The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-15

which Is the Honest and Eco
nOImicaE Party.


of peace as they have to be proud
of its splendid career in time of
war. It is the party of capacity as
well as Of loyalty. It represents
the intelligence as well as the pat
riOtism of the country. 1t has adj
ministered the government since
the war with signal ability. The
more its record is studied the more
honorable it VIII appear.
Take its financial record. DEM
ocrats have not displayed any dis
position to gnaw the file presented to
them in the official Treasury state
ment of receipts and expenditures
during the past forty years. That
statement is crushing refutation
of the charges that have been so
freely made by the Democrats
against the Republican party.
The gross total of disbursements,
exclusive of the post-ofice, for the
tWenty-seven and half years, be-
ginning January !, 1854, and end
ing June so, 1861, was 81 1853, 977,-
502.52; total losses, $12, 361, 722.91.
All these years except eight, the
country was under Democratic
administrations, and nearly four
years of these eight, John Tyler
was President, man who can
hardly be accused of having been a
strong Wing.
In the fourteen years beginning
with July l, 1861, and ending with
June 80, 1875, the Republican party
was in power. The gross total re-
ceipts, exclusive of the post-office,
were $12,566, 1872, 569.53; the total
losses were S9,905, 2O4.37.
That is, the total disbursements
eff the former period were about
one-tenth as large as during the lat
ter, and the losses about quarter
greater. On each thousand dollars
of disbursements in the former Pc
riod the losses were $9O2; in the
latter, rs cents.
The last two Democratic admin
istrations were those Of Pierce and
Buchanan. The gross total of dis
bursements, exclusive of the post
Office, in Pierce's administrator
was $685., 63S, 875.65. The losses
were $l,S74.S5264. The loss on
each $1,C10 was $3.50.
In Buchanan's administration the
total disbursements were 1928, 1884,
2C9.39. The losses were 50, 292, S26.-
90. The loss on each $1,000 was
$698. ..4
In the first four years of Grants
administration the disbursements
were $2,601 ,159, 5000. The losses
were $1,O46, 2O2.4S. The loss on
each 81, 900 was 40 cents.
In the two years of Grants sec
ond term, ending June 80, 1875, the
disbursements were 81, 406. SOS, 49,
81. The losses were $3.50, 338, 81.
The loss on each 81, COO was 26 cts.
The losses were reduced in their
ratio to the disbursements. That
reduction was from $3.50 and 6.98
in the two last Democratic admins
trations, TO 40 cents and 26 cents in
Grants. More than this, the aggre-
gate of losses was reduced, though
the disbursements were from eight
60 nearly ten times as large. Tai
ulated they stand thus:
Ratio of Aggregate
Pierce. ..... 1886 S1,6I4, 852 ga
Buchanan. 6'9S 1922, s25.h2
Grant-First term 40 LOG. 203.AS
Grant-Second term .26 $40, 33S.S1
Things do not improve for the
Democracy if we go further back.
Take Jackson, the father of modern
Democracy, the founder of their
spoils system. His gross total of
disbursements was Sic, 30S, 325.19.
The aggregate loss was 81, l63, 1851.
The loss on each $1,000 was $10.55.
His disbursements were less than
cne-twentieth as large as those
of Grants first term, and his ratio
of loss more than twenty times
greater. The actual losses also ex-
ceeded those of Grant by more than
100000. The exact figures. are
these:
Loss on
JAG. S11O, 30S, S25.19 81, 1853, 1876. OF. sIO.55
Grant, S2,U0I ,15S, $50 so 1,016 ,5o2.48 40
In Van Buren's administration
affairs were even worse than this.
His disbursements were one-tWen.
tieth as large as those of Grant.
His actual losses were more than
twice as great, and his ratio of loss
more than fifty times as great.
Compared with the first two years
of Grants second term, the ratio of
loss was almost seventy-five times
as great. Again we give the exact
figures:
Loss on
Disbursements. Losses. 81. 900
sis7, O9l, 1884 s2,ss9, 65s.s4 Spills
| Grant-First term
6OI, i5s, 5000 1885, O2.5s 40
Grant-Second term,
4O6.6G9,s 1881 SIG, 1851 90
The first term the Republicans
came into the control of the Gov
eminent, the ratio of losses to dis
1 bursements began to decrease. 1t
had been ranging from $3.50 on the
thousand dollars to $21.15. 1t has
steadily decreased, administration
after administration, until the last
two years fer which the statement
has made up it is only 26 cents on
the thousand.
If we examine departments we
fn0 the ratio of loss reduced in a
similar degree. The aggregate loss
in the War Department in the first
two years of Grants second terra
was So, 1880, q smaller sum than
was lost under any other admins
tration since the tiEe of Jackson,
and Including that. The loss on
each thousand dollars has been but
% cents. In Jackson's time it was
$3.50; in Van Buren's ,S5.4S; in
Folks, S.zl; in Pierce's, S6.05 and
in Bachanan's, 1925.
In the Navy Depar: nent, the ag-
gregate losses in the first two years
of Grants second term were also
less than during any administration
since and including Jackson's-
$26, 67077 against $2I3, 405.49 in
Jackson's; SOL .246.23 in Van Blu
ren's; Sis, 666.60 in Folks; $751;
505,68 in Pierce's; $lS3, 510-52 in
Buchanan's. The loss on the thous-
and dollars was decreased from
$l0.53 in Jacksonis time to so cents
in Grants.
In the Indian department, the ag-
gregate loss in Grants second term,
was $2.676.3S, against $I30, 256.56 -