The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-07-08
WHAT The DEMOCR TIC HOUSE HAS
DONE.

WHAT The DEMOCRI TIC HOUSE HIS
DONE.
The radical press and politicians, in,
their efforts to discredit the democratic
party, are constantly making ill-natured
and unjust filings at the democratic house
of representatives. This is perhaps not
unnatural, for as the old adage has it,
"drewning men will catch at straws"
The New York Express gives the follow
ing synopsis of the work accomplished
by the democratic house in the few
months since it met:
l. 1t has not elected speaker like
Schuyler Colfax, who used his high Of
fee to enrich himself. 1t has not elected
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.
2. Since it met last December, it has
not been devising means, day after day,
to get money out of the treasury. On
the contrary, it has cut down the extrav-
agant estimates of the departments, and
if the senate will pass its bills, has re-
duced the running expenses of the gov
eminent nearly forty millions of dollars
per annum. Instead of making places
for the creatures of the administration,
it has abolished every Office that was not
absolutely necessary.
3. 1t has not legislated freedman's
bank into existence and placed it in the
power of a lot of men to steal the 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 rascal
ity, and directed the officers of the gov
eminent to send their names before the
grand juries.
4. 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 cheating the liv-
ing soldiers on the plains who demanded
money for every appointment he made
and brought him to trial for his many
crimes.
5. 1t has shown how the funds of the
so-called departments 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 pub
lie service.
6. 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.
7. 1t has shattered the District of CO.
lumbia ring into a thousand atoms; in
dicted Babcock for completely with safe
burglars; made Harrington fugitive
from justice, and exposed the rottenness
and corruption of the present commits
sioners.
8. 1t has instituted rigid scrutiny
into the management of the navy de-
par tment, exposed the corrupt operation
of the Catells and other plunderers.
8. 1t has laid bare the straw-bid sys-
tenn in the postoffice department, and
proved that the country has been an
nually robbed of hundreds of thousands
of dollars for carrying letters which were
never written over routes that never
had an existence.
10. 1t has exposed the inmates of the
Indian ring, shown how the Indians are
driven on the war-path that army COILS
| tractors may be enriched and the treas
ury bled.
IL. 1t has matured tariff bill which,
if the senate would agree to it. would do
more to start our idle mills, and fur
naces, and factories, and restore pros>
perity to all classes than any measure
which could be devised. II has taken
the control of our Indian affairs out OF
the hands of the thieves who had
charge of it go long, and placed them
where they belong, in the war depart
ment. 1t has reorganized the army, and
closed thousand avenues of fraud and
corruption in every department.