The Phoenix herald., 1880-08-27
(CoMMUNICATED) Bakers E5uncOE1be-

ing the fact that both are current in the Democratic ranks as the real articles. The Democracy of Phe- nix is not an exception to tie rule, and if one had not formed such an opinion from the speeches delivered by our own Democratic orators pre- vious to that which Mir. 4. c. Baker delivered on last Friday evening, he has probably done so since. Leaving aside those anus ing metaphorical comparisons of the Republican party to the enemies of Priam, who disregarded the sanctitY of the Lord, etc, which Mir. Baker so skillfully modelled on lie style of a Negro minstrel's political stump speech, with view to tickling the risibilities of his hearers, (whom we are sorry to say had not the perception to appre- ciate Mir. Bakers wit,) and coming down to the question as to which of the two parties has really been the economical in the expenditure of the public monies, we will take Air. Bakers figures for the years of 1872, 1873 and 1874. During these years he charges the Repub- licans with having been vilfully and extraordinarily extravagant in official expenditures. For those three years the appropriations for Government expenses amounted 10 S537 ,241,IT6 S5. of this amount over twenty millions were expended in reimbursiEg Kentucky and Kan sas for expenses incurred in sup pressing the Rebellion. in settling the boundary line between the United States and the British Pos sessions, in settling the claims of Great Britain arising out of the Hudson Bay and Puget Sound af fairs, and in the payment of prem iums, leaving for actual expendi- lures for running the machinery of the Government S517,231,17S.60, appropriately. Taking the expen- ditures of the past three years, 1875, 1876, 1877, during which Mir. Baker claims the country to have been under Democratic rule. we have 5,766, ,358.42, winch was appropriated entirely for the expenses of tie Government, and not for the payment of premiums, or the expenses incurred by States in subduing the rebellion, or claims of similar nature. The difference between the two sums is not million and a half of dollals, which c.ln easily be accounted for when we compare the buying power of . dollar in the first three years, with it's poMcr in 1875, 1876 and 1877. During the last years mentioned the Democratic party, actuatcd by Q desire to make a showing on paper. reduced to a skeleton cur army. As a result came the Gus ter massacre, and numberless others followed, and will continue to fol- low until another party than that which sets itself up as only the guardian of Solid South gives to the defencelsss home of the iron tiersman some protection against a murder5us foe. whose most merci- ful act of war is instant death to his victims.
 Eir. Baker, to show which is the party of advancement, cites the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and H. inois, where "the common schools best flourish, and the mechanic finds employment in machine shops" Now this sentence is particular telling. coming as it does from the diseipls of a party which has ex- pressed itself willing to fight for Free Trade, (and thereby sacrifice on the altar of Southern greed American home industries,) as hay ing given Tilden q majority of 5,32I. This is incorrect, and the statement was either made with malice prepense, or in such ig- norance, as to be unpardonable i'll one who sets himself up as polit ical teacher. Pennsylvania gave Hayes a majority of 9,375; Ohio l gave him a majority of 2,747, and 1 Illinois, 1,971, and Mir. Baker will | have to go elsewhere to make good l Tilden's majority of 5,321 in the 1 six States mentioned. Whether s'if | the South were in majority there is nothing in the Union to fear" let | the words of a Southern Demo cratic leader decide: "Consider what Lee and Jackson would do were they alive. THESE ARE THE SAME PRINCIPLES FOR WHICH THEY FOUGHT FOR FOUR YEARS. Re member the men who poured fodrth their life blood on Virginia's soil, and do not abandon them now. Re member upon your vote depends the success of the Democratic ticket. Hampton, in the interest of Democratic harmony, Hancock and a Solid South, at Staunton, Va, July 26, 1880. Will rot such men as Hampton, Lee and Davis more than offset Belknap, Bab- cock, or a Schenk, who at least ought to preserve the Union, when ike the aforementioned broke their 'aths to the country that had edu- .ated them, and thought only of LOW best to ruin? ". D. r.
 
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