The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-08-28

ex-convict, and a Democratic majority de-
clared, under the Laws and Constitution OF
Ohio, that his seat was vacant. Have you
ever heard of the Republican party casting
out any of its leaders who were caught, for
instance. with Credit Mobilier stock or De-
Golyer pavement brides in their poekets1
No, neverl The grand old Republican
party saves these men to run for Presi-
dent, or to send to the United States Senate.
JUGGLING H STATE DEBT.
! General Ewing's clear and able review of
the mismanagement of the country finances
by the Republican party, which your have
Just listened to. is in keeping with the afro
cious and rascally record of the Republican
party of Ohio in the mismanagement of our
State finances. The Constitution and the
law of Ohio have been compelled by them to
bow in the dust and humble themselves in
the presence of party expediencyl
Section 10 of Article VIII. of the Consti-
tuition provides that it shall be the duty of
the Sinking Fund Commissioners faithfully
to apply the Sinking Fund. together with
the moneys that may be appropriated by the
Legislature to that object. to the payment of
the principal and interest of the State debt;
and the Constitution further provides that
all money raised by taxation for paying the
State debt shall not be applied to other pur-
poses. Drunken with a long lease power,
the Republican party trampled under foot
this plain and express provision of the Con-
stitutionl When the Democrats gained con-
troll of he Legislature in 1874 they found
that the Republican party had been syste-
matically plundering the Sinking Fund,
which the Constitution made sacred, and
diverting it to meet their extravagant and
in other branches Of the s'i State " aov.
ernment. Under the leadership of
DR.. Scott, of Warren, who for fourteen
l ~ - n syrog kha IoaIoH ~ -. Da--LI..-- =
the Legislature. n Chairman of the House
Committee on Finances, and who has again
been renominated by the Republicans for
the Legislature, they Borrowed" from the
Sinking Fund. They stole from this sacred
trust such money as they needed to keep
the Government moving, and thus de-
ceived the people as to the financial trans
actions of the State, and violated a plain
provision of the Constitution. In 1875, a
Democratic Legislature, as may be seen on
page 124, of volume Y, Ohio Laws, pro-
vided for paying back to the Sinking Fund
the sum of $3.50, ZOO, that Republican
inanciers had borrowed" to run the State.
[Applause. On page 50, of the Auditor of
States report for 1877, he earnestly recon-
mends that $780, 600, that had been "bcr-
rowed' from the Sinking Fund, by a Repub-
lican Legislature, be paid back, and yet, in
the face OF such doings as this, the ".GRAND
OLD REPUBLICAN PARTYl" has the presump-
ton 10 talk about ''honest money" and the
States honorl" Laughter and applause. ]
But this is not the worstl In another trans
action, connected with the State debt, they
have reached the pinnacle of knayish. polit-
ical audacityl To-day they are boasting,
that, after all its saving of public money, the
last Legislature did not reduce the taX-levy
No; and why, fellow-citizens, why2
The first time the tax levy has been re.
duced, in years, was by a Democratic Legis-
lature in 1875. When the Democrats gained
control of the Government by the election OF
William Allen, the tax levy for State pur.
poses was 81 on the dollar, raising a sum
of over S., 00O. 900! The Panic, the foul off.
spring OF Republican Encouragement and
misrule. was stalking through the land, muir.
dering fair Enterprise, torturing Industry
and tormenting honest Toll! True to the
pledges upon which elected the Democratic
nIujority FASTENED to give snch relief to the
taxpayers OF Ohio as lay within their power.
That Legislature ~inaugurated the economy
which the last one so nobly followed, and
cut down the tax levy from 3h mills to
8 LILO mills, thereby reducing the taxes one.
seventh and saving nearly 5 l,Uu0. 0U0! The
Republican party, es it was its duty to do,
Immediately went into spasms, and the Re.
publican party, generally in Ohio. was at.
tackled with epileptic fits and foamed at the
mouth over Democratic economy. But the
people in Ohio seemed to approve of this
despised Democratic economy, for since il
has been in practice the Republicans have
never carried the State only BY very meagel
majorities, and then only by a reckless out
lay of money and upon false issues
such as the '.Pope's big toe." Zap
| plause.l That Democratic Legislature re.