The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-04-08
HARRlsoN,s RECORD.
Damage lone the Country by Two Years
of Mismanagement.


President Harrison has completed
one-half of his administration. 1t would
be difficult, if not impossible, to match
it in the history of our country in tur-
pitude and corruption. Its record is
such as no American, with a feeling of
respect and love for his country, can
contemplate with Indifference. 1t is a
record of evil administration. of foul
deeds, of betrayal of the people.
The sacred trust which Grover Cleve-
land surrendered into the hands of Ben
jantn Harrison, two years ago, unsul-
lied and unstained, has been dragged in
the mire of corruption, and is now the
scoff and scorn of the world. Every
department of the government, which
was then a model of honest, economical
administration, has since become an
unclean thing, permeated with the poi
son of the spoils system, rank partisan
ship and private aggrandizement.
The ordinary expenses of government
have vastly increased, until each de-
partment has become a reservoir of cor
ruption, extravaganza, favoritism and
abuse of power. The treasury has been
made the common prey of every one
who helped materially to put Harrison
in the white house.
The third or fourth rate Indiana law
yer, the law partner of the president,
who was foisted into the position of at
torney general, has brought his impor-
tant department down to the level of
pettifoggers and legal sharks. The
secretary of state has bungled some of
the most important international ques-
tions, which his predecessor SO ably
handled, and has evolved queer
scheme of jug handled reciprocity,
which he calls craftsmanship. The
secretary of the interior has so mis-
managed his department as to make
his administration the shame Of the
country.
The pension Office is rotten to the
core. One wretched, discredited com.
missioner has been kicked out, and a
worse one put in his place. The Indian
bureau has been conducted in such q
manner that an expensive war has beer
precipitated on the country, and reli
gious bigotry has been permitted to in
jure the conduct of the Indian schools
The land grabbers have again swoopet
down upon the public domain, and tht
census has evoked the heartiest con
demnation of the entire country. Their
is not one redeeming feature about th'
entire administration of the variou
bureaus of the department of the in
terror.
The navy department has gone int
the expensive and wholly unauthorized
business of aping the extravaganza o
European nations by the building
of battle ships which this country doe
not need. The war department has ea
hibited proneness toward the demon
; alization of discipline in the army, a
the recent Indian outbreak sufficient
showed.
The Sunday-school Chadband, VIII
was taken from his bargain counter
Philadelphia and made postmaste
general as reward for his COZ tribl
ton to the republican national CO..
ruption fund, has increased the e.
penses and diminished the efficiency {
his department until it has become th
synonym of maladministration.
, The treasury department has bee
:, managed with a view toward coverin
up the frightful drains made upon j
falsifying the real situation and col
:, cealing from the country the trr
state of things. In every sense of tt
= word the Harrison administration hi
: proved a disgrace to the country,
libel on free institutions, cesspool
corruption. a byword of shame, a r
y proach to its party and a curse to tt
= nation. 1t is subject of deep regr
that only half of it's career Of infan
!, has run.-Albany Argus.