The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-01

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GRANTS DISTRIBUTION or PA
TRONAGK.
liz is rumored hat a number of active Re-
publicans are Disguised with repeated exhi-
billions of what they deem the proclivity of
the President to attach undue importance to
vealth in the distribution of patronage; and
Pennsylvanians couple with this complaint
The allegation that he exhibits an extraordi-
1ary preference for citizens Of New Jersey
over those of this State. If these charges are
based solely on the petty jealousies of sore
1eaded ofice-seekers the public can have no
~eympathy with them, but if they have a more
solid foundation they will diminish Grants
popularity and lower the general estimate of
his character. 1t is said that no recommenda-
tions for Office are SO potent with him as
those which are backed up by Financial solidity
either in the applicant or his eDdorsers, and
hat he judges place-hunters by rules similar
70 those which govern the directors of
: bank in ~discounting notes; that talent
y patriotic civil service is deemed
nnworthy of recognition if it is allied
9TH poverty; and that moneyed influences
:hus become as powerful at the White House
Is they are in Wall street. 1t is not pretended
chat he pursues this course from corrupt
motives, the gist of the imputed offense
being mistaken judgment. Perhaps he has
been pestered by SO many needy, greedy
applicants that he has jumped to the conclu-
zion that the interests of the nation could be
most safely entrusted to men whose pecuniary
POSITION places them beyond the reach of
temptation; but it is an easy matter to carry
his doctrine to extreme limits. Instances
nbound in which riches and r~ascality go hand
IN hand, and penury has not ceased to be
Compatible with the purest integrity. General
Grant is we'll aware that wealthy officers are
not always the most reliable or efficient in
military operations, and he should remember
hat this rule often holds good in civil life.
If he had carried out his idea of making the
richest merchant in America the Secretary
Of the Treasury, VIZ doubt very much
whether A. Il. Stewart, with all
his millions, would have left
IN official record half as creditable as that
established in the same Office by poverty
stricken Alexander Hamilton; and if Grant
Wishes to infuSe energy, talent, and vigorinto
every branch of his administration, at home
Ind abroad, he will be more apt 70 accom-
plish that end by securing the aid of the giant
intellects of the nation than by hunting up
men who value Office mainly on account Of
the social halo with which it surrounds them,
and who figure to greater advantage at dinner
parties, receptions, balls, and other festivi-
ties, than in the labors and in
teIeotual conflicts which constitute
the true glory Of a useful official
career. This nation is still too young and
zoo republican to set O high value upon'gold-
aticks-in-waiting or to be pleased with the
sacrifice of its patronage upon the altar of
Mammon. Even the aristocratic govern
rlents of Europe have learned that when rea
work is to be done their titled nobodies and
rich lordlings must make way for intellectual
oommoners, and America cannot afford to
forget what purse-proud England is forced to
remember.
The specifications of the other charge,
about the preference of New Jersey over
Pennsylvania, are based upon the appoint
ment of q Cabinet officer, O Judge of the Su-
preme Court, and q Minister to England
from the little Commonwealth on the other
side Of the Delaware. Considering that New
Jersey can scarcely be expected to sustain the
Republican party moro than once or twice
during O century, and that she has at best but
a small electoral vote, politicians do not un-
derstand why such pains should be taken to
propitiate her at a time when the potential
Keystone State is systematically snubbed.
They are willing to acknowledge the charms
Of her seaside watering-p places, the sups-
riority of the beach at Cape May, the vigor
Of the breeze at Atlantic City, and the CON-
pIeteness of the race-course at Long Branch.
They concede the glories of her Yineland,
the latent fertility of the neglected soil of her
pine forests, the productiveness of her truck
gardens, the depth of her mari beds, and the
voraciousness of her mosquitoes. But they
10 not discern in these characteristics, OF
in any palpable signs Of the ineffable supe
riority of the Presidents Now Jersey favor
ties, Sufficient reasons for his Partially fol
9ur ~neighboring Commonwealth and stimuli.
.sueous neglect of our own.