Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-10-20
CoRRUPTIoS.

The locks and bolts on doors Of houses
testify TO the general stste of corruption.
The county of Junista will prove that there
are as many corrupt people among the DEM
Ocracy as among Republicans. CORRUPTION
seems to be general, and must be constantly
watched. But when the corruption and
mismanagement of the Democracy of this
State is examined, it has an unisyorabie
appearance alongside Of Republican rule.
The forty years of RUE II the Democracy
in this State was followed by a debt of
Si0, 900 ,0O0-one million OF debt for every
year that they were IN power-whereas the
Republicans have been ia power but twenty
wears, and in that time the debt has been
reduced over s24, 600 600, making reGuc-
million of dollars for every year of rule, be-
sides having paid large sums for war expen-
ditures. When one goes out into the
broader field of National politics, the same
difference of management presents itself.
The loss In the Pierce administration on
every thousand dollars that was expended
was IS SO; the loss in the Buchanan admin
istration, on every thousand dollars was
1881 Lincoln's administration lost on
every thousand dollars 16 cents JOhnson's
administration 81 cents on every thousand
dollars expended, and Grants admininis-
tration lost only "a cents on every thousand
dollars expended, and the loss Of the Hayes
OH, on the average. per thousand dollars
When A i,,cs at the different sdministra-
tions has been hao, none appears so corrupt
as the last Democratic administration, tnat
of Mr.. Buchanan. Two of his cabinet OH
GERS, Thompson and Floyd, deirauded the
Government of large sums. Thompson was
secretary Of the Interior, Floyd was Sec
rotary of War. The Mormon war was in
progress. Floyd was deep in the business
of contracts. He needed funds. He got
Thompson to give him the bonds of the In
dian Trust Fund, out of the Treasury, and
he gave Thompson his private paper, which
was put into the Treasury in the pace of
the Indian Trust Bonds. The bonds were
sold in the money markets OF the country,
and Thompson and Floyd fattened on the
spoils. Buchanan's administration fell to
pieces under the blows Of rebellion. Thomp-
son Joined the Confederacy, became a secret
service commissioner for the rebels, with
head quarters at Toronto, Canada, and kept
up a secret underground way from there
to Washington, and from Washington to
Richmond. Thompson furnished the gold
that paid for the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln, that paid for the attempt on the
life of Secretary Seward. 1t was the gold
that he furnished that kept the Surratt gang
that laid plans to abduct the President, but
yet the Democracy have the face to talk OF
corruption. To put the Democracy into
power would be simply to reinstate the old
order of affairs. Is the country ready for
such change. The safe way is to give
them a change such as they received in In
diana.
samuel NJ. Beidler, from Cape May, was
introduced by the President, and spoke of
Republican prospects in New Jersey, and
the manner of holding elections in Phila-
del0hia, where it is impossible to perpetrate
fraud, as is charged by the Democracy. At
the conclusion of his remarks the meeting
adjourned with three rousing cheers for the
speeches, and for Garfield, Arthur and the
whole ticket.