Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-12-15
Grant as a Meddler.

THUS far, when President GraRf has-at
tempted to NEEDLE with CongresSional al.
fairs, or with the management of He Re-
publican party, or to employ hs Office in
any way outside of duties which are not
strictly executive in their characteT he has
been badly beaten.
He had no business to interfere with the
controversy between Fenton and Wood,
ford in New York. Woodford succeeded
in convention, to be ignominiously beaten
at the polls. Meanwhile, the FenteAites Of
the State, among whom is the editorinsr
chief of the leading Republican newspa-
per in the United States, do INTEND that
Grant shall be made to suffer for sticking
his fingers in a pie which belonged to other
parties. AZ
There could not be found in the country
a half-dozen journalists of the Republican
party, connected with respectable news
papers, who did not denounce thesinterferJ
nee by Grant with the Missouri election
as foolish and wrong. The Candidates for
Governor were both Republicans, and both
declared that they intended to continue m
the Republican party. Here agaih AGrdnt
meddled to be beaten. He was on the
wrong side-wrong in principle, and wrong
in policy. The vigor of his warfare against
Republicans claiming to be conservative in
Missouri, added to the humiliation of his
defeat. Every man whom he expelled
from Office there, added ten votes 10 the
T.. Brown party. <
After Smith, of Alabama, had been de
feated for Governor by the votes of Re
publicans in that State, Grant ordered
United States troops to sustain Smith in
holding possession of the office by force,
In this there was exhibited a disposition
to trample on law, and a contempt for
rights of majorities and for the wishes OF
the larger number of Republican voters in
the State, which can only be explained by
s%upposing hat Grant was personally inter
ested with Smith in railroad jobbing:
In the controversy with General Cox in
the Interior Department, GranSsa SSusual,
came out behind. There was not a man
in the Cabinet more generally respected
than Cox. He is not a brilliant man, but
he is an honest man, with solid and ster-
ling qualities. zaNXM'
If the President, like the Irishman at
D~onnybrook, was determined-ytos have n
fight, he displayed miserable judgment in
the selection of an opponent. He was not
only greatly overmatched, but he eQRle
wanted him to be soundly pommeled, and
in this wish the Republicans heartily Join
ed. The care taken by the Presfdeut1in
this business in the interests of McGarra-
han, and the fact that n of the Dents
was employed as a go-betweenmSkeepiug
up the Grant McGarrahan intimacy, makes
the whole matter, on the Grant side, weal
a n ugly and d~isreputable look.
The latest attempt by Grant to prove
that he is not an insignificant and marplot
was the effort to have the Committee or
Foreign Relations in the Senate changed
so as to obtain a majority in the commit
tee in favor of the plunderingS an Donin
go scheme.
He is angry with Sumner, and hai
treated Schurz with boorish ineivility anC
rudeness within the past few days, am
yet he placed himself in such d position
that those Senators-both on the ForeigI
Committee-obtained a triumph over hin
on Thursday which, if his hide be not a
thick as that of a rhinoceros, must hav'
cut him to the quick.
His pig-headed obstinacy will lead hin
to push the San Domingo scheme until hi
motive as a venal rogue shall be fully ex
posed. Partial daylight has already bee
let in on them.-GhicdgO Times.