The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-04-29
What He Needs.

JUDGING by comments made by the
nress of both parties, Grants appoint
ments thus far have caused general disap-
pointment. The politicians are disap-
nointed because, in most instances, he has
disreparded their wishes Those having
regard mainly to the public interests are
disappointed because of the abundance OF
dishonest and incompetent who haveoeen
chosen. Grant has been inconsistent In
making appointments, because he Las not
been controlled either by party coIsidera-
tions or the purpose to bestow Office only
on honest men. 1t is true that be mas not
gone outside of the Republican party 10
make nominations, unless some u the nu-
merous relatives he has selected TO serve
the country vote the DemOcrtic TICKET,
but in choosing from the Republican
party, he appears to have ben controlled
by favoritism, and wish to annoy sundry
Congressman, and leaders q the party In
power, as well as please oilers.
He has regarded the piblic patronage
as something put into his hands TO enable
him to reward friends and punish ene-
mics. He is vindicsive toward every man
who was not hostile to President Johnson.
He is friendly coward every man who was
unrelenting n making war on President
johnson. This will account for the snub
he gave senator Ross, of Kansas, and for
the appointment of Ashley His tracking
ont ef all the branches of the Grant and
Debt families is commendable as indicating
purpose to take care of his relatives, and
IS contemplate as a manifestation of
desire to tax the country for their support
1t does not very well comport with the
dignity and decency which a President
of the United States ought to have, to
fOist dishonest and incompetent men upon
the country as civil officers, simply be-
cause they have been, or are, or there is a
prospect that they will be, connected in
some way with the Grant or Dent faml-
lies The bestowment of office upon
those who have made him presents is
something of which none of his predeces-
sors have been guilty, and it is disgraceful
to him and the country.
His appointments, and his management
in regard to repeal of the Civil Tenure
bill, and in asking for authority to order
elections in the yet excluded States, prove
him to be small man, governed by small
motives-small in honesty, and small in
tact and craftsmanship, and mental capa-
city.
He has fairly placed before the country
uOW II pIOSDtCJ VI iOul iliOiC VI GUM
corruption in the civil service as has dis
tinguished it since the commencement OF
the war. In this he has sadly disappointed
the expectations of the people. Even
Democrats supposed that he was sincere
in his avowed purpose to Introduce re-
trenchment and reform. They did not
imagine him to be statesman, or in any
sense of the word genius, but they
thought he was man of something more
than ordinary sagacity, of strong will,
and possessed of an ambition to make his
administration respectable by making war
against official corruption.
He is weak himself, and has chosen weak
men and bad men to support him, and
those who wish to guard the national in
terests, and arrest the descent into con
tempt into which he is now plunging
must cease their batteries of him, and let
him know his true weight. He has had
enough of adulation. What he wants
| now is some doses of truth which will
take him from the pedestal where his van
ity has placed him, and teach him that he
has task on his hands which he can only
perform credtably by greatly improving
HIMSELF Chicago Times, ApriI 20.