The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-09-11
CAMPAIGN PALACES.

Jne feCeraI Government are now SET
ahoat by the Republican organs and
stump speakers. They seem to imagine
that the people are bereft of all reason
and know nothing whatever of the prin-
ciples and aims of the parties except
what they condescend to explain to
them. The fact that the Democrats
have control of both Houses of Con-
gress and hold the purse strings of the
Government is utterly ignored by the
organs and speakers. They never allude
to the circumstance that the Democrats
by cutting down the appropriations be-
low the estimates of the Republican
heads of departments, have reduced the
expenditures several millions of dollars
annually. John Sherman, as the rep
resentative of the Republican party is
given all the credit for reducing the
public debt, when in reality the reduc
ion is mainly, IF not wholly, due to
congress Every intelligent citizen
knows that Congress has been roundly
abused by almost every Republican
PAPER, because it did not allow the full
amount asked for by the departments.
We were repeatedly told that the House
Of Representatives by its niggardly
policy in reducing the appropriations,
was endeavoring to cripple the Admin
istration Now the tune is changed,
and we are asked to credit the Admin
istration with the reduction of the pub
Tic debt, while Congress, which in enc
year saved the country $50, 000,000 by
reducing the appropriations, is repre-
scented as being extrayagant. It is a
well-known fact, that the appropria-
tioas made by Congress since the House
became Democratic four or five years
age, though much less than was asked
for by the Republican heads of depart
ilents, have been amply sufficient to
run the Government, yet the organs and
speakers claim to-day that the millions
u dollars thus saved the taxpayers by
Congress, is due to Republican eeono-
sny This is one of the campaign fall
lacies, which the organs expect the peo-
PIE are too blinded by sectional preiu-
Giees to detect.
Another is, the pretended fears Of the
Republican papers, that if General Han:
cock is elected, he will advocate the
payment of the Rebel debt, and the
value of the slaves, and bankrupt the
Treasury. They know that the pay
,nont of those claims is prohibited by
the Fourteenth Amendment to the Con-
situation, and that the Constitution
cannot be changed without the concur
renee Of two thirds of the members of
both Houses of Congress, and the APP
]r-oyal Of the Legislatures of at least
twcnty-nine of the thirty-eight States
of the Union, and that General Hancock
gives hlssword as q soldier and a states
mar in his letter Of acceptance, that
@trhe Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth Amendments to the Constitution
Of The Omitted States, enrbodying the
results of the war for the Union, are
invlolable." Not one of the papers
u speakers believe that there is the
slightest danger of allowing the rebel
claims, but they hope, by binding the
people with the bloody shirt, that they
viii not see the failacy of the accusa-
s;oa. Everybody who has common
sensa knows that the parties are very
nearly equally divided, and that Demo
cratar -ley taxes, own Government
bonds, and are concerned for the credit
nj prosperity of the country as well as
Republicans.
fho cfy of the ''soiid South" is an
other bag bear that is raised to terrify
'5ha people. The South is numerically
N a minority, and, though it has been
solid IN Congress- since Hayes became
President, what has it done or what
sAE It do? Southern members assisted
J.. elasalrg the Silver bill, the Chinese
bill, and the bill to have deputy mar
shals TO Keep the peace at elections
appointed in equal numbers from the
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