The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-06
GENERAL GRANT AND THE RADICAL
MANAGERS


GENERAL GRANT AND THE RADICAL
MANAGERS.
From the " y. Herald.
The Republican managers, through their var-
Gus newspaper organs, East and West, are dis
cussing the important question, What shall we
do with General GTant?" They are already be-
ginning TO look upon him their white cle-
phant, or as u sort of second Andy johnson
more dangerous than the first. They are hard
to please. What just ground of complaint have
they against General Grant? None in the
world Has he not faithfully adhered to the
Chicago platform? Has he not actively sup
ported the ratification of the fifteenth amend
ment of the Constitution for the establishment
of equal suffrage to all male citizens over the
age of twenty-one, whites negroes, Chinese,
Indians and all Has he not, in his appoint
ments to Office established the doctrine of equal
rights to whites, blacks, and reds-in black
man, for instance, Minister to Liberia and
another to Hayti, and another as internal revenue
assessor in New Orleans and another as post
master of Columbia, s. c., and in an Indian as
Commissioner of Indian Affairs? He has done
all these things, and with the consent and ap-
plause of the Senate. Nor has he forgotten
women's rights, for, beginning with Richmond,
late the Confederate capital of jeff. Davis, he
has appointed fair proportion of women as
postmasters.
In all these appointments he has certainly
labored in good faith to carry out the extreme
radical Edogma of equal rights of men of all
coors to VOTE and of equal right to hold Office
by white women, along with white men, red
men, and black men. He has, moreover, gene
rously done the best he could in the division of
the spoils to satisfy the Republican members of
both houses of Congress, and especially the
managers of the Senate; and all this for the
sake of peace with the party electing him and
with Congress. At the same time, in behalf of
peace and harmony in the South, he has turned
adrift the men of Andy johnson, and has put in
their places not only white Republicans, known
as carpet-baggers and scalawags, but recon-
structed white Rebel soldiers and representative
loyal blacks; and, above all, he has caused it to
be understood in every section and among all
parties that, whether he likes or disikes this or
that law, he will faithfully execute all the laws
of the United States. And he is faithfully exc
cutting them, Tenure-of- Office law all the
amendments of the Constitution, and all the re-
construction laws of Congress included.
Could mortal man do more in the White House
as the embodiment of the Chicago platform and
the Republican party No, Did anybody ever
expect General Grant to do so much I? No.
Why, then, all these discords in the camp and
all this clamor against General Grant from the
party organs and managers? 1t is simply be-
cause, in giving out some three thousand offices,
General Grant has failed to satisfy the thirty
thousand men who had expected these offices.
To the twenty-seven thousand who are disap-
pointed and their hackers we are indebted for
all this hue-and-cry against General Grant
Spoils, spoils--it is all about the spoils. But
the seed is sown, and good crop of weeds is
already beginning to sprout among the spring
wheat. The truth is that as the Republican
party has gained its extreme demands and has
no longer any great principles fight for, it has
nothing to do but to wrangle and squabble over
the spois, which is the beginning of general
disintegration and break up.
What, then, will General Grant do with the
Republican managers 1t is evident that what
ever he may do now to harmonize them around
his administration, he will fail His proper
course is no longer to attempt to harmonize
their conflicting claims, demands, or sugges-
tiOns but to pursue his own policy; for by this
course, whatever may befall the Republican
party in the interval, the administration party
in 1872 will be master of the field. General
CRAFTS services as a soldier settled the election
of 1868. His policy as a statesman during his
present four years term will settle the election
for the succession. Having fulfilled the Repub-
lcan programme, the party is adrift; and the
Democratic party, from the complete defeat OF
its Tammany platform, is adrift; SO that the best
materials of both these parties may be fused
by General Grant into the great party of the
future, leaving the intractable managers,
cliques, and factions on both sides to shift for
themselves.