Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1885-05-14
Two M0nths-The Result.

The highest compliment that the Dem.
ocrats have ever paid or can pay to the
Republican party, they are paying now,
in the pretended adoption of Republican
policies and principles as their own. To
do this is not easy or pleasant for them
Men of any self respect find it unspeak+
ably, humiliating to admit that they have
been lying like cowardly scoundrels. in
every political campaign for years. Yet
the Democrats have to do that, or to de
worse
Here is the monthly debt statement
There is hardly a Democratic editor who
can print it, or Democratic speaker
who can read or quote it, without prov
ing that his assertions about the finances
for years past have been as full of un>
truths as an egg is of meat. He has
been asserting that there was an enor>
nous surplus, which ought to be spent
in clearing off debt. Mr.. Hendricks and
Mr.. Randall unblushingly said it was
two hundred millions or more. Every
official statement of Mr.. Manning, the
Democratic Secretary of the Treasury,
tells them that they have been lying.
The Democratic orator and editor per-
sisted for years in asserting that the Re-
publican statements were cooked" and
fraudulent; that they we're cunningly
devised to conceal the truth and to hide
the robbery of the people by Republi-
cans.i MIR. Manning's statements, COM
pariGg dollar for dollar. and cent for
cent with those of his predecessors, using
the very same items and differing only
in the arrangement of them, prove that
these assertions have been simply a pack
of falsehoods. 1t is not pleasant to ad-
init all this. But the Democratic Ad-
ministration is forced to do that, OF else
to let the Treasury become bankrupt in
the very first year of Democratic rule,
and the latter would be fatal to all
changes of keeping Office. When Dem
ocrat has to forfeit either his chance of
keeping office, or his reputation for hon
esty and his self respect, there is no
doubt which he will give up.
The Civil Service Reform convicts the
Democrats of untruth every hour. They
would abandon the policy and abolish
the system if they. dared. but that would
cost them defeat. Attempting to pay
some sort of respect to it, they involun
tarily prove that they were untruthful
when they called the Republican officials
"rascals." and asset ted that the public
service bad been crowded with incomr
petents. If the cid officials were really
rascals-if, in fact, any accusation what
ever of improperly, however fiimsy,
could be established against them-they
gu1ridssse put out at once, in strict ac-
cordance with Civil Service rules. Not
a single one has yet been SO removed,
except in few cases where charges had
been investigated, and removal virtually
decided upon, by the previous Republi-
can Administration. Hundreds of men
have been turned out. whose uprightness
and efficiency have been officially admit
ted, in order to make room for persons
in harmony with the new Administers
ton; but no rascals have been found to
move, and no incompetents. Nearly an
hundred thousand persons still retain
office, after a Democratic Administration
has had the power to remove them for
two months, because no fault can be
found with them.
The net result of two months under
Democratic rule is to prove that the
Democratic party gained Office by pert
sistent, stupendous, monumental false
hood. Republicans await the Develop
ments of the next two months with Sc
rene satisfactorily. Y. Tribune.