Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-07
A NEW SECTIONAL ISSUE.
From the New York Herald

From the New York HeraldJ
The Blaine people assert that they can
carry the country next November on what,
according to their own statement, is q purely
sectional division of the country. They In
tend to have on their side, they say, the
solid West and the rowdy element else
where. 1.-The hungry West, as one OF our
contemporaries calls it, is to be brlbed by the
promise of vast raid on the Treasury.
The republican managers steadfastly re-.
fused TO lower the taxes to the demands OF
economical public expenditures when they
had control of Congress; and at the present
session they have INSTRUCTED every attempt
st tax reform. The republican President
and Secretary ofthe Treasury have, on many
Droper occasions, admonished their party,
in official messages and reports, of the duty
and necessity of lowering the taxes and
abolishing the vast surplus revenue: Inc
republicans in the last Congress replied ny
contemptuously passing over MT. Artnur,s
veto the monstrous river and harDor steai,
which took eighteen millions out OF the
Treasury.
MIR. Blaine and General Logan opposed to
Mr.. Arthul's honest and economical recon-
mendations schemes of their own Tor DIS
tribu,inr the surplus revenues" The CHI
mated both Blaine and Logan, the authors
and advocates of the swindling surplus rev.
enue distribution and upon the heels OF
this nomination Western republican pro-
claimed in the House of Representatives
that the next River and Harbor bill must
give not less than thirty five millions, and
| INCORPORATED in his speech chapter from
Mr.. Blaine's so called "Historv" to prove
| that Blaine fayors such raid on the Treas
| ury.
Thirty-five millions for o river and har-
Dor steal will make hole in the surplus,
and when to this is added what is already
MANNED by the same friends of "liberal ap-
nropriations'-a thirty millions Tor
huge public buildings steal, such as has
been with difficulty prevented by the dem,
ocrats in the present House-so little VIII
be left of the surplus revenues Wrung by
needless taxes from an unprosperous people
that the remainder will be easily gobbled
up by Mr.. Blaine's favorite, John Roach, in
the East for subsidies, and in the West by
the star route spectators and attorneys
who acted as Blaine managers and disburs-
ing agents at Chicago.
| liza few millions should be left it will be
| easy to repeat the notorious Robson trick
of getting up an alarm of war while Con-
| vress is not in session. and "distributlng"
| The small remainder of the surplus where
il will do most good'-in the navy yards.
A surplus revenue of one hundred mill
lions TO be distributed" is the stock IN
trade of the Blaine men, and they turn to
the West with this great bride, because
thew have noticed in Congress that Western
republicans were those who demanded and
supported the great river and harbor steal OF
1852. and other extravagaut and wasteful
legislation. To the reckless and adventur-
ous elements in the East and South the
Blaine people offer openly policy of fill
clustering and "guano" speculations-t that
diplomacy with a club" which charms
dynamters and annexationists as we'll as
SPECTATORS and contractors.
If the American voters really hunger Tor
needless and high taxes, with "distrlbu.
ton of the surplus" to jobbers and star
reuters if they want to see the country
embarked on a new career of semi-commun-
ism at home aud guano adventures abroad !;
) if they wish to see spectators, contractors
and party bummers making rapid fortunes
out of public calamity, oppression and dis
grace, the Blaine-Logan ticket offers them
all this, and very frankly. "The West and
the rowdy element" are counted on to mass
the votes, and carry the States for Blaine
and Logan. The hundred million surplus
and the guano policy form the "hay at the
end of the pole" which stimulates this new
sectional and corrupt combination to do its
utmost. 1t will require the combined eff.
forts of the other sections and of reputable
+ citizens to defeat this attempt against the
Treasury and the country. When Blaine
and Logan called for distribution of the
surplus they appealed to all the needy,
speculative and jobbing elements in the
country; and they got their reward from
these followers at Chicago in an 'enthusias-
tic' nomination.
1t remains to be seen whether the country
ut large consents to be plundered.