The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-11-18
PRESIDENT GRANTS MISTAKES.

No President, perhaps, has ever sue
eeeded in escaping unfavorable criti-
cism at the hands of the party that ele-
waited him to his high position. There
are always some who are disposed to
find fault. This indeed is not marvel
Gus. Republicans differ among them
selves as to the best manner of admin
istering public affairs, and no man could
possibly so steer the Ship of State as to
please even all of his own political
friends. Probably no President who
has not been a traitor to his party has
drawn to himself greater amount of
censurc than President Grant. We
think great deal of this faultfinding
has been groundless, while little of it
has been merited. The manner in
which Mr.. Motley was recalled from
England has long been a source of
great umbrage to that ambassadors
friends, and there is undoubtedly much
reason in their complaint. No fault can
be found with the act itself of the Pres
ident recalling his minister, but the
manner in which it was done is justly
a cause for dissatisfaction. A mere ca
BILE dispatch summoned him to resign,
without one accompanying word of ex-
PLANTATION, and to this day neither the
minister himself nor his friends are at
all acquainted with the Presidents rea-
sons for the dismissal. This treatment
seems little coarse, and it is no won
der that the admirers of Mr.. Motley re-
sent it as insulting. President Grant
made another great mistake when he
dismissed from his cabinet Attorney
General Hoar. Mr.. Hoar, like Mr.. Cox,
was anxious that the public patronage
should be removed from the control of
political demagogues, and that every
man appointed to Office should receive
it upon his merits only. This much
needed reform Secretary Cox in particu-
lar labored most industriously through
out his entire term of Office to bring
about. For a time he was supported
by the President, but so persistently
and continually did the wiFe-pullers and
log-rollers hammer away, insisting that
the course the President and his Secre-
tary were taking would soon throw
the reins of the government into the
hands of the Democrats, that the Presi-
| dent, in an evil moment, consented to
yield, and his faithful Secretary could
do nothing else, than to resign, and the
President could do nothing else than to
accept his resignation. There has been
nothing in the Administration of Pres
ident Grant that has been a source of
so much regret to the country as this
yielding at last to the merciless de-
mands of the political shysters who
were enrichiDg themselves at the peo-
Piles expense. No less feeling than
that of the greatest Indignation can be
entertained at the thought that the Gov
eminent must be given up i'll great part
to the shameful frauds of those whose
business it is to speculate in the nation
al domain and to enrich themselves by
controlling the disposition of the pub
lie patronage for an indefinite period to
come. The President has also been GEN.
sured for the course he has taken with
regard to the late election in Missouri
but we believe that whatever he did for
the McClurg party, and in opposition
to the Gratz Brown movement, was
done with the desire to prevent the Re.
publican party from being split up or
the tariff question, and consequently
was only a laudable endeaver. But
whatever mistakes the President ha!
made, it is conceded by his enemies al
we'll as by his friends that in the admin
istration of the public finances he hat
succeeded far beyond the expectations
of the most sanguine. And indeed. il
comparison with his predecessors ever
in those respects in which most com
: plant has been made, his success ha
been measurably satisfactory.