The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1869-01-06

What Cam Grant Do7


A Washington correspondent Of the
New Work World says: .5l|.
He can fight rs President. and that
is about all. Now that the Radical
hope of q harmonious administration
has been abandoned, q review of the
resources OF each division of the party
shows that General Grant has bravely
thrust his head into a nest of malig-
nant hornets. he has individually
secured h continuance of the Civil
Tenure bill upon him by clamoring
instead Of finessing for its repeal
Seeing how powerless it made him,
he cried out for d~eliverance from the
body OF that death, and the wall
which was wrung from his weakness
has shown Congress its strength and
his design. They will not unbiud the
strong man lest he spoil their house.
The history of the next administra-
ton is felt to be a probable history OF
good intentions, enforced weakness,
and ahortive recommendations on the
part of the President, and OF a dog
ged refusal of Congress to cut a single
withe which blinds The executive
down to cipherhood in Office, 1fhis
nominations suit, they will be con-
frmed: If not, not and the officials
now in are good for all party purpo-
COS. Then the Forty-first Congress,
he In soul the Fortieth Congress, as in
bodv IL Is largely the same. Few new
hills will be needed If the docket OF
tbis session is completed. 1t includes
. 6nish TO reconstruction and o rivet-
inc Of the tariff, and then little of a
neImanent character remains. The
nsrtv fodder is to be found in the ap-
nropriation bills, and OF them Con-
rress has the preparation and, in
practical fact, the President Is forced
70 sign them, hienous though they be,
if oniy to keep in operation the best
government the world eve saw.
DESIRE AND PowER.
II may be admitted that Grant is
full of those Ineffective elements with
which hell is proverbially paved. But
what good will they do? AS seen he
is tied and will remain tied. Then
in executive matters and IN admins
trative gifts for civil affairs, 1t IS the
oDinion of those who know him best,
nd VIII have studied him closest,
either from impulses or hope or hate,
thar he is a very poorly equipped and
eor.:nonplace character. Those who
would be in most danger, did his
ability match his inclination to reform
affect, and apparently sincerely affect.
profond contempt for his power
Since this Civil Tenure war sprung
IN Schenck, Sumner, Wade, Butler
and Morgan arc on record as pooh
poohIng him as an accidental man
The Senator from Massachusetts say:
he has always suspected Grant to be {
Democrat in disguise ever since Wen
dell Phillips challenged confirmation
of his habitual sobriety-. ConservS
tives here, such as NJ Blair, II Wal
ker. f L Stanton, James II Doolittl'
and Senator Dixon, also hope nttl'
from General Grant except a fou'
wears wraugIe IN which, like Mr.
Johnson, he may have the last wore
but no more. These gentlemen ar
united in conviction that the Isepub
lican party cannot govern themselves
let alone the country ; but they hop
nothing for the opposition out OF thu
family feud. Besides, warned by tn
career of Mr.. johnson, Presiden
Grant, 1t is conceded, will be likely t
keen within the party, though tina
be a constructor coil upon him, ant
will 90 out a straugled executive bu
not an open rebel. 1t is felt that only
Democracy in Office will do for Dem
ocrats, and that the only good result
to them of the precipitated feud viii
be TO hasten the day when the Co
stitution and government will be re
manded to the party which ha
wrecked neither