The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-11-01
Qhe Sesrtimel.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER /.
NATIONAL FINANCES AND THE
RADICAL PARTY.


new lease of power At no time since the
nominations were made have the organs,
speakers and manipulators of the Radical
campaign machinery shown disposition to
meet the real issues involved. On the con-
trary. as lies have been nailed, frauds ex-
posed and SANDERS squelched, they have
concocted and published others, if possible,
more Infamous, and held on to them with
devilish tenacity, and have abandoned them
only, when the people, seeing the atrocity of
their plans and purposes, have indicated to
them that lies though well stuck to, are not
as potential as truth, that ISLANDERS are not
relished by honest men NOR accepted
As arguments by intelligent partisanS.
If the frauds committed by the Radical par
ty since it came into power, could be repre-
sented by granite blocks, there would he
enough of them to build monument as
high as Chiuborazo. If the lies told a thou
sand times or more could be Gquiiied they
would form a stream compared with which
the Wabash would be rivulet. Still this par
ty of frauds and corruptions, of hypocricies
and hates, enters the presidential campaign,
claiming to be the special representative of
all that is decent and honest and OF good
repute, and with an impudence that should
make Bob Isgersoll or the Devil blush
crimson, charges the Democratic party
with dishonesty and an intention,
if placed in power, to rob the
government by practicing the viii
lanies which have made its own record
odious throughout the civilized world. Mr..
Tilden in his letter of acceptance said that
the people had, i'm the last eleven years
been subiested to taxation by the Federal
government to the amount of $500, 100000
and for this he has been denounced by all
the Radical organs and stump speakers
from ocean to ocean. But the people have
been waking up, and they demand to know
where this vast sum of money has gone.
The interest on the public debt, the amount
paid on the public debt, the amount of pen
sions, premiums on loans and purchases of
bonds, making in all s., 1S9, 5O4,97S, cOnsti-
tute the extraordinary expenses which
the government was bound to pay.
If this is deducted from the amount of taxa
ton, viz: - 457 900 600, it leaves 81, ,597,
766 for the ordinary expenses of the govern
ment for eleven years, and the men who have
controlled this vast sum contend that it has
been properly expeAded. This is the
centennial falsehood of the party. In
every department fraud has been dis
covered. In every payment there has
been theft; forgery and perjury
companions in every transaction; villainy
crops out everywhere in the record. Robson
paid $40, 0e0, 600 beyond legitimate .expendi-
lures, and has grown rich off of a plundered
people In the Indian Bureau fraud is
found on almost every page of the records.
The savages have been armed and swindled
at the same time. They have cost the coun-
try So, 057 no, when half the amount was
more than sufficient.
In the Pension Bureau, Mr.. Ingalls,, chair
man of the Senate committee, esti-
mated the frauds at S5,0O0,00O annually,
or S55,0OO.OO0 for the eleven years.
In the civil service business the frauds have
been piled up and pressed down until the
figures taken from the records startle the
nation with establishment. In this branch
of expenses the expenditure for the years
1s72-73-74-75-76, five years, reached s341, $685.
1926. For the same service i'm the five
years before the war, 1s56-57-5s-59-GO, there
was disbursed s1ss, 1896, 0S5.97, or S203, 100000
more in five years under Radical rule than
under Democratic government.
In the army the stealing has been stupen-
dous, as is shown by the figures. In 1861
5S-59-60, five years, the disbursements of
the department of war were s101, Jas, 944;
for the years 1s72-73-74-75-76, five years,
under Mr. Belknap amounted to 1908, 10O,-
757-more than double nle amount of ex-
penses for the five years before the war.
But the party, not content with stealing
from the treasury of the United States, sent
its representative men to the Southern states
where they engaged in plundering an OPP
pressed and impoverished people. These crea-
lures found the debts of the Southern states
amounting to $56, 1894, l9s, and under their
operations they have been swollen to $685.
Isl, 143; nor is this the extent of the robberies
of the Radical party and rulers. During the
last ID years the government has been robbed
of 159, 4S6, 766 acres of land-about 10000
square miles, or an area greater than Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island,
Connecticut Delaware, Maryland, Indiana,
Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio COM
bined, and all TO railroad corporations, while
during the whole ~ years-from 1889 to 1861
but 0,0Oo, 600 acres of public land were
given away for these purposes.
Is there any wonder that times
are hard, that business is depressed,
and that the country is filled with
idle men and women TO run the
government machinery the Radical