Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-08-18
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CLEARFIFLD, PA.
THE POLITICAL HORIZON

The POLITICAL HORIZON.
Ahe coming storm--t'iashes Of Lightning
Ien. Grant Dissected by a RadicnI
sahgrado - scathing Review Of tho
anesent Administration by Livel,
Republican.
J. Under the above startling headline
that staunch Republican newspaper
tho New York Sun, republishes the
following remarkable letter from
Washington TO leading Radical pa.
!, per in the West, the Cincinnati Com.
Hercidt;
A morning guest sweeps down upon
as daily from Long Branch. Ii il
! disgust Forney continues TO edit
drant's cigar stumps and the hour Of
Mrs. Grants baths. These thincs arc
ambrosial to sycophants; thew are
nauseous TO sound stomachs. burn
my cigar stamps no shorter than
Grants. Your wife keeps herself as
clean with ablutions as the Mistress
President. Why SO much ianfaropadeS
II details must be told, the ne ws comes
oil the latter lady that she is hanging
TO Grants arm at Long branch with
every step he takes, like broken
spring of dogwood. How else would
she be known as the lady of the Presi.
dentY Certainly. The President
what Of himy Grant, turning his Adj
ministration into holiday, sends for
bis stud. The velvet sands of Long
Branch have not felt their marnetic
sparkling tread. Grant without 4
horse, loses bis electricity. The hor.
ses without Grant, lose their airing
The black favorites must be sent 10
Ihim, perhaps, as Dana accuses the
Tallapoosa, at the Government ex.
pense.
We win wait little. But, giving
tho best guess from the present stand. |
point, the President has ihiled us. He !
IS a disappointment. He has not done
one luminous act since coming into
power on the 4th of March. not one
that the people have risen up and ar
pauded him for. He is OPAQUE TO
day as in the interregnum forming
his Cabinet, and the thing olearest IN
this capacity is that the light is not in
him, no more than in the tumble.
down Cabinet affair. The people have
pinned faith to his mysteriousness long
enough, and it is all that they have
yet, or perhaps will have till the end
10 assure them OF the future.
There is kind of protentious in
consequence about tho Administration
that is ridiculous, running to and
fro oi blue brecched, shoulder-strap
lackeys, buzz OF bass drums in the
back ground, MS if thero were being
spread the net Of some complicate.
iar-sighted, tremendous policy. a
simmer and show of ponderousness
that exists only in the expectations of
the people. The doubt, once in a
while, grows thick whether Grant is
not more at home in gig behind his
Havana than in the White House.
fronting the people. Looking him
steadily IN the face, it occurs TO you
that the Republican party, powerful
as Il was, might have taken from his
box the first intelligent hackman on ,
the street, and done as well. Grants
tace has no clearness Of illumination |
IN II, more than had his military poll
cy for breaking down the rebellion J
The Atlantic Monthly lately contained
an article upon his "intellecuaI char.
acter." II is in doubt whether il ex.
lists. Not man, woman, or half.
grown child in the country but has
constantly put the riddle these two !.
years = How is it that Grant, with
this face like a stogy boot, is a great
man = The real query is as TO the !
fact. The whole matter will probably
turn ont simply enough, that, like
other men, be is what he appears TO
be- The Brutnses who seem fools and /,
turn up wise men are few. Grant
swung TO the head OF military affairs
whenlhe momentum Of the nation was
ready TO break down treason. lie |
swung to the front of civil affairs when
the party that gave supremacy to :,
ideas had become the nation itself and
be as a bubble borne on its surface.
In either case the people have been of =,
rca. Importance, and the man Of .
fictitious importance. We wanted a
hero and President, and pronounced !,
the word-Grant. a
GRANTS PIoMY CABINET. A
Grant came, believing in himself, n
md imposed upon u.s. His oracular \
silence at the beginning made us ex- Il
pect Cabinet Of giants. When the il
roll Of these awaited Colossuses was n
inally called in the Senate, the halfof Il
hem were too feeble TO answer to !,
heir names. Then some of them /,
,amo and driled away again. The I,
1abino, went TO pieces, and formed N
again like dccimated battalion. The !,
hang 30 il unsteadily still NJ
md "Nho are 10 be Grants Secreta. :,
'iesF Is an open question yet, Just as h,
( you asked what grains Of floating =,
Iand would 70 into apctrifaction. h,
You have heard how Robeson was :,
appointed Bories successor--a Jolly n
elbow introduced systematically to \,
Grant. in good mood, on shipboard, n
md deity curving his way into the n,
Cabinet with his knife as he dined at y
he same table. The people needed ~
Introduction, too. TO the new man. r
But that was Of little matter. N
The monkey races sometimes select \;
heir leaders by the length of their a
ails. Louis XVIII, made Monsieur be
)'Avamy a duke for helping him into h,
lis carriage. a,
"LovE OF QUIET AND RETIRE III
MENr." m
Then Grant imposes upon us with ct
'ther pretensions. He has Published m
o an extravagant eccentriciiy his ct
owe of quiet and retirement. No ~
'ublic man Of his station. since the be- 60
,inning Of the Government, has 80 FL
constantly thrown himself in the way co
Il the people. Ariumphal procession Of
hrongh the country every six months n
ince tho war has been the lenst Of il rs