The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-08
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THOSE "DIsApPoINTED MEN"

THOSE DISAPPOINTED MEN"
From the NJ Y. Herald
The President. in closing his capital St
Domingo message TO Congress, says tnat ne
who undertakes to conduct the affairs OF
great Government as a faithful public SER
want, if sustained by the approval of his own
conscience may rely with confidence upon
the candor and intelligence of afree people,
whose best interests he has striven to sub
serve, and can bear with patience the censure
of disappointed men,"
That's true-true as Gospel; but who are
these disappointed men? Their name is le-
gion. They are, great and small, ten thou
sand strong, and Senator Sumner is chief
among the ten thousand. From the day of
General Grants Inauguration Mr.. Sumner, in
the Senate, undertook the difficult Office of
director and manager of the President and his
policy, foreign and domestic From the day
of the submission of his first Cabinet to the
Senate General Grant was made to feel that
Mr.. Sumner intended to take care of him,
and that he would be allowed only little
more line than was given to the unfortunate
candy Johnson" From that day down to the
removal of MIR. Sumner from the Senate
craftsmanship on Foreign Relations by the
usual action of the Senate in the reorganiza-
ton of its committees, the ''irrepressible con-
aict' between the Senator and the President
had been pushed SO far that either the one or
the other had to be displaced or disgraced.
On the Tenure of Office law Mr.. Sumner
struggled hard to hold General Grant in the
Senatorial leading strings of Johnson; and
though finally compelled to give way, the
Senate still yielded something to Sumner iE
a sort of patchwork compromise. On the
San Domingo question the Senator, from the
outset, undertook the part of dictator and to
make the President centemptible before the
country. Minister Motley, at London, the
special pT0tege of the all-powerful Senator,
in the next place, appears to have been so
far emboldened by his hacker as to disregard
his instructions from the Secretary of State
Hence his recall; and with his recall, it ap-
pears, MIR. Sumner ceased to hold any social
relations with Secretary Fish and the Presi-
dent. AS it was simply impossible that the
Executive Department on this footing could
conduct the foreign affairs of the government
with the Senate chairman on those affairs,
the Senate recognized the necessity of his re-
moval, and he was removed. Mr.. Sumner,
therefore, is chief of the disappointed men"
referred to by the President in this st. Do
mingo message.
Senator Carl Schurz is another. He con-
sidered himself as entitled to the lions share
of the Government spoils in Missouri, and so
made his requisition upon the President. But
General Grant could not see the matter in
that light. So Mr.. Schurz bolted with his
friend Gratz Brown, and between them they
made Republican split which gave the State
to the Democrats; and so MIR. Schurz, like the
dog in the fable, lost the marrow-bone which
was his in jumping at the shadow in the
water. The patriotic Schurz, then, as the
right hand man of Sumner on st. Domingo,
is another of those disappointed men
whose heads fit the cap of the Presidents
message on this question. Senator Fenton is
another disappointed man. He thought that
he had ''title clear" to the New York Gus
tom House and all the fat places and pickings
thereof, and put in his claim accordingly
But Fenton, like Schurz, in demanding more
than his fair share, lost even that which he
had secured. Mr.. Fentons ''Mordecai sitting
in the Kings gate" is ''honest Tom Murphy
''sitting in the place of the receipt of Gus
toms" and as custodian of the fieshpots OF
Egypt to the Republican party of New York
while Fenton is out in the cold.
There are several disappointed men" in
connection with the New York Custom House
two or three in reference to certain ''castlei
in Spain" or elsewhere in foreign lauds, ant
here and there all over the country the 'dis
appointed men" who sympathize with Mr.
Sumner are numerous. They are breaking
out as ''revenue reformers,' as Independent
Republicans, as denouncers of General Gran
.'up stairs and down stairs and in my LADY,
chamber" but the Connecticut election, not
withstanding the detection of Grandfathe
Welles among the rest, shows that Genera
Grant has still the inside track and can affor'
10 ''bear with patience the censures of disap
pointed men"