Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1869 — Democratic Impudence. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Impudence.

It Is decidedly amusing to read some of the resolutions embodied in Democratic platforms now-a-days, and then to con trast their demands with what is taking place throughout the country. The following plank from the declaration of principles by the Pennsylvania Democracy is an example: '' Ruotwi, That reform in the administration of the Federal and State Governments, and tn the arrangement of their financial aflhirs, is imperatively demanded. When this resolution was promulgated, Postmaster-General Creswell had, by retrenchment, fidelity in the performance of bis official duties, and vigilance and reform infused into his Department, effected a saving of $1,500,000 whefe PostmasterGeneral Randall had predicted a deficit of $3,500,000. The Secretary of the Navy, by withdrawing various vessels from commission and other sagacious management, had produced a marked reduction in expenditures, with an accompanying improvement in affairs under his charge. Our Finance Minister had exposed and brought to justice a swarm of defrauders, had discharged several hundreds of supernumerary clerks, had reduced the expenses of his Department to the lowest standard compatible with effectiveness, had enforced a more complete collection of internal revenue and customs duties than had been thought practicable, and had diminished the public debt over thirty million dollars, now augmented to nearly fifty millians. The administration of the War Department had been attended with like economy; indeed, evety branch of the government had undergone a thorough scrutiny, with a view to the curtailment of its expenditures in every practicable and rational wav. In the face of these conspicuous and notorious facts, here comes the Democratic party, demanding, in the name of the general welfare, that the reforms already accomplished, which displayed remarkable judgment, integrity, diligence, knowledge, management and good intentions, and winch astonished and delighted the country by the magnitude of their achievements, should be themselves reformed. _ What could such a thing be but progressing backward —a retroactive reform which means nothing less than a return to the extravagance, inefficiency, intrigue and wide-spread corruption which characterized the administration of Andrew Johnson? Kicked down by the people from the top of the political ladder, and lying in supine weakness and *011616 helplessness at tlve bottom, the repudiated Democracy shout back a demand to be restored to the heights from which they have been so ignominiously cast down, in order that they may stop the purification going on in the filth of the Augean stable which was of their own creation. There is cool effrontery for you.— Chicago Republican, Sept. 20.