The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-09
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and iudicious supporters of General Grant
that he would prove what might be called a
brilliant President, nor was it particularly de-
sired, but it was thought that he would give
us an able, honest, and economical admins
tration. The expectations held out in this
respect have not been disappointed. The
President has not given satisfaction to his
best friends in some few of the principal
appointments that he has made, but no man
could be expected not to make some mistakes
in matters of this kind, and in judging the
President it is only fair to take into consde-
ration the difficulties under which he labors,
and to remember that he has given an explicit
promise to remove his own appointees with
as much promptness as he did
those of his predecessor, if they
should prove incapable or dishonest. The
very fact that he has made such an announce
ment as this, with belief that he will GER
tainly be as good as his word, will of itself
have a good effect on the public service, and
there are already evidences of a greatly in
creased efficiency in the various Government
offices. The principal complaints against
Grant have come from disappointed Office
hunters and from the Democratic newspapers
that are eager to find an excuse for abusing
him. As for the first, it is the most serious
occasion for fault-inding with the President
that he has allowed himself in some instances
to be overcome by their clamor; and as for
the last, he can we'll afford to despise them
and to treat them with silent contempt line
of policy that he has adopted heretofore, and
that he is not likely to depart from in the
future.
1t is an evidence that the political enemies
of the President have nothing that they can
allege against him either personally or politi-
cally, and it is the highest compliment to the
efficiency of his administration, that theyhave
undertaken to dog his footsteps and employ
impertinent correspondents to act the spy
upon him at all hours. In the New York
World, and other sheets of like character, all
the movements of the President are detailed
with sneering comments, with a view of be-
lifting him in the eyes of the public; and the
President, from his official position, is obliged
to endure insolence from these scamp
ish quill-drivers that, if he were
a private individual, they would not
dare to attempt. The people of the United
States are not to be deceived by such criti-
cisms as these, and they look to the reduction
of the public debt, the increase in the reve-
nue. receipts, the good order and security that
prevail, the rapid reconstruction of the late
rebellious States, and other material evidences
of efficiency in the management of the Gov
ment, as the proofs of Grants real fitness for
the position he holds.
AS an example of the criticism, of the De-
mocracy,w quote from the W0Ild of Saturday
the following remarks about the recent fire in
this city. The World, in the first place, over
states the loss, which was about 25,OOO bar
rels of whisky, and not 10000, to the
total value of about $4,000, 900 and not
$11, 100000, and then, after explaining the
occasion of the fire to be the falling of the
wall from the immense weight of the whisky
stored just over the engine-room, it says:-
IA risk so palpable might easily have been fore
seen, and would never have been incurred by a
superintendent conscious OF jealous Watchful-
ness and devoted to the interests of his superiOrs
But in this instance the deputy was United States
Oncla responsible only to political administration
which puts its pets in Office not for the interests of
| the people, but of the party When official re-
ceiVes an appointment with: Stick there, friend
till you are wanted'-for instance to help on the
election in 1S72!-naturally he may consider himself
as settled, regardless Of anything more than the
| mere form of his duty And thus it comes about
| that merchants goods in bonded warehouses, like
the peoples rights and interests generally, are no
safer in the careless clutch of this government than
if they were legally subject to conhscation As to
the loss to the national treasury from the Phlade-
pha fire, what is few millions worth in the est-
nation OF our masters?'
Now the real facts of the case were that the
building in question ceased to be bonded
warehouse on the Both of June: there was no
United States official whatever in charge of
the establishment and President Grant had
no more to do with the place than the editor
of the WOrJd The Government loss consisted
of small quantity of whisky, estimated at
about 200 barrels, that had been seized for
non-payment of the tax. 1t would be going
a long way about to attempt to fix the respon-
sibility of this fire on the shoulders of the
he nor any of his subordinates had
anything whatever to do with
the warehouse at the time of the fire, this
precious specimen of Democratic criticism
falls to the ground without further argument
The W0rId had better try again, and perhaps
within the next three years and half it will
be able to inform the public that the Presi-
dent puts on clean shirt every day, or some
other equally important item that will prove
conclusively, at least to the great unwashed''
who read the World, that he is an aristocrat
who sets himself up to being better and
cleaner than the noble army of Democratic
voters who never change their shirts at all,
FISK AGAIN IN THE FIELD.