Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — BOURBON FALSEHOODS. [ARTICLE]

BOURBON FALSEHOODS.

Specimens of the Shallow Campaign Am-: munition Being Used by the Democrats. [Washington special to Chicago Tribune.] Secretary McPherson is kept pretty busy in answering letters from Republicans in different parts of the country who de sire to be furnished with material to combat wild assertions made by Democratic speakers The Tennessee Democrats seem to be especially wrought up over the tremendous surplus in the Treasury, which they assert amounts to The facta are that the Ist of October the cash in the Treasury amounted to that sum; that $244,000,000 represents gold and silver deposited for which silver certificates have been issued, and which is required by law to remain in the Treasury for the redemption of such certificates; that $19,000,000 is held for the redemption of matured bonds and interest thereon which have been called and which may at any time be present 'd for payment; that $2,000,000 is held for the payment of interest on uncalled Ixmdu, which is due and unpaid; so the cash balance available is $144,000,000, from which sum expenditures under appropriations are to be paid and the reserve against the greenbacks maintained. In lowa the Democrats are-circulating a campaign document charging a discrepancy of $240,000,000 in Government accounts. This is an old lie revamped. It was fully exposed four years ago. When the matter was up in the for-ty-fourth Congress, first session, Secretary Bristow, in a communication to Congress, fully explained the whole matter. In that communica•tionhe said: ; .- — "In no instance has there been any erasure or alteration in the books or records of this department, and the changes made in the published reports have been only to express with greater accuracy the precise condition of the public accounts, as shown by such books and records.” As Mr. Bristow is now a supporter of Gov. Cleveland for the Presidency his authority ought to be good with the Democrats. In Illinois and elsewhere Democratic sneakers are declaring that the Republicans have'squandered over $560,000,000 on the navy since the war. The records of the department show that only $154,000,000 have been appropriated and expended on war vessels during that period. That amount includes all the expenditures for the Bureaus of Construction, Steam Engineering, Ordnance, and Yards and Docks. In both the latter are included as for war vessels several millions of dollars expended in experimental teds of ordnance and for the care and impiovements of navy-yards and docks and repair of buildings, etc. While the present navy is not what it should be, it is formidable as compared with the navy turned over by Buchanan’s administration at the outbreak of the rebellion. Democratic Rule. Republican Rule. Statement of the con-’ Statement of the condition of the United dition of the United States-Treasury for the States Treasury for the year ending July 1,1851: year ending July 1,188): Receiptss4l,476,299 49 Receiptsslo3,s2s,2so 28 Expenditures. 62,616,955 78 Expenditures 136.905,232 78 Cash in Treats- Cash in Ureas- . , ury 2,862,213 00 ury 243,289,520 00 Excess of ex- Excess of rependitures—.. 21,139.756 28 ceipts.. 216 620,017 50 (orso per cent.) (or 116 percent.) Amount alTURX THE RASCALS OUT ready paid toward extinguishing the Demo- - ■ >- i cratic war debt........ Kd,923,179 61 , KEEP THE R ASCALS OUT No party in any country ever existed which has stood so true to the interests of the laboring masses as has the Republican party from the first year of its existence to the present period. It made men and women of 4,000,000 laborers which Democrats claimed as only chattels. It has-pro-tected the weak and helpless by the strong arms of the law. It has given the nation the best currency the world ever used. It has opened up to the use of actual settlers’ millions of acres of the public domain., It has fostered manufactories and thus protected the laborer by insuring him good wages.— lnter Oeean.