Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-09-16

his services by q large gift freely
and voluntarily bestowed. There
is no instance whatever where any
impartial man can say that there is
the slightest evidence that these vol
untary offerings Of private citizens
led to the appointment of any one
of them.
Now the error of Gen. Grant in
appointments, if he has committed
any. is in regarding bolitical expert
ence as the gound Tor exclusion from
office. Nearly all his chief appoint
ments have been ofnon-partizan char
acter. He announced this as his pur-
pose in his inaugural, he started il in
the formation of his cabinet, and he
has adhered to it since. II has been
usual for the President to surround
himself With leading influential Rep
reaentatives of his patty, and their
secret counsels a policy, and fhen by
Executive influence and patronage to
euforce that upoH the people and
Congress. Gen. Grant refuses
to do this, weather wisely or not,
but hhs selected his Secretaries with
q view to the honest and faithful
performance executive duties. For
this reason he named such man as
A. L. Stewart of New York. 8 char
octer, who certainly brought no pol
itical Influence to his aid. And this
effort to avoid partixan c:unsels has
been the foundation of the base per
personal yinnuendoes and attcckr
that have been made upon Gen.
Grant.
Now what else does Gen. Nor
gan say? He tells you that it is a
notorious fact that each of Gen.
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, il
is fact for twenty years and more,
far back into Democratic times,
there has been regularly attached to
each of the Chief Executive Offices
one horse carryall, which has
been used by the Head of the De
partment or Bureau to carry the
mail, and if needed, to expedite him
over that city of magnificent dis
tnces. These have been regularly
appropriated for every year by Con
gress, and each House of Congress
has several of them. AS for the
coachman and footman, consider
them as included in one negro mes
senger, who attends the door and
runs errands, and you have the
whole of this magnificent array.
There is great deal of humbug,
fellow citizens, in this kind of dema-
gogism, and it is compliment to
the Republican party, that my friend
Morgan ih his grand opening speech
can find nothing else to arraign US
for than that we have not yet cor
rected all the abuses of Democratic
times. But l promise you 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 Cabi-
net Councils, and not ride, except at
their own expense.
My own opinion is that these Off
GERS are inadequately paid. Their
salary was fixed long before the
war; their tenure is very uncertain :;
they are compelled by public opin-
ion and the people themselves to
receive great many visitors. True
economy would be consulted by Civ
ing them salary amply sufficient
to support a family in liberal style,
and to hire or buy suitable car
riage and horses, without resorting
to the Government carryall. Gen.
Morgan is behind the times. He
undertakes the intelligence of the
people when he resorts to such stuff
to impugn the integrity of Governor
Cox and his associates
But he SAYS these Cabinet officers
take money from the Treasury with
out an appropriation by law, and
that they pay without authority of
law higher salaries than are provi-
ded by law. Now this is SIMPLY
impossible. The Comptrollers, Au-
ditors, and the old Watchdog. Spin
ner, would not allow 4 dollar to be
taken except by authority of law
In this they are entirely Independent
of the President and Cabinet Off
GERS. The cases he parades where
certein clerks were allowed extra
were expressly pro-
vided for by law, and the. law was
acted upon by Chase, Fessenden
and McCulloch, as well as Boutwell,. |
But he says that in four Years these
Secretaries paid S1S,397 to the
Adams Express Company for carry
ing the forms upon which notes and
bonds are printed, when they could
have been sent through the mail for
one hundredth part of the cost
Well, if they had sent these precious
papers, upon the custody of which
rests our chief security against
counterfeiting, through the mails,
they should have been sent 20 the
lunatic asylum. He ssys we have
paid S4,167,000 since 1862 for
printing bonds and notes. Could
il have been done for less? Does
he say it could? The truth is, no
operation of the Government is
more delicate and dangerous, and
none has been more successful in
safety, cheapness and security than
he preparation and issue of the
Tast aggregate of paper securities
ssued by the Government in the :
aggregate Of over $4,000, ,000,00O ,
He closes this part of hi. speech
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