The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-12-20

-
Hancock, pets Porter and Babcock, and
consuits Cameron and Butler, Forney,
Nye and Morton as the Republican
leaders, while Tom Murphy, the shoddy
contractor and crony and partner of
Tweed, Is his chosen associate At Long
Branch, aud his choice for the most
responsible money collection office in
ais gilt.
A sixth Indication of Tweefs I'M
failhiulness TO his trust was his alb.
senung himself habitually for long
periods from the post of DUTY he
vas paid for Shaving in. While
a Supervisor he would spend three
months of each year at Albany
as State Senator-an absence totally
Incompatible with an honest discharge
OF his office in New York. So Grant
stays away from Washington all sum-
ner, preterring the congenial society OF
the lliiterate, SUBSCRIPTIONS Tom Murphy
At Long Branch. And as Tweed allowed
his satellites, Fields, Frear &c, to ne
eject their CITY posts ov being at Albany
AL winter, so Grant appointed as Secre-
! tary OF the Navy, Mr.. Borie, of whom
nobody had ever heari anything in
public life, except that he was rich
man who handsomely subscribed to-
ward a present to the President, and
whose discharge of duty was mere
sham, Admiral Porter VIGOROUSLY doing
the duty IN Borie's name.
Every one Of these comparisons could
De elaborated, and numbers more added,
hut It IS a repulsive topic TO contem.
plate, and we hasten through it. These
are out few sample instances of the
resemblance which the Iimes-s0
ke-nsighted otherwise-has failed to
ind between the public career of the
President and that other career, now
happily verging TO q deservedly ignomin-
lous close, winch 1t has 80 well dissected
and helped 10 stop. Taken singly, any
one OF such points may be deemed in
conclusive, though not one is trivial.
But they all coexist, with many more OF
,he same sort, and they all tend. more
ore or iess, to one lamentable and hui
initiating conclusion. But the Times
asks for distinct charges When the
testimony in the gold, gambling inquiry
traced the or;be money OF Fisk IL Gould
right TO the Presidential famIly-not
Curoin alone, but nearer still to the
Presidential person; when General
Garfield, Is chairman OF the commit
ice u Congress, went to the President
nd nj Il Of
bride right home to the White House.
and ot the evidence OF Grant personal
assurance 70 the cnnspirators that the
Government would not sell gold, and OF
C0rhin tetter 3 and Mrs. Corbin's let
ter-..to their relatives in theWhite House
does the Times forget already how
shocked all good people were 10 near it
reported back 10 the committee by
General Garfield, that The President
preferred not 10 see the testimony or to
make any suggestion or statement in refer
s'lcs 10 lt9' He alone OF all men in the
land, did not see now dense cloud he
wrapped MS reputation in; and, ever
since, the shocking scandal Of this gold
gambling has been no lesson or caution
10 him. Can he wonder that even
Tweed thinks the storm will blow
over when the COrbin scandal fell
stillbOru on the ear OF a President
But, Notwithstanding all this, we con-
ciude as we began, We do not regard
President Grant as having done such
things as Tweed mas done. But even
a faint approximation by the President
OF the I nlted States 10 the morals and
methods of Tweed is Jar more serious
mischief TO the body polite. See how
the tone of public lite and morals has
been lowered by Grants example.
Look 1T the theits OF the Southern
carpet bag governments, compared with
VIII ch even those of Tweed appear no
longer unique. Look at the manage
ment OF the Custom House, whore Muir
phv, charging two millions and halt
Tor fifteen months revenue collection.
goes out Boosting Of his economy ana
fidelity. and is warmly endorsed at all
points by Grant himself. See the Navy
Yard. so crowded Wild sinecureS that
we paw the expense of maintaining a
navy of the first class in lighting con-
dition. while we have notaitogether, in
available shape, enough ships to lace
the Spanish squadron, ana are forced
to speak with bated breath, or rather
not to speak at all, IN Reproduction OF the
crueIties and outrages of the oppressors
OF our Cuban neighbors, anu our own
citizens among them.
We trust AMI believe that the Presi-
dent is not consciously wrong to the
extent his conduct indiCsres; but We
have shown that ms affiliations ana
COURSES IRE such as corTiptlonists IN once
practice. and. such as no high.mlnded
man-no man either morally or men.
rally hit to be President of the United
States-would not recoil from. The
reform that is vanted IN the c,vil scrv'cs IS
,aauted most of all IN the head Of the serv1cs.
General Grant seems utterly incapable
of rising to the dignity of his high
office, or Of approaching the need OF CIR
cumspeetion and diHnterestedness
which it demands OF him. lhe
Times has distinguished too clear
" between right and wrong IN
the New York case not TO De caps
Die OF discerning. if it will only look,
how Tar below the high standard It pro-
perIy exacts of New York officials, the
Chief Magistrate himself groveis. II Il
needs 70. use the same candor anu all
the high qualities it. has SHOWN IN the
ipbt against local corruption in treating
of the more tuidesprsad dedanehery o.,
political morals sohieh IS patterned ana
fcsnssd bvtise bad and c1reisss, # not cr'rn-
mad example, OF the unfit successor OF
a long line of Cher magistrates, several
NJ whom were iilustrions, while not one
had lacked a proper sense of personal