The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-11-04
REMOVAL OF SECRETARY cox.
~ 30 "N gFlE
Opinions Of'the Radical Press in Re-
gard 20 Ii.
I From the ctncinnati Commercial

which the Secretary was. committed.
We must infer that he preferred the
abandonment Of the Secretarys policy
to the contention that it would occasion
with Cameron and other party mana
gers Of that class. The case is plain.
The honorable Secretary retires because
unsupported by the President in a work
of reform urgently demanded by the
public interests, sustained by the en-
lIghtened judgment of the country, and
of the highest importance. The Presi-
dent has made a mistake of the gray
est character, and the services of most
valuable officer lost.
From the Cincinnati Gazette.l
And now it remains for Republicans
and the friends of the President to warn
him against the danger to which he has
exposed himself and the party he rep
resents. He rs now in the crisis of his
administration. With dishonest adj
visers such as Cameron, he cannot pos
sibly pursue an honest policy, and
if the departments are to be opened to
corruptionists Of the Cameron school, as
they were under Andrew johnson, that
great element of strength which now
holds the President.a and the Republican
party in the ascendency will be destroy
ed. The President is, Of course, embar-
raised, and he will now be the more so,
because of the publication Of this cor
respondence; but he has now an oppor-
tunity to hear from the people, and will
be able to compare the strength that
the policy SO ably and conscientiously
sustained by Secretary Cox has secured
to him, with that which political bum
mers, who have unfortunately obtained
his ear for the time, promise. Let us
hope that he will discover the danger
that lies before him, and avoid it, by Sc
lecting honest and capable men to carry
out the well-tried and and popular pol
icy of HONESTY AND ECONOMY, and turn his
back severely upon those INSCRIPTIONS
politicians who live as such only to
plumber.
From the New York Herald
Mr.. Cox SAYS that some Of his re-
forms in the Interior Department were
opposed by the political managers in
Congress, especially where their patron
age was involved, and he thought it best
to relieve them of his irritating pres
ence. If such was the case Mr.. Cox
did very wrong to resign. He should
have consented to stand as a breakwater
against the flood OF anti-reformers.
General Grants administration is strong
to enforce his policy Of honesty, econ
omy and the enforcement OF the laws
but his hands must necessarily be weak
ened by the detection Of so sterling and
honest a man as General Cox.
From the Philadelphia Public Record[
The onduct of Secretary Cox seems
to be that Of thoroughly high-minded
and honorable man. He strove hard
to carry out civil service reforms, and
to remove some, at least, of the posts of
public service from the clutch OF politi-
cal hacks and the corruption of party |
demagogues But the gang of place
men and the hungry beggars for office
cried out for the removal Of such a re-
former, and, indignant at their schemes,
and unwilling to remain in the Cabinet
at the sacrifice Of integrity, he promptly
resigned his trust
We think that the country loses far
more in the resignation of Mr.. Cox than
he loses by giving up the wrangle with
political wire-pullers at Washington.
From the Chicago Tribune.l
The National Committee" and the
Pennsylvania Committee resented his
refusal to permit them to levy tax
upon the clerks; and, backed by Sena-
tors who belong to quite different line
of statesmen, and whose political NOR
atty cannot be shocked by anything,
no matter how Objectionable, they com
menced that war upon him which has
ended in his retirement from the Cabi-
net.
Though the reform in the civil ser
vice has lost an able and consistent
advocate in the Cabinet, it is not lost
altogether, The removal of Secretary
Cox will give it an impetus it has
hitherto been unable to obtain. The
removal will call public attention to the
great national grievance, and, in time,
the reform will be demanded in such
tones as will admit Of no further delay.
from the Cincinnati Times.l
We find three letters by the late Sec
rotary Cox which ought to elect him
President of the United States in 1872.
The fact that the politicians dared, in
the face of the day, to drive Mr.. Cox
from office, while he was rendering bet,
ter service than all the other officers OF
the Government, from the President
down to the last Deputy Marshal, Is
evidence enough OF the depth of politi-
cal corruption to which we have de-
scended, and of the necessity of remcm-
boring such men when the people have
the opportunity to chastise the guilty
and reward the faithful. Is it not time
a new party were formed? Could not
Mr.. Cox be afforded an opportunity to
set forth general platform Of govern
mental policy, with view to the Presl-
dency in 1877.
from the New York Tribune.l
Secretary Cox's letter of resignation,
printed herewith, will increase the gen.
eral regretSt his retirement from the
post in which he was doing good work,
on sound principles Of public service.
1t will, besides, intensity the dissatisfac-
ton already expressed at the absurd
semi-official dispatches whereby a false
coloring has been given to Secretary
O., -. Cannral Grant IL in no