The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1870-11-17
LEADING RADICAL JOURNALS ON
GRANT

GRANT.
Grants virtual dismissal of Secretary
COX TO please the corrupt bummers at
Washington has excited severe censure
from the Radical press. But what does
Grams stolidity care? If anything were
wanting to show the corruption and rot
tenness of this Grant administration this
IS the thing. He is in the hands of Cam
eron and the corruptionists and seems to
be at home. Delano will suit him. Cox.
an upright and honest man did not suit
Grant annd his confreres.
Here Is what some of the staunchest
supporters Of Mr. Grants administration
say Of Grants virtual dismissal of Secre-
tary Cox:
From the Missouri Democrat (Rep)l
The President has delivered himself
over, complete captive, to the most un-
scrupulous men in Congress. At their
dlctatlon he abandons pledges and profes-
slocs, dlsmisses his most trusty and honor
able advisers, attempts to control State
elections, and makes war upon the earliest
and ablest Republicans for adhering to the
very policy which he pledged himself to
support. If he fancies that all desire for
reform can be overqowered by his single
name, he Is very much mistaken.
The Chicago Republican says:
1t shows US President who virtually
acknowledges himself to be in the hands
OF the worst and most ,unscrupulous men
IN the Republican party, and who readily
sacrifices a faithful friend and an able
minister rather than make an issue with
them. General Grant is all the more in
excusable IN this matter because of the
CREST flourish with which, on his accession
to the Presidency, he announced his thor
ough independence of politicians, and his
determination to keep entirely aloof from
them IN his administration of the govern
ment: Jehnson's folly made the 4th oi
March, 1869, welcome day to the Amer
lcan people. Grants laundering inlbeciE.
aty' y persisted an mach longer, tCiU con-
UeTt the 4th of March, 1878, moo q fl
occasion tor national Thanksgiving.
From the Chicago Postl
The President has made a mistake
mistake that Is painful and mOrtifying
He has been surrounded, jostled, deceived
caJoled, builied, and at last made a prey
of, by the swarm of political bummers
who live and thrive by division of the
spoils. Misled by these knavish partisans
he has been induced to countermand the
orders OF Secretary Cox for the purifcation
of the Interior Department, to overrule
and defeat his efforts for the Inauguration
of the much-needed civil service reform in
Washington, and finally to drive him into
premature retirement
[Fr0m the Cleveland Herald
Gloss it as despatch may, explain it tc
the extent of the ingenuity of Washing
ton correspondents. the people believe that
the resignation of Secretary Cox is due to
his firm eadeavor to reform the civil ser.
vice.
From the Boston. Transcript
AFTER the Victory the Plumber" is the
very fitting title the Washington CORES.
pondent of the Advertiser gives to the
statement that. Secretary Cox got rid of. a
New York political committee has begun
to assess the clerks in the Department o.
the Interior, refusing to listen to any excu-
ses. For the present, therefore, it IS to be
assumed that the payment of fee fol
party purposes is to be one of the condi-
tions exacted of those belonging to the