The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-03-30
The Presidents Father in the Role of
an Office-Rroker

CINCINNATI, March l. In the consolida-
ton of revenue districts the first and
second districts of Ohio-IIamiton coun-
ty-came in for consolidation as the first
district. The sorest of the deposed of
tceholders are the Stoms family of this
city, who held the assessors office in the
first district. For years Jesse r. Grant,
postmaster al Covington, Ky, across the
river from this city, "a resident of that city,
and the father of the president has been
notorious as a dabbler in nearly all the
offices in the government patronage on
both sides of the river, in four districts.
From time to time he has been held up to
public gaze in THIS light, both in stolen in
tervicws and editorial articles. His greed
for gain has been rs much the gossip of
people as have his tall, bent form and
SHILLING step been familiar to political
meetings, ut which it was his wont to in
troduce himself with: I'm the father of
the president of the United States" I'm
doubtedly Horace G. Stones procured the
office Of assessor through the old gentle
man, and was long retained there, partly
through his influence. Until compare
lively recent period the most cordial rela-
tons have existed between the Grant and
Stoms families. Recently, however in
IN interview with a reporter who called
on the presidents father under an assum-
ed character, the latter let out some I'M
pleasant facts about the Stoms family as
oiliceholdcrs, showing plainly that he
might be ut work against their retention
under the proposed new order of things
Their removal has led to the publication
of the following letter from Horace G.
Stoms to the president:
sTOMs TO GRANT.
"CINCINNATI, o., Jan. 1G, 1871. To Gen. U.
S. Grant, Prcsient-Sir: | understand that
through the influence of Mr. jesse Il. Grant,
Messrs Pullan and Weitzel have been appoint
ed as collector and assessor of the first and
second Ohio consolidated districts Mr.. Jesse
X. Grant has favored my removal for over a
year. for the following reasons, viz: He
luested of me the reappointment of removed
gauger displaced for misconduct in office, ac-
companied with proposition which l sincerely
trust / may never be compelled to disclose to
any one but yourself. (IIe Mr.. Grant,, in con
versaton with me, made use of these words
substantially. So-and-SO has offered me $500
for a reappoinment as gauger. He is rascal,
but if you will recommend him will take his
money and give you one-half OF it. | declined,
hence his opposition. My friends are curious to
know WIN Mr.. Grant, my supposed warmest
advocate did not secure for me either the as
scssorship or collectorship of the new district
trust when | hear from you will be enabled
to reply that there is no further occasion to in
tcrrogate me upon the subject.
II. G. SToMs."
A reporter of the Cincinnati CONNER
cial. to-day, interviewed the aged parent
of the president at his home in Covington.
The old gentleman could only make the
following statement to that $500 matter:
my reply Is that it is consummate lie.
Stoms conceals all the facts, and publishes lies
matter is this: third person, a very wealthy
man. said. Il would give $500 for the appoint
ment of one of these men as gauger.' l went
to old Billy Stoms, father of the assessor, be-
cause he was really the assessor, and said: "A
third party proposes to give $500 if one of these
men can be appointed. You might as well take
that $500 and give it to the poor. 1t will be
only transferring 1t from very rich man and
giving it to the poor At the same time, mind
you, | told Stoms there might be something
sinister in the affair, and that while he could
appoint the man and take the $500 to give to
to the poor, he could watch the gauger, and if
he found anything wrong, why he cOnld GUST
him. Now YOU see how StOms covers the
truth in this matter. lie wants to make out
that wanted that money or part of it,
And this is all the denial that the father
of the president of the United States
could make for publication to a reporter
of a charge that he had sought to sell an
office in the gift of an appointee of his
, son.