The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-22
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Of course, every one by this time
knows that Mr.. Johnson's removal is
sought to conserve individual interests
in the Republican party. The talk of
"vindicating law" and "rebukiRg
usurpation" is really as absurd as the
drunken indignation loftily expressed
by old Eccles in the comedy of "Caste." !"
He sees coral necklace on his grand
child's neck, steals it to pawn IL, and
inveighs against 1.-The sumptuOus ele-
gance of that young haristocrat, the
While his poor father is a-sutferin' desti-
iution him hadvocatin' the rights of
labor" The President prevents certain
men from securing certain ends. Hence
he is TO be set aside. Among these per-
sonal aims to which the Executive is
an obstacle are: The elevation of GER
tain Representatives to the Supreme
Court; the assignment of the brood of
Radicals to Federal offices; and the due
success of the personal aims of Wade,
Stanton, ard the revenue thieves under
Rollins.
Bingham, Williams, Wilson, Bout
well, Judges Cartier and Underwood as
pire to places on the Supreme Court.
SO soon as the President is out of the
way, law is to be passed providing
enough additional judgeships to accom-
modate these men. Hence, four of them
manage" to impeach the man by whom
they would never be appointed. Him
disposed of, they go mp higher. Then
again there is an immense number OF
Radicals who want the offices. They
want to oust the the present set whom
the President is saddied with by the
Civil Tenure bill, for fear he would APP
point Union men. When Mr.. Johnson
"walks" no Civil Tenure" will restrain
Wade. The bill will be repealed. "Ro-
tation in office" will be Indoctrinated
with o vengeance. General JacBson's
wholesale removals will be emulated.
This is esteemed necessary to clinch
the faith of the little politicians
whom a Conservative President has
refused to appoint i'll lieu of the "in"
Radicals he has been forced to accept.
Wade's motive is to retain his present
place after this Congress. Ohio has
spewed him out of her mouth. Acct
dentally occupying the very position to
which the President was elected, he
saw in the temporary accession to the
place the President by constitutional
elevation now holds, chance, by pa
trouage, TO resume the seat he at pres.
sent occupies. He yields to Grant the
inevitability of nomination to the
Presidency, but he makes n condition
precedent of actively welding the ad-
ministrative patronage he expects TO
hold, the guarantee of being named for
Vice-President. Possibly, should his
plans succeed, two years will witness
him working to impeach Grant, to make
himself President. Secretary Stan
tons double object in the little
game of impeachment is to hold
on to his place, or to command better
one, and to claim the lions share of the
appointing power under Grant. He
makes no cnncealment ofhis contempt
for the latter rs man of vile habit,
snail intellect, and only ''tit to be used
when controlled by superior minds"
StantOu's is the "su,erior mind" He
intends becoming office broker under
the dd interim administration Of Wade,
anG the subsequent one of Grant. Rol-
Inns desire is 10 keep his place to fore
stall investigation into his department,
and TO prevent the resultant opprobrium
he would suffer from the difference be-
tween himself and an honest successor.
Other men have other ends to serve by
this swiudlc on Justice. These are the
principal The whole thing is pressed
to advance certain individual claims.