The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-03

crushed our manufactures, crippled our home
industries, and reduced our laborers to want
The Republican party has steadily maintained
protective tariff system, under which our national
growth, development and prosperity have be-
come the wonder and envy of the world This
is but glance at the record but it will serve to
make pertinent a question each voter should
carefully consider, namely:
Which party has manifested signs of decay
OF moral character and political capacityF The
Republican party has been right on all these
questions, and it is right to-day all the politl
cal questions now in issue. When, and upon
what question: has the Democratic party been
right What political capacity has it shownl
What has it done within the last quarter of a
moral character2 No Democrat will attempt to
defend the record of the Democratic party. 1t
is utterly indefensible.
HONESTY, FIDELITY AND THRIFT OF REPUBLICAN
ADMINISTRATION.
Andrew Jackson is no longer the patron saint
of the Democratic party He has been removed
from his niche in the Democratic temple, and the
shadowy form Of SamuelJ. Filden, of Cipher alley,
has been put in his place. On June 10, 1884,
Tilden wrote q farewell letter to the Democratic
party A month later the Democratic party in
its National platform warmly indorsed this let
ter aud formally dedicated itself to the memory
of the SAID Samuel J. Til6en. In this letter Til
den says Twenty years of continuous malad-
ministration under the demoralzing influences
OF intestine war and of bad finance have in
1SSbtu pu6 HHOl6 ROV6fGI06nIdl system OF O10
United States with the cancerous growths of
false construction and corrupt practices AS
an echo to this base SANDER Thomas Al. Hen
bricks, in his speech of July II, ratifying his
own nomination, said: II come before you,
Democrats, conservatives, independents-al
men who wish to restore the government to the
position it occupied before these corrupting
times, to all such men / make my appeal for
your support for the high Office to which have
been nominated by the Democracy at Chicago.
TWENTY of rnala0u0iujS-
trationl Let us consider for moment
These twenty years cover a great deal in the
history of this Republic They cover the march
of Grant to Richmond and the march of Sher-
man TO the sea. They cover Getty. burg, Chick
amauga, Mission Ridge and Appomattox. They
cover the redemption Of the government from a
Democratic rebellion They cover the recon
struction measures the legal-tender and ma
tlonal currency acts, the amendments to the
Constitution, the resumption of specie payments
the refunding acts, and the inauguration of civil
service reform Is all this NAL administration
These twenty years extend back to the con-
vention of 1854 in which the Democratic party
declared the war for the preservation of the gov
eminent a failure. This same Samuel j. Til
den was member of the committee on resolu
lions of that convention, and Thomas A. Hen
bricks gave his full approval to that resolution.
What would have been the history Of the United
powerF line would have told it
all ssGone down in dishonor and
hlotted from the map of nations
would have been the recital The official rec
ords of the government regarding losses by the
dishonesty and corruption of officials, are in
structive to the voter who desires to cast his
vote in favor of honest administration. These
records show that during the eight years of
Jackson,s administration the government lost by
dedication of officers ST. 81 on each ST. 600 of the
entire receipts and disbursements of the
government During Van Buren's adj
ministration the loss by defalcations
was 81. u per $1,000 Under Polk the per
centage of loss was s. 08 per 81 000 Under
Pierce SO. IS per 81, 900. Under Buchanan So 81
per 81 600 These figures give a fair Illustration
Of Democratic official integrity. Compare this
showing with the record of the Republican ad-
ministrations Remember that the Republican
administrations have borne the expense of
great war, and have been subject TO the risk
and loss incident to the calling of large num-
Der Of new and untried men into public service
Yet mark the results. Under Lincoln the losses
were only 76cents on reach 81, 900. Under johnson
the loss was only 81 cents on each 81, 600. Under
Grant the loss was only "a cents on each 81 ,000
Under Hayes the entire loss was only eight
tenths of one mill on each $1,000 Arthur's
administration is not yet finished. hence
the record can not yet be made up in full but il
will show equally well with the other Repub-
lican administrations. Notwithstanding the
fact that the Republican party, during its adj
ministration of the government has collected
and disbursed nearly ten times as much money.
enty- two years of the existence Of the govern
ment prior to the first Republican administers
ton, yet the total losses by dishonest officials
under Republican administration aggregate ten
million dollars less than the total losses by dis
honest officials during the seventy-two years
preceding Lincolns Inauguration. Reduced to
a proportion the account stands thus Losses
by dishonest and corrupt officials have been
one dollar Republican, to eleven dollars Demo
cratic. Which party has proved itself the most
Trustworthy In his ratification speech of July
II, Mr.. Hendricks devoted much Of his time
to the loss of $4,000, by the Navy De-
partment through the dishonesty of two of the
officials in that department. and made it the
text for pathetic appeal to ''let the Democratic
boys come in out of the cold and warm their
toes 1t was an unfortunate text, because the
context of the record of that same department
sadly mars the beauty of the application The
official records disclose the fact that during the
last six years of Democratic administration
from 1854 to 1860 in this same Navy Depart
ment. there were numerous defalcationso of DEM
ocratic officials amounting, in the aggregate, to
$4IS,0O0i aud now, In twenty four years of Re
publican administration $63, 600 have been sto-
len. and it turns out that this was stolen by two
Democrats. During the last Democratic admin
istration, Democratic officials emhezzled MANY
millions Of dollars Of trust funds, pillaged the
Nations forts and arsenals robbed the govern
ment custom houses, bankruDted the treasury
and ended by committing treason against the
government that had nourished and honored
them What has the Democratic party done
to redeem its lost chraaeterq
Finance, Currency and Taxation.
RBE SURPLUS
The Democratic party complains that the Pa