Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1887 — THE PUBLIC RECORD. [ARTICLE]

THE PUBLIC RECORD.

Krconl of tht Di-mocmOc I’arty m I .kltkihi Kesuli* in Forty C juiiilen. . , i"r - " In tana Cor. Cincinnati Qorpmercial Gazette. The financial history of Indiana abundantly proves that the Democratic party is a debt-making party. They have ever been ready to vote vast sums of money for one thing andanother without ever providing any way of furnishing the money. They seem to have a wonderful faith in lqck providing some way of eventually discharging the debts they create. They evidently believe that a public debt ia a public blessing, for, as far as I can find in the history of the State, they have never discharged any of the debts t ley were so free to contract, and this history is also found in their administrations of counties and cities. There is hardly a Democratic county in the State that is not heavily burdened with debt, and in too many instances the people have nothing to show for the-burden of debt they are carrying. I will admitthat the Republicans in some counties have been exceedingly libe-a! in contracting debts, but as a rule they have at the same time made some preparations for the payment of the obligations. While they have been liberal, they have fallen far behind their Democratic opponents, and their administration of both State and municipal affairs stand out in strong cbfitrust to the reckless and extravagant management of the Democrats. Belo wis a list of forty counties,ta enty of them Republican and twenty Democratic, with the assessed valuation of property in each, "and the amount of the county indebtedness. It will be seen that the twenty Republican counties have $27,293,648 more of taxable property than the Democratic counties, while their debt,is $434,037 less. The average valuation of the Republican counties is $10,067,586, and the average, debt is only $57,319. In tho Democratic counties the average vainaiion is only $8,702,909, while the average debt is $84,107. I have not picked these counties out in such a manner as to make the worst showing possible for Democrats, and the best for the Republicans, but, on the other hand, I have taken the Republican counties showing the heaviest indebtedness, while there are a number of Democratic counties having a larger indebtedness than some of those I have put in the TilTf Tile discrimination is realty against the Republicans. The table proves what was stated in the beginning, that the Democracy is a debt-creating party. It will be well for the people to study the table. It will help them to a rational understanding of the difference between the financial -management- ms the twoparties. In some things Indiana Democracy is an institution different from any found in other parts of the Union, but in its ability to squander money it does not stand on a pinnacle by itself. In that regard what Democracy is in Indiana it is in ail the other States. But here is the table: let the people make their own deductions:

REPUBLICAN. Names. Valuation. Debt. Benton... $6,(5-6,23* $6i,194 Delaware 18,151,795 13,000 Fayette 7,6 2,361 36,916 Grant 9,1*2,965 137,070 Green 5.»21,228 Si, o9 Hamilton 10.050.6,35 19" ,710 Hendricks 12,096,664 16,190 Henry. „*.... 18,806,773 32,900 Jasper 3.812,281 18.000 -Jhv.. 6.9*8,580 91,590 Jtniiingß 3,777,059 12,698 Kb8ciu8k0..A.:......:........i.. 11,0487196 110,000 Lawren5e..:................57 r c,sn,o o “ 68,248 Monroe * 6,043, ->57 92,785 Morgan 7,975.080 . 45.-00 Steuben 3,832,990 7,000 Tippecanoe 21.517.820 175.000 Vanderburg..™*..,:......—•••••, 23,673,225 .50,000 Vermillion 6,0-i8,515 :#,OOO Wayne 25,107,>17 32,000 Totai $201,351,738 $1,16.3214 DEMOCRATIC. Names. Valuation. Debt. Adams $4,5<6,105 $*5,387 Allen 7. 28,637.010 300,000 Bartholomew 10,854,910 100,000 Blackford " 2,737,28 i 52,800 4 lark 9,224 049 87,748 Clav 5,... 6,407,216 62,030 Dearborn.,., 8,994.570 40,000 Flovd.." 9,608,070 35,000 Hancock 8,8*5,100 44,0(XF Harrison... ■*., 4,468,01 a 86,162 Johnson 11.198,230 /.i.OOO Kn0x..... 10.853. (16. 104,500 Madison 10,827,910 101,580 Miami 8.651,105 1 0,000 Perry 2,394,92 5 92,941 Poee'v' 8,091 500 40.000 puiaski:::;::::::."".:....-. - 2,923,010 55,390 spencer ’ 5.242.080 92.000 Warrick'.'.'.'.’.'.'.'.’....,.. 5,046 960 '5,931 Total $174,058,190 $1,688,358 Uemocrncy the World Over. Columbus special,Sept.. 2, It has been discovered that the Democratic State executive committee has issued a garbled and fraudulent copy of Governor Foraker’s special message to the Ohio Legislature in April, 1886, relative to a proposed increase of the taxation of farming lands. This message had been made the subject of attack by the Democratic press and speakers, and was the sum and substance of their campaign argument. Of the 214 lines of the original document ninety-six have been eliminated and the entire sense and wording of the paper changed n order to suit Democratic claims. The forgery is further carried out by making the delivery of the message in April last,whereas it was the year before. The whole document is signed by Governor .Foraker’s name, , and ' thousands of copies sent broadcast ovef the State. The Governor has been apprised of the scheme, and arrests for forgery are likely to follow shortly. It is the clumsiest piece of campaign crookedness 6een here in years. Senator Sherman made his first speech in the Ohio campaign on Thursday last, and its general tenor was .of that candid and explicit sort which Democratic itica ensive.

l is pot in favor of, hanishinc the wor| “rebel'’from the vocib ilary.he saifljuoi doeq he think the qauSeof patriotism an« good governmen is to be best served by omitting to compare the acta and say> ings of the Democratic party, North an i South, for the last thirty years with tht ] acts and sayings of' the Republican ! party. It kill be seen that th 9 protest! of the tenderfeet'as he aptly calls them have not yet caused Mr. Sherman depart from his well-known habit of insisting that there were two side# to tiw war, and that one -was wholly, rigtu while the other was entirely wrong.