The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-10-05

ton had prevailed the last eight years
Suppose that ever since General Gran
has been President land that there ha
been majority of nearly twothirds O
Republicans in Congress), suppose tha
he had teduced the expenditures ever,
year by $30,0O0 900, are you sure ther
would have been panic at alp Are yol
sure that, if this economy in publ
places had prevailed, there would hav
been any panic atallP Suppose that tn
the $50 10000 had not been withdraw
from the public life, from the channel
of trade, from stimulating enterprise ant
commerce and labor, do you think ther
would have been panic2 All 1t is lik,
the man who is bleeding with hemor
rhage, and his cheeks are pale and tn,
blood flows from his system; he loses hi
strength and power, and, finally, by tn,
aid of some good physician his hss of lif,
is stopped, and he begins to grow agair
and recover his strength again, and thu
flush of health is upon his cheek again
So it is in the business Of the country
in itS trade, It's labor its commerce. ThiI
money remaining in the channels o
trade is like the red blood in the arter
les and veins of mans system. 1t viii
give life, vitality and power. Which side
of the question are yon on2
But they say, gentlemen, that there hat
not been so much defalcation as we have
been talking about, and they have been
in the habit OF reading certain let err
written from the Treasury Department
last spring to show that there were great.
er defalCatiOns for the amount of money
collected during Jackson's Administers
ton than General Grants. | have not
seen anybody that ever believed that,
nor do / expect to. did not believe il
when read it. 1t was suggested to me
to-day that during the Martin Van Bu-
rem time there was one defalcation in
the Custom House at New York, and it
was case that reused the public and
excited their Indignation, and that con-
tributed more than any other act in
turning Van Buren's Administration out
of power. How many defalcations do
you believe there are to-day? Mr.. Bris.
tow made a report in June last to Con-
gress, in answer to a Senate resolution;
here l have the list, (pointing to large
volume, do you see them, page after
page, until the entire amount sums up
$5,595,093. Five millions and half in
June last of the pubic money was in de-
fault, not accounted for, was Mr.. Bris
tow's answer to the Senate resolution.
All! this is the best civil service in the
world, some gentlemen say. The best
civil service in the world when there is
such list of men in arrears in their
account with the Government $5,00O,-
000 Some OF that will no doubt be col
lected; but | refer to that in connec.
ton with those statements that you
have seen from the Treasury Depart.
ment of the very small amount that
was lost through Grants Adminislra.
tiOn. But it has not been sc much how
much has heen lost af.er it has been
paid into the Treasury as the amount
which has been lost on its way to the
Treasury. In the Custom house frauds
at New York the money did not get
into the Treasury at all, and yet The
people were robbed. In the crooked
whisky cases the money-milions of
doilars-never got into the Treasury at
all yet ii is loss by fraud, a loss that
calls for reform. And 50 / ask you the
question which WAS asked a little while
ago, Who will you trust for reform?
They say this House of Representatives
is Southern House, that tits a Confed
crate Congress" and should not be trust
ed. know that there are many Demo-
Gratis in the South. | know that among
these Democrats who were in the South
there are many who were in the rebel
army, but how do you propose to correct
that? They were elected to Congress by
the people, under the same Constitution
that enables you TO elect a member to
Congress, IL is representative idea and
system Of Government, and as long as
you stand by that system OF Government
the people in each Congressional District
will elect a Representative according to
their pleasure, and are you prepared to
abandon the republican system of Gov
ernment, that idea of Government which
gives the people the control Of their pub
lie affairs? Before you decide that that
is bad system cast your eye over the
whole system of governments that we
have in the world, and see whether there
is anything better hundred years ago
our fathers said that the Senators should
be chosen by the State and the Repre-
to Congress by the Districts
and the people of the South have selected
their Representatives. Are we Union
are we Union under the Constitution?
If we are, then they elect their Senators
and Representatives, it is not question
whether their selection is agreeable to
you; the question is, Is their selection
agreeable to them? When the people of
this District make selection of mem
Der of Congress we may not like your
man. We Democrats are sure not TO
like your man if you elect a Republican.
Laughtel.] And the Republicans are
sure not to like it when you choose a
Democrat. But we can not review your
decision, and there is no power on earth
no tribunal on earth-to review the
decision of this Congressional District in
the selection of its Representatives in
Congress, and there ought not to be, and,
as you will not allow the people of anoth-
er section to review your decision neither
can you review the decision of any other
Congressional District. Applause Bul
let me ask you'll have said there are a
great many Southern Democrats in Con-
gress, and what they have said and done
you don't like. They were little slow
in passing some bills you did want, and
they did pass some bills perhaps thatyou
did not want, but will you, my Republi-
can friends, be good enough to tell me of
a single bill that passed the House of
Repre- entatives at the last session that
was in conflict with Northern interests or
with Northern honor? Will you tell me
of single bill that the House of Repre-
sentatives passed that in your judgment
condemns 10 day? / wait for the reply.
One single bill that you condemn, or
they condemn. The Confederate Con-
gress, as these men 60 round and de.
nounce it, because it reduced your ex-
penditures $50 100000; because it saved
to Ohio $2,000,000, to Indiana more than
81, ,000,0 900, to this Congressional District
above $4,000 Do you condemn it for
that? Do you condemn this House of
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