Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-08-16

ional debt. On the 3Oth of June, 1866, d
he debt was t2,64O, 348, 900; now it is v
q, O6O, 925,OOO. In 1865 the revenue i
derived from internal revenue taxes Q
was 1909, 226,Sl In 1876 it was $1l6,- '
100000, a reduction of nearly two
thirds, or nearly $2OO,OOO,O 600 per an
mum. This does not look like national
and paralysis.
Contrast this with the last imbecilc,
slovenly and vcnal Administrator of
James Buchanan. During his four
years, in q time of profOundest peace,
the revenues fell short of the ordina-
ry expenditures $75,2l7,l 19, which
sum was made up by loans and added
to the burden with which the Repub-
lican party received the government
in 1861. To enable the Government
to live from day to day during the
last Of these four years the q per cent.
bonds of the United States were
hawked about the markets of the
world, and disposed of with difficulty
at reduction of II per cent. 1t was
during this administration, which was
relieved from the charge Of idiocy
only by being convicted of treason,
that Hendricks was Commissioner of
Public Lands, Floyd and Thompson
were in the Cabinet, the trust funds
were stolen in broad daylight, and
the national arms publicly conveyed
to the South, where they were seized
without opposition. 1t is marvel Of
human audacity for any one connect
ed with the administration of James
Buchanan to ask the confidence of the
American people.
Amidst the clamOr we hear on ev-
ery side against an enormous debt,
heavy taxes, the oppression of indus
try, and the deranged currency, ii is
we'll to remember that all Of these
evils are of democratic origin; that
they have been created by democratic
crimes and blunders for which that
party should be held responsible.
The democratic party made the re-
bellion, and the rebellion made the
debt, heavy taxes, greenbacks aud
| National Banks necessity; and ii ii
| it true, as we are constantly told, that
public and private Decentralization
and long train of evils are the inev-
liable consequences of a civil war, it
is the very insOlence of falsehOOd to
hold the Republican party response
BILE for them.
1t requires great audacity for the
4 Confederate democracy to say to us /:
"You did not suppress our rebellion
as cheaply as you ought to have done.
You did not manage the public debt,
taxation, and other matters growing
out of our treason, as we'll as you
ought to have done, therefore we pro-
pose to take the settlement of the con-
sequences of our crimes and blunders
into our own hands,"
1t is possible that the rebellion
could have been put down at less
. cost. The rebels say it could, and we
u ought to have whipped them at one
4. half the expense; and they are pro-
! fOundly indignant at our want OF
I economy and skill in performing the
!. operation.
The Administrator will be in tht
: main what the party which elected
e him makes it. If he breaks away
: from his party, the chances are tina
}. he will be broken down. In a gov
u eminent of parties like ours the Pres
y ident must have his party. The MEL
l. to whom he owes his election, wh'
- have defended him from assaults, t,
y whom he must look for support il
u the future, will ordinarily control hi
action, and he will do nothing Ofiens
i've to them. The success Of Mr.. Til
- den means the success of the COnfed
crate democracy. lie would owe hi
J. election chiefly to the South, and from
Y that section would come the men O
Y stern will and purpose demandin;
IS and receiving the recognition OF thei
n policy. The late rebels would swarm
d. in the Cabinet, run the departments
n command the army and navy, repre-
n sent the government at foreign court
te and find ten thousand ways to punis
y the loyal men of the nation for thei
~ humiliation and defeat.
" To understand what Democrat
le Administration would be, examin
rs the position and controlling element
IL of that party. The man who expect
that hungry cormorants, long defer
" red expectants, gangpened instigatol
X Of rebellion, the Northern sympathi;
T. ers who trod the narrow isthmus b.
u, tween treason and resistance to tn
Ill government, fighting for its life, tn
slave drivers who have lost the
G. occupation, and that innumerabl
s- caravan Of dead-beats and adventu1
d. ers who compose so largely the actiy
" list Of the democratic party, to. b.
II come the reformeYs Of the land, mu
is be indeed the most hopeless ,
We idiots.
q. an The platform says:
"RefOrm is necessary to put q ste
nj to the prOfligate waste of the publ
~ lands and their diversion from actu
~ settlers by the party in power, whit
'"' has squandered 100000, 600 acres upt
railroads alone, and out of more this
Sc thrice that aggregate has disposed
u less than a sixth directly to tillers
% the SOIL"
,e. The merit of this resolution will
IN appreciated when refer to the Fl,
no no that the candidate for Vice Preside,
nd Gov. Hendricks, was in the Sena
NV six years, and during that perit
- : q when most of the public lands we
M granted to railroads, and was dist
nat guished for the general hearty su
ees port he gave to such grants, and pa
no ticularly for his earnest and repeat
arc advocacy and the large share he HI
Tor in the grant of about 81, Zoo, 600 acr
a.. to the Northern Pacific Railroad, t
lie most stupendous gift ever made tG
10 corporation. But it may be said
ho exteppation of this that if Govern
ass Hendricks has had go much to
nix with giving public property to ra
md road corporations, that Gov. Tild
oss has shown great ability in relievi
the such corporations of their proper
DO and that taking both together tn
* make a good pair on the railro
ran question. As q further commenta
mn upon this resolution, may add I
nv single remark that it was the Repn
his lican party that granted the hon
;oh steads to actual settlers upon the pI
.ha lie lands--a boon which had be
MN haughtily denied through every de
,n's ocratic administration.
an COMPOSITION OF THE ST. LOUIS coNyF
OF TION.
18th Let us consider briefly the conn
Pc sition of the st. Louis Convent
that passed this remarkable platfol
it and put in nomination those dist
nts gpisled Feformers, Tilden and HI
on bricks.
ingj There was the old STAKEHOLDER W
on heart full of bitter memories,
du- lieving that emancipation was r.
Bu- berry, and his only hope of indemn
ere in the democratic party.
no. There was the old agitRt0r q
sses secessionist, who had hurried sta
ow into rebellion and drafted ordinan
the of secession.
hey There were the officers and soldi
ira who had borne the Confederate fl
hat upon many bloody field, and W
lin proudly pointed to their rebel recO
hey as their title-deed to Office and glo
,ra- There were the members OF
he rebel Congress at Richmond, W
zed had debated with closed doors
the question of the black flag.
lid There were the architects and ,
are tenders of Belle Isle, Libby, And
'rn- sonville and Salisbury, scenes of h
hey ror Of which the Modocs in their Ia
has fortress never dreamed of.
Of There were the Northern SYM