The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-23


prefers his friends to his enemies
But what does all this amount to ? IL is |
but the ringing of the changes in the same old |
story which self-oonceited, soured and disap- |
pointed politicians have raised against every
President from Washington down. We do
not remember that Mr.. Sumner had any better
opinion of Linoeln in the White House than
he has of Grant, and, if we are not mistaken,
he was completely taken in at first by Andy
johnson. The Senator's opinions therefore,
of General Grant are of little consequence
especially while ''Motley is his only wear"
But he takes very shallow view of that St.
Domingo treaty. What did ii signify if few
Spectators on the ground had staked off
certain lots on Samana Bay, marking among
them some for General Grant, if you please
What did that bagatelle of an objection
amount to when the treaty for some two mil
lions of money would give as a tropical island
worth forty North Pole Alaskas? Yet we
know that Mr.. Sumner warmly supported the
Russian treaty, although numerous lobby
birds shared at least the two hundred thou
sand over and above the seven millions in
gold paid for Alaska.
Mr.. Sumner, however, is not the only wise
man of the East or of the West who has dis
covered that General Grant has no sense and
is driving his administration and his party to
the dogs Senator Fenton, since the appoint
ment Of honest Tom Murphy as our Colec
seen, too, that according to our amiable poets
of the Post nothing has gone right with Gene
raj Grant since the appointment of General
SicBles to Madrid. Nor have we forgotten the
fearful rumpus raised among the Pennsylvania
party wirepullers when the kind-hearted Mr.
Borie was made Secretary of the Navy. They
could not see that the President was in this
appointment paying a neat compliment to the
Presbyterian Church (Old SCHOOL, and our
American citizens of French descent-kill-
ing you may say, two birds with one stone
| AS for Carl SchurZ, of Missouri, he is of the
! go-ehead school of George Francis Train, and
| doubtless thinks that if he is not President
he ought to be, and that General Grant was
too presuming in acting in his Missouri ap-
pointments upon his own judgment. Schurz,
after his late services to the Democrats in
Missouri, called the other day, it appears, to
report progress at the White House, but
General Grant was engaged. We infer that
| SchurZ is more concerned about Grant than
Grant is about Schurz. Ever since that tre-
mendous retreat of Schurz at Chancellors-
vile we have thought that in tactics and
strategy he is hardly equal to Grant.
Far ahead however, of all these other Re-
publican free shooters DER Fretschuts) is
the bold, dashing, and slashing fellow of the
Chicago Tribune. Convinced, by hook or by
crook, that free soil, free speech, free press
and free men are dead issues, and that the
time has come for free trade or revenue re-
form or cheap salt, or something of that sort,
he has tried the experiment of moving the
Republican party in this direction in balloon
giving General Grant the cold shoulder), and
starting at Chicago. In this enterprise J ohm
Wentworth, known as 'Long John" standing
six feet in his stockings, was brought out as
an Independent Republican candidate in the
Chicago district; but as ''Lorg John" came
out short in the election the Tribune is tack
ing about to see how the land lies before
heading again for "Cowes and market. {"
They do things on the inland seas and bound
less prairies of the West on a grand style;
they nominate Presidents at Chicago and raf-
fe off opera houses there's but the headquar-
ters of the party in power are at Washington,
and General Grant is the head of the party
and the party newspapers, and the fussy party
politicians are the tail of the kite.
Sixth and lastly, the captain of the ship
must be recognized as captain by his crew or
the ship will be apt to fall into the hands of
the Key West wreckers in attempting to run
the Gulf Stream. When there are half a
dozen more would-be captains on board
mutiny and confusion follow, and the ship
may be easily boarded and captured by the
enemy, or all hands with the sinking hulk may
be turned adrift. These wrangling and clashing
leaders and organs of the Republican party are
in fair way to bring the administration and
themselves among the breakers. They would
initiate the fool in the fable who killed the
goose that laid his golden eggs; they would
play their game of Andy johnson with Gene
raj Grant, forgetting that in the next Con-
gress Grant, with his veto, will be master of
the field. They forget, above all things, that
General Grant saved the party in 1868, that he
has saved it in 1870, in spite of its feuds and
party squsbbles, and is the only power that
can save it in 1872 against the terrific flying
artillery, ''big Indians" and mitrailleuses OF
Tammany Hall.