The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-26
DISSATISFIED.
Leading nemOcratic Journals Take the PresI-
dent 10 Task a GrOwl ut Everything He has
DOue-HIs AnpOIufments Criticized.

dent 10 TssIs-A Growl ut Everything He has
DOne-His Appointments Criticized.
Our readers will not be surprised at the tone OF
these appended editorials when they know that the
journals publishing them are ultra Democratic in
principle, and have been picking at the President
ever since his triumph over SEYMOUR
From the Cincinnati Commercial, OCT. %.
General Grant seemed TO be necessity to the
Republican party when he was unanimously nOm-
mated by the representatives of that party in con-
vention assembled for the Presidency. lie could
have got along very well as General Comma ndng
the Armies, but the party could not get along well
without him in the Presidential campaign. Upon
becoming President, the General seems to have had
a full and clear appreciation of the independence OF
his position So he made up the Cabinet, not OF dis
tnguished Republican politicians but of mis- personal
friends They were all rather Republicans than
otherwise but the Cabinet was fearlully and won
derfully made The charge has been made that
Cabinet appointments occurred because the gentle
men appointed mad made presents to General Grant.
with the Pr,eident. They ought to have had an in
nuence, and ii should have prevented the appoint
ments IL happened that several among the valued
personal friends Of the President gave him money,
and that he, careless and Indifferent as to that,
placed them high in Orce. Not only in regard TO
his Cabinet but throughout the country, the Presi-
dent displayed the vNidness OF his remembrance
and the Keenness of his gratitude to his personal
friends. When we come to count up the relatives
he has appointed to Office they are not very nu-
Tut he has appointed personal friends and the
friends of friends and the laYOTites ol relatives to
degree that not credtable to his sagaclty as man
OF the people In his announcement that he did not
intend to nave policy In conflict with the VIII OF the
leople he seems 10 have been entirely sincere, His
COnduct In ofiicc has given testimony Of the strong
st kind TO that ellect. Whatever may have been
lis shortcomings, he has not been buldened with a
rocy so easy is he on the duties OF his ollce that
has abundant leisure which he spends at the sea-
shore and on the mountains.
Some matters, however, seem to demand the
serious Attention OF the President. lie has just
ceived q loud warning OF the pollS by frlends-the
dangers OF family niuences-and the exceeding
great hazard of familiarity with New Ork sharpers.
In this part of the country the influence OF the
Presidents father has been absurd ana injurious In
New York we lind MI. CorbLl, known long ago in
theWashington lobby and IN " al street as shrewd
and INSCRIPTIONS opelafOr, who, few months since
assumed the position o. brother-n-aW to the Presi-
dent and began presently TO speculate in that rela-
tionship IL was his stOck-in-trade. Il gave him
Familiarity with Gould ami Fish, the notorious
OF the Wall street gamblers. lie assumed to he
able to control appointments IN New York. There
Is too much reason TO believe that ne did control
some OF them-perlaps that OF General Butterfleld
"a nong Others.
-Whep the President passed through New York, as
M. was n the habit OF doing on his excursions, he
was the guest OF his bIOther-m-aw; and this
trey natural and proper, for MIS- CQrDln Is his sis
Ter who is most like him, and who has more nnu-
ence over him than any other member OF his family.
Ths was CoVington gossip before she was married,
and her influence was felt here in important appoint
ments previous TO that event.
Failing to get his brother -in-laW committed IN
wall street speculation Corbins next proceeding
would of course, be to influence Mrs Grant TO allow
him To make little moneyfor her ii the President
and his wife dabbed little IN stocks ana gold at the
snSgestion and under the direction Of their brother
in-laW with brown stone residence, evidently they
were presenty apprised that the transaction was not
30 disfin0uiged by Innocence as II had been repre-
scented to them by their brilliant and persuasive
Messenger 10 Washington, Pennsylvahia, and ar
Snmenfa nv j. Gould, ana inquiries by Jim FISK,
meant something more than that any association OF
me PyesIdent ana his family in Wall street specula-
lions was simple ordinary pusness RnaIr' II tne