The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1880-09-15
|BCRETARY SHERMAN.
.< Democratic Cry Of "Fraud'' Dis.
sected = What the Democratic
Party viii DO II II Gets In
POwer.


>zkfetary Sherman addressed a yer
large meeting in Pixies Opera house, il
C|pcinnati. He began with an examina
fizn cl the Democratic demand for
change, and showed what could be expect
q irom that party in view of its past his
.asT. He then reviewed the work of re
sdmpiion and reTunding, contrasting th,
ue1.oeratic and Republican financial re
cords, and said of .the honest work of tht
present administration
Daring the three years of this admins
tration ending June 80, 1880, there wal
collected from all sources SS64, SIG, 1853. .93
All this vast sum has been paid into the
treasury, excepting about $4,000, and it il
believed that even this sum will be re
covered. The internal revenue collected
In every part OF the United States has beer
paid into the treasury without the loss of a
dollar. Besides the collection of the rev.
enue the great transactions of the post.
Office department., extending all over the
country, and collecting and disbursing dur
ing the last three years an amount of more
than $3.50, 900, 900, have thus far been m made
with the loss OF less than $1,000. In the
small dcfalcations that have occurred suits
have been promptly brought against the
defaulting officers, or their sureties, and
Judgments enforced. A system of rigid ac-
countability for public moneys has been
applied, without fear or favor, with results
that never before have been realized by
sny administration. The disbursement of
this money by public officers at home and
abfoad has been made for the purposes for
which y was appropriated by Congress,
absolutely without loss or defalcstion so
iar as known to the government. During
the ADMINISTRATION of James Buchanan,
the loss by defalcations of public officers
ID tie collection and disbursement of the
public moneys was 1881 on every 1000;
during Heroes administration it was So. .56;
during Folks administration it was $4.O8;
during Jackson's administration it was
81. ~; during Van Buren's administration
rs was as&l1.7l. Mark the contrast with Re-
pablican administrations In Lincoln's
tiaie, embracing the recLlesonass oaused lyy
war. It was 76 cents. For six years OF
Grants administration it was "a cents.
In Hayess administration thus faI-as
eaming that all amounts in dispute are
lost--the loss on 1000 would be SO small
thai the smallest coin of the country would
make it good three times. 1t has been bu
one-third of cent on 81 900 of the amount
involved
OF the Democratic cry of fraud" he
said
aMr Tilden says they want change in
order to condemn what he alleges was the
Iraud Of 1877. But this pretended fraud
consists simply in the fact that the Electo-
raj commission, tribunal which they aid
ed 70 organize, and whose judgment they
agreed to abide, decided differently from
what they expected. l did not believe in
that tribunal. believed the Constitution
and the laws already furnished ample
means to ascertain and determine the re-
suit 81 the vote of the electors; but they
forced The adoption of this commission as
means u exclude votes duly returned
from some Of the Southern States. They
Jailed Id this, and from that time they
have cried out fraud, fraud The fraud
that existed in the election of 1875 was the
fraud, violence and intimidation practiced
BIZ the Democratic party in at least five of
the Southern States, but in such bungling
way III Louisiana that it was promptly
corrected by the returning officers of that
State II South Carolina and Florida the
aotual vote cast, as we'll as the legal vote,
was Ii favor of the Republican electors.
They attennpted in Oregon, where the peo-
pie had Without question voted for the
Hayes eleclors, by narrow technicalities, to
exclude the Republican electors and to
xecognize the Democratic electors, and
largo sums of money were confessedly paid
% accomplish this fraud.
Tue Two great frauds in that election by
fhe 1cnocratic party were, first, the
eomQIetipn of the conspiracy Of the rebel
eIeaI65k Of the South to deprive ths
ReDlIbIioRns of the South OF their rights
AID ufIFileges as American citizens; and
fhe etcdnd was the attempt to bribe electors
Ioz pEaaIdent to vote for Tilden instead o
Iayes. Il is to divert public attention
from these admitted frauds that this cry oi
lfand il faise5."
~ thu6 defined the position Of the two
y psflieH on the question of State rights
" dividing line between the tive
fzE I1z IS difference of opinion as to th
zl4 nd duties of the national govern
We believe that this is govern
m11I be people, with powers limite'
sH1 &1'lied by a written constitution, bu
M HxIIe all the great and essential func
tIoni d i national government, with ampl
&a<II6fz{xfo make, execute and constru
IzNa. zDfIto enforce them upon and execul
AIIela a96inst every citizen Of the Unite
eIsi<z Iibout respect to State lines. "
IIeIe zt 10 be the duty Of the nation;
N 6ozsxalHeut to protect all citizens in equ
elxIEznd political rights and to mainta
naIioTaI Axistence and authority again
Y ~ VINO resist it, whether they muster und
IorHi u; }Iag or under State or local a
Ehafizy We believe that the States a
IL, IRef gents Of the people, intrusted
them tIlh United powers, set out in VIZ
tFls a91zsIIutiops. Their powers and dut