Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-10-02
The Political Horizon.

TIE CoMING SToRM-FLAsHEs OF
LIGliTNING-GEN. GRANT DlssECTEn
by a RADICAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
REVIEW OF T.IE PRESENT ADMIN
IsTRATIoN BY A Lively REPUBLICAN,
Under the above startling heading,
that staunch Republican newspaper, the
New York Sun, rcpublishes the following
remarkable letter from Washington, to a
Radical paper in the West, the Cincinnati
Commercial:
\ morning gust sweeps down upon Us
daily from Long Branch. 1t is disgust
Forncy continues to edit Grants cigar
stumps and the hours Of Mrs. Grants
baths. These things are ambrosial to
sycophants; they arc nauscous to sound
stomachs. burn my cigar stumps no
shorter than Grants. Your wife keeps
herself aS clean with ablutons as the Mrs.
President Why 50 much ianlaronado
If details must be told, the news comes of
the lady that she is hanging to Grants
arm at Long Branch with every step he
takes, ike broken sprig of dogwood.
!'ow else would she be known as the lady
of the President? Certainly The Pres
ilcnt, what Of him: Grant, turning his
Administration into holiday, sends for his
stud the velvet sands Of Long Branch
have not felt their magnetic, sparkling
tread. Grant, without horse looscs his
electricity. The horses without Grant
lose their airing. The black tavorites
must be sent to him, perhaps, as Dana
accuse the Tallaroosa, ut the Government
expense.
We will wait little. Bat, giving the
best Guess from the present standpoint,
the President has failed us. lie is dis
appoiufneat. He has not done one lumin-
ous act since coming into power on the 4tll
of March, not one tla: the people have
risen up and applaudcl him for. He is
Opaque to-day as i'll the intcrrcgnum form
iny his Cabinet, and the thing clcarcst 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
mystcriousncss long enough, and it is all
that they have yet, or perhaps will have
till the cnd, to assure them of the future.
There is kind of prctentious inconse-
oucnce about the Administration that is
ridiculous running to and fro OF blue
brcechcd, shouldcr,strap lackeys buzz
ui bass drums in the background, as if
there were being spread the net of some
complica,e, lar-sightcd, tremendous policy;
simmer aud show of pondcrousness
that exists only in the expectations of the
people. The doubt, once in n while grows
thick whether Grant is not more at home
in sis behind his Havana than i'll the
White House. fronting the people. Look
iau kim steadily in the face, it occurs to
You that the Republican party, powerful
as it was. might have taken from his box
:hc first intelligent hackman on the street,
and donoas we'll Grant's face has no clear
ness or illumination in it, more than had
his military policy for breaking down the
rebellion. The atlantic Monthly lately
contained IN article upon his intellectual
character" 1t is in doubt whether it ex-
lists. Not a man, woman, or half-grOwn
child in the country but has constantly put
the riddle these two years: " How Is 1t
that Grant, with this face like a stogy
boot is Great man." The real query is
as to the fact. The whole matter will prob
bly turn out simple enough, that, like 9TH
er men, he is what he appears to me. The
Brutuscs who seem fools and turn up wise
men arc few Grant swung to the head OF
military affairs when the 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 he as bub-
hlc horne on its face. Iu either case the
people have been of real Importance, and
the man of fictitious Importance. We
wanted a hero and a President, aud pro-
nounced the word-Grant. l-...
GRANTS rIGMY CABINET. .
Grant came, believing in himself, and
imposed upon us. His oracular silence at
the beginning made us expect Cabinet OF
riants. When the roll Of these awaited
Colossuscs was finally called in the Senate,
the half of them were too feeble to answer
to their names. Then some Of them came
and drifted away again. The Cabinet
went to pieces, and formed again like a dec
imated battalion. The ministers hang to
it unstcadily still; and "Who are to be
Grants Secretaries 7" is in open question
vet. lust as if you asked what grains OF
floating sand would 20 into putrifaction
You have heard how Robson was ap-
pointed Boric's succcssor-a jolly fellow
introduced diplomatically to Grant, in a
good mood, on shipboard, and deity curry cs
Ing his way into the Cabinet with tn, his knife
as he dincd at the same table. The people
needed introduction, too, to the new man.
But that was little matter.
The monkey races sometimes se'ect 'he:r
leaders by the length OF their ta'ls' LOUIS ,
XVJII made Monsieur D'Avary duke
for helping him into his carriage.
GRANTS GLOVE OF QUIET AND REFINE
MENT."
Then Grant imposes on us with o'net
n