Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-09-05

| JeHcfSOn1S 10
Madison's 16
| Monroe's S 5S
John Quincy Adams 497
Jackson's Z SO
Van Bnren's IL II
You will note that under the most
thoroughly representative democrat
ic administrations we have ever had
these losses are far greater than un-
der any other administration. I'm
der the Harrison and Tyler admins
tration these losses were So 40.
Under Folks administration 81 0S.
Under Taylor and Filmor's admin
istration, 81 10.
Under Pierce's administration,
So 5S.
Under Buchanan's administration,
SO 81.
Buchanan's administration was
the last democratic administration
1t was not until the republican
party came into power with Mr.. Lin
coin as president that the people of
this country were made to know
what it was to have honest and faith
full public servants; for under his
administration, notwithstanding all
the difficulties attending it calculat-
ed to promote losses and frauds and
defalcations, the losses upon each
81 900 of public moneys handled, in,
stead of being So 81, as they we're
under Buchanan's administration,
were but rs cents. And then came
Andrew Johnson's administration.
and these losses were still further
reduced until they amounted for each
81 900 to but 81 cents. And then
came Grants administration, when
these losses fell straightway from 81
cents under Johnson's administra-
ton to only "a cents under Grants
administration. And then came the
administration of President Hayes,
and under his administration these
losses fell to only three mills on
every $1,000! and now our demo-
cratic friends have found, among
other things, that under Chester A.
Arthur's administration these losses
amounted to but one mill and eight
tenths of mill on each 81, 200 of pub
lie moneys handled! May it not be
possible that the result OF last years
election was not to "turn the rascals
out" but to "turn the rascals in ~
The speaker then discussed the
" Southern question " at length, and
after describing the principles and
necessities of reconstruction after
the war, as viewed from the republi-
can standpoint, said: off the color
ed republicans Of the South had
been allowed to vote as they desired
and had their ballots been counted
as cast, there would have been only
lib votes in the electoral college
from the South for Mr.. Cleveland,
and there would have been from
there forty votes for James G.. Blaine,
more than enough to have elected
him with the States of New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut and Indi,
ana against him.
Men say, "Why should not the
country be as prosperous under Pres
ident Cleveland as it was under
General Garfield ?n They say he is
good man, an honest man; that he
desires to give the people a good,
clean administration, and that he
has SO far conducted himself to the
satisfaction of the people of the
country. All this is not conceded,
but, if it should be, there is nothing
in it al! to produce a favorale effect
upon the business interests of the
country. But what is of Importance,
and that which does affect the bust
ness interests of the country, is
something President Cleveland has
not yet spoken upon, and that is the
policy Of his administration as to
whether it is to be continuance of
that wise and patriotic policy of pro-
tectlng and encouraging and devel-
oplng American industries, or wheth-
err it is to be a return to the ancient
democratic policy of free trade.
What the people want to know,
therefore, from Mr.. Cleveland is
what he will recommend to the in
coming Congress; and what they
want to know from Congress is,
what Congress proposes to do about
it. When it is settled, if happily it
may be so settled, and, as | trust it
may be, that there is to be no inter-
ference with the protective tariff pol
icy that the republican party inaug-
urated, there will come a revival of
prosperity. Had Mr.. Blaine been
elected President, that assurance
would at once have been given to
the people of the country, and i'm
mediately upon the happening of
that event fires would have been
lighted, wheels would have turned,
and the spindle would have whirled.
If it should unfortunately turn out
that the President is to favor free
trade policy, we may only expect a
repetition of that continued decline
and ultimate bankruptcy which has
overtaken us every time the country
has lapsed from the stimulus Of pro-
lection to the paralysis of free trade.
"When Abraham Lincoln called
an army into the field to defend the
life of the nation a million men were
ready to respond, but to the discred-
it of the country, it was not able to
put clothes on their backs or guns
in their hands. The result was that
we gave them shoddy uniforms that
would hardly hold together, and
Austrian muskets that were almost
more dangerous to stand behind than
in front of. But before the war was
over every soldier carried gun of
American manufacture, and when
the war was ended that great army
which came marching home wore the