Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1886 — SENATOR HARRISON’S KEYNOTE. [ARTICLE]

SENATOR HARRISON’S KEYNOTE.

Ind’&napoiis Hentinel: Senator Harrison, in sounding the keynote of rhe Republican campaign,referred to the threat made by tneD< moeraticparty in the last campaign to ot en the books, and felicitated his party on the lu-L that the boons balanced.— Republican editors and orators are fond ot putting the matter in this light, though some admit that on the first count of the public funds 2 cents were acually missing, but an argus ey d. patriotic, but impulsive Reoub* lican promptly dropped on all fours and found the two cents under the table. About the time that the 2 cents were found, however* the Interior Department books showed that Mr. Secretary Teller had allowed a syndicate to appropriate 700.000 acres of Louisiana lands, with all tne sus picion that attaches to a downrignt steal. Then followed the defalcation in the New Orleans bub’-Treasury, and the absconding of the defaulter. About the same time a batch of Republican Postmasters were found “short,” ar cl had cither left for Canada or committed suicide to escape the disgrace of their roguery. The 2 cent episode, however, delivered jocosely, has a fine effect on a miscellaneous crowd of Republicans. The Sentinel asks Senator Harrison aud edi ors of Republican journals in all seriousness whether they expect to hoodwink the, people of Indiana with such lamentable rot as this Will the Senator dare go to the people of Indiana and tell them that the expenses of the Government under a Democratic have been cut down $5,000,000 during the past year, and that the appropriations this year arc six milliot s less than last year? Will the Senator dare to tell the people that a Republican Senate, of which he is a member, increased the appropriations of a Democratic Hou so m Represen ia lives $23,000,000, and then afterward by the House Conference Committee the amount was brought down to within $3,000,000 of the original sum proposed by the House? Dare the Senator tell the people that the Democratic Administration found the books ot the Land Department all correct? Have there not been millions of acres restored to the Government since Mr. Cleveland’s inauguration? Dare the Senator take the books of the Navy Departmentj and show to the people the miserable mismanagement under Republicanism? Dare be tell the people of th© fabulous amounts or money squandered upon the rotten old tubs that were purchased during the management of our navai affairs under Robeson and Chandler? The Sentinel will give him some reliable figures that he may post himself behe attempts another keynote. The Yantic,” now unseaworthy, cost originally $232,257. Upon this vessel there have been expended in repairs $595,233. “The Brooklyn” cost $417,921 orig* inaijy, and upon her the astounding amount of $1,935,901.98 has been ex' Pended iu repairs. “Stealings” wo ’d be an appropria e substitute for “repairs” “The Brooklyn,” it is said will run perhaps for three years longer. “The Hartford” cost originally $502, 650. It has been repaired and patched up to th© amount of $1,574,629, and will last five yea s. “The Lackawanna,” which was built for $523,392, and upon which $1,221,292 have been squahdered in ‘repairs’ has been condemned as unseaworthy. “The Minnesota” cost $691,469, and has been “repa red” to the amount of $1.647,185.61 • “The Monongahela” has no machinery and can not a p°g, and she has been “repaired” to the am’t of $894,108, although her original cost was only $389,803, Does Senator Harrison call this sort of villainy the finiing of the books correct? Dare the Senator tell the people that instead of squandering and steal* ing enormous sums of money under vou -hers for “repairing” that a Democratic Administration, noting the defenseless condition of ©ur coast approaches has appropriated money to build an honest and reliable Four double turreted monitors will be completed in the near future and thirteen first-class vessels will soon be UDon the docks? Dare the Senator dare to tell the people that the Democratic Commissioner who succeeded his friend Dud« ley paid more pensions with a small* or force than have been paid In any previous year since the foundation of the Government, exceeding that of of tbo last fiscal year by nearly $7 - 000X100? ’ In view of *ll these fa ts Is it becoming in s United States Senator to any that tne Democratic Adipfatar** tiou, when it camo Jhto pot session of

the Government, examined t*-e books as kept by the Republican party and found them square and everything regular and correct?