The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-10-08

amount Of "plunder" it has been able
to clutch during its political career ::
only the government printing at various
and divers times, including State, Post
Office aud War Departments; the State
printing, worth under its manipulations
from $4,000 to $4,000 per annum
and similar iuconsiderablc items Of pat
ronage. The Press may not have been
as successful as it desired it is bare
~ possible that the continued election
Of Mr.. Donuclly may have interfered
somewhat, and especially Of late, with
the operations Of that paper in that d.
rection but this does not argue any
lack Of eagerness, it only proves stu
pidity or ill-luck, most likely BOTH
Our charge was that its purpose IS
plumber" The reference was quite as
much to the present and the future as
to the past; and the showing the Press
makes of its pretendedly dlminutive
heap Of grabbinss, can do little more
than awaken sympathy-if not dissatis-
faction-among its camp follo"ers.
But having on different occasions
found the old cry Of ':stop thief!' quite
an efectual shield, it cndeavors to d.
vert attention from itself to the "cditor
of The JOURNAL" We think We may
modestly say that the public will very
gratefully turn to the contemplation Of
the new subject. The Press tcrriical-
ly charges that the editor aforesaid
twas recently for several years a land
officer at St. Cloud, with salary and
other emoluments amounting to several
thousand dollars a year." Well, what
if be vas? He held the Office Of Re-
ceiver for little more than year. He
was appointed by Abraham Lincoln and
removed by Andrew johnson. Why
was be removed? Not because he was
not 4 consistent Republican; for that
was the ostcnsible reason for the decap-
itation. Not because he had not faith.
fully and satisfactorily performed the
duties Of bis Office ; for letter address,
ed to the General Land Office by Sec
rotary Brunning-who desired If posi-.
bic to have other than merely political
reasons for the removal-elicited the
reply that bis accounts stood in the
best condition, that bis reports had
been promptly and correctly made, and
that bis record IS an officer was with
out blemish and furthermore, Com
missioner Wilson protes.ed against the
removal for these reasons, and it was
not until Senator Norton, by letter, per-
emptorily demanded it that the ousting
was done. But he uas removed for
two reasons first, because he refused
to prove false to his party and join, the
renegade Norton ; and second, because
il was believed that he would not be a
subservient tool OF the sympathetic
clique which headquartered at the
Press Office. This Land Office period
il one thing of which the editor Of THE
JOURNAL will never feel ashamed, and
tho Pres is at liberty to refer to it as
frequently as it desires.
To have accepted an appointment
from Abraham Lincoln and to have Civ
en- it up to Andrew Joboso" rather than
Join the crowd Of unrepentant rebels
sympatbiziog Democrats and doug hfac'
ed, oaice-greedy Republicans who flock
ed around him-and to hive drawn the
legitimate salary of the position during
tho brief interim-may constitute I
grave charge. It ie admitted to the
last degree. Tho accused may have
been guilty Of all this, but he has never
% the editor Of the organ of the party
after having been fed and fatteoed by
that party, attempted to u'e the oreanl'
z.tiou ~ an instrument through which
to crafty a nurscd-up hatred; he has
never followed, year after year, with the
vilest personal abuse the representative
men of that party-such men as Gen
John T. Averi|l, Hon. 1gnatius Don
nelly, Hon. Cyrus Aldricb, Hon. Chas
D. Gilfillan and others who had beer
working Republicans while their assail
ant W. in tho ranks Of the Democracy
he has never attempted to "plunder''