The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-22
DEMOCRATIC DEEDS.
What the Present House Of Repressn
tatives Has Done.

edited by the government advertising;
the ring Republican politicians who have
not yet been locked up in the penitentia
rics; the conventions of oifice-holdcrs,
whose only purpose in life is to keep
their hold upon the public treasury, and
one or two newspapers like the New
York Tribune, which arc on the fence,
with one leg down on the Republican
side, solemnly assure lis that it has done
nothing. They tell us that the House
has forfeited public confidence, and
proved by its deeds that the majority in
it ought at the next election to be swept
away, and the benches it occupies filled
by men "who were true to the country i'll
its hour of peril" and who when the
hour of peril passed, robbed it upon the
right hand and the left; who turned
every one Of its departments into den
of infamy; used its highest offices for
the purpose of making money; plunged
the whole country into financial panic,
from which it has not yet recovered;
turned by its vicious legislation millions
of men into the streets to beg; filled the
workhouses and jails, and brought dis
grace and shame upon republican insti-
tutions at home and abroad. The men
who did all this, so-callcd independent
journals like the Tribune are asking the
country to again place in power and give
to them again the opportunity TO contin-
ue their work of destruction, and drag
the Nation to still lower depths of fnan-
cial and political ruin. Let us see what
the present House has and has not done:
First. 1t has not elected a Speaker like
Schuyler Colfax, who used his high Office
to enrich himself; who was bribed and
bought by every band of adventures and
swindlers who came to Washington du-
ring his term of Office; who was caught
in the credit nobilicr iniquity; who was
detected in stationery frauds in the House
and exposed as broker, receiving regu-
lar commissions from New York paper
establishment. 1t has not elected a
Speaker like James G. Blaine, who used
his position to influence legislation in
favor of railroad subsidies; who acted as
the agent of firearms company; who
sold rulings and legislation for so much
cash down in the shape Of railroad
bonds
Second. Since it met last December it
has not been devising ways and means,
day after day, to get money out of the
treasury. On the contrary, it has cut
down the extravagant estimates of the
departments, and if the Senate will pass
its bills, has reduced the running expen-
ses of the government nearly forty mil
lions of dollars per annum. Instead of
making places for the creatures of the
administration, creating Offices for men
to live in idleness at the expense of the
sorely-taxed people, it has abolished
every office that was not absolutely nee
essary, and, so far as it could do so,
stopped the leaks in the public treasury.
Third. 1t has not legislated frcedman's
bank into existence, and placed it in the
power of lot of men to steal the earn
ings and savings of the poor colored men
of the South amounting to millions of
dollars. On the contrary, it has taken
the robbers and swindlers who did that
infamous work by the throat, exposed
their rascality and directed the officers of
the government to send their names be-
fore the grand juries.
Fourth. 1t has gone into President
Grants Cabinet and dragged out of it
one of his trusted advisers, who abused
his high place; who robbed the dead
veterans of the war; who aided in cheat
ing the living soldiers on the plains; who
demanded money for every appointment
he made, and brought him to trial for
his many crimes
Fifth. 1t has shown how the funds of
the so-called department of justice have
been used for the purpose Of controlling
elections in the South and in the North;
how the President put his hand into the
public treasury and took out money to
aid in his own reelection. 1t has ex-
posed the villainy of Williams, the ras-
cality of Davenport and the general cor
ruption of that entire branch of the
public service.
Sixth. 1t has stretched its hand across
the water to London and saved the honor
of the country by collaring the minister
and ambassador extraordinary, who was
using his influence as our representative
to "bull" a worthless mining stock and
rob the English people. 1t compelled
the President to accept his resignation
and send Robert G. Schenck into an OBJ
scurity from which he will never again
come.
Seventh. 1t has shattered the District
of Columbia ring into thousand atoms;
indicted Babcock for completely with
safe burglars; made Harrington fugi-
tive from Justice, and exposed the rotten
ness and corruption of the present COM
missioners.
Eighth. 1t has instituted rigid scruti-
nv into the management Of the Navy
Department, exposed the corrupt opera
tions of the Cattells and other plumber
ers, and before the investigation closes
will expose whatever is rotten and cor
rupt in the service.
Ninth. 1t has laid bare the straw-bid
system in the Postofice Department, and
proved that the country has been annual
| " robbed of hundreds of thousands of
dollars for carrying letters which were
never written over routes that never had
an existence.
Tenth. 1t has exposed the infamies of
the Indian ring, shown how the Indians
arc driven OH the war path that army
contractors may De enrlchcu ana inc
treasury bled
Eleventh. 1t has substituted silver for
the wretched fractional currency as a
step toward specie payment; matured a
tariff bill which, if the Senate would
agree to it, would do more to start our
idle mills and furnaces and factories, and
restore prosperity to all classes than any
measure which could be devised. 1t has
taken the control of our Indian affairs
out of the hands of the thieves who had
charge of them so long, and placed them
where they belong-in the War Depart
ment. 1t has recognized the army and
closed thousand avenues of fraud and
corruption in every department.
Twelfth. 1t has taken JAS. G. Blaine,
Speaker of the last Congress, the fore.
most corruptionist of the legislative de-
partment of the government, and the
leading Republican candidate for the
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