The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-09-28

sion WIN JneSe OIuCetb, Dy DTlDlnb bnesc
officers. 1t was by that force these
frauds were perpetrated And yet Mr..
Morton says we have a pure Civil Ser
vice. | would like to know what coun-
try has the worse, if ours is the purest ?
[Cheers and laughterl Somebody may
say these ara small cattle you are talking
about These appraisers in New York
are not so very small cattle They can
cheat the Government out of millions of
dollars. If you want big scare, just
look at the late Secretary of War, Cheers
and laughter Take an observation Of
his frauds. Laughter. He is about as
stout as any Durham you can scare up.
[Cheers, When he saw everything was
paying he thought he would do little
trading himself [Cheers and laughter ]
If it hadn't been for the Democratic
House of Representatives he would have
been trading in post-traderships to this
day. [Cbeers and laughter. But the
democracy said 1--WE didn't like such
things to pay you 81 200 a year, in all
amounting to $4,000. What are these
post-traders? They are the fellows who
sell goods to the soldiers; and if they
have paid Mr.. Secretary Belknap $4,000
or $4,000, he must clap that on the price
of the goods, and the soldiers pay it.
And the Secretary Of the Government at
the head of the Department, man
whose sworn duty it was to take care of
that soldier, was the very man who was
robbing him to fill his own pocket,
[Cheers Yes, my friends, what poor
soldier was there who fell on that terri
BILE day, when Custer lead his head-long
charge on the Indians, and whose white
bones, now bleaching on the burning
plains, who didn't contribute to the
wealth of this Secretary of War? And
yet there is no official corruption, and
yet we have the finest civil government
the world ever saw. / can't say any
thing about the Indian service. would
like to do it, but | havn't time to show
how that million of expenses has grown
up 1t is now two millions more than it
used to be in Democratic times.
You know at the close of the war the
philanthropists who were taken with our
colored brethren got up Freedmen's
Bureau, which they maintained by mil
lions of dollars, taken out of your poek-
cts. The chief end was to make them of
that mule, &C. That was the principal
business down there of the Freedmen's
Bureau. They got up what they called
the Freedmen's Bank-a saving institu'
ton. 1t was to be great thing it was
to make all the negroes rich it was to
teach them how to save their money, and
in order to make growing they got Con-
gress to give it a ChVrter and the prinCi-
pal institution at the city of Washington,
and then branches all over the United
States. 1t was like the old Bank of the
United States. Wherever there was
negro or two there was branch of the
Freedmen's Bank among them cheers
and laughter, and Cutfy ard Sally were
told, Master Grant has sent this here
bank for you to save your earnings, and
| you must put your money in this bank
The Government is responsible. 1t
proved to be by the proof most over.
whelming all over the country. They
established their banks, and they GOT the
negroes deposits from the poor washer.
woman's twenty-five cents up to one dol
lar that some would deposit, and the
thing ran on for while. Presently what
came? They began to loan their money
out at Washington as collateral stock,
any portion of the Company's stock on
the Seneca Stone Company, that was
owned by the ring there at Washington;
stock in the Paving Company, ard that
was another Ring Company; stock in
this thing and stock in that thing, until
finally they all had collapsed, and no
money. [Cheers and laughter. Then
came a collapse, and thea came an in
vestigation. What do you think was the
result of that investigation? Why, all
that Committee could make out was that
those poor negroes put all their hard
earnings they saved into those banks at
Washington, Charleston and New Or
leans, all around about not less than three
millions of dollars. Now, isn't that per-
fectly monstrous? Under the code of
offenses to teach the negro to take care
of himself, making him save his money,
and not spend it unwisely : that he ought
to put it up; that it will grow up, and be
good thing for him and his wife Dinah
and his papooses, and then, when they
get them to contribute all their earnings
in the end, just turn right around and
loan it out on collatterals to the rings at
Washington. Now, this Freedmen's
Bank, why it was the most pure estab-
lishment that you ever saw. 1t would
hardly let a Democrat walk by the house,
it was so pure and loyal Republican. Il
built immense banking houses through
out Washington with Seneca front, 1t
was a pure, unadulterated Republican
misunderstanding care of the negro and
teaching him to be saving and econom-
ical. Laughter
Well, now, my friends, what do we
hear from the Republican orator in an
swer to thete? Will you have an honest
Government? Can you expect the men
who have been guilty of these corrup-
tions to reform themselves? No. Voice
"They can't do it. The only thing to do
is to turn them out. That is the only
thing now. Suppose they could reform.
Suppose Governor Hayes is elected, could
he purify the Administration and have
an honest Administration? The Lord
only knows, l don't. But Sam Tilden
who was against Bill Tweed and every
thing else in New York, 1 can see how
he can. But how, my friends, can Gen
eral Hayes, who has got the reform ele-
ment in him, clear out these people, who
are maintained there by the strong wills
of party, the party laborers, and who
have been maintained there by their con-
tributions and services to the partyP How
my friend Hayes is to reform them is
past my reasoning. The only way that
l know of you have got to change your
rulers, and then you will have honest
and intelligent servants. Now, what do
we hear from the Radicals? 1t is the
old warning of the bloody shirt. 1t is
the old hackney talk that was used in the
beginning, that the Democratic party
was disloyal in the war, as if for more
than fifty years the Democratic party
didn't profit its country, and all the time
it ruled there was peace and prosperity
everywhere. [Cheers.] In all these fifty
wears there was no man executed for trea-
son, In all these fifty years there was
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