Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-08-10
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THURSDAY EvEHINo, AUG. 10. les2

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THURSDAY EVENING. AUG. 10, le02.
Republican Extravagance.
SepatOr Allison, chairman of the Sen
a:e committee on appropriations, states
the net increase of appropriation for
1883 over 1882 to be ST., So, ,62l.34. That
is u serious record for Republican sen.
a'Or to have to make and q serious one
for the party to face. Senator Allison
charges gross extravaganza upon his
party and the country will re echo the
charge. Placed anew in power in Con-
gress, after a term of Democratic con
troll, the Republican party emerges at
the end of its first year with such rec
ord as this. In q time of peace and with
no excuse for extraordinary expenditure,
the cost of the government to the people
has been increased seventy-seven mil.
lions of dollars. The Democracy, when
it came into the control of legislation,
made its effort to obtain the confidence
of the people in the line ofretrenchment.
The Republican party seems to consid-
er that this Democratic policy was not
one worthy of imitation. Perhaps the
leaders were encouraged to this opinion
by the fact that they had beaten the
Democrats, Notwithstanding their good
record for economy in national expendi-
tule. They appear to think that they
know trick better than that to retain
control of power. Their policy is to
purchase support by liberal ex-
penditure. They make the money
and expect it to reap Republican votes.
In pursuance of this idea they started
out at the beginning of this Congress to
make its record for extravaganza just
what it is. They selected man for
their leader in the House who stood he
fore the country with a taller reputation
for lavish expenditure of public moneys
than any other man in the nation. The
ex-secretary of the navy organized the
House with the cOuntenance of the ad-
ministlatiOn, placing in the speakers
chair man believed to he incompetent,
who has since fully demonstrated his
incompetence and whose only recOmmen-
dation was his servile trustworthiness to
the men who put him in place. That,
too, he has fully demonstrated. Robson
has been his master and he and his
friends were put in the important places
on the chief committees, which were 50
made as to secure, SO far as possible, the
success of the schemes for raiding the
treasury upon which the combination was
formed. The country is fortunate that,
after this capture of the strong
places in the House by this
band of robbers, it has not been more
severely aeeced. Many of these schemes
miscarried. The repute of Robson in
the administration of the navy heavily
handicapped him in his recommendation
of appropriations for that favorite and
early selected pasture field of the rob
bers. The rich pasture is not there and
the seventy-seven millions that are
lying around i'm divers places are not in
the best situation to advance the purpose
of the Republican rogues to make money
for themselves and votes for their party.
They have the record of this extrava-
gance to meet, but are without the con-
troll of the heavy amount of cash needed
to make successful their plans to pur-
chase their retention in power. Mr..
Robson goes back to New Jersey to find
his seat hotly contested in his own
party, and he has nothing much more
available than his share of the tur-
nip seeds of the agricultural bureau,
which he is pouring into his district,
to buy the favors of the voters. The big
appropriations for his monitors are not
free to pour out upon the thirsty Jersey
sands, though the adjacent Delaware
ship builders doubtless will subscribe
literally to return Robson in view of
what he has done for them, what he
hoped to do and what they hope he may
yet do.
It will be strange il in the coming
elections the contrast that is SO strik.
ingly presented between the Democratic
and Republican practice and precept in
the matter of government expenditure
does not restore the Democratic major.
ity in Congress. The difference is writ
ten SO plainly that he who runs may
read. During the six years that the
democrats had majority in Congress
the voice of their leaders was for econ.
omy consistently and steadily. That is
the foundation rock of the public reputa-
tion of their speaker, Mr.. Randall, and
of other notable leaders, such as Mr..
Holman, of Indiana. The record of their
Congresses was in accord with this pro
claimed Democratic devotion to econ,
0my as is indisputably demonstrat
ed by the fact that the first succeeding
Republican, Congress swelled:the national
expenditure scventy-s seven millions, and
would have increased it much more had
the Republican leaders had their own
way altogether. Nothing could be more
convincing and eloquent in portray.
ing the positions of the two par
ties, the one for economy, the other for
extravaganza. There they stand-choose
We between them.
GEN. WARREN will he buried in civ.
ilian attire and withoutmilitary display
in accordance with his desire. He was
tirod no dooloro6 of ox,or~,f h mr. MORT fo ;,,