The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-02-10
From the Cincinnati Commercially
The Nuisancc OF NepOtiSnl.


The Nuisance OF NepOiisnl.
The Senate Of the United States has
within week, been occupied in angry
debates consuming hours, on the queS
ton of the confirmation of a young
man whose sole claim TO consideration
is that his wife is sister of the Presi
dent of the United States. Senator
Sumner stated the exact truth when he
said that all that was known OF Cramel
was that he was the Presidents brother
in.law, and Of no account. Chandler
OF Michigan, a coarse and insolent per
son, pompous, ignorant and abusive
insisted that Cramer was opposed sim
DIV because he was the brotherin-law OF
the President. He knew very well that
there was nothing in Cramer that would
ever have caused him TO be dreamt OF
tor a public position on his merits.
Cramer was confirmed, however, by q
Senate Of timc-servers and sycophants.
Our readers have heard ofthe ex-Com'
missioner of the Land Office, Wilson,
and shall hear of him again. lie had
been forty years in the service, and
though he had opportunities to accumu
late wealth by consentng to the tricks
of land plunderers, he had served the
people honestly and was poor. The
President wrote in a private letter to the
Secretary of the Interior Governor
Cox that he had grown suspicious OF
Wilson and would tell him why. To the
publication of this letter the President
consented, when some malignant enc
mics OF Governor Cox, who were as
stupid rs they were malicious, persuaded
him that it should be made to appear
that Cox had retired from the Cabinet
because he was thwarted in an effort to
favor a company of swindlers. The
utter failure Of the McGarrahan cam
paign against Cox is now known to the
whole country, and We have only to do
with the Presidents private letter pub
lished with his appreciation, declaring
his ,uspicions Of Mr.. Wilson and anX-
ie,v to communicate their origin.
lie did tell the Secretary, as he had
promised, what the matter was with
Mr. Wilson. lie said To Governor Cox
that NJ. Wilson had inserted a clause
in the bill for the relief of his father
in-law (the Octogenarian Dent), who
had a claim that was known as the
Carondrlet Claim. that destroyed the
value Of the bill. The President was
Of the opinion that this had been done
through malice; that it was spitewOrk
on the part Of Wilson. An examina-
ton of the record showed that the only
clause Wilson had inserted in the bill
was one in the usual legal form to pro
tect the rights of the holders OF Caron-
delct property. The amount OFT was
tnaI Mr. Dent sen, I'm locating his
claim should not occupy and possess
the property Of others. 1t was
supposed that when the Pre,i-
dent thoroughly understood the
facts he would withdraw his
charge that the conduct of Mr..
Wilson had been suspicious and apollo
gize to him handsomely. 1t was not
believed that Mr.. Wilson would bc
prosecuted and hunted ont OF office for
doing his duty as an officer OF the Gov
eminent. i'm a case in which the father
in-law Of the President was interested
But the President has removed Wilson,
and the Scuateot syCophants has con-
tirmed his successor. There has not
been meaner transaction IN the his
tory Of the Government. The conduct
of the Prcsi lent and the Senate Is scar
dalous and utterly indcfensihle.
The Academy Of West Point has
been in confusion for some months.
Discipline has been relaxed: a mob OF
students have been guilty OF Outrages
that should send some OF them to pris-
ON; it has emcd wholly impossible to
do snything to restore order and the
possibility of usefulness. What Is the
real difficulty? Simply that Cadet Grant,
the Presidents son, is in the Scrape
is one of the ring leaders OF the mob
of the First Class, and should be cx-
pclled-would have bcen'expellcl long
ago il hc had not been the President ;
son: and the Professors are weak in
the hams about it. They cant diSci-
pine the institution without discipining
the Presidents son, and the suggestion
that they should do their duty causes
their spines to shiycr. How long are
the people expected TO look upon tins
intrusion of family into
the affairs Of the nation, not only with
patience but with admiration? l. it
really assumed that there is not already
something of WEAKNESS and disgust
with the odiOus and inceSSant ohtruSion
of this miserable nepotism upon public
Can it toe possible that the
Senate is incapable OF comprehendlng
the temper Of the American people on
this subject?