Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-08-24
Charging as ISLANDERS ON Demo
cratic Papers that which Origi-
mated with Radicals.

Charging as ISLANDERS ON Demo-
cratic Papers that which Origi-
mated with Radicals.
Under the head of "Scurrility of the
Press" the Neo York Times has an article
of which the following is the material por-
ton:
s.The World, few days ago, congratulate
ed its readers upon the fact that the Re-
publican journals were growing less bitter
against Mr. Seymour. We are glad to hear
that this is the case. Arguments and not
lvituperative-abuse against the candidates
are to decide the elections. But what shall
we think of those, Democratic Journals,
which still insist upon charging General
Grant with being drunkard, while those
who have been most Intimately acquainted
with him, and among these Admiral Por-
ter, distinctly deny the charge. The cot
ton speculation upon which the World
sought to base an argument against the
General, has been ss explicitly denied, but
the World almost daily reyives it."
The charge against Gen. GRANT of being
druakard did not originate with the DEM
ocratic party. We recollect two instances
where it was broadly made by the most
trusted and ablest of the leaders of the
Radical school. In the one case, Mr.. WEN
DELL PHLLIPs charged that /" Gen. GRANT
cannot stand up before a bottle of whisky
without falling down "-in the other, Mr..
THEODORE TILToN, of the Ne,o York Inde-
pendent, published as fact that Gen. GRANT
"has been recently seen fuddled in the
streets of Washington Admiral PORTER,
if he does deny that Gen. GRANT is drunk
ard, is only to be believed at the expense
of the word of WENDELL PHILLIPs and the
written statement of THEoDoRE TILToN.
With us, as with Democrats gener-
ally, 1t is a matter of little moment,
except the regret it naturally excites,
whether General GRANT was drunk in
Washington, as stated by TILToN, or if, as
Mr.. PHILLIPs says, she cannot stand up be-
fore bottle of whisky without falling
down." for General GRANT can never be
elected Presideng, but we protest against
the Neao York Times saddling the charges
of its own party friends, against its own
candidate, on the Democratic party, and on
such superstructure building up an ar
gument on the 'Scurrility of the Press, % in
tended as rebuke to Democratic sheet.
The "cotton speculation" to which the
Times alludes, is of the same mendacious
spirit. The Democratic press proved that
the father of Gen eral GRANT made con-
tract with certain parties in Cincinnati TO
procure of his son (Gen. GRANT, permits
to purchase cotton, and to aid in getting it
out of the Confederate lines into the De-
partment commanded by Gen. GRANT. The
elder GRANT, claiming that he had per-
formed his part of the contract, brought
suit against the Cincinnati cotton specula-
ing to some $4,000. The suit was dismiss
ed, because the contract, even if proven,
was against public policy, and the elder
GRANT could not, therefore, recover. This
was the origin of the cotton speculation
charge. It may be true, or it may be false.
Gen. GRANT, and his friends, pronounce it
to be false-the Father of Gen. GRANT, in
commencing the suit, swore it was true, or
else he could not have brought the suit.
If the charge is false one, Gen, GRANT
is injured, as every man must be about
whom falsehoods are told, which 90 to show
that he used his official position to make
money for his family, if not for himself, but
then he has his own father, not the Demo-
cratic press, to blame for it,. The Radical
press, with the Times at its head, or at its
foot, can settle the matter as to GRANTS
guilt or Innocence as to them may seem
right or proper; but these sheets must not
charge the Democratic press with originat-
ing charges, such as we have named, when
they know that they were moulded into
form and substance by the leading men of
its own party, and by the nearert relative
General GRANT has living. ii"2s1 -