News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-10-21
SENATOR DAWES.
His Estimate of the National Admins
tration-The Pending Election,

tration-The Pending Election,
In Boston on Tuesday evening of last
week the Republicans held a rousing
ratification meeting. Among the speak
ers was Senator Henry L. Dawes, and
the conclusion of his speech was as fol-
lows
Felloau Citizens, This is not Mas
sachuSettS campaign entirely. by the
election of twelve members of Congress
next November the administration OF
the government at Washington calls
upon you for an endorsement; and as
you shall cast your vote then Tor mem
bers of congress, you will either approve
or disapproVe of this administration. 1t
has been long enough in power already
to test the sincerity of its promises and
the measure of their fulfillment. 1t
came into power upon the strength of
its promises alone, for it had nothing
else to offer. 1t had become bankrupt
in character for more than twenty-five
wears. TApplause.] Its promises filled
the air. Men who had never trusted 1t
before, confding in them, gaye.lt their
confidence and gave it power. Now that
it presents itself for endorsement they,
with US, will call it to account. Where
is the fraud 1t promised to expose
the rascals it was to turn out. 1t has
found its hands full of its own rascals,
and some of them had to be pardoned
out before they could get their commits
sions. [Applause.l 1t has had the treas
ury and its books it has found every
dollar of the money there, and the books
have balanced to a farthing, and they
have found that it has cost less, dollar
for dollar, to collect and disburse the
revenue of this government in the last
twenty five Republican years than 1t did
in all the years that went before. 1t
promised to reduce the expenditures of
the government, and yet the appropri-
ations of the first year of this admins
tration are S45, 000, 900 greater than those
of the last year of Republican rule lap
plausel, and S35, 0O0, 900 greater than any
one of the last four years. 1t promised
to curtail the offices of the country and
cut down the salaries, yet every depart
ment but one of the government has
called for more officials and greater pay.
1t proclaimed its love for the soldier,
pledged itself to maintain the covenant
of the government with him, and has
met that with hundred VetoeS, saving
to the government the paltry sum OF
about $4,000 year, hardly enough to
pay the annual expenses of the green
house of the executive mansion. APP
plause.l The President could not wait
till his Inauguration before he Numbered
forth his condemnation of the coinage OF
our deprecated silver dollar, but com
mittee waited upon him at Albany and
took him by the ear, and he has been
silent upon that subject ever since.
Loud were his professions of civil
service reform but while he yet spake
one of his cabinet sent forth confiden-
tial circulars to Democratic friends, in
viting them to make secret charges
against Republican officials, and prom
iSing. if they were diligent, he would
remove from fifteen to twenty per cent
of them in a single month, and then
went straightway and worked the politi-
cal guillotine so diligently that the heads
of Republican poStmaSterS dropped into
the basket at the rate of one in fifteen
minutes of every working day since the
administration came into power. APP
plause.1 These are some of the prom
ises and some of the performances upon
which this Democratic administration
asks at your hands in November a con-
tinuance of confidence. and all it has tC
offer is a renewal of this already over
due and discredited paper.
The Republican party of MaSSachu,
sets, the honest yeOmanry of MasSa-
chusetts, will declare to him that they
will not accept that renewal, and his
paper must go to protest. Loud ap-
plause.] The Republican party does not
grow old; the young men in its ranks
and those who have grown gray in its
service are there from conviction, and
they are there to stay. Applause.
They are there also to win, for they do
battle for the weak against the strong
everywhere, for the downtrOdden freed
man struggling to exercise the rights of
citizenship guaranteed to him. They
are for the right everywhere, and so
long as any of these high principles
shall lack accomplishment there will be
something for the Republican party to
do. And it will do it. Applause.