The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1880-09-09
Sssoooeo ooO, haye tnus far been made uitn the


Sonsress, absolutely without loss or defalca-
u9n SO far as known to the Government.
ehanan, the loss By defalcstions Of public ON
Gers In the collection and disbursement OF the
Ing Pierces % Sa fSeTs e ws. Ass DUR
ing Folks Administration It was S4.0s; during
Jackson's Administration It was S7.52; during
Van Buren's Administration it was Sill.
MARX the contrast with Republican Admins
In Lincoln's time. embracing the reckless
ness caused by war, it was seventy six cents.
For six years Of Grants Administration II was
thu. far-assuming that ali amounts in dispute
are lost-the loss on $l,00J would be so small
tnst matt shs smallest coin OF the country Wv would Sa
one-third of a cent on $1,000 of the amount in
This Administration ha. effected a striking
reduction of the expenses of those branches
OF the public service over which the Execu-
last fiscal year was only 3-l0 per cent, while
during President Bucnanan's time, was 9 s-i0
per cent: on the amount collected-just
fund on the 10Th Of June, $50, S. tss, ,4is, mon,
ey appropriated for the different depart
ments for that year ,1 and remsinins nnex pend,
administration could have attained these re-
| suits?
And what has been the result of Republican
administration under President Hayes upon
the general business interests of the country?
greatest revival % Of business % @ of Of modem Tines @
We have leaped forward from . period Of ex-
enormous sum of es350O, ,0JO, being an in
crease since 1875 Of over $sso,OoO,00 Our
imports during the last fiscal year were
sos, ,oOo 900, being an increase since 1875 Of
Sl3aOoooo, and making an asxresate for
$50. ooo,ooo In the great branches Of
industry y-sgriculturc, manufactures and min
leading Nation. with plenty OF money ne as Is
good AS gold, with plenty Of work for all who
have now superadded the most bounteous
crops that ever blessed any portion of the
bushels a year, and corn crops Of about i,soS,-
000,0O0 year, and everything else In propor-
tion. For these high prices have been realized;
Our Government debt, formerly largely held
abroad, is now almost exclusively held at
home; the mortgages upon our lands and
amount in 1876: the balance of trade is so
largely in our favor that foreign countries, no
compelled to ship gold. The building of rail-
roads keeps pace with our general prosperity.
The number and amount of business failures
have been reduced more than one-haif. In a
word, the rough road has been travelled and
the smooth one is now before us.
Our National prosperity has excited the at
tention of all European Nations, and has set
in motion again the stream of immigrants,
srowth and productions. The number who
arrived during the last fiscal year was 455,<9S
5Sne last h reached @ onT ssore 9.
and since March I. TO the latest date OF which
we have reports. the number is about Ss,0o0,
or more than enough to form State
We can fairly claim that the renewal of busi-
ness Is the natural result of the policy of the
gave us bouutcous crops, but these came aft
er resumption was secure, and after we had
versiaed @ ae % industry WHICH enabled % US tu to inn %
prove the blessings of Providence: Certain it
z, that We owe no part Of our prosperity to
the Democratic party.
In 1870, the last year in which the Repubi-
cans had q majority in both Houses, the sp-
propriations made for the fiscal year 1875 were
Gratis controlled the House. and, by refusing
to appropriate for some of the most necessary
prpprssion. Sl e to SEA and the foosns
year, in order TO coerce the President BY q
failure to pass the army bill and to provide for for
appropriations to $ss,35s,9s3; but at the fol-
lowing session. TO make good these deficien-
appropriated SIC, ,Ols,s0a being ,O0O
more than was appropriated in 1875; and in
1881 they have sppropriated sia, or
e7000,0O more than the appropriations made
the last year the Republicans controlled the
rent fiscal year by q Democratic Congress, in
time when the currency is upon the specie
by a Republican Congress when our currency
was at discount of twelve per cent, and
claims.
The Democrats can point to no law passed
relief to the people, to lessen the burdens Of
taxation, or to advance the public interests.
And now, in 1850, they want change; not
but q change in the Executive branch of the
Government, 50 that all branches Of the Gov
and % Control. % It It Is Known very % We'll that with
In period Of four years the election OF q
the Supreme Court into a citadel of the princi-
pies and policy of the Democratic party, and
tribunal into machine to cripple the Govern
ment in its power to protect the rights OF the
freedmen by the adoption of the narrow no
tions of State rights, which governed the Dem
ocratic party before the war.
And who are they who propose this radical
Democratic party that in 1850 sought to over
throw the Government, governed by the self
same men or their lineal deseendants, ant i ana the
the Administration of James Buchanan. who
control that party nowr The basis, the gov,
South. That segment of the party win furnish
l06 members OF Congress and thirty-two
over their Democratic associates, will dictate
the policy and laws Of our Government
the North are now, as then, with the Rcpubli-
can party. That section which furnishes the
capital, the commerce, the trade, the enter
prise, the vital energy to our system, ts to be
subordinated to n section which still clings to
the idea that this Is not a Nation, but con-
e%forcemena ran upon tSe narrow and prSvincisi
ideas OF insignificant States This Is the
change they propose. This is the revolution
do they assign, as the basis Of such revolu-
Senator Pendleton says they want q chance
tn examine the books of the Treasury Depart
and have been for years, under the surveiE
lance OF the Democratic majority OF the
p!oqes or the reeesses Of % that that depart depsrsment & e1
amined it's books, compared the figures, and
what have they foundg They claim that in
statements Of the public accounts: but these
discrepancies, after full and fair examina-
ssry result Of Keeping two sets Of books in
different Offices OF the Government, which,
must % difPer on = gwen % day, in some me- cases, to
the amount OF millions OF dollars; but when
these discrepancies are examined, and the ele-
mcnts which enter into one and do not enter
into the other are explained and compared
the books are found to be correct in every par
Mr.. Tilden says they want a change in order
| to condemn what he alleges was the fraud of
in 'i the fact that, the electoral Commissi n,
| tribunal which they aided TO organize, and
whose Judgment they agreed to abide. DECIDED
forced the adoption Of this ommission as a
means to exclude votes duly returned from
| this, and from that time they have cried out
fraud, fraud" The fraud that existed in
and intimidation practiced by the Democratic
party In at least hye OF the Southern States,
but in such bpngling way in louisiana that
| Officers OF that State. In South Carolina and
Florida the actual vote cast, as well as the lc-
| gal ote. was in favor OF the Republican Elect
ors. They attempted in Oregon, where the
| people had without question voted for the
| Hayes Electors, by narrow technicalitfcs to
exclude the Republican Electors and to recog-
4 nize the Democratic Electors, and large sums
| of money wore confesscdly paid to accomplish
| this fraud
But, fellow-c'tizens, this cry Is now the
| sheerest hypocrisy. II the Democratic party
believed in IL why was not Mr.. Tfidcn renomi-
| nated3 Then the people could have tried the
| alleged fraud. But the fraud practiced by the
Democratic party in the South 10 q continuing g
fraud-two years ago, last year and this year.
continued openly with . grim humor, and
i justified by the dominant opinion South and
i by the acquieecence of the Democracy of the
i North. 1t is only by this fraud that that party
hopes for success II now there is q change in
i the Executive branch OF the Government it
i Will be caused by the grave and startling fact
that the rebels OF the South have, by bloody
means, succeeded in overthroMinR the Consti-