary inmates or
asylum refugee, after sweeping over
| the United States through every rami.
! ficatiOn of all the branches of all the
Departments, not stolen dollar could
be specified, as known to the admins
tratiOn with design to conceal or let 90
unpunIshed say, surely such steal
ing should be made plain from the
records. But no! Democrats deal not
in official records, figures or facts, but
in assertions of disaifected and partial
enemies, and that too in matters equal.
ly and largely common to all admins
tratiOns. All the stealings from the
Government for fifteen years of Repub
lican rule will fail To equal Buchanan,
last Democratic year, covered over an(
endorsed by the Damocrltic party.
Successors of Floyd q Cc., and part
ners Of Tarnmany, Tilden Il Co., how
sublimely grand you trumpet shouts
Thief! Thief. Said Napoleon, at il
but one step from the sublime to th'
I ridiculous. So, from this subim,
charge of TIE young fiedsed Floyds ani
Iammany comrades, the charge againS
Grant, who, from official records, stOli
eighty one times less than Van Buren
forty times less than Jackson, &c. Ant
the charge against Hayes as opposed It
all foreigners voting, and that chargt
based on respectful reply substantial
ly as from Tilden, but stripped of tn,
ITilden appendage, keep this secre
for it will injure my election" w,
have transit to the supreme!y ridicu
lous
Now, reader, for one moment turn
to the Democratic luGicrOuS, as in tht
nutn IN MI. 81, ID
publican sober facts. The platform q
Tactics says: "Reform is necessary t
establish sound currency, restore tn
public credit, and maintain the nation
al honor" What was the state of the
currency and national credit unde
Buchanan Then L. S. Bonds were
from II to ID per cent. discount, ant
from II to II per cent. interest paid t,
get money enough TO conduct the al
fairs OF the government. NOU, unde
thief Grant and Republican corrupt
rule, our bonds are worth more thar
par in gold in the money markets o
the world; and at time war deb
OF thousands of millions causel BY
''sOlid South" and Northern allies,
time when We are growing under tht
Grant theft of -Four Tt tOusand Mil
lions"--a time when the Republican
thieves are paying the war debt at the
rate OF fifty-siX millions, two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars yearly Gen
tlenen of the Tilden tactics Is The
public credit you want to "restOre'
Buchanan credit? IS your nationa
honor the honor of the national Dor
rover at Buchanan discount and inter
est? "RefOrm ~ You want to reform
the nation back to the "currency.'
public credit" National honor
shaped by Buchanan, Taney, Floyd
Thompson, Jeff, &c, and degrade a,
thieves Lincoln, and Grant, and Chase,
and Bristow, and MOrfil, &C., who
have defOrmed so sadly our currency,
our public credit our National hon.
orr Please. Gentlemen! Whose is
the best credit in the light of records OF
the past, Republican or. Democratic.
Whose past gives surer promise of a
reforming future, Republican Hayes.
or Democratic Tilden These are (he
questions for the American PEOPLE to
answer next Tuesday.