Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-10-26
Som. Railing Accusations

speech at Twetldle Hall, Albany, last
Wednesday night. In addition to
able treatment ofNational questions,
Mr Conkling gives his attention to
some of the small fault finding against |
the President:
The President goes to Long Branch
For weeks he is eight hours travel
away from Washington. with two
mails daily and telegraph every mo-
ment. No emergency can be SO sud-
den that he can not meet it at once,
and yet what noise the matter makes
Long Branch is not so far removed
from the Capital as Mount Vernon
was when Washington sojourned
there. Long Branca is close by com
pared with the Rip Raps in Hampton
Roads, when President jackson was
isolated there for long periods of time.
Long Branch is within sight and
sound, compared with New England in
the days of the stage coaches, with
out telegraphs or railways, when
President Adams passed vacation
there. In this country and Ia other
countries it has been thought that
men in authority gained much useful
knowledge by going from place to
place; but we are told now, whatever
the example of the earlier Presidents
that the present Executive does
wrong in uineying or tarrying away
from Washington. This is not a very
large matter, but may say that the
denunciations in regard to it will be
more forcible when anything shall
suffer in consequence of the Presi
dents keeping during the hot weeks
out of the fever and ague of the Pc
'omac. Perhaps / need pardon for
referring to this and to another mat
ter of which l would speak. A suff
cient apology may he found in the
extraordinary remarks to which Mr..
'Illden, chairman of the Democratic
State committee, descended the other
day ut the Taminany State Conven-
ton. He says the Democratic party
has never elected TO the Presidency
any man of as low standard of of.
fetal life rs either orthe three Repub-
lican Presidents" BY what reason
ing propriety can be claimed for such
action do not know. Because one
Democrat murdered Lincoln, 1 can
not see that il bchooves another to
tread thus rudely on his grave Fol
lowing this assault upon the dead, is
an assault upon the living to which i
ask attention.
Mr.. Tilden alludes to President
Grant rs one "who has been enrich
ed by costly presents while exercis-
ing the immense power of the Presi-
dency." Shis is an unqualified asser-
ton, made as if upon absolute kno Sl-
edge, and yet, speaking upon all the
information have, believe it ut
terly unfounded. The allegation is
that. since his election to the Presi
dencv, General Grant has been the re-
cipient of costly gifts. Returning
from the war victorious General and
holding no civil Office whatever, he
did receive gifts showered upon him
ny n grateful people, but he received
them as tue here of many battles,
end before he was even nominated
for the Presidency. His case was
not solitary. Gen. Sherman also re-
ceived munificient testimonials. so
did other generals. General McClel-
Ian ran for the Presidency four years
before General Grant; he, too, was
''enriched hy costly presents" given
him, doubtless, in consideration OF
his military services, and his political
opponents never cast foul aspersiuns
on him for it. Wellington, after Wa
terloo, received presents amounting
to more than two million dollars.
Whether heroes, in former or in re
cent times, have done well or ill in
accepting tributes from their coun-
trymen, is not, however the point
here-he that one way or The other,
the right or wrong is the same in all
cases alike, and since General Grants
accession to the Presidency, as far as
can learn, lie has never accepted Z
"coslly present from any one.