The daily gazette., 1878-09-11
BY Forty-fourth tDemocratic) Con
gress:-
1877 S154 390, ,943 90
1878 113,608, ,58l,28

Difference in two years $63, ,675, $50 08
From this difference should be deduc-
ted S5,531 ,663 20, deficiencies appropria-
ted last session for the years 1877 and
1873, kleavingEan actual saving to the
Government 6y the Democratic House
of Representatives in two years of $48,-
IA, 1856 85! And il should be remem 0er-
ed that this reduction in our expenses
would have been much greater had it
not been for The action of the Republi-
can Senate, which increased the appro-
pIiations in many cases as passed by the
House. No party, Intoxicated with
must reform it, The Republicans, toss
ing millions as pennies during the high
tide of the war and the years immedia-
tely succeeding 1t, have neither the head
nor the heart to return to the plain way
of peace. Their measures, their methods,
and their leaders all tend to the centrali-
zation OF power and to the oppression of
the people. Aided by corporate capital
and by assessments gathered from office
holders and office-hunters, the Republi-
can party will neither correct its abuses
nor willingly surrender the high trust it
has betrayed.
ISSUES IN THE STATE.
Let me turn now briefly to State issues.
We are all proud of Pennsylvania. Bap-
tized in the blood of the Revolution, she
pie honest, intelligent, and industrious;
her forests riyalling the cedars of Leban-
on and her soil rich in minerals, she in
yites to her borders the best brain and
Drawn of the earth. Forgetting party
names and party divisions, her citizens
should make her peace and prosperity
their common Inheritance and their COM
mon Joy. But State with SO many
diversified interests and so many sources
of wealth is too inviting to escape the
placeman and the trader; and to-day it
NAV be said with truth that no Northern
STATE has been 80 cursed with ring and
machine politics. Our people, feeling
| the poison in the system, sought deliver
ance in a radical change of the Organic
law, aud the new Constitution, III many
| respects model, took form and being,
not, however, without n bitter struggle,
/ for the old order of things died by decree
and not by choice.
But more was expected by the change
than a, been realiZ ID. Overwhelming
| Iy defeated at the polls, the political cabal
| who had been co o0troling the state, re-
luctaut to retire from the scene OF thelr
| mast triumphs, taxed their ingenuity to
defeat the spirit, if not the foIm and let-
ter, of the new Constitution.
| one of the complaints OF the people
was that corporations had too much
power. The creatures of Legislative Will,
mere servants of the people, they were
hardly out OF their swaddling, clothes until
they assumed to be the peoples masters
Manufacturers and producers could hnu
no means 10 market, although railroad
might pass their door. The rates Were
ex0rbitaat or no cars could be hau or tht
"ripg" might be selling the same pro
lducts or goods. The grievance became
lintolerab!e. and honest men, with one
voice demanded that the power Of none
poly should be broken and the rights ol
the citizen respected. ,..a
General Speer elaborately discussed as q,
Republican pla'formhl On ,he pfTsj
corporations and kepuomcah iogiia;d ng,itia;sed
the insinceTity of Governor Hartranft'