Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1870 — Keep It. [ARTICLE]

Keep It.

Keep It before the people that the democratic party collected fifty-one miliions of dollars under Johnson's administration, and put it in its pocket. Keep it before the people that congress has just passed an act reducing tiie tax eighty millions of dollars, and every deinocrat in congress voted against ft. Keep it before thopeople that during the last sixteen months of Johnson’s administration, there was but eight millions of dollars of the government del>t paid. Keep it before the people that during tlie first sixteen monthsof Grant’s administration, one hundred and forty millions of dollars of the government debt was paid. Keep it before tiie people that congress lias just passed a Funding bill, by which one-third of the amount now paid in interest will be saved, and every democratic congressman voted against the bill. Keep it before the people that congress passed an aet at its last session greatly reducing the tax on tea, sugar and eoltec, and every deinocrat voted againsF’the reduction. Keep it before the people that tiie democratic party swindled tins State out of all her swamp lands—as also her Georgia landsv-see Col. Eddy’s report. Keep it before the j>eople. that the republican party has paid- oi! the State debt. And this is the record of the two parties. Which do you like the best? —Monticello Herald.