Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-09-02
HON. VIM. d. HILL.
Strikes the Key Note of the Campaign
in the Sixth.

in the Sixth.
His Speech at the Convention in Per-
rysburg.
Mr.. Hill alluded,to his early political
career and the history of the. Demo-
cratic party up to IS months ago. In
1870, when they beat him for Congress,
the Toledo Blade said he was dead,
"but here am to-day" said Mr.. Hill,
'and the much dreaded change of ad-
ministration has come and the country
Is still safe"
How do we stand to-day? Did the
Republican newspapers and stump ora
tors tell the truth on us in all these
campaigns? Has the country gone to
destruction? Has the pensions of those
soldiers been stopped? Has the Rebel
debt or q single dollar of it been paid :?
Has there been any attempt on the part
or any Democrat, North or South, to
pay single cent of it? Have the Ma
tiOnal Banks all failed? Have the fac
tories all stopped? Have the colored
people been put back into slavery as
they predicted? Has there been any
attempt by anybody to do it. or have
their rights as citizens been infringed
upon in any way whatever? Does the
corn and wheat, oats and grass, and the
cattle and hogs and sheep, and the wool
on the sleeps back. still continue to
grow? Have the predictions of our
enemy been verified? From 1877 to
1884 there were financial panics. The
prices of everything we had to sell and
buy fiuctuated ruinously 10 the manu-
facturer, the wholesale and retail dealer
and the farmer. The price of labor fell
but never rose.
When Cleveland went into Office
there was almost universal distress and
hard times throughout the country;
thousands and tens ofthousands of la
boring men were out Unemployment and
thousands of factories, shops and furna-
ces were idle. For many years the coun-
try was full of tramps begging bread
from door to door and place to sleep
at night. All this, too, without change
in the tariff laws. Now factories are
aglow with renewed life and activity
and the tramps have disappeared, and
you don't see or hear of them now. The
people have gone to work. Never in
the history of this country was conf
dence in the present and future more
firmly established in business circles.
Since Cleveland was inaugurated $l22, :
0OO, 900 of the national debt has been
paid, S96,000,000 during the last fiscal
year, and there is still money enough in
the Treasury to pay $100, ,000, 900 more of
it without disturbing the reserved fund
or endangering the public credit. In
every department of the Government
the most rigid economy has been prac-
tised; wherever expenses could be cur
tailed, it has been done, and the ex-
penses in the administration of the
Government In every department has
been reduced Notwithstanding the in
creasing wants of clerical force.
THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
The Treasury department was never
managed with more practical business
sense than now. 1t shows that during
the past fiscal year ending June 80,
| 1886, the public debt has been reduced
SOC, ,097, ,755.15. The reduction of the
public debt since the Inauguration of
Cleveland has been S122, ,4O2, ,645.9s. A
large number of employees have been
discharged and the decrease in the ex-
penditures of the Treasury Department
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1885,
| in all its various branches and append
ages as compared to the fiscal year 1885,
the last year of Republican control, is
ALI ,237 .35-which would make a
grand total of sixteen and half million
dollars in four years. give but two in.
stances to show the difference of man.
agement of the Treasury Department
under Republican and Democratic con.
troll. For the fiscal year ending June
1885, all the departments were under
control, for there was no time to insti-
tute reforms between March, 1885, and
June, 1885.
In the Second Auditors office the
business of the office which has been be-
hind for years has been brought up tC
the requirements of the Office in such
an admirable manner, as to elicit the
praise of the Republican members o.
Congress. During the debate on the
appropriation bills, Mr.. ButterwOrth o.
this State paid the following compli.
ment to Gen. w. A. Day, the Second
Auditor of the Treasury. He said: "Mr
Day. the Second Auditor, is an ener'
getic, conscientious, c.ear-headed man
Nobody can go about his office without
appreciating the fact, that the Presi-
dent was fortunate in choosing such a
man for Second Auditor; he is crowd.
ing the business of his office.n In the
Third Auditors Office under the man.
agement of Gen. John S. Williams, Of
Indiana, the same line of economy and
energy is displayed.
In that Office the, compensation fol
clerks in 1885 was $227, ,57O.64. In 1885
under the Democrats, $2l3, 1882. max
ing a saving of $14, 1862.
In 1886, under Republican control the
absenteeism ofclerks were 6, 1853 days
in 1885, under Democratic rule 3,49l
days, making saving to the Govern
ment of 2,677 days.
In the miscellaneous CLAIMS division
of the office during the last year of Re
publican management the total number
Of claims disposed of were s, ,237; amount
claimed, $2,5S7, 1903.
| Under the first year of Democratic
management the total number disposed
of was 10, ,532; amount claimed, $8,2l7,
694.40. The number of clerks employed
the last year of Republican rule were
SO; first year of the Democratic control
20. In the collection division of the
Third Auditors Office under the Repub
can rule, 20 clerks answered 2,3l4 let
ters. Under Democratic rule, 16 clerks
answered 3,3l2 letters. In the horse
claim division the last year of Republi
can management disposed of785 claims
The first year of Democratic manage