Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-10

Hon n. = 80 80l9 - BGlB-
ner on shs Claim Bugiaess.
We copy IS follows, from bis late
speech, which has given him 3 Nation
al reputation:
"a look over the history Of the oOun.
try will show which party has been the
party of economy. Go To- the Record
OF the last three Congresses, and the
character of Republicans and Demo.
Gratis as the disbursers OF the public
moneys stands attested In figures that
can not be put down by mere assertion
or assumption. The Forty second and
FOrty.third Congresses were both Re-
publican the majority In both the Sen.
ate and House were resistless. The
Republican party had the reins Of gov
eminent in lie own hands, aud the leg
islation bore the character they chose
to stamp upon it. There was no cry Of
economy on their part flushed with
power, they did not see that the great
public conscience had sickened at their
prohigacy. The claim business flourish.
ed claim agents made fortunes. The
honorable Secretary Of the Treasury,
when he was 8 Senator from Ohio, said
In q speech made 10 the beginning of
the campaign of 1875 that Congress had
paid Que hundred millions of war
claims. What Congress? Republican =!
Republican Congresses had paid this
amount without stunning the tymp-
anum of the Northern ear with bowls
about Confederate raids on the TreA-
sury. Congressman, with the thought
fol providence of Dugald Dalgetty,
seized the opportunity to provision the
garrison Il was notorious that the
bigger the claim and the smaller the
reason for Il the better its chance oil
success 1t had to be fat enough to
pay commissions and declare diVi.
bends. DO Northern voters think that
these are the gentlemen to raise the
raw head and bloody bones Of South.
err clAimsp The carnival of public
spoliation was not yet exhausted. 10
the FOrty-second Congress the RepHb.
leans allowed claims to the amount OF
Sl,l32 969; in the Forty.third Congress
to the amount of 81, 1893, 42l. In 1876
The Democrats held the House by the
overwhelming majority of seVenty-three ;
a great part Of the majority were tx.
Confederate. The Southern States had
at last sent their own IONS to the ma.
tional council set the Forty-fourth
Congress allowed claims TO the amount
of only 1858 Aud what became
of the great rings? Ii seems that the
Democratic party had put an end to the
profits Of the claim agent, the vast
plumber OF the riggs and the business
Of the lobby. The records OF Congress
show co~nclusiVely that the stahchest
aud most faithful guardians ofthe pub.
lie Treasury, the slrictest and most con.
sislent economists, are the Democrats.
Before thu South had q representation
Of her own people upon this floor, the
history OF legislation bears ample tesli-
mony to the vigilance and caution Of
Northern Democrats In protecting the
Treasury from the many schemes that
we're planned against II. They stood
as q bulWark against the Wasteiul food
of eGlraVagancs that In sixteen years
had distinguished Republican Admin
islrationS. They had been too well
grounded 10 the rudimsnls Of the Dem.
OcrAlic faith taught by Jefferson and
Madison TO yield to the prOAlgAte
tendency of their time, and there IL
nothing 10 their conduct to-day, or IL
the past, In this regard that does not in
Vite the confidence of the people Of the
North and Of the whole country. They
stand to-day the advocates Of retrench'
ment and reform, the champions OIL
local self. government, that cornerstone
Of the Federal Union and conservation
Of free institutions"