The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-08-31
From the Brooklyn Argus, Dem. }
Let us Have a Change.

Let us have a change, is the cry of the
country. Visit manufacturing est1b-
| lishment running on half time. Both
| the employer and the employed charge
their reduced incomes to Grantism, and
demand a change. Step into a bank Of
/ fee, the banker informs US that he is un-
able to loan his money at over per cent
| interest, and ends his recital by demand
| ing a change. Go among merchants,
! they discourse only Of unstable goods,
unemployed statesmen, and uncollectable e
debts, and say that the country demands
a change. Walk in front OF the Mechan-
| les Exchange, the bosses meet us to So
| licit job, and hundreds of laborers are
begging for employment, while each
class curse the administration, and de
mand a change. Ride among the farm
ers, their granaries are full, but there are
/ few buyers, and between the rats, loss of
interest and low prices, they say they
are unable to make both ends meet.
Look into a railroad car, hotel or a
place of amusement, and each of them
/ exhibit signs of meagre returns, wasting
/ capital and threatened bankruptcy and
all hands join in demanding a change. i. d.
Let US see how the two parties bear
comparison. The Argus supported Mr..
/ llluen LOT OONtIHOItd anu gave ulIu lOtbpO
majority in this city-over one-third Of
his majority in the State. IL has found
out the man and knows of what it
speaks.
New York and Brooklyn are Demo
cratic cities. New York gives 40, 600 and
/ Brooklyn 5000 Democratic maiorities.
/ When Tilden became Chairman of the
/ State Committee in 1866. the bonded
debt of New York City was S45. 1877, 900.
When he retired from the potion in De
cember, 1874, the bonded debt was
SI4I, ,sO3, 3,OO0-an increase Of S96,-
$4,000 in eight years. In addition
/ to this, an average of $25,OO0.000 were
/ collected in taxes, so that the Democrat
/ ic city of New York, during the eight
years of Tilden's Craftsmanship Of the
| Committee, expended the modest sum OF
$296, 900 600 This was nearly one-hali
of the assessed value OF all the personal
and real property of the city when they
commenced operations. 1t would have
only required ten years more OF such
management, to swallow the value of the
great commercial emporium Of America.
The tax rate in 1866 was Sl69 on the
hundred; in 1875, it was 81 96 AN INCREASE
of IS per cent.
This is not all that Tilden and his as.
/ sociates did tor New ork. The people
are demanding a change of administra
tion, are looking for honest men in whose
hands to place the Government, and the
Argus is comparing the antecedents oi
the claimants. Under Tilden's admins
tration, his party stuffed the ballot box
es, made false counts of votes, suborned
newspapers, gave election certificates tc
defeated candidates and elected corrupt
Judges, so that no redress could be had
Horace Greeley, the candidate Of the
Democrats for the Presidency in 1872, in
his letter to Tilden, said:
Prosecutors, magistrates, municipal authori
ties, are all in the pool, we have no hope from
/, / the ministers of justice and the villains hay
: | no fear Of the terrOrs OF the law.
In 1865 they made a false count Of 81
, 600 ballots; inaugurated a Goyerno
! (Hohman) who was not elected, an,
/ took thee consequences Of his illega
= signature to legislative acts This Dem
t ocratic Governor signed the iniquitou
, Erie Classification Bill for Tweed an
. Jay Gould. He signed the bills enacte
+, by Legislature controlled by the Ne,
York and Brooklyn rings These me
a who now request such change as wi
I place them in control of the Nation. sen
: men to the State Legislature like TweeC
D Murphy Harry Genet, Mike Norton an
= Tom Fields. They make Oakley la