Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1870-12-14
Che Gnquirer,
], W, BOWEN, Editor.
THE LESSON OF THE
ELECTION.
FEW WORDS TO THE PRESIDENT
From the Old Republican" Organ in
Missouri

From the Old "Republican" Organ i,
| Missouri,
From the Missouri Democrat, November H.,
To the President d:
You chose, sir, to convert the
vote of Missouri into a decision
upon your merits as a candidate
for reelection. One of the
two parties turned from the
legitimate questions of a State
campaign, and, with language
50 sickening as to disgust any
ordinary President, declared
your reelection one Of the OBJ
jects of its campaign. You at
once proceeded to make the
party and its avowed object
peculiarly your own. A, self
respecting and dignified Presi-
dent of earlier times would
have deemed it unbecoming to
seek reelection at all; every
President except Buchanan
and Johnson has deemed it
shameful to use Federal pat
ronage TO control State cleo
'tions in his own interest. But
it seems to MS your wish to
make your conduct in civil af-
fairs as discreditable as your
career in the army was gloli-
Gus. The author of the reso-
luton nominating yourself for
reelection you appointed to a
lucrative office, having removed,
to make room for this fawning
courtier, a gentleman of high
character and distinguished SER
vices to the public. Other
worthy men were deprived Of
Office by you, solely because
they did not sustain the faction
which nominated you. A let
ter from you, calling upon office
holders to support your little
party, was published, with the
significant words, "Show this
to Easton, Smith and New
comb" BY your consent, black
mail was levied upon Office
holders throughout the State,
and they were told that unless
they paid the sums demanded,
to sustain your fatterers here,
they should be removed from
Office. Some, refusing to sub,
NIT to such plunder, were act.
ually removed for that reason.
1t is not possible for any Pres.
ident to identify himself more
completely with a faction than
you, Mr.. President, have iden.
tilted yourself with the little
band led by Drake, McClurg,
Fox, and Shepard. They fore
ed upon us the questions wheth.
er your administration should
he approved in all it's acts, and
you sustained them in doing So
The result, then, is verdict Of
the people upon the issue fore
ed upon them by you.
In 1864 Missouri gave forty
thousand majority for Abraham
Lincoln. 1t has now given
about forty thousand majority
against you, and, had not col.
ored voters been added, and
mainly controlled by your fol-
lowers, the majority would have
been over fifty thousand.
What is it that the people
disapprove ? We can inform
you, sir. They deem it an
outrage that you have tried to
control a State election by
gross abuse of your power OF
removal and appointment
They maintain that it is wrong
for a President to use that pow,
er to force himself upon the
people for a second term, They
desire you, in future, to pay
better attention to your own
duties at Woshington-the du-
ties which your masters, the
people, assigned you, and not
to spend your time in meddling
with State elections. 1t seems
to the people that you deserve
severe rebuke, alike for neg
lecting your legitimate affairs,
and for abusing the powers in
trusted to you, and, being free
men, neither awed by your
name nor seduced by your Off