The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-08-15
Inv !, 1853, to June 30, 18GO, seYen yearg.
sA8n SSO.85S
$1,000. .1g2. .s88
Average annual expenditure, Sl43,4l
Tr,-..a,s lsA,,.o 49, 90 v,tta 90 Az

bApGuulIuE6I per Cupllh VOtJs
All these figures are derived from official sourc-
es, and itappears by them that the average an
nuGl ordinary expenses of government IN seven
years of Democratic rule were S6l ,5544O9, while
the like average annual expenses In seven years
of Republican rule were Sl43 456, 49, being an av
erage annual excess under Republican admins
tratiOn of SSl 90l,7lO
And this excess cannot be explained by the in.
crease in population, for the expense per capita
in the seven Republican years was 45, while in
the seven Democratic years 1t was only S194.
Nor can 1t be explained as necessarily resulting
from the war; for, as have said | have eXclud.
ed from the comparison expenses caused by 1t,
namely, pensions, public debt and interest there
on and the tlrst Of the seven Republican years
have taken was the third year after the war.
OF the corruption that has brought disgrace up
on the Republic and furnished the advocates Of
despOtism the world over, with arguments
against popular government, 1t Is not necessary
for me to speak In detail. Unfortunately for the
credit of the nation, the instances are so notori
GUS that bare reference to them brings forth
picture from which the mind turns with loathtng
and indignation. The Credit MObilier, the Pacific
Mail, the Belknap trial the villaines of the Gus
tom House, the straw bids Of the Postofice. the
Indian and Whisky rings and the long list Of de-
faulters In every department have become mat
ters Of history and attest too clearly for contrver
sy the need Of reform. But no substantial reform,
you may rest assured, will take place so long as
Republican rule shall prevail. The evil Is too
deep seated to be reached by anything short Of an
entire change OF admtDiStrati0n.
But, fellow citizens, there Is one great drama Of
fraud, one huge black spot upon the national es-
cutcheOn, that cannot be passed by with mere
allusion. The seat of the Chief Magistrate-that
seat that In the pasl has been and in all times
should be an emblem of purity and hOnOr-is oc-
cupied by man who was never elected to It, and
whose elevation was accomplished by the gross
est frauds and bOldest usurpatons that ever dis
graced the history of free people, l have no
time 70 day to go into detailed statement of
these frauds and usurpaiiOns. l have no time to
show you how the Returning Board in Florida in |
plain violation of the law of the State In equally
plain violation of the solemn decision of the |
highest court of the state threw out sufficient
number of Democratic ballots to give the vote of |
the state to the Hayes electors instead of to the
Tilden electors, who had been chosen by the peo.
pie Nor how, in like manner, the Returning |
Board of Louisiana threw out from six to eight |
thousand votes given to Tilden electors thereby |
the people of whole precincts and |
and completely reversing the vote Of |
the State. Nor how by vote Of eight to seven in
the Electoral Commission, all inquiry into these
frauds And usurpatonA were precluded, and the |
doctrine pOlemnly announced and acted upon |