The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-05

I Buried, compared with our present magnificent
| figures of national expenses and stealings oi
| four or FIVE hundred millions year, with our
national debt Of twenty five hundred millions
and our direct national taxes OF two or three
hundred millions suggestive contrast this
to the taxpayers of the United States.
What q mine What aboundipg plaoers OF
Rreenbaoks, gold and diamonds, silks, satlns,
and laces, fine houses, fast women, and fast
horses are here for the Treasury rings OF
manipulators and gamblers in gold, bonds
and stocks; for the whisky rings, railroad
rings, custom house plundering rings Indian
Bureau rings, and for all the holy alliance Of
fast men and fast women, of lawmakers,
law breakers, contractors, and lobby iobbers
Hundreds of millions of money are still in
these rich plaoers for the spoilsmen though
hundreds of millions have been taken out and
divided among the confederate Treasury rob-
bers. Here we meet the beast with seven
heads and ten horns face to face. Here are the
labors of Hercules awaiting the President
elect. Here is Bunyan's picture of Christian
and Apollyon. Here lies the difficulty at the
threshold between General Grant and the
Senate on. the Tenure-ef. Office law in any
shape you please. But there is no tear that
he will fly off at tangent from the Republi-
can (Chicsgo) platform; no fear that he will
try the game of Captain Tyler against the
financial bills of Congress, or the "policy" of
Andy Johnson against the reconstruction
laws or negro suffrage. There is no fear that
if relieved from the restrictions of the Tenure
of-Offce law he will turn honest men out of
Office in order to put rogues in their places.
Nor do we suppose that General Blair himself,
though he sticks to it, really entertains the
absurd tomfoolery that our greatest danger
is that General Grant will establish a protec-
torate or an empire on the ruins of the repub-
lie by following the example OF Cromwell, or
thof Of ba
Third.
No such fears or doubts as these are enter
tanned among the radical managers of the
Senate. But still they are afraid of General
Grant. They are afraid that he really means
retrenchment and reform; that he will not un-
derstand that all such notions are claptrsp and
humbugs, and are thrown out only as the tub
to amuse the whale. And so they intend to
hold his removals from Office subject to the
consent of the Senate. Otherwise, if he were
restored to the Executive status of Lincoln he
might reduce in few months scores of thiev-
ing radical office-holders, with the hundreds
of their outside friends and confederates, to
bankruptcy, in breaking up their spacula-
tions. We dare say for instance, that an in
telligent and honest Secretary of the Treasury
of Grants own way of thinking, and free to
act could in six months bring gold down as
low, perhaps, as fifteen per cent. premium,
and thus save millions upon millions, hun
dreds of millions, to the Treasury OF the peo-
pie, by simply breaking up the Treasury
manipulators and pet brokers and gold gam
blers of Wall street. But how many Sena-
tors, with their cousins, ana nephews, and
favOrites, and sharers of the spoils, would be
among the losers? Who can tell
| Here, then, the continuance of the Tenure
| ofOffice law has practical meaning: for it
may serve to restrain even an honest Secre-
tary of the Treasury in the use of the guillo-
tine, for fear of a rumpus with the Senate
| But, again, look at the whisky rings-the
dealers in contraband whisky. They have 9
lobby fund far exceeding the capital of the old
United States Bank, which turned the country
upside down in its death struggle with Gene
raj Jackson. A bold, faithful, and fearless
Internal Revenue Commissioner, in Genera
Grants way of doing business, within few
weeks in overhauling his revenue subordi
mates might astonish the country with his un
earthing of lawless whisky officials, whisk!
stills, and whisky dealers. But under tn
Tenure OF. Office law the President must sub
NIT his removals to the Senate, and il Senate
John Doe or Richard Roe has friend thus il
danger he may say to other Senators, 'Sav
my man and will assist in saving yours;
for has not this plan of operations become
common practice under Andy Johnson in con
fImations and rejections ls the Senat
honest Ask Collector Smythe.
What, then, can General Grant do unde
this Tenure Of Office law ? Let him do hi
duty and turn out the rogues wherever b
finds them, submitting his reasons to th
Senate, and let the responsible majority
that body play him false if they dare. Th
country will sustain him; the peopl
expect him to do his duty, no matter whe,
the blow may fall. We are satisfied, too, thi
he will meet the work before him withou
fipching, and that herein lie the doubts, fear
. and misgivings that shake the faith of Il
radical camp.