Saint Mary's beacon., 1876-12-21

pity the DemoqF9e1
Buchanan Aem1nasF
reform. IheIe MH lfl4h
public expenqfurea Pef1n4<
every year 80 30 ao oeEs
at IL and 70 - eent g g
ordinary oPenn99s- fhe
the Secretary e ~ itfa4 {:
ateiy upon the moh4x
last xinter askeA SnM Ae a.
to refund the 4pef cent
bonds bearing .lnferea4 q
per cent. The Senate acted &
but the House waited six a.
out acting But reaily Me
and see if those reductiOns
ponemeuts- .Sevexal onpEo
xess <loom33 t.s& Il
through the House and The maDs&6rs.
said II the amounts were. not large
enough they could make up the defici-.
encies this winter. P says that the war
was not waged for the special purpose
Of freeing the negro. know that the
North did not enter the contest for that
purpose. 1t was the intention Of the
Republican leaders to tree them by
constitutional means. But the war was
commenced by the South to perpetuate
slavery, and as they sought to carry their
points by unconstitutional methods,
they have no right to complain if they
suffered by their own acts-it is some
times well to fight the devil with fire.
He also says something about tariff.
Prate about that as much as you like P.
Your talk of ruinpus tariff reads like
the tariff and currency planks Of the
democratic platforms. 1t Is impossible
to find out what any OF it means. He
says something about industry being
paraiized. Now every intelligent man
knows tnat there mas oeen regular recur-
rences OF panics about every ten years.
caused oy over producuon. we mad
one during an buren administration,
one In POLK s term and one IN Buch han
an s. oamee u 70 say tnat the Purchas-
ing power OF ousnet oi wheat or corn
or 10: OF tobacco Is greater now than
was before the war. lrepeat that the
kePubiican party Is proud OF Its record.
II has freed 4,ooo,ooo human beings;
1t has made them cihzens. and 1t strives
10 oProtect them In their rights. The ne
eessities OF the times demanding apaper
currency 1t has devised the best system
ever Known which had 1t not been for
the GaPt'ous oppositIon OF democrats
Wouio nave oeeh on par win gold.
IL mas brought ofcer out OF chaos, and
has managed the affairs OF the country
IN more honest and business like man
ner than they have ever been before.
IL also fosters the public school wher-
ever II gets control ana su1vest 10 make
every man an inteii'gent citizen, and
last but not least 1t has preserved the
Union. That many patriotic democrats
assisted :hem, no one denied. But an
lmbeciie democratic administration al
lowed rebellion to organize. Now
what is the record OF the democratic
party: 1t is well known fact that
large sums of government money were
employed in affecting the passage of
the Lecompton and English bills by
Congress, and the evidence shows large
sums robbed from the Government by
the Public printer during Buchanan's 5
administration and still further i'm the
large sums of money stolen by Jacob
Thompson, and in the grand robberies
of Floyd and IN the Misrepresentation of
public moneys by Cobb. An through
the administrations of the democratic
party we can find fraud and corruption
sapping the vitals of the body poliuc.
Custom House officers, Posimasters,
Marshals and Indian agents, and none
were punished. Why. Because the
public was kept in ignorance. The old
democratic warming, Hush don't tell,
it will hurt the party, silencing all COM
ment. When the republicans came
into power IT was found that Iooseness
and disorder in all the departments ofthe
Government were the rule, and order and
care the exception. Congress was IN the
habit OF making appropriations in gross
and indefinite sums. The departments
were permitted the widest range and
discretion, whereas, under Republican
rule, all appropriations are made in the
greatest detail and in specific sums,
leaving little or nothing to the discre-
tion OF the Officers of the Government.
NOW the conditions that obtained an
democratic tunes are reversed and We
hnd order, care and integrity the rule,
and looseness and disorder the excep-
hon. One OF the democratic managers
Iord) IN his able speech on the Bel,
knap trial said. Senators, there is now
a higher and heaithie! sentiment than
IN any former age. Men are held to
official responsibilities now, thank God.