The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-06-03
gnlitifs aud News,
Another Picture Of Grants Administration,

Cincinnati Times criticises the administra-
ton of President Grant in the following
style, with much more of Similar import.
TIE Times, be it remembered, is Repub
lican paper, and has been staunch friend
of the administration:
The recent attack of two of the leading
Republican papers of the West-the Chi.
cago Tribune and RepubHcan-upon the
preseut course and policy ofthe Admins
tration, created quite breeze in this city,
and awakened responsive echoes in the
breasts OF many Republicans. Men who
a few months ago were most extravagant
admirers of President Grant, have sud-
denly lost confidence in him, and, so far as
can be Judged here, fifty per cent. Of those
who elected him believe him to be the
" creature of an accident" if they did not
before. There is no denying that the
Administration thus far has been failure.
When the flourish of trumpets with which
the Inauguration was ushered in is recol-
lected-when the magnificent promises
and auguries of the opening of the new
regime are recalled-the depth to which the
President has fallen will be more readily
appreciated, and the contrast between the
expectation and the fulfllment OF his
future becomes more and more apparent.
So far President Grant has not done a
brilliant-and can hardly have SAID to
have uttered wise thing since he assumed
the Presidential chair. All The talk about
economy has vanished in smoke. The
magnificent declaration that ability and
efficiency would be the only tests for
public ionors and position has proved it
to be mere buncombe. The public service
is no purer now, and far less able, than 1t
was under President Johnson. The most
astute and tar-seeing of out politicians
predict that we shall lose, nearly all the
close Congressional districts within the
next two years, and that parties will be
more evenly balanced in the lower House
of Congress before that time. The Federal
patronage was never prostituted to such
an extent under any administration as
under the present The creatures of the
President have all received the fattest
Offices and the best places as rewards tor
their sycophahcy. No man ever threw
himself so irretrievably Into the arms OF
his favorites as Grant has; done. The
advice of the best men of the party has
been sighted. The warnings of the press
have been unheeded-the experience OF
the past has been ignored. The man who,
it was fondly dreamed, would prove to be
a model President, whose acts would be so
many beacon lights in the future, has
followed so pernicious course that, as
things look now, posterity will revert to
him as one more remarkable tor his errors
thau his wisdom.
Earnest Republicans were rejoiced some
weeks ago when the clear-headcd editor
of the New York Sun had the honesty
and boldness to contrast the shameless
acceptance of presents by the Executive
with tile refusal of gifts and benefactions
by our earlier Presidents. The gentle
remonstrances of the NewlFork Times on
the subject of the distribution of the
patronage to his personal friends were
greeted with appreciation, and 1t was
believed that those high in authority could
at least be shamed into decency if they
were not prompted to It's practice ty
feeling and instinct.
Thinking men here are fast settling
down to tie opinion that Grant has no
policu ,ohaterer. His Cabinet is one Of the
weakest which has ruled the country since
the foundation Of the Government
Boutwell,; Cox and Cresswcll are the only
live men in it. Fish and Borie are two
of the greatest humbues III the public
service, and, with Hoar, are mere clerks,
who, when ordered 70 do this or that, do
it and ask no questions: If it were not
for Rawlins, who has always supplied
the brains for Grant, the administration
would tumble to pieces from its own want
of cohesive power, and the presen-e of
superior directing mind. When Grant
was in the field, the enemy's opposing
force stimulated him to action, but now
that he has to arouse himself to great
efforts, he appears to have sunk into
condition of apathy and Incidence, because
he thinks no one has the power to call HIM
to account, no matter whac he may do.
He smokes necessarily, and seems to
have given himself up to sensual ENJOY:
ment. Hc has shut ont "the multitude y
from seeing hiI'i, anu w S'''' az ' -
with him is now regarded as a great toror'
not as right, which every citizen ieeis he
has to call upon the Chief Magistrate.
And if one does secure an interview, little
or no satisfaction is obtained, tor the
President looks at his visitors with that
stolid, indifferent air that seems to express
the most perfect Indifference to what the
visitor may have to say, and few can ever
get a decided answer from him one way
or or the other. And then the inevitable
cigar is scarcely out of his mouth, no mat,
ter who may be present. Propriety would
seem to dictate that he should at least
trv to restrain his desires in this respect,
but not so. He seems perfectly Indifferent
as to what impressions may he created
upon observers by his indulgence i'll mar
cotian enjoyments.