The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-11-02

and the people are go well informed of
the iniquity of that combination that
further efforts in that direction will be
likely to prove unremunerative.
They have therefore, brought up al
most every possible claim against the
United States Government relative to
damage done to property by troops DUR
ing the war. They are magnifying the
amount of these claims, and their inten-
ton is to put them through Congress to
an enormous extent. AS part of this
iniquiteus scheme, they are using the
argument against the election of the Re
form candidates, that the Democrats
would be likely to deplete the treasury
by payment of rebel claims. This is the
cry "Stop thief" raised by the robber.
They hope to make their accusation
against the Democracy the occasion and
cover for their own scheme of plunder,
and trust that the people will be induced
to accept, as an argument against the
Democrats, the sham denunciation of
what is really theirown vile plot. If the
Democrats had not obtained control of the
House, these rascals, who care nothing
for the public treasury, except SO far as
it can be operated upon to line their own
pockets, would have already extracted
millions of dollars of the public funds
for their personal gain. The conspiracy
was inaugurated at the beginning of the
Forty-third Congress, and the Republi-
can House of Representatives and Senate
passed favorably nearly S6,000,000 of
these. claims, all of which had been
bought up by the carpet-bag ring, The
Democratic House of the Forty.second
Congress, perceiving the infamous ma
ture of the plundering plan, rejected
these claims with scarcely an exception,
and only passed in all s74, ,553 of claims
for war damages. The committees re-
ported favorably only upon claims to the
amount of 1927, ,00e. The committees of
the Republican Honse, Forty-third Con-
gress, reported favorably upon claims
amounting to over $8,000,000. 1t is
therefore evident that this Infamous con-
spi1acy against the taxpayers of the
country was checked only by the Wig
ilance of the Democratic House, and the
Inauguration of the policy of retrench-
ment and reform. The Republicans
again obtaining control of Congress, and
retaining the control of the Executive,
the treasury will be fairly swamped with
those claims, most of which are fictitious,
and nearly all of which are now owned,
by. assignment, by carpet-baggers and
their fellow-conspirators. Under the
Republican control of the government
any scheme of plunder is feasible, be-
cause the nature of their party admits
of legislative jobbery, and their only
hope of success is founded upon it. With
the Democrats in power such schemes
can not have any chance of sue
cess, because the party of re-
form is necessarily bound by its
principles and declarations as to its con-
Duct in the future, and is pledged by It's
record of last year to continue its career
of retrenchment and economy. Exami-
nation of the claims passed by the Re
publican Forty-third Congress will show
that in nearly every case they have been
assigned to some radical settler in the
South. The certificate Of loyalty is
easily supplied by them, because an oath
is too trivial thing to stand in the way
of the gain of professional perjurers. 1t
is fact that very few of these claims re-
main unassigned, it is also fact that an
understanding has been reached with
the arpetbaggers of the South, that If
they succeed in maintaining control in
certain Southern States, such as South
Carolina, Mississippi and North Carolina,
and Hayes should be elected, they are
to have their reward in the plunder of
false or magnifed claims. The people
will rise up to defeat this gigantic con,
spiracy against the public Treasury, and
they will do so by driving the thieves
out of power, and electing the party of
Reunion, Retrenchment and Reform,
whose majority in the House of Repre-
sentatives secured scrutiny OF all doubt
full claims, reduction of taxation, and
whose triumph now will secure that
hearty union between different sections
of the country which renders it impossi-
BILE for any set of men from any State OF
section to turn the public treasury into
private fund.