Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-10-26

IN To justify them Is certainly not
reforming. There were ether ten
denotes in Mr.. Seaton's speech in the
same direction but we pass them by
and refer briefly to other points. He tells
that five per cent. of the people are
bond holders. IF the Democratic
party succeeds is it not probable
there will soon be another set of bond
holders, and that the Government
bonds will be doubled ? And does it
not look as if many were working for
that object Some of them might
get to be as rich as Tilden, with such
opportunities. He tells that ex-Sec-
rotary Mccullough, last week propos-
ed to have the debt funded into tour
or four and half per cent. bonds, SO
that our bonds would be brought
down to gold value, and he thinks it
shonld be done. President Grant
proposed that plan to Congress.
The proposition was put in shape
and the Senate, passed the bill andsent
it to the Democratic House. There
they rocked it to sleep and it sleeps
yet. Mr.. Seaton tells us, $50 we
understood him. that Republicans
continued to increase the expendi-
lures of the Government until in 1871,
when they were reduced for party
purposes. The total expenditures
of the Government in 1866 were
$500, 8O9,416 in 1867 they were
1857, 542,675 in 1868 they were
1917, 340,2s5 in 1869 they were
1922, 1865, 277 ; in 1870 they were
$500, 1858, $50, and in 1871 they were
292,177,le8. Is this increase
When they increased in 1868 Andy
Johnson was President. He tells us the
administration continued to steal until
$4,000 millions were stolen, and we
never found it out until probed by
one Democratic administration
That is pretty big stealing, surely.
1t lacks only little of half the money
Republicans have handled since the
war. As we have before US the books
which show just where all the money
went, we can't believe so big a story.
Besides not one steal was found out
by Democr attic probing. The stealing
was found out and prosecutions
began before there was Democratic
House. When Democrats find q
thief they generally let him go. We
understood Mr.. Seaton to say that
the Democratic House had appointed
only IA rebels as employees. There
were AZ rebel soldiers employ ed--pnt
in by turning out Union soldiers. OF
the officers appointed the Clerk was
soon proved guilty of log-rolling to
keep the Congress from reducing
his salary. The Journal Clerk, G.
II. Smith, who was given the place
of the veteran Barclay, proved in
competent and dishonest and was
obliged to resign. Chief Clerk, Green
Adams, put in the place of soldier,
was found guilty of pocketing 3d.,
SIT received for waste paper, which |
by Republicans was always banded
over to the Treasury. They made
J. P. Rambleton, who named his boy
after Lincoln's assassin, clerk of the
m st important committee. They
made Fitzhugh doorkeeper. He was
tho "biger man than old Grant," who
induced the other employees to throw
in and buy him fine carriage and
horses, on the "stock plan" in which
to spluFge around the city. There
are more OF the same kind, but we
have given these more prominence
than we intended. They indicate
the kind u appointments we may
expect if Tilden succeeds. Can we
not conclude with certainty also
that when the confederates make
such good men as Mr. Seaton and
Mr.. Orion believe in the loyalty of
the Democratic party in the past,
and 10 the virtue of its present acts,
that it will make them believe also
in the Justice of their other measures,
now pigeon-holed in that Democratic
House awaiting the backing Of the
man who was the co-worker with |
Tweed, Connolly, Morrissoy and all
the other famous New York thieves,
and the adviser of the famous Credit
Mobilier steal?