Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1871-12-28

= When you fud q man bowling
| about Grant, AMI complaining that he
| shows lack of appreciation of public
men, it is safe to inquire what Office
that man wanted which he did not get.
| Grants friends are found among the
honest yeomanry, the masses of the |
people who care nothing about the |
disappointments of unworthy men, the |
unselfsh, industrial classes of the |
country and the patriotic citizens of
every kind and degree. His enemies |
are discovered chiefly among the ma
my who made grab for the spoils and
were found Unworthy. These are they
who find lack of wisdom in the Ad-
ministFation, who have doleful fore
bodings for the future, and who fear
the corrupting influences of the ap-
pointing power, if Grant shall be re-
nominated.
Greeley honestly supposes, probass
: bly,, that a new President, with the
oretical knowledge of scientific farm
ing, would be in less danger from the
corrupting influences Of patronage,
with an entirely new list Of appoint
ments to make, than Grant on a sec
ond term, with most of the places in
the civil service aireauY satisfactorily
filed. Probably Greeley honestly be
Iieves this. A man who believes that
Il protective tariff SO operates on brains
: as to produce new process for turn
a ing iron into steel, will believe any
thing. But we should like some other
= civil service reformer, who is not a
maniac, to explain why it is that the
chief need of pure civil service is
permanency, while ut the same time
the chief need of pure Executive is
change, resulting in a general custer
B" of all the employees of the civil service
every four years.
e Nominate a new candidate for Pres
II. ident, and Dana, Wilkes, and theil
= kind, will beslaver him as they die
Grant. They will do their utmost will
nj him, as they did with Grant, to COZ
d, rupt him and get place under him.
ct And if a new President should fail t.
appoint Dana Collector of the Port
and make Wilkes Minister to Mexico
ne they will turn upon him, with brazel
We effrontery as to the obvious cause o
I'D their change of tone, as they did wit
Id Grant. Sumner would still be unhap
py if the Senate should fail to believ
in him as the great and only mediate
in foreign affairs, and the only begot
ten savior of the colored race. Schur
all would continue to nettle the new Ad
IT, ministration with eEigrams until hi
10 brother in law should be restored t
~. office The Fenton and Conkling figh
~ would still go on, and the Curtin an
~ Cameron fight, and all the other tight;
- where any President must have one c
- the other side dissatisfied with him,
10 he chooses between them
- Such newspapers as the Cincinna
.ro Commercial, the Chicago Tribune, til
an Springfield Republican, will oppos
H. any Admnistration-telli SON
-: wholesome truths and drawing occ;
~ sionally upon the imagination fC
'nt facts. 1t will not do to give too muc
Ia weight to their opposition, as an ind
nj cation of popular dissatisfaction
ho Nothing could be more disastrous
81 them than an Administration wit
80 which no one could find any fault.
am ~ is well enough known in Ohio that
al Halstead were President he would a
nf tack the Administration in the Con
IN mercial. SO Of the others. In tt
:nr lexicon Of White and Bowles there
- no such word as fail-to- pitch-in.
a~t We have yet to see the first reasol
ra. able objection, from any quarter
10 Grants denomination. The clam'
,a+ against him is from the same cla
80 that clamored against Lincoln wit
80 still greater vehemence, and there
=. no doubt thet his second term W
on VI even more popular than that of Il
,at ,eH universally regretted martyr Preside
lot would have been. This is daril
us thing to say of any man during /
+ts - lifetime, and in the heat of cotemp
enn en rary spites and criticisms, but it
oen 81 true. We must not forget that t
@ ,or wisest and best and purest Of all o
a. a. public men, had, in his lifetime, mo
10y bitter denunciation and misrepresent
,oe 1 ton til an Grant, yet these muddau
nIs have not been transferred to the pa
tor t,,' of history, and the slanderers ha
aw been generally forgotten. So it W
l,or be with Grant.-O. s. Journal