The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-10-03
REPUBLICAN, LYING.
McKinley's HenchmaH, a Kid'gloVed knight Of
MammOn In the Role Of Working Man-Tbe
Fraudulent Pretences Of Republieans-The
Debt Not Reduced, but Increased
S13O,OOO, ,OOO-The Yearly Inter
est Not Reduced but Largely
Increased-A CalumnlatOr

McKinley's Boswell, a spruce, kids
gloved dandy, one of the late Building
Association sharks, masquerading as a
working man, made his debut as reN
viewer in Saturdays Repository.
This namby pamby creature who, in
his great conceit, Hooks down upon a
laborer as upon some inferior animal,
assumes the mask of working man "
for the purpose of deceiving the people
He says that our articles are a mass
Of falsehood, and that the examination
of one statement will serve as an illus
tration of the rest" and he gives it.
Now, we had often quoted government
documents, giving volume and page, so
this working man" could very easily
prove his charge if true; for instance,
the grave charge we made against Nc
Kinley of dishonesty mutilating and
falsifying Secretary Shermans report
(Dec., 1877, nthe illustration" given
he shows his eminent regard for truth
by falsifying the record, a Ia Mckinley.
He says, speaking of the bill iNtrO.
anced and sn8BOytsd BY Republican
mem6ers in the last Congress to make
greenbacks receivable for duties on i'm
ports and for the four per cent. bonds Of
the government, this poor little nincomN
poop says the Democratic members
voted against it because the greenbacks
were made receivable for the four per
cent. bonds, and'tha they thus prevent
ed John Sherman from increasing the
national debt. This poor little nincoms
poop don't know that the four per cent
bonds are intended to replace the bonds
bearing a higher rate of interest, and
thus saving millions of dollars annually
to the people"
This is the sole evidence he gives to
support his grave charge Of falsehood
Now what we said was this. That the
Democrats in the House voted against
this bill because they feared it would en-
aPle Sherman to hOayd green6ackS and
contract tie currency, and that their OBJ.
ject in so doing was to PreOsnt cONtyaC-
lion and the increase of the bonded
debt. He had not the honesty to quote
us correctly. Now we have something
to say to this eminent inancier,
How much this Senate bill was " in
troduced and supported by the Repub-
licans is shown by the vote. In the
Senate the vote stood: Yeas, Democrats
"a, Republicans 20; nays, Democrats 6,
Republicans g,
In the House the leading Republicans,
including J. S. Jones, J. D. Cox, Jas.
Monroe and Garfield, all from Ohio,
voted against it. (McPherson's Manual,
page I48 o.
But it is evident that the Republicans
voted for this bill solely because of the
provision making greenbacks receivable
for bonds, because, when five months
before Southard, Democrat of Ohio, in,
troduced his bill making greenbacks res
for duties, which, as Mckinley
admits, would have forever fixed their
as money both in value and
legal tender power with coin, the vote
in the House was, yeas, Democrats II2,
AZ; nays, Democrats 23,
Republicans 73 (McKinley one of them,
and the Republican Senate refused to
permit vote on it at all. McPherson's
p. ISL.
But we wish to say to Boswell that the
bill he alludes to, when introduced into
The Senate, had these words in it And
said notes." notes received for bonds,
i shall not be cancelled, nor permanently
noarded, but shall be reissued." Nc.
Pherson's Manual, p, I47. These words
words were stricken out before the pass.
age of the bill in the Senate. This was
not done without purpose, and we say
he Democrats in the House were justi
fed in their fear that this bill was trick
% retire the greenbacks from circulation,
Such certainly would have been its re>
suit, for the currency now received yearly
by the government as internal revenue
S more than sufficient to meet all its ex
Denditures that are payable in currency.
The receipts in currency in 1877 were
SI5o,o6o,I49 The expenditures were
sI44, 2o9 73I, showing an excess of re-
2eipts Of IS $40 4IS, Messages and
Documents, PIP 7S and 81 and though
he figures for 1873 are not etpublished.
we know the excess this year is still
greater. Then we ask this fnancier
now, had this bill become law, would
he Treasurer have again got these green.
backs received for bonds out of the
reasury and into circulation1 They are
lot a legal tender for bonds or interest
hereon. The Secretary would simply
oe powerless to reissue them again and
hey would be permanently slowed away
nthe treasury and the currency cons
racted to that extent.
And the closing sentence, therefore, of
he above quotation proves Boswell to
,e what he calls US. fool, or worse,
| knave. Receive greenb ,cks for four
Der cent bonds and thereby replace the
ix per cent. bonds Is this bid for
,reenbacks? Does he want to pay the
,onds with greenbacks Widths fnan-
.ier tell us how receiving greenbacks