The Morning herald., 1876-09-16
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i u IS hc0esty and reform, II will be =
direct reproach Of the party that they form
| ! minor part Of. Il : angular occur
renoe for q party that claims to have saved
the Union, protected the government from
maladministration and reduced the public
debt, to be crying for reform. Where is
the need Of reform with q party
that claims to have put the best men in
Office? Wko saved the Union and il the
greatest party over all. 1t is needless to
ask again, where the need ofreform would
be in party that has accomplished sol
much as this one pretends. In this very
cry, which is done to detract the magnet
| ism of attraction it has had as the shibbo-
leth of the Democracy, to their own ranks,
we have evidence that doctor is needed
for them. But the absurdity oft makes
it all the more an incongruity with the
wide pretensions Of the party. Take an
excessive taxation, which has stopped the
shuttle and the loom, hushed the roar Of
machinery, Hilled furnaces, paralyzed all
manufacture, and then tel US if the Re-
publican party is the greatest which has
ever ruled this Govs1 Sht. tits from this
cause that our stagnatea business channels
all proceed. Taxation has .unprofted busi-
ness, and who can manufacture, who can
sell without profit? This great malaria o.
stagnation, which is attacking and stun
ming business everywhere, has its frs,
seeds in taxation.
We need only to take different States as
instances to show the drain, that wfat is
pretended to be the most economical gov
ernment in the world, has made upon
the people. And to let our own people
know what has to he paid for this econom-
ical government, we will mention SO small
State as Delaware, which has paid in to
the Federal Treasury for taxation since the
Republican party came into power, the
sum of fifteen million dollars. With a
strain of this kind upon the sinews Of
business, is there any wonder the ship
yards are idle, that the car shops are
doing scarcely anything, that the employee
every where has had to suffer reduction
in his wages, or that even here in our own
State we should have heard the cry for
bread. fit has been SO with us then what
must it be with the larger States having
greater manufacturing interests than we
do. Now, then, what has this immense
taxation to support? 1t has to support a
Navy Department that has in eleven years
cost S2oo,ooo,ooo, only $So,ooo,ooo less
than the same department cost during the
rebellion, and this is called an economical
. government, administered by the greatest
party in the world. If it is the greatest,
then may we be spared in the next cleo
, tion to see that which is considered to be
the worst by Republicans wheel into
power. The lessons Of the last Congress
are sufficient to snow how extravagantly
the government has been conducted, when
such wholesale. reductions can be judici-
ously made in the appropriations to the
different departments.
: This is the party that the Republican
!. Convention at Dover last Wednesday
declared to be the only one that could
secure to the people the blessings Of good
government and pure public service
Does it's administration point to such
blessings in national or any other gov
ernment? Does the fraud and peculation
{ which has besmirched the highest Of it,
officers tell the story of a pure public ser
vice? The gentleman selected to lead tht
ticket,in the interest Of this party in Della
ware. is Levi G. Bird. He is man of ne
remarkable mental capacity, lawyer o
fair ability, and man Of life and gaiety-
a chance man, who fell upon the party, ,ane
y they were compelled on one side to bea1
= the weight because the other side wished
q them to. There were other palms tha
a itched for the congratulating grasp 0
e success, and by men Of broader ability an'
j. more extended political experience thai
u Mr. Bird, but the time had rot come, ant
IS TO satisfy New Castle county and proven
y an incurable breach, Bird had to be nomi
IL mated and in that way he came to the front
: only to be submerged in defeat by over
% whelmningD Democratic victory in this Stat
"a in November.