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Show 'Till. Illl MUX IIULMIKUMIH1-"' TUB eapendlliire of Ibo last Con gnu Is being made a party Issue. The Ohio Htnte Democratic platform (ro-mulgated (ro-mulgated on the lith llevt aij s. "Wo tlenounoe Ibo Kcpobllcsu billion dollar Oongrtsts, whit ll, by extravagant exismdlturo, exhausted Ibo surplus In the national treasury left lucre by the lleints-ratlo administration and created a tklliit," The Deraocrallo .latforms br other Hlalea hare also touched on this topic, while Democratic oratora an! news-pajrs news-pajrs have made It the basis lor Innumerable In-numerable discourses and article. The general reader would llkeloknow, rlia, what the IU publicans hae to say In reply. In an artl-le dealing specially with, this subject Charles Foster, Uecrelary of the Trei.ury, iy: "Tliaa,niprltlonsiiiaJo bv the lal Congress were. It Is . barged, lar' r In amount than has eter More bean the case. thirluiiK-rallcerllltwriatenametl II lbs Illlllim Inllsr Congress. a n ply Hist this Is a billion dollar eounlry, and wlien they deiiotinoo the extravagance of appropriation In miss wo challenge litem In t-rlllclio It In tleisll. ami polnl oul am h hMnsaseotiUMier bate been omlttl wllhtluoregsnltolhe growth awl con-slantly con-slantly Im reaving demsn Is of the United Cuu-t. I ilo not pr. ten I to ear that all the appropriates male were Iwyttnl ultlcl.m, tml In every In.Unce ll will 1 found Hist eoeh ai-prvprlallms as were improper were aupporled as much ky iMnorric. as ly Itepubllcan.. Appio-prUlltaisinsde Appio-prUlltaisinsde for govt rninsnt airi"aes aro prui!y aultjeni only lo Ibo In-tpilrles: In-tpilrles: 'Is the tresirv III such llnanclul eondllloii as bi I able lo siy tbtuit ami are lUeylo the light of llw necesstUcs uf lha ople JuUlrlshl.T' If Hies two questions con oo aniwere-l arnrmillvtly no reasonable ubjectlou-can w made to the ai.htprlatlon.," |