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Vol. I.
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, JANUAKY 18, 1896.
No. 21.
THE DEMOCRATIC .ADMINIS
TRATION. Much has been said by the Re
publican press and orators about
tbe incompetency and mismanage
of the Democratic parly in national
affairs. Sneers and taunts are con
stantly employed by our opponents,
to inflame the popular mind, and to
saddle upon the party of Jefferson
all the ills and disappointments of
our political life. The low prices
of products, the lack of employment
by the wage worker, the timidity of
capital to invest in large enterprises,
the scarcity of money in general
circulation, the universal depres
sion in business circles, and, in
fact, all the disastrous events of
man in an hour of reckless political
rancor, have been charged up to
the Democratic administration at
Washington.
While the writer does not in all
things concur with President Cleve
land, yet we believe in just dealing
with all men and measures. That
a large number of the Democratic
party disagree with the President
on one or two questions there is no
doubt; but this fact simply shows
the independence and patriotism of
the party, and is a tribute to their
manhood and personal integrity.
The Broad Ax, has on several oc
casions, criticized the President for
his antagonism, to free coinage, and
for his efforts to maintain a single
gold standard.
This position of President Cleve
land is not strictly a party question.
as a vast majority of Republican
leaders are in full accord with him
on these issues, so the g. o. p.
fellows are not in a position to
make an attack on the administra
tion upon that line.
We believe President .Cleveland
is a 4?Mt n strong, able and
patriotic; and when party passion
subsides, history will mark him as
tke greatest and best executive of
the nation simce the civil war.
We desire to call attemtionto a few
fiigures, by way of comparison be
tween the respective party adminis-1
tratioms. These statistics are abso
lutely correct, except that we ex
press them in rouni numbers only.
First, aa to the surplus in the
TJ. S. Treasury available for cur
rent expenses:
Under the first year of Cleveland's
administration, 1885, there was
$17,000,000; in 1886, 49,000,000;
in 1887, $55,000,000; in 1888, $67,
000,000. TJmw under this much
abused Democratic administration
the revenues of the country con
stantly increased.
Now Una to Mr. Harrison's ad-
see
how
ministration and
figures compare.
The first year of his term, or in
1889,the surplus shrunk to $48,000,
000; in 1890, to 45,000,000; in 1891
it all evaporated but $17,000,000,
and in 1892, there was but $9,000,
000 left. Thus showing a constant
and steady decrease of the general
funds of the government.
One of the great crying evils of
which we hear so much said, is the
export of gold out of the country.
On this question the records show
that under Mr. Cleveland's first
administration of four years, only
$79,000,000 in gold were exported;
while under Mr. Harrison's regime,
there was $213,000,000 sent from
this country to foreign lands. And
even thus far, in Mr. Cleveland's
second term, the official records
show that but $181,000,000 have
been exported from the United
States abroad. If this showing
displays incompetency, then make
the most of it.
Again, the total receipts under
Mr. Cleveland's first term were
about $1,451,000,000. The ex
penditures for the same time were
$1,068,000,000. Now make the
contrast: Under Mr. Harrison's
succeeding term of four years the
receipts were about $1,530,000,000,
and the expenditures footed up, $1,
797,000,000; being $267,000,000
more than the receipts. ,
As to the amount of payments
on the bonded debt of the coun
try, during the two administrations,
the official reports show, that un
der Mr. Cleveland, there was paid
on the public debt, $360,000,000;
while during Mr. Harrison's four
years, there was paid, $292,000,000,
or a difference in favor of the for
mer, of $68,000,000.
The amount above the gold re
serve tamed over from Mr. Cleve
land's first administration to Mr.
Harrison, 'was $63,000,000. The
amount turned over from Mr. Har
rison's administration to the pres
ent was, including the subsidiary
coin, only $24,000,000.
All of the foregoing figures and
comparisons refute the baseless
charges of oar opponents, as to the
ability or the results of a Demo
cratic admiaUtration.
In addition to the above showing
it is a well-known fact that the
Fifty-first Congress, 1891-2
better known as the "billion dol
lar Congress" made continuing
appropriations of $154,000,000,
which became the heritage of Mr.
Cleveland's seoemd terse, and which
largely crippled, the. revenues of the
country, and became the partisan
the j cry that the Democrats were not
able to run the government success
fully. All this talk about the Republi
cans being better posted, and better
able to run the finances of the
country, is the cheapest kind of
demagoguery. It is a falsehood
made up to deceive the voters from
the baok counties. It is the cry of
"stop thief," for the sole purpose
of covering up their own deficits.
No wonder that such a party could
raise up a prophet, who asserts that
the "decalogue and the golden
rule have no place in the politics
of this country."
The greatest patriots and states
men, who have ever adorned the
historic page of our nation, have
all had their slanderers and vili-
fiers, from Washington down to
the present. But the sober sense
and good judgment of fair-minded
men, at last give credit where credit
is due. And we predict that in less
than a decade, the very persons
who are so loudly abusing the
present administration, will point
to it with just pride, and declare
that it was wise and patriotic.
That they should rise superior to
race prejudice and stand for a fair
and just administration of the law
is a good omen. Their example is
worthy of emulation by the courts
of other states, north as well as
south. Mob law is becoming too
frequent, and this precedent will go
a long way to suppress it. "Lynch
law must go!"
Since che foregoing was written,
information has been received, that
the Supreme Court has reversed the
lower court, and the three prisoners
will get a new trial. Upon the
rendition of the Supreme Court de
cision, the governor of Virginia has
issued a special message to
State Legislature regarding
case, and recommends that a
sufficient military guard accompaay
the prisoners and remain with them
during their second trial, for the
purpose of protecting them frem
violence. What Republican execu
tive of the North would dare to
take such a step? Surely better
days are coming for our race, and
mostly from Democratic sources.
the
this
AN
ARMORY FOR
TROOPS.
COLORED
A NEW PRECEDENT.
Never do we recall in the his
tory of the United States, a case
where the Supreme Court on appeal
took actual possession of prisoners
whose -cases were pending before it.
Yet this has been done by the
august tribunal at old Virginia,
and only a few miles from James
town, where the first colored man
was sold into slavery to tiie English
colonists, in 1619. Three colored
persons, viz., Mary Abernathy,
Pokey "Barns and Solomon Marable,
all charged with a capital crime are
now in the actual custody of the
Supreme Court of Appeals of Vir
ginia, and subject to its order.
This unusual course was taken to
protect the prisoners from mob
violence and to hold thsm in a place
of safety until the court had passed
upon the legality of their convic
tions. The sheriff had declared
that he would not call for military
or any other protection, and the
judge before whom they had been
tried, convicted and sentenced, in
sisted that they be returned to the
county from which they had been
removed for safe keeping. Threats
of lynching had been freely made,
and if this step had mqt been taken,
the prisoners, in all probability,
would have been, the victims of a
nob.
The Supreme Court judgee who
did this are white men and Demo
crats of the most pronounced kind.
Richmond, Va., is the only city
in this whole country, as far as we
have been advised, that has so well
provided for its colored soldiery,
as to erect at public expense, an
armory building, at a cost of $10,
000. This has been done; but the
fact was not heralded abroad by
the northern press, or proclaimed,
by any Republican orator on the
stump.
The building is a handsome,
structure, and was presented by the
city of Richmond, and gratefully
received by the First Colored Bat
talion of Virginia, with appropriate
ceremonies. Such acts as this
speak volumes for the white people
of the Old Dominion. It shows that
the race prejudice of the anti
bellum days is fast disappearing,
And that a brighter day is now
here. This, too, coming from the
pld commonwealth, upon whose
shores slavery was first planted,
proves what we so often have as
serted in these-aalnmns, that the
South ana the Southern people are
the negroes' best and truest rrienda.
Ungrateful, indeed, must be the
heart of the colored man who, in
the face of the help-and sympathy
conferred on the negre by the
Democratic white people, of the
South, who still is so marrow and
bigoted that he would not, support
the party which constantly doing
so much for his race. Is it not
about time that the colored mea of
Salt Lake got their eyes open to
the true condition of affairsT
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