Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1876-09-16
DEmOCRATIC ARGUMENTS.

The Democratic party is so anxious
for the offices in the gift of the people
that they are making strenuous efforts TO
capture them, and having by their past
actions forfeited all rights to the conf
dence of the people they are now seek
ing to gain their ends by appealing inithe
strongest manner to the prejudices of the
voters of the country. They are every
where raising tlecir howl for reform and
denouncing the Republican party
for fraud, corruption and mismanage-
ment, for all of which they do not nor
can they produce a single specific charge
that will stand the Investigation of an
intelligent people. and be sustained ms
correct Their cry about the enormous
expenses of the administration have
been time anI again refuted by the most
conclusive slaeMiays such as must con-
vince all hut the the most bitter, biased
political partisans, but having no record
of their own upon which they can pos
.sibiy present claim Tor the confidence
Of the people, their only hope is in APP
pealing to the prejudiccs OF their hearers,
and endeayor to make them believe that
the Republican party are greater thieves
than Democrats. but the evidence is ali
against them. n statement made from
the ofiici, records in the departments ut
Washington shows that under Republic
can administration the losses by def;ilca-
ton, thefts, or in any manner, on each
81 900 received and disbursed have been
much less than under any Democratic
administration, until under Grant they
have been the One-twenty-sixth part of
what they were under Buchanan. sOh,
but" says Col. Atkinson, in his speech at
the Democratic rally ut the court house,
that is only OH the amount reported,
they do not say how much they stole
that they did not report" Well, the
amount for the Democratic administers
ton is only what they reported and they
do not state how much they stole that
was not reported. and would not the pre-
sumption naturally be that If the loss on
what was reported, was so much greater
under Democratic rule that the uilrep0rt-
ed stealings would be likely to be in
the same proportion. 1t is 4 poor rule
tnat won't work both ways, and il will
be impossible to convince the people
that the Democratic thieves reported all
their stealings and that the Republican
thieves Gid not.
The charges of fraud, corruption and
mismanagement on the part of the Re
publican party can not have much force
with thinking men in face of the fac
that iftrue our credit as nation would
be destroyed, when OH the contrary il
it never stood as high as it does at the
present time. Compare the present con
dition of the nations credit with that o
Il Democratic administration, when i'm tn,
time of profound peace, and before th'
nation had been cOnvulSed with civi
war, entalling the VAST extraordinary ex
penses which the Republican party ha
had 10 contend with. Then You find thu
public debt increasing every year. tn
expenditures exceeding the receipts a
follows: Fa f1
For the fiscal year ending June 80
ls57 ............ 930i
ID 'cf"ii
s'p'.3'W
z,or.'4
Total
And the public credit had sunk so 10,
that a loan of $25OO0.000 OH per cent
bonds was only negotiated with tin
greatest difficulty ut a discount of 10 pc
cent below par. Under the Repubiica
party the vast debt. incurred in savin
the nation from the assaults of the dom
inant branch OF the Democratic party.
being paid ut an average rate OF 1919
423. 2s4 per annum. Our bonds bearin
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