Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-10-19
Bushnell Again.

Mr.. I3ushnell's Hell Gate, promised
BIZ the ADVOCATE, has exploded. The
gate is bur.tef open and he invites
Republicans to walk in. We are not
eoirg We will try and put little
moro Dure white sn1 on his door
steps u cool him off q li.tle The
only point made IN his first charge
of lyman ito is that We reiterate the
"ill.advised assertion that William
Cullen Bryant docs not SUI port I'll
don" One Of the prominent reasons
why Mr.. BUSHNELL supports Tilden
was stated by him To be that Bryant
and men like him supported Tilden.
The Advocate, also an xious to appear
respectatl, by association with re-
p1a: thl) NAM. keeps stsndlng In
bolt letters that Bryant is for Tildcn.
w We na mist usen.f but they aTo So oo
plo>"ly given over to delusion that
they CANNOT believe the truth. When
the devil gets people they can be'
lieve nothing but lies.e We will h., :,
To lot them go thrOn0I '"oi
Gate"-bu. 70 will let our readers
into the secret. Everybody knows
that the New York Post, Bryant's
paper, is for Hayes. Several of its
Hayes articles have been copied into
the HERALD. When Mr. BUshn, lrs
charge against Bryant was first made
we wrote to the editor of that paper
desiring copy of that paper which
tells how Bryant vctea. It's manag-
ing editor replied
"Mr. Bryant is Editor Of this
journal and inspires and approves
Its course. 1t has not been his custom
to speak of himself in the columns of
his own journel which echoes has
riews daily"
This ought 10 settle the matter in
tho minds Of our readers but we
wish them rot TO tell Mr.. Bushnell
or tho other fellow anything about
IL fer we feel toward them ike the
Lori must have fell towards Pha-
r4oh when He hardened his heart.
They arr Joined 10 their idols, let
them ul)ne. We showed Mr..
Bushuell's figures clearly to be erro-
neous; made the showing so clear
that any man who can understand
them must know that he was wrong
and we are right. He hugs that de-
fusion Us be does his others. No,
he does not; be ia only trying 10
whip the devil round the stump. We
will not follow him. Once more we
undertake to make the truth plain.
We show that the Government has
paid since the war, nearly seven hun
dred millions of debt, aud at the
same time reduced the yearly expen-
ditures from $500, sos. All in 1866 10
s25S, 459, 797 in 1876. Mr.. Bushnell
attempts to show that only $780,
OO0,0 of debt has been paid, and
pretends not to understand how we
get the reduction SO large ss We do.
Mr.. Bushnell cannot find figures to
Justify his statement that so small a
sum has been paid. We are told
that the debt statement simply
means SO much money in the treas.
ury to pay the running expenses.
Mr.. B. might as well say that no
debt has been paid. For eleven
years our Secretaries have been pub
fishing statements of the debt reduc-
ton and condition of the treasury at
the end of every month. The bal
ance in the treasury has always been
counted as part of the reduction. II
it was counted as part of the reduc-
ton at the beginning of the time and
then counted as part of the reduction
Mt the end of the time named, is it
not plain that tho statement will
show the actual reduction For in
stance in the statement for the
month of August appear these bal
ances: