The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-04-14
IDAHO WORLD.
THE FIRST YEAR OF GENERAL GRANTS
ADMINISTRATION.

ADMINISTRATION. $500.
sAsthe Idaho StaicsMan and few other Rad
ical papers still elbow" about the statesman
ship of Grant, and the success of bis Admins
tration, we take the following scathing article
on " Ulys the Silent" from the New York S,o,
leading Radical paper edited by Charles A
Dana, former Assistant Secretary of War un
der Lsncolns' Administration: fff9s2 "a "a
Gen. Grant has been In office just one year
What has HE Administration accomplished il
these twelve months, and how does he himsel
stand to-day in the estimation Of the party thai
elected him to the Presidency
We do not misinterpret the public judgment
when we say that no man ever chosen to the
Presidential Office stood so low at the close OF
the hrst year of his term, in the estimation OF
the leading minds of his party, as Gen. Grant
does. They perceive that he has a narrow in.
tellect, very good when backed by q rather
firm purpose. or pushed forward by the reso-
Lutte will Of others, to work doggedly along up
on plain, straight line; but utterly incapable
of taking broad views of a subject. or rising to
heights where one may survey the ground all
around him. and look far ahead into other fields
some of which he may soon BE- required to oc-
cupy. Inaword, his supporters have learned
that he has not single statesman.lke quality
for meeting the unprecedented exigency which
has Overtaken the Republican party
Gen. Grants supporters have likewise found
out after year of painful experience, that he
possesses not the slightest sagacity or tact Us
politician, and has not the faintest idea OF the
method by which parties are to be kept togeth-
er and stimulated TO vigorous action. This to-
tai absence OF skill as politician is, however,
not surprising in one who, " lille in civil life,
during the stormy controversies of the last
twenty years, took so little interest in public
affairs that be never voted but once, and then
for James Buchanan.
But, after all, one Of the most marked and
disastrous failures oil the Administration, in its
effect upon the Republican party. aud upon
zen Grant personally, springs from his distri- |
button OF official patronage. From the mem-
bers OF bis Cabinet and his foreign ministers all /
the way down TO the very tax collectors and
tide walters, no President ever made SO many
weak, incompetent, and, viewed from party
standpoint, utterly worthless appointments
The great majority of them impart neither dig
nifty nor strength TO the President, his Admin
lstration, or 20 the Republican organization,
while many OF them bring all three into disre.
pute. Nepotism, always disgraceful; favorit-
ism, admirably fitted TO excite jealoases and
and incapacity, which breeds
have characterized large class of
Gen- Grants appointments; while many of his
most favored benefeiaries. thnugh they have
been able to accumulate fortunes, had not the
slightest claim to the rewards of Oh, Republi.
IAN party, never rendered it any sersic. ere
hey took office, and have been only damage
~ IL ever since. And worse than all. the Pres ,
dent has bestowed some Of these Offices for
pecuniary considerations
No administration can survive such a waste,
'nch a yenal prostitution OF its patronage AS !
his
In short, Gen. Grant has, at the close of his
irst year, proved so lamcntable failure. both
- statesman and politician. that no well.
adorned aud far-seeing Republican coutem. !
plates his denomination as possibility; while u
large body OF the wiser aud more cautious
members Of the party apprehend that his course !,
must inevitably break it in pieces before the u
ext Presidential election