Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-09-16

but only gave you husks, or scattered
and immaterial statements easily col
Ieeted and put together as to any ad
ministration by one far less able Il
engage in a political debate than he is
Let Us see. He tells you, but not fol
the first time, how good and virtuoul
You, the people, are or ought to be-anC
that YOU alone, of all the world have
free institutions and that the good Of
your country is of more Importance
/ than the success of any party. Ad-
mitted. He tells you the people de-
mand reform, and the highest evil
Il dence of it is. that the Democratic par
ty had nominated James r. Hubbell-
a lifelong Wing ana Republican. II
to secure reform, they must take a
Republican, why not take good one?
4 Wei, suppose they nominated Hub
bell in the hope that he would get a
few Republican votes here in Della
ware.
The next great truth he tells us is
that the Republican party lives only
I in name. IF so, where does the Demo
Ecratic party live It is in the graves
of Pierce and Buchanan, and a dishon-
Ored record.
/ Differences exist among Republi-
cans, he says. True, and trust inde-
pendent opinion Will always exist in
our party. We can not be voted from
a tally list like New York city. And
thenhe tells US what the Democrats
| viii do when restored to power. His
/ promises are not very definite, but they
/ are enough. Political promises are
very cheap by minOrities. We judge a
tree by its fruits-a party by its facts.
When the devil was sick,
! The devil a monk would be,
! When the devil got well.
The devil a monk was he.
He then undertakes to tell us what
| becomes Of the money of the people
and the highest and only evidence of
the awful atrociSy of the Republican
party was the fact quoted with much
detail from the report of the auditor of
/ Ohio, that in 1869 our State taxes
| amounted to the enormous sum of
/ S22, ,232, ,ST7, while in 1860 they only
amounted to $40, ,817, ,676, an increase of
! S11 AIS, ,201. Is it not strange fellow cit
/ liens, that he forgot to tell you that in
/ 1860 we had a Republican Legislature,
and that every dollar of the S22, ,232 S77,
! collected in 1862 was voted by a Dem
| ocratic Legislature in both Houses
the same Legislature that elected my
colleague, Judge Thurman, to the Sem
! ate of the United States This, GER
tainly, is a striking illustration of what
will become of the taxes paid by the
] people, if you are ever so unwise as to
| elect Democratic Legislature again.
GRANTS ADMINISTRATION.
Z And then Gen. Morgan arraigns Gen.
| Grant personally as being influenced
/ by bribery and nepotism. Now, a
! good deal has been said about General
/ Grant appointing his relatives to Office,
but affirm that with two or three ex-
! ceptions of minor offices attached to
his person, Gen. Grant has been az
! free from this as any President for fif-
! ty years. I do not deem it necessary
/ to reply to the comparison Of General
/ Grant to Whittemore. No man can
| truly question the integrity of the
7 I IL
] the crown rewards great services by
royal gifts. In a republican govern
ment the people feel at liberty to do
! the same. We all voted for General
/ Grant as just recognition for his
/ great services, but Republicans do not
consider themselves, therefore, as incl
igible to hold Office under him.
Wealthy citizens of the East, long be-
| fore Grant was candidate for Presi-
dent, chose to show their appreciation
of his services by large gift freely
/ and voluntarily bestowed. There is
no instance whatever where any i'm
1 partial man can say that there is the
/ slightest evidence that these voluntary
/ offerings of private citizens led to the
! appointment of fany one of them.
Now the error of Gen. Grant in ap-
pointments, if he has com mitted any,
is in regarding political experience as
the ground for exclusion from Office
Nearly all his chiefappointment have
been of a nOn-partisan character. He
announced this as his purpose in his
| inauguraI, he started it in the forma-
| tion of his Cabinet, and he has adher-
! ed to it since. It has been usual for
| the President to surround himself
with leading influential representa-
/ tives of his party, and to call their Sc
| cret councils a policy, and then by ex-
ecutive influence and patronage to en-
| force that upon the people and Con-
! gress, Gen. Grant refuses to do this,
whether wisely or not, but has select
| ed his Secretaries with view to the
| honest and faithful performance Of
/ their executive duties. For this rea-
son he named such a man as A. I.
| Stewart, of New York, as Secretary of
! the Treasury, and others of like char
aeter, who certainly brought no polit-
/ icaI influence to his aid. And this eff
/ fort to avoid partisan counsels has
] been the foundation of the base per-
sonal innuendoes and attacks that
| have been made upon Gen. Grant
| Now what else does Gen. Morgan
! say? He tells you that 1T is noto-
riOus fact that each of General Grants
! Cabinet officers and heads of bureaus
| keeps a carriage and horses, cOachman
and footman, all paid for with the
peoples taxes and without authority
| of law. Now, it is a fact that for twen-
ty years and more, far back into Dem
ocratic times, there has been regular
" attached to each of the chief execu-
! tive offices, a one-horse carryall,
which has been used by the head of
| the department or bureau to carry the
mail, and if needed, to expedite him
over that city of magnificent distances.
These have been regularly appropria-
ted for every year by Congress, and
! each House of Congress has several of
them. AS for the coachman and foot
man, consider them as included in one
negro messenger, who attends the
door and runs errands, and you have
the whole of this magnificent array.
There is a great deal of humbug, ful-
! lOW-citiZens, in this kind of demagog-
ism. and it is a compliment to the Re
publican party that my friend Nor
gan, in his grand opening speech, can
find nothing else to arraign us for than
that we have not yet corrected all the
abuses of Democratic times. But l
promise you I will call the attention
of. Dawes to this matter, and he and
Morgan-one on each side-can see to
it that these Cabinet officers shall
walk to Cabinet Councils, and not ride,
except at their own expense.
NV own opinion is that these Off
GERS are inadequately paid. Their sala-
ry was fixed long before the war
their tenure is very uncertain they
are compelled by public opinion
and the people themselves to receive a
great many visitors. True economy
,
I salary amply sufficient to support q
family in liberal style, and to hire OF
buy a suitable carriage and horses
, without resorting to the Government
carryan. General Morgan is behind
the times. He undertakes the intelli-
gence of the people when he resorts tC
such stuff to impugn the integrity o.
Gov. Cox and his associates.
! But he says these Cabinet officers
| take money from the Treasury with
! out an appropriation by law, and thai
they pay without authority of Law
= higher salaries than are provided by
law. Now this is simply impossible
The Comptrollers, auditors, and the
: old watch dog, Spinner, would not al
2 low a dollar to be taken except by au
: thority of law. In this they are entire
! ly independent of the President anC
Cabinet officers. The cases he parade
! where certain clerks were allowed ex
ira compensation, were expressly pro
: vided for by law, and the law wa
: acted upon by Chase, Fessenden
! Mccullough, as well as Boutwell,. Blu
> he says III four years these Secretarie
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