Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1884-10-07
STOP THERF!!!!

STOP THIEF!
Some Conspicuous AchfesyeIlents
of the Republican, Party
49,
THE WHISKY RING FRAuDs
$15Q, 900, GOO per year stolen BY the Whis
key Thieves under the $500 Tax and the
swindles have continued ever since by con-
ntvance of Republican Internal Revenue.
Officers
TIE WHITE HOUSE.
Z Expenses of The Executive Mansion fora
years prior TO 1851, Ss6s, 600.
Expenses during is years of Republican
Administfa tions $77S, 600
CREDIT 1CoBILIER.
$1s, 600. 600 taken. from the People to en-
rich the Ring.
THE Posi- TRADER AND INDIAN FRAUDS.
$4,000, 600 stolen under Fraudulent Con-
tracts, through the conniyance of Belknap,
Republican Secretary OF War. =
FREEDMAN's BUREAU AND SAVINGS RANK.
$4,000, 600 stolen from the'sayings Of the
WARDS of the Nation"
THE LAND GRANT sw1NDIEs.
$40, 1000, 600 furnished from the United
States Treasury to aid the Land Grant and
Railroad Frauds.
159. 4uS,US6 acres OF Land Gfanbeu TO
Railroads, worth $500 per Acre
$27S, 1905, 052.
TIE SOUTHERN COTTON swrSpnEs.
100000 Balos of Cotton stolen by the Cot
ton Ring.
THE VENEZUELA SCANDAL.
81, 250, 600 Fraudulently Awarded by the
Republican Commission.
GENERAL EXPENDITURES OF THE GOVERN
ALENT.
During % years before the war-from
1891 to 1913, $50, 444, 46s.
During ID years after the war-from 1857
to 1s79-$3, $3.50. SOS, GAS.
THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION FRAUD.
The Greatest Fraud of all, by which the
Presidency was Stolen from the People.
OFFICIAL DEFA1oAT1oNs.
Amount of defalcations un-
der Grants first Admins
Amount of defalcation un.
der Grants second Ad
ministratiOn ------------- 4,647,247 81
Amount of defalcation I'M
der Hayes Administration 1,776, 996 02
Amount of defalcation un.
&dministra,ion s -ss.s ssa. 1,Ssg.7s "a
Total defalcatiOns SO, SOS, AGO 90
THE STAR ROUTE FRAUDS.
Millions stolen by conspiracy and fraud.
ulent bids. George Bliss and other counsel
employed for nearly year at 800 per day
each, and 81, 100000 expended in mock
trials 4ofttOut any cOnUictiOn of the Ring
conspirators, prominent leaders in the Re
publican party.
FRAUDS IN TREASURY BooKKEBPnG.
Discrepancies in Finance Reports amount
ing to $247, 200, 600.
Erasures and Alterations in Treasury
Ledgers to the number of 2, 500.
The above statements are all from Official
Reports and the Records of Courts. They
do not include many gross frauds known to
all, such as the Boss Shepherd Frauds, the
son Naval Frauds, the Sanborn Contracts
the Pension Bureau Frauds, the Black Fri
day rascalfty, the buying of Indianain 1880,
the Qualification of Dorsey as soap ma.
nipulator, the Forgery by which Folgerwas
nominated, the Howgate Frauds, the Keifer
business, the Burnside Robbery the Swain
Swindles, and the Frauds in the Medical
Bureau. .of the Navy Department.. The
Republican Party has ontinued down to :
1884, the same career of Reckless ExtIayal
gance and Robbery that has characteristic
since its accession to power.
0pcn the Booksi
Turn tie Raseols OUT
The only way to purify the Government
and. show to the people the truth abouttheir
public servants Is to elect
CLEVELAND AND HENDR1oKs,
and place the National Administration in
honest and economical hands.
/" Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxa
ton. "-Dem0crGtic IL1tt0fn.