The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-09-10

expenditures Oh Inc GOV eTnmSnt k6XcluSlye OF
premiums, interest and public debD, in which
1t is stated that those expenditures since 1870
were each year follows. give the figures
exactly as published by him:
5S3 600
loIZ.---.--.--.--.-.. loozul .UU
$50, 4SS 900
1874, llSUD
1876 .. .............. 1874 $4,000
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The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS from is7I to- is76. inciu
sive, were made by the Republican Congresses,
and those for lSd and 1878 bya Democratic
House. The Republicans run up these expen-
nearly yl7S,000U00 for each or the four years
thereafter; while the Democrats reduced the
port to but little over s39 600 900 per year. max
ing an annual saving OF SSS,000,O0O 1t is
True tns 49, 10, los ne s,E1 e,o IN
and for 1880 10 sl6o,0OON00; chief part of which
increase was claimed by the administration 10
be necessary because the Democratic House
had cut down too much of the appropriations
for the preceding years. But take the whole
for the four years of Democratic rule, from 1877
to 1880 inclusive and the four years of Repub-
lican rule, from 1878 to 1876 inclusive. and the
pended an average OF sl7I. 74S 600 for the net Or
binary expenditures of the Government,while
the Dem. Gratis appropriated an average of
reason of Democratic economy OF s2s go
per year, or STA, l9S GOO in the four years
Mr.. Sherman, in replying TO my Lancaster
speech, asserts that so lar from this economy
Democratic Congress- we actually appropriated
more than the departments asked for. Here
equally at fault. For the year 1877 the admin
istration asked little over 500, l25,000 fer its
ordinary expenditures; we gave it SI45, lS2 .00J
For the year 1878 the administration asked
1854, $4,000; we gave it sl4OSSi, 900. For the
year 1879 it asked SIG, $4,000; we gave 1t slo7,
and We gaveit si6O sis,OO0 So that the Demo,
cratic Congress has in four years prevented
the Administration from spending over $780,.
nary expenses of the Government. l say
more than was necessary. for Mr.. Sherma
says that during the four years of Democratic
control over appropT iations 1.-The administra-
ton has felt no restraint from insufficient
appropriations in the great branches of the
Government"
Mr.. Sherman, in explaining the enormous
appropriation of Sl9i, 900 for the ordinary
expenses of the Government in 1874, says that
"the appropriations for that year were pur-
posely largely increased as q means OF relief
Mr.. Sherman! How good 1t was in you and
your party to come to the relief of the strug
CLING Industries of the country! But the fact
is, the appropriations for that year were made
at the session of Congress which ended March
4. lS73-six months before the panic occurred!
The excessive appropriation was due, there
fore, to extravaganza and not to sympathy for
the people.
CLAMoR AGAINST THE SOUTH.
Messrs Sherman and Schurz are distressed
with apprehensions of danger to the Govern
ment from the Confederate brigadiers. They
cry out against the caucus, as though it was an
the Democratic party and thus rule the coun-
try. They have themselves sat in more eau
cuses than they have hairs on their heads.
What danger IL there from Confederate
brigadiers? Not one of them has proposed any
ments of the war. They have over and over
again declared that they and their people
accept those settlements as final and never to
be disturbed.
What more is demanded? Nothing. The
Republican party has not asked for more. The
outcry against the Southern people for send
ing to Congress men who fought i'll the Con-
federate army is senseiess and shameful. They
capacity to send. Would you force them to
send only negroes and carpet-baggers? Would
ad1 ns Of u xon ryoSe tine
trade contaminated by Mr.. Foster, by which
Packard who got more votes in louisiana for
counted out and Hayes counted in? Recollect,
gentlemen Of the Republican party party, that the
combatants to select for high offices which the
Republican party has. All her men and boys
our overwhelming numbers, while the North
did not send a half of her men. In this re-
big disadvantages. They can select such men
as Messrs. Sherman and Foster, who quietly
has no non-combatants to prefer over her
soldiers for her public honors.
Mr.. Updegraff and Mr., Garfield said in effect
other day that when the South should consent
that the Government shall be conducted on
the accepted fact that the North was right and
the South was wrong on the great issue of the
war, then sectional strife should cease. The
They do not admit, and we have no right to
expect them to admit that they were false to
their convictions of duty in asserting and
maintaining the alleged right OF secession. But
l assert that there is not one man from the
South in either House of Congress who does
not accept the decision OF the var as the final
settlement of that question, or who does not
agree that all theamendments of the constitu-
tion made to give permanent effect to that
executed by appropriate legislation. In view
of this 1t Is mean and unpatrtotfc In the Re-
publican leaders to keep up the senseless
toration OF harmony and good Will, without
which the sacrifices of the war were all in
vain.
FREE ELECTIONS.
Neither Mr. Schurz nor Mr.. Sherman has a
word to say justffytng the use of troops at the
polls, for which they and the administration
power that Is an alien and a foe to our republic
can system OF Government, and that the deter
mfnattOn OF the administration TO retain that
power will meet the disapprobation OF the peo-
pie.
power wiped from our statue books. He says:
Does any sane man think this administration
capable of sending the Federal soldiers to the
ballot box to overawe the freedom of the elect
ors? - . The president Withdrew the Fed
eral soldiers from the legislative halls of the
Yes, sir that was when the president was
playing the roll OF conservative; That was
when he had just been put into power by
truck and decker arrangement. got up by Mr..
Foster; that was when both OF them were cry
Ing out against Federal interference with
were anxious for "the flag to float over States,
not Provinces" But a change has come over
the spirit of their DIRE ANS. MT Foster pleads
up all low fellows In the Southern states
whom he tramped down In getting to power,
ries. He is q siaiwsrt nov; has made up with
al! whom he offended by "witndrewing Fed0