The daily gazette., 1880-10-26
POLITICAL SPICE.
From the Loekport UnIn.

rpm Tue AOekpOrb Onl' n.
TheIe was expended by the Govern
dnt from 1869 to 1872 S7i6 900 600; from
1872 to 1876, S573 100000 This was uD-
rU ~ to 1876, there were expended S45O. :
100000. being S113.c00 600 less than dur
luA GA Il ids rule TLers were appr :
prIateh by the Forty second ard Forty
hlrd Congresses, both OF which were
R'publioan, the sum OF S62g, 900 600
Under The Forty fourth AMI Foity-tif. h
% gre >e which were Democrat G,
r547 0j0, 900, being IA saving of SlOS ,O00, :
900. This economy carried INTO The.
Ates and cities and cluhties and towns,
was the iuitiatory of prosperity aud tht
eeumpts sou OF specie payment.
~ was uot the Radical party but good
crops aud Democratic economy that
0rpught about better times
The balance of trade fl rst came in our
favor in jane 1876, aud from tha; time
dp to the 30 h Ot June last tie aggrr-
gate balan . of trade In our favor in
money was about 500, 100000.
This In connection WITH Democratic
scpnomy, strengthened our credit and
made prosperity. The amount of cotton
produced III tina South aud exported.
Ilpne amounted o this sum. THIS -huwk
bat the Sou'h Ia doing her part toward
te property of the country Tn,
South has more than doubled tue cotton
crDp within the last ten years rhe ex-
pOris of cotton last year were about one.
fourth Ut the exports of the whole couu.
rR.
TIE Democratic party has acq hired all
The public domain except Alaska.
Tt ere were the Spanish accession Ut
der Monroe in 1917, the LonisiaL.- pur-
chase under JEFF rAou in 1903; the Texas
acquisition in 1915; the Mexican acqui-
siNIOn n 1S48 under Polk; Arizona and
New NJ, xico under Pierce amounting to
2,200 600 square miles. Out OF this Ter
rlory were formed twelve States-Ar-
kansas, California, Colorado, Texas,
Iowa, Kansas Louisiana, Mississippi,
Florida, Nebraska, Nevada Oregon, and
a pant of Alabama Mississippi, Mime
Ola aud nine Territories.
Or the public domain the Republican
party has given only 175, 900 600 actes,
which at an average OF 81 so AN acre
wpuld be $500 600 0O0. Or tins 1900 O,000,
l4D. 900 900 wero given to six corporations.
he whole amount given away by the
Republican party would make IL 600 900
farms of 100 acres.
The Democratic party has been In
power five years aud have not attempt
. TO disturb the tariff The tarff
question is hot party question but IA
business question. The Democratic
DdTby luHut du cHOTb W Ttuutb III
TO q business basis when Senator Eaton
of Come cricut introduced a bill to have
commission uf pine experts TO report
system TO congress. The bill il now on
the Speakers TIA Bile, but the Republicans
seek TO drag the tariff into polItIcs'-
Bnt the gallant Hancv OK ,as usual has dis
of this subject by bis ringing
The journalists of the Republican party, |
81 Oh AS Chase, Seward and Greeley, leit |
IL before thy died.
The mem beers of the present Cabinet |
have deserted their posts aud are hip. |
pod omiug about tue country in The in-
fsrest of Gai field.
= But the Republicans say we must not
nave a solid South, but they made the
South solid by carpet-bag governments.
rHev increased he drbt of the South
rom S50,000,000 to 100000 ,000. This
would make any sec ion solid.
ONE of the shrewdest and most
Democrats in Connecti-
ut, writing to the editor of this
unfar date of tho ORD of 0o