Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1882 — The Republican Highwaymen. [ARTICLE]

The Republican Highwaymen.

One hundred and fifty millions of dollars more than are necessary to pay the expenses of the Government are to be taken from the taxpayers this year. Part of this sum will be used to decrease the national debt, and part will be devoted to the most reckless, extravagant and unwarranted appropriations. The Republican majority that now control the national legislation will not listen to the idea of adjusting the revenues with any reference to the needs of the Government. They have jobs on foot, and they want the money to carry them through; and by peculiar fortune, at the time when the country pours out an unprecedented revenue, the leader of the controlling party rises to the top in the gross figure of the most shameless of all plunderers, Secor Robeson. Not one dollar of the unnecessary surplus will be remitted so long as such men as he are permitted by a debauched and corrupted party to be its spokesmen and managers in Congress. For the disgrace of upholding such men, and for the refusal to consider the readjustment of the revenue by deliber - ately burying the question in the hidden and uncontrolled procrastination of a commission, the Republican party is responsible.— New York Sun.