The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-10-03

other under the management of a Dem
ocratic administration, and | will take
the same bureau under Republican adj
ministration, and If they have not lost
five dollars TO every One we have lost L
will agree TO go home and never open
my mouth again in politics. lApplause
You may commence with Jackson's adj
ministration; take any bureau, 1 care
not which. Take the customs for in
stance. Under Jackson, in the cOllec-
ton of our revenue, there were Sl7.26
lost ON every $1,000. Come down to
| Van Buren, and so on through the others
they were less, but the average amounts
to over five dollars lost on each thous-
and. Now, my countrymen, take
Grants administration, which has been
denounced by the Democrats everywhere
as corrupt and dishonest. History will
yet be just and the future historian will
write 1t down that Grants administers
tion, with some mistakes, has been the
most honest the country has ever had.
(Great applause. Take his much-abus-
ed administration and compare the losses
of the revenues from customs or tariffs,
two cents on every thousand dollars
with the S17.26 lost under Jackson.
Go into the Indian Bureau, which is
said by the Democrats to be one of the
most corrupt. They investigated it
last winter for eight months, and they
found something the people ought to
know; but for some reason they have
told the people nothing about it, and it
left for us to tell it. Why, the Indian
Bureau which under the Democratic
administration lost SOS. So on every ST.
600, and only lost under General Grant IL
cents on the $1,000. lApplause. 1t is
OF the losses to the public by
frauds and ~defalcations that these gen.
tlemen talk to prove corruption in the
Republican party. l give you the facts.
Judge for yourselves.
Now how do they propose to reform
abuses? 1t is clear that these Depart
ments needed reform while they had
charge of them, and the Republicans
took hold of them and reform them. II
you will take the pains to examine the
tables of statistics of these different bu-
real you will find the losses growing
less and less every year since we have
had charge, until they have come down
to the amounts | have mentioned, show
ing that honesty vas the criterion OF
public servants, and that the service Of
the Government improve from year to
year.
INVESTIGATIONS.
But, say these gentlemen, we have in
v~estigated you. This is true. They
had, l believe, thirty-seven, perhaps
more, committees running after all
branches of the Government for eight
months. No administration has ever
been so thoroughly ransacked as this.
Witnesses have been sent for from al
quarters. Every man who had a story
to tell was called on to tell it. You
ought to have seen the train that came
into Washington rs witnesses-all dis
appointed men, who were angry. and
wanted to crafty revenge-broken-down
lobbyists-men who had barely escaped
the penitentiary-men from the insane
asylums [laughter], from everywhere;
they were brought together to retail
scandal, or invent, or blacken, looking
like the company Of seedy ragamufins
that Flastaff marched around the out
skirts of the towns because he was
ashamed to show them. [Great laugh
ter.
At last they found out that Belknap
had been in partnership with n sutler,
and they came upon Mr.. George Pendle-
ton about the same time. [Renewed
laughter. 1 have no defense to make
of Belknap. But one thing is pretty
sure;he is not a candidate of the Repub-
lican party and nobody asks you to vote
for him. Laughter.