Year: 1873




The first is to the same tune and the
same song that you have sung for the
last fifteen years. When the infamous
corruption, fraud, extravaganza, and
wholesale plundering and stealing of the
party in power is presented to the peo-
pie, you commence howl about some
individual act, in order to draw the at
tention of the people from the organized
system of plundering and stealing prac-
ticed by the party in power.


have not forgotten that a Democrat
Treasurer of Ohio did have to abscond to
Canada because Republican thief had
stolen the peoples money from the
treasury.


have no knowledge of the county
Commissioners and county Treasurer of
this county having engaged in loaning
the peoples money to each other in vio-
lation of law, by which the county lost
from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars.
If this be fact, why were not these
Commissioners and Treasurer prosecuted
and brought to justice?





usual style in argument by the way of
Misrepresentation. 1 would not array
the laboring men against the wealth of
the countey. / make no attacks on rail
roads, banks, or furnaces, or any other
means used to create wealth and build
up the country.


I attack the system by which these in
stitutions are conducted and claim that
no combination of railroads, banks, or
system of manufacturing, shall receive
class legislation-or, in other words, that
our legislative bodies shall not be con-
trolled by the capital of the country, in
the interest of railroads, banks, or fur
naces. l claim further, that all institu-
tions of the above mentioned character
should be restricted by legislative acts,
so as to prevent them from taking the
advantage of public necessity and indi-
vidual demands. Companies may be
growing wealthy, and an individual here
and there by industry and economy may
have accumulated some wealth since 1
came to jackson. But that the system
of government practieed by the party in
power by the giving away of public lands
to railroad companies, by granting class
legislation to monopolies of every char
acter, by exempting large portion of
the wealth of the country from taxation.
By banking system by which millions
of dollars are stolen from the people an
nually, by system of internal revenue
and tariff by which the Collectors re-
ceive and pocket millions of the peoples
money without their knowledge, or con-
sent, by private and public speculations
in stocks and gold. By the raising of sala-
ries, back pay grabs, and Mobilier trans
actions, bribery and corruption in obtain
ing Office is calculated to benefit and bet
ter the condition of the toiling millions
who earn their living by the sweat of
their brow, is false in theory and in fact,
and every honest man in the country
knows it,


A system of government carried on by
fraud and bribery to obtain office, and a
speculative disposition to make money
out of the office will necessarily lead to
extravaganza and corruption in every de-
partment of the Government. These
facts present themselves in vivid colors
when we take a retrospective view of the
history of the party in power the past
few years.


Behold the condition of the Southern
States under this system of government,
By carpet bag rule these State are impov-
erished that it would require from twen-
ty to thirty per cent. of their entira ualn-
alton to pay their Indebtedness. Cor
ruption stalks abroad in every depart
ment of the Federal Governments Banks
are breaking, trust companies suspend
ing, cashiers defalcating, Congressman
stealing and the dry rot and The corrup-
tion of the times are pervading all bran
ches of public business. Away with such
nonsense, that a system of government
of this character can make us prosper
Gus people. We want system of gov
ernment that will act as safeguard to
the people, by restricting the servants of
the people to certain fixed rules of hon
esty from which they dare not depart A
system of government free from class
legislation and individual or corporate
speculations. 1. I. MoNAHAN.