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

and fans in the breeze and threatens to fy in |
shreds from the bolt-ropes. Now this sudden |
change of the course of the sheet in question |
has been attributed to disappointment because |
one of this proprietors was not awarded a |
foreign mis- sion, which he was to obtain with |
the assistance of the Vice-President. But this |
is not the real reason for the change In the |
course of that journal. The real reason is that |
the management, like the other scaveugers of |
the party camp, thinks IL detects change in |
public sentiment on the subject of the Cabinet |
appointments, and wishes to profit by seeming |
to lead that which it merely follows. The |
truth Is no party organ in the country has |
done more to produce the evils and embarrass-
ments which now threaten the integrity
and security of the administration than the |
Chicago Tribune. From the commencement
that journal and its immediate supporters as
sumed to take personal charge Of General
Grant By from the commencement, we mean
from the day its managing editor supposed
General Grant to be the looming man." The
Tribune not only proposed to elect Grant, but
to "run him" after he was elected. II told
him he must cut loose from professional poll
tcians, always saving and excepting the
Washburne family and the Tribune editors.
1t denounced Congress in advance as utterly
corrupt worthless, and unreliable. 1t pro-
claimed General Grant to be the only m an (in
fact the modern Hercules raised up by Provi-
dence and the aforesaid TTibune) who could
cleanse the Augean stable of politics. 1t egged
on Washburne, and pointed to him as the
mouthpiece of General Grant, to make that
famous, or rather infamous, speech of his
in Congress, which was literally the gauntlet
Of the President dashed in the very faces of
the men who had elected him. 1t next de-
manded the immediate repeal of the Tenure
ofOfice law, in order that the President might
be enabled to act independently of the states
men and politicians-of all those in the party
| Id .I.,.-
giving him advice and assistance. Then,
when it supposed the President had OBJ
tanned sufficient control to be able to use the
Herculean broom, the Tribune and its satel-
lites took care that for every office
holder swept out one of its own buzzards
should be put in. Let the reader gine the
public table freshly laid by the new admins
tration, with all the art of modern CASTRO
nOmy, from the piece de resistance to the deli
cate Charlotte Russo. Outside the public en-
trance crowd the horde of office Seekers who
have not assumed the personal supervision of
General Grant. At a private door enter
Washburne, j. Russell Jones, the Dents, the
Caseys, and other hangers-On, who proceed,
before the public door is opened, to attack
the various dishes unfortunately or accord
ing to individual taste. Washburne staggers
off under the weight of the piece de resistance.
The Dents and the Caseys squabble over the
pates and the pasties. Jones and few Gale
Mates plunge thereupOn into the Charlotte
| Russo, and leave but mere crust for the next
| comers. Then the main entrance is thrown
| open and the public are invited to gaze upon
| the ruin which the wreckers have made, or
feed, If they can, upon the fragments. But
what will the public think of these cormorsnts,
after they had been gOrged with the good
| things which they secured to themselves by
excluding from the circle of the Presidents
personal friends and supporters every man
who they supposed would interfere with this
ring arrangement, when they are now found
among the first to denounce General Grant for
doing what they forced him to do The pub
lio must necessarily look upon them as the
most unmitigated scalawags ever spawned
upon the surface Of party politics. Yet it is
fact that the very men who have plunged
General Grant into this qusgmire, out of
which he can only be rescued by the most
dexterous management and by the forbesrancs
of his party and the country generally, are
now depouncipg him. Washburne forced
General Grant to degrade the great Office o.
Secretary of State by making it the means of
paying compliment to friend. Not only
so, but while procuring the President to
cheat the country by pretended appoint
ment, Washburne cheated the President and
the real appointee by using what was in
tended as a mere personal compliment as a
substantial means of advancing his own and
his friends political prospects. Mr.. Wash
burns named forty eight foreign appointees
on the strength of a mere personal compli-
ment. Mr.. Fish finds himself responsible
to the Senate and country for Mr.. Washburne's 8
appOintees, many Of whom the Senate posi-
lively refuses to confirm. Now, in all con-
science, who is to blame for this fGSco Is it
General Grant, a Cincinnatus, honest and con-
tidipg. or Mr.. Washburne, a crafty political
wre-puller, who, under the cloak of redress
ing political evils aud cleansing the State OF
political corruption, Grams every possible
place with his immediate personal friends
and relatives, most OF whom are so totally
untitled for the positions given them, as to
cause storm of indignant protest to come
up from the party and country, through
every newspaper in the land down to Mr.,
WashbuTne's reputed organ itself? General
Grant deserves sympathy, not blame; while
: the men who have used him and are now
= abusing him should be the objects of the
soorn and contempt of all good men. The
New York Post is compelled to demand the
removal, not only Of NJ. W, shburne, but of all
his friends from office. The New York Times
bemoans the mistakes OF the President. Mr.
Trumbull says: ''We shall be broken up" il
} this sort of thing continues. Leading papers
and politicians in every part of the country
. declam against the curse fixed upon the Presi
D dent by the Chic 60 TriJt NJ and Mr.. Wash
t burne, which in two short months has borne
: such bitter fruits. No administration wa:
9 ever before so imperilled by a set of unprin
4 oipled political harptes as that of Genera
u Grant. The wisest men of the party lOol
9 upon the political situation with the mos
d painful and anxious solicitude, and predic
u that four years of its present Management
Will most assuredly make shipWreck OF it, /
9 not of the country itself