Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-08-25

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In 1875, estimating the population a. 4o,OOoO goo,
which vas the estimate Of the Treasury Oepa
i the expenses per capita were 81 10. -
But estimating the population in 1875 at 4S OO0
which lille enough according to the best inforna-
non obtain the expenses were SlS lor eaen in-
habitant This would make the expenditures of the
governments 1873 leaving out those growing out Of
The rebellion as compared with the expenditures OF
1850 IS less per capita, ana proves conelnsTely
that the government Is cheaply ueieds out
side Of the burden entaed by tie war than it was in
WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE
Amidst the elanor We hear every side against an
enormous debt heavy taxes the oppression of indus
try and the deranged currency, is is we'll to remem-
Der that all these evils are Of Democratic orgin that
/ they have been created By Democratic crimes
aud buuders lor which that party should be held
sponsible The Democratic party made the rebellion,
and the rebellion made the debt, heavy taxes green
backs and National banks necessity; and II II IS
decentralization and long trein Of evils are the ineT-
liable consequences of civil war II IS the very inso-
enee Of falseaood to hold the Republican party re-
/ sponsible for them
AUDACTY REQUIRED
It required great zudacty for the Confederate De-
mOeracy TO say US "YoU did not suppress our re-
beIlion as eheaply as you should have done. You
did manage the public deb., taxation, and other
matters growing out Of our treason as well as you
ought to have done therefore we propose take the
settlement OF the consequences OF our crimes and
/ blunders into our own hands"
II is possible the rebellion could have been put
down less cost The rebels say il cUuld, and thar
pense; and they are profoundly indignant at our
want Of economy and skill IN performing the opera
tion.
HAIR OF THE Doe.
Itis an old saying that the hair of the dog is good
for the bite and asked 10 turn o the loyal
physicians and call in the rebel doctors to prescribe
ior the wounds inflicted BY the rebellion; and 10 be-
ieTe that treason. slavery repudiauon violence and
| ignorance are the very best schools Tor reform.
WHAT Is CALLED RErREScHNEEE
They have retrenehed expenses by refusing to ap-
propHte the money necessary 70 carry on the govern
and necessary to the public service, left without
/ sufficient appropriation finish them. This means
/ 70 abandon them and lose what has been expend-
ed, or TO largely increase the appropriations next
year when the election is over. The govern
ment property at the different navy-yards and
naval stations Is estimated 70 be worth S50OOoOOO,
and from its nature, requires annual expenditures for
repairs and 10 keep il in serVieeabe condition. The
amount necessary for this purpose estimated by
The Navy Department AZ S;0OeOOO but the House re-
fused TO appropriate anything, and the Senate, after
long conference obtained an allowance OF only $780,
OOO This retrehchment results in absolute loss II Is
the duty OF Congress make appropriations from year
TO year pay the judgments rendered by the Cuurt
Of Claims The amount required this year is s. co.,
90, and the House refused to appropriate dollar.
This is Tetrenehment BY reputation In private life
man having the means and refusing to pay his debts
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almost every instance where appropriations ars re-
duced it is at the expense Of salaries already low
enough, fixed BY Democratic Congresses before the
war, to the injury of the public service, greatly
cripplng IL, and If not renedied BY deficiency bills
| next winter, in many respects destroying il.
In reviewing the action OF the House in regard to
appropriations and what they call reIrencnment, no
mao can resist the impression that il been taken
in total disregard of the public interest," Nothing has
been done because il ought 20 be done, the public
| interest demanded 1t, but far see, in
every case for political capital or profit
To the impression of retrenchment and econ
Omy it repudialed public debts stnted and crippled
the army and navy, left unfinished public works. Left
navy yards 10 get OF repair and become useless
the laws and reduced salaries to starving Look
/ ing the House from its legislation, should
say that it is uEfriendly TO the government
| know the body Of its members to have been q few
years ago.
| AN ADMINISTRATIONS WHAT THE PARTY MAKES IT.
The administration Of any President will be in the
main hat the party which elected him makes it. II
ne breaks away from his party the chances that
he Will be broken down. In government of parties
like the President must have his advisers The
men 10 whom he owes his election, who have defended
him from assaults whom he must look for support
in the future, viii ordinarily control his ion, and
he will do nothing offensive 10 them. The success Of
Mr.. Tiden will mean the success of the Confederate
Democracy. he would owe his election chiefly to the
South, and from that section would come the of
stern viii and purpose demanding and receiving the
recognition of their policy. The late rebels would
swarm in the Cabinet, run the departments command
the army and navy represent the government al for
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loyal men Of the Nation for their humiliation and de-
feat.
TO understand what a Democratic administration
would be- examine the position and controlling ee-
ments OF that party. The Who expects that hun
CRY cormorants, long deferred expecants gangrened
insIigators of rebellion the Northern sympathzers
who trod the narrow isthmus between open treason
and resistance to the government, fighting for its life,
the slzvedFiYers who had lost their occupation, and
that innumeIaole esfavan Of dead-beats and adven-
tnrers who compose largely the active list of the
Democratic party to become the reformers Of the land
must be indeed the most hopeless OF idiots.
HOW THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Is MADE UP.
With majority Of nearly two-thirds in the House,
they have wholly failed for eight months to produce
any plan, scheme of relief policy the subject
of currency, banking, tarlf, any other economic
question. While abusing everything that exists they
produce nothing, suggest nothing They have
displayed imbecility, incapaeity, and stupidity of
thought and conception, heretofore unknown in the
Ons for the detective business that have done nothing
elevate its character remove the suspicion that
naturally attaches 70 Il. Utterly unable 10 build
themselves up, they seeK 70 pull others down.
The composition OF the present House Of Repre-
senlatives az Washington illustrates the strength and
organization Of the Democratic party. The Southern
members constitute the body aud brains OF party
shape its action aud control whatever policy il has,
They are the head and body Of the animal, and the
Northern Democracy constitute the tail; and our
QuainIsnee with al quadrupeds teaches US that the
body ways the tall and not the tail the body and we
have seen this winter that the Northern Democracy
subservient 10 the South as they were at any
time before the war. The interests and passions of
the South WILL in future, in the long and bloody
past, control the action Of the Democratic party.
Among the Democratic members Of the House, there
sixty-our members who officers and soldiers
| in the COnfederaey. Overthrow by the North and
defeated, they soured and desperately in earnest
and with whom the Northern sympathizers and
dough-aces will be clay in the hands Of the potter.
II you me what will be the Democratic policy in
the future answer whatever the South demands;
whatever her interests. hatred and passions dictate
DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM.
The Democratic platform at ST. Louis may be de-
scribed an elaborate and extended falsehoOd di-
vide0 into sections We may safely defy the most u-
genious to find in 1t honest and truthful state
ment In the first section have this declaration:
"For the Democracy Of the whole country we do
here rearm faith in the permanency Of the Fed
United States with its amendments universally ac-
cepted a final settlement Of the controversies that
engendered civil and do here record steadast
confidence in the perpeuty of republican self govern
menL"
When we reflect that nearly one-hat Of the authors
OF this declaration had been engaged in armed rebel
lion 10 destroy the Union In which they had the SYM
pathy Of the other half, know what they mean by
TeafhrInfng their "faith in the psrmanency Of
the Federal Union" and when for more than
four years nearly the one-haf with the syu-
pathy of the other half, had waged a bloody
war for the overthrow of the Constitution We kpo1
what they mean by "devotion to the COnstitution;D
that they love the Union and Constitution as well
they have ever done, we can all readily believe
Such declarations by the Convention, In view of the
personal history Of the great Of its uembers
but hideous mockerea and intended only for de-