The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1892-09-07
NO. d
Republican Extravaganza and
the Remedy.

the Remedy.
1t is very common to read
and hear glowing encomiums
upon the great prosperity which
has been attained and enjoyed
by the people in this country
during the last thirty-two years,
IN which the Republicans have
controlled the direction of the
government. Few, save mo-
nopolists, can rejoice in the
possession of this prosperity,
but any one who will take the
trouble to investigate must be
painfully impressed with how
dearly he has paid for the gov
ernment these Republicans
have given him.
The United States statistics
show that in the seventy-three
years previous to 1862, there
was collected from the people
and disbursed by the govern
ment the sum of $1,S46, Al, ,679.
The same statistics show that
from 1866 to 1892, twenty-siX
years of government, have cost
the people So, ,64S, ,4S6,773 Was
there ever a more striking con-
trast? The excuse may be fur
nished that the cost of the war
has had to be paid out of this
sum. Admitted. We find that
the total amount expended for
pensions and war debt has been
S5, 1886, III, 100. How many jobs
come under this heading is
known to no one. But throw
ing this aside there is left a
balance expended for ordinary
expenses only, which amounts
to $4,262, ,309,672. More than
twice the amount was thus paid
out by the government for or
dinary expenses in twenty-sx
years of peace that was paid
during the preceding seventy
three years for all the expenses
of government, including sever
al costly wars and the pensions
of thousands of veterans. The
growth of the country, demands
of a higher civilizations, and
other reasons may be alleged
for the enormous increase made,
but making every allowance
there Is yet a showing of utter
profigancy in the expenditure
of the peoples money that
should hurl the party with such
a history from power forever.
In twenty-six years they have
collected and paid out a sum
that is nearly one-sixth in value
of all the property of the United
States today with all its boast
ed wealth.
The Democratic party fur.
nishes today in the person of
one man, one whose open pub
lie record has shown him supe-
rior to the Establishments and
influences of all jobbers. And
that man is its candidate for
the presidency, Grover Cleve-
land. Laborious in investiga-
tion, and fearless in action, he
fought as president by the veto
power all raids on the treasury
in a manner that marks him
without parallel in his time as
the fearless champion of the
peoples cause. In the person
of their candidate the Demo
cracy today makes an appeal to
the people in their own interests
with a force that in spite of ig-
norance, prejudice and passion,
the great foes of progress, they
cannot but recognize. In him
is the only visible prospect af-
forded of economy, retrench-
ment and reform in the peoples
interests. The jobbers and the
monopolists are now in battle
array against him. Will those
whose best friend he is now
stand by him is the question to
be determined. Believing
firmly in the Jeffersonian doc
trine that you can always trust
the people, we emphatically
declare that they will. On this
faith we base our belief that
Grover Cleveland will be our
next president.