Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-08-18
MORTON.
Extracts from the Great Speech OF
tho Indiana Senator at Indianapolis.

Senator Morton delivered his first
speech in the campaign, at Indianap-
oils, on Friday evening last. 1t was
most powerful and convincing eff
fort, Astounding in facts and figures,
not to be gainsayed or controverted.
We give that portion of it in which
the Senator pays his respects to Mr..
Tilden, and exposes the perversions
of fact and demagoguery contained
in his letter of acceptance.
| SANDER OF THE NATION.
Mr.. Tilden, the Governor of New
York, was serenaded the other even
ing in honor of his nomination for
President by the Democratic Con-
vention, and in reply said:
"What next do we find in the public
administration? Everywhere abuses, pc
culations, frauds and corruptions, until We
are almost becoming ashamed of the in
stitutlons of our country, and instead of
holding them up as examples for the imi-
| eoVioA Va ohS OPplNcoSu pSOplC VI OuuCl
countries, we are confessing them as scan
dial in the eyes of mankind. We find the
office-holding class have become so nu-
merous, so powerful and INSCRIPTIONS
that they assume to control the elections,
and if the people are indifferent or at all
equally divided, are liable to exert cor
rupt influence sufficient to perpetuate their
own power.
cat least we are reaching the worst
condition of the countries of the Old
World. The government no longer ex-
lists for the people; the people exist only
for the government. Our Centennial pro-
duct is the evils, license and wrongs to es-
cape which our ancestors abandoned their
homes in the Old World and planted them
selves in the wilderness"
The fact that Il candidate for Pres
ident should have made such
speech is the strongest evidence that
can be produced of our political deg
radiation. When he says that all
business is ruined, that the wolf is at
the door of every house in the land,
gaunt and hungry, and that our Cen
tennial product is the evils, license
and wrongs to escape which, our an
cestry abandoned their homes in the
Old World, he uttered ISLANDERS
shameless and enormous.
The nearest approach to the con-
dition of things he describes is to be
found in the city of New York under
his own administration IN those Dem
ocratic purlieus and among the peo-
pie who gave him so large majority.
The crying evil of the day is the
malicious falsehood which covers
alike the President and the humblest
citizen, and permeates public and
private life.
HAVE OFFICIAL MORALS DETERIoRAr-
ED?
So far from official morals deteri-
Grating, the public service becoming
debauched, and the country standing
on the brink of ruin, l pronounce
this and all kindred statements,
which make up the body and trim
mlngs of the Democratic platforms
and speeches, to be unmitigated bosh
and demagoguery, and that the very
opposite is the truth. On the 9th of
February last, the Senate, by reSo-
luton, called upon the Secretary of
the Treasury for a statement of all
the balances due the United States
from defalcations or failures to make
settlement, beginning on the first of
January, 1884.
DEFALCATIONS GREATLY DIMINISHED.
The answer was sent to the Sen
ate a few weeks ago, and | submit an
extract from statement made by
Mr.. Anthony, Senator from Rhode
Island, chairman of the committee to
whom the document was referred:
Mr. Anthony 1.-THE aggregate state
mcnt of the disbursements of the Trcasu-
ny under the list is a paper exceedingly
crcditable to the American Government
| do not mean to any particular party,
but to the financial history of the Uuitcd
States. There has been disbursed since
1881 can hardly read such big figures
-$13, 93G, $40, 072 05, of which is marked
upon these books $22, 2GG, 600, being al
most half million of dollars year, and
a great part of this is nominal, not real
"The losses On the 81 GOO of disburse-
ments were in the administration of Jack |
son, $40 SIS; Van Buren,, $21 10; Harrison,
$1O.37; Polk, SIS. "a; Taylor and Fillmore
1854; Pierce, 1886; Buchanan, nearly
$G.9S; Lincoln. 81 Al johnson, As cents;
Grant the first four years, 40 cents; the |
second four years, 26 ccnts-showing a
constant decline, which is owing in
large degree to the improved manner of
keeping the accounts and that is due |
very largely to the committee on Finance
and Appropriations, who have introduced |
legislation here which has compelled much
greater accuracy and responsibility. The
average percentage of losses during this |
whole period on the disbursements is ST.
SO on the thousand. / do not believe |
that the aggregate of any class of corpor.
ate or private business, banking, CONNER
cial, or any other kind, can show SO small
percentage of loss as this, and it is graft
lying that the percentage of loss is con.
tinually decreasing, coming down from
$21 IS in the administration of Van Bu- |
rem to an average of twenty three cents on
Viz tHOuSull uOllallS, VI Ouly uDOuI OHc- !
sixteenth as much under the present aG-
ministration. This is exclusive of the |
Postoflce, which administers its own rev.
enue. In the Pcstoffice the loss has gone
down from $11.1a on the 81 900 in Jack
sons administration, and $2G19 in Van
Buren's, to $3.50 for the first term of
Grant, and 81 OF for the second; with an
average Of 1881 for the whole period"
From the foregoing statement it
appears that the losses during Grants
first four years were only l.26 part
on the $1,000 of what they were dur
ing the second administration of
General Jackson; only 1-52 part of
what they were during the admins
tration Of Van Buren,; only lis part
of what they were during Buchanan's
the last Democratic administration.
The losses during Grants second
term, now more than three years
gone, on the $1,000 are only LAC
part of what they were during the
administration Of Jackson; 1-s1 part
of what they were during Van Blu
ren's administration, and 1926 part Of
what they were during Buchanan's
administration. The figures, which
are mathematical deduction from the