Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-09-06
PRETENSE OF ECONOMY
GORMAN (DEM.) SEEKS TO EX-
TLAIN THE APPARENT EXCESS OF
NINETY-FIVE MILLIONS AS COM
PARED WITH TIE OUTLAY
OF TIE PREVIOUS AD-
MINISTRATUON.


OF TIE PREVIOUS AD-
MINIsTRATION.
Washington dispatch, August %.
The Senate resumed consideration o
the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill.
Mr.. German stated that he thoroughly
agreed with Mr.. Allison in his genera
statement of yesterday asto the condition
of the bill. He bore testimony as &
member of the Committee on Appropri
alton to the absolute fairness of that
committee in considering matters with
out any regard to politics. But he ex-
pressed his amazement at the statement
made by Mr.. Allison showing a differ
ence of $95,000,000 of expenditures in
favor of Mr.. Arthur's Administration.
as against Mr.. Cleveland's AdminiStra-
tiOn, statement made purely for parti-
san purposes. He had no doubt that
Mr.. Allison himself regretted bringing
so much partiSanship into the discussion
of the subject. The fact of the $95 ,000,-
600 difference he admitted, but the
cause of it was largely the sectional feel
ing engendered and encouraged by the
Republican Senators and the Republican
press, which made it possible for any
sort of pension bill to pass either house,
so that the cost of pensions would be
greater than the cost of putting down
the rebellion. The time had come when
there must be some Just limitation of
pensions. The Republican party had
forced the issue. 1t had forced immense
pension appropriations, and now it at
tempted to hold the Democratic party
upto the country as party of extrava-
gance. 1t was not fair. The amount
of expenditures for pensions during the
four years of Mr.. Arthur's administra-
tiOn had been 1921, 100000, and during
Mr.. Cleveland's $304,000,000, an increase
of nearly S13,000,000. And had it not
been for the veto and Democratic oppo-
SitiOn that amount would have been
swelled at least S25, 100000 a year. The
expenditures for the navy during Mr.
Cl6vefand's administration had been
! S77,G00,O0O, as against $60.000,000 of
! the previous four years. That was an
increase of S17 100000 in order to build
up the navy. Then as to the postal ser
vice, the cost of the last four years had
been 1924, 100000, as against $179,000,-
900 for the preceding four years, an in
crease of over S45, 100000, most of which
had been paid back by the postal reve-
nues; and had it not been for the reduc-
ton of letter postage from 3 to cents
there would be a surplus from that ser
vice instead of a deficit. Then there
was the amount of the Alabama claims,
nearly $6,000,000, paid out during the
present Administration, and of the ChOc-
taw claim, nearly $3,000000, for neither
of which was Mr.. Cleveland responsible.
These sums added together accounted
for about $84,000,000 of the S95,000,00O
which the Senator from Iowa talked so
much about In his Judgment the great
er portion of these increases had been
made in the interest of the country
The cost of administration Per capita of
population had been for each of the last
four years 1892, as against S4.62 under
thelpreceding administration.
Mr.. Blair asked Mr.. German whether
that was a fair test, and whether he un-
derstood that the American people were
to be governed at so much head?
"No sill" was Mr.. Gorman's reply; "but
the expenses of this Government in
crease as the expenses increase"
Mr.. German proceeded with his argu-
ment and closed by saying that the
speech of Mr.. Allison showed a degree
of partisanship which he (Mr. Germany
trusted his friend from Iowa would re-
gret and would never repeat.
LOG CABIN CAMPAIGN MEDALS.
Seribner's Magazine for September.
This canvass Harrison Van Buren,
1910 was one of the most exciting in
our history. Every expedient was re-
stored to by politicians of both parties
to play upon popular feeling, and the
whole country was aroused. The Wings
conducted what has come down to us as
1.-The shouting campaign" The Demo-
Gratis having sneered at Harrison for liv- |
ing in log cabin with nothing but !
hard cider to drink, his partisans raised |
the cry for the "log cabin and hard cider |
candidate" This touched the popular |
imagination, and people fairly went wild |
with enthusiasm-an hard cider; for
from the barrel which, the candidate
proclaimed, he was ready to tap for any |
one who entered his cabin, cider seemed !
to flow all over the country. Log cabins |
and barrels were features at nearly all |
the Harrison meetings, and were also |
borne in the large professions organized /
by Harrison's supporters,-the first po-
litical professions in our histOry-on
which occasions the barrels were usually |
found to be more persuasive orators
than the speakers. The Harrison medals
faithfully record the popularity of the
barrel, for the medaliSts even suspended
their regard for perspective, and in their
of Harrison's primitive
home made the barrel SO conspicuous an !,
object in the surrounding landscape that
beside it the mountains dwindle to
mounds and the trees to bushes. As the /
Harrison canvass progressed, it grew so |
exciting that in one Massachusetts town, /
for instance, church was turned over
to Harrison's partisans. They built
log cabin on wheels and drew it to the /
church with eighty yoke of oxen, young
girls on horseback, each representing 4
State, riding in advance bearing green
boughs and banners and strewing the
road with flowers, while the whole pro-
cession shouted:
"For Tippecanoc and Tyler too,
TippecanOe and Tyler too,
With them we will beat little Vani
Van, Van is Il uSed-up man.
"Tippecanoe" was a watchword among
Harrison's adherents, who thus made
capital out of his military exploits as
well as out of the simplicity of his daily
walk.