The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-08-24

<AI'hAl"NhhsNI Or DEMOCRATlC SHAM RE-
FoRM-THE RECORDS OF THE TWO
PARTIEs-THEIR CANDIDATES AND
PRINCIPLES F
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 11.-Senator
Morton was tonight escorted by the Hayes
Guards in uniform from his hotel to the
Academy of Music, which was filled with
people to overhowing. The Hon. Albert
q. Porter there presided and introduced
the Senator, who opened the campaign in
Indiana with a speech which in given in
abstract below. He arraigned the Demo
cratic party for its attitude toward the
leading questions of the past 20 years :;
dwelt upon the course they have pursued
IN the present House of Representatives ;
discussed the records of Governors Tilden
and Hendricks, and their letters of ac-
eeptance; spoke of the Southern outrages,
and concluded with references to Gov.
Hayes record as soldier and as private
citizen. nea Hanr
THE SPEECH.
Again the Republican and Democratic
parties confront each other in a struggle
for the control of the Government. The
Republican party points with pride and
satisfaction to its record Of honorable deeds;
to a Union preserved, slavery abolished, to
establishment of equality before the law, to
Il government we'll administered, and to its
principles replete with Justice, humanity,
and the advancing civilization of the age
In such a campaign, with SANDER as the
chief weapon, Republicans must be excused
if they speak plaiiiiy of the political charac-
ter, history, and purpose of their antag-
onists
If the Old World should believe what is
said by the leaders of the Democratic party,
by sham reforners, and the night ravens
Of politics, they would conclude that the
people of the United States are the most
corrupt and degraded Of all nations on earth
claiming to be civilized Mr.. Tilden, the
Governor of New York, was serenaded the
other evening in honor Of his nomination
for President by the Democratic Conven-
! ton, and in reply said
What next do we find in the public
administration Everywhere abuses, pecula-
tions, frauds and corruptions, until we are
almost ashamed of the institutions of our
country, and instead of holding them UP as
! examples for the imitation of the oppressed
| people Of other countries, we are confcssing
them as scandal in the eyes of mankind
We find the ofice-holding class have be-
/ come so numerous, powerful and un-
! scrupulous that they assume to control the
elections, and, if the people are Indifferent
| or at all equally divided, are liable to exert
|
their own power. ...-
The fact that candidate for President
| should have made such speech is the
! strongest evidence that can be produced of
our political degration. When he says
/ that all business is ruined, that the wolf Is
at the door of nearly every house in the
/ land. gaunt and hungry, and that. our
Centennial product is the evils, license and
wrongs. to escape which our ancestry
abandoned their homes in the Old World,
he utters SANDERS shameless and enormous.
The nearest approach to the condition of
things he describes is to be found in the
| City of New York under his own administra-
ton in those Democratic purlieus and
among the people who gave him his large
majority.
OFFICIAL MORALS.
So far from official morals deteriorating,
the public service becoming debauched,
and the country standing on the brink Of
ruin, I pronounce this and all kindred
statements, which make up the body and
trimmings of Democratic platforms and
speeches, to be unmitigated bosh and
demagogism, and that the very opposite is
the truth On the 9th of February last,
the Senate, by a resolution, called upon
the Secretary of the Treasury for state
ment Of all the balances due the United
| States from defalcations or failures to make
settlement, beginning on the 1st Of January,
1884 From the statement it appears that
the losses during Grants first four years
were only 1-26 part on the 81 600 of what
they were during the second administra-
ton of Gen jackson; only l-52 part of
what they were during the administration
of Van Buren ;>only lis part Of what they
were during Buchanan's, the last Demo
cratic administration The losses during
| Grants second term, now more than three
years gone, on the 81 900 are only LAG
part of what they were during the admins
tration of jackson ; lis part Of what they
were during Van Burens administration,
and 1-26 part of what they were during
| Buchanans administration. X y * x
On the same day Mr. Morrill,, of Ver-
mont, laid before the Senate letters from
the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
and from the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue. These letters and figures over
turn mountains of falsehood which ought
! to bury our .calumniators beneath them
The truth is, that although defalcations and
malfeasances sometimes occur, and always
WILL there is more official integrity, the
revenues are more faithfully collected, and
the public service better performed than at
any former period. During the last fiscal
year ending the Both of June, 1876, the
surplus revenue was $29,249,000, which
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