The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-15


money they pay for insurance can be kept at
home, The Albany Assembly has not yet
yielded assent on this point, but the strength
with which il has been urged shows that the
case is correctly understood and must soon
be properly adjusted.
WHAT THE ATTACKS ON PRESIDENT
GRANT REALLY MEAN.
From, The W y. Times.
Have Republicans who are devotng their
time and energies to the work of discrediting
the Republican party, and supplying the
Democrats with arguments against Repub-
lican leaders, attentively considered the pro-
bable consequences of their policy? Every
allowance must, of course, be made for indi-
vidual differences of opinion. There are
many Republicans of tho most intellectual
class who are profoundly dissatisfied with
their party because it has done so little to
clear the atmosphere of political life-be-
cause the Administration has not identified
itself sufficiently with that most necessary
reform of the age, the reform of the civil
service. Bat do they seriously expect the
Democrats of the present day to give them
greater purity of administration There
are also many, especially among the younger
men, who are estranged from the party on
account OF its opposition, ss an organization,
to free trade. There arc many, again, who
lave been offended by the appointments
made by General Grant from time to time,
and by the little encouragement which, as
they believe, the thoughtful and enlightened
members of the party sometimes receive from
him. Everybody is aware that these causes
of discomfort exist, and most people who keep
fresh in their minds the record" of the
Democratic party would very gladly root out
these causes, in order that something like
unanimity might be restored to Republican
councils, and the vast calamity of Democratic
ascendancy be averted.
This anxiety is something very different
from the infexible attitude of hostility which
many Republicans are assuming toward their
own party and the administration. There
can be no doubt, for instance, that papers
like the Bgening Post of this city have com
mitted themselves, for some reason or other,
to a course which entities us TO regard them
as active Democratic journals, and which is
in complete opposition to the best interests
of the country. They do the work of the
Democratic leaders far more industriously
than the regular papers of that party. They
catch up every idle story which is told
against the Government, they exaggerate
venial faults into great crimes, they even set
to work inventing ''news" for the purpose of
bringing the administration into disgrace
All this is not calculated to accomplish any
beneficial result, but simply to hand the
country over to the hands of the Democrats.
Now, what we want to know is, how much
better off do these ''irreconcilables" think
they would be if they succeeded in bringing
about this result? If General Grant is not
quite the man they wish to see in the White
House, would John L. Hoffman suit them
any better? Is the system under which
New York is governed, and with which the
Post is so enamored, that which the great
body OF Republicans would like to see intro
duced into the National Government
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what other results could be expected from the
success Of the Democrats in 1872? The
Democratic 'sinews of war" are all 10 the
hands of Tammany, and Democratic sue
cess at the Presidential election simply
means Hoffman in the White House, with
his well known hackers in New York as his
chief advisers. Local misrule would then
be expanded into something like national
spoliation. Tweed and Sweeny would not
be converted into honest men simply be-
cause you placed unlimited opportunities
before them of embezzling the public money.
Think of the state our finances would
probably be in at this moment if the
Tammany horde had been allowed to s'man-
age" them during the last five or six years
We all know now that debt and taxation have
alike been largely reduced, aud that the
credit of the country stands very high, and
we say that these are some of the results
which ought to be remembered in favor of
President Grant and his advisers when their
shortcomings are SO eagerly reckoned up, aud
the weapons of detraction are so freely
launched against them. Can there be any
comparison whatever, in the mind of any
rational man, between the mistakes COM
mitted by General Grant and the wantou
betrayal of public interests of which John L.
Hoffman has repeatedly been guilty? Look at
the way in which Hoffman has tampered
with the judiciary of this city, lent himself
tothe conspiracies of the Tammany clique,
signed bills for the wholesale misappropria-
tion of the public money, and assisted Fisk
and Gould to steal a railroad Is this ths
man for whom you are willing to displace
General Grant? What are you going to gain
by substituting Hoffman for Grant? Are
all your grievances worth a moments con-
sideration compared with the duty of keep
ing tool Of Tweed, Sweeny, and Fisk from
the chief place of power in the country?
The people are wiser than party leaders,
and they may be trusted to sweep away ali
the cobwebs spun by the ''soreheads" when
the proper moment arrives for their interfer-
enee. There were Republican leaders who
would have declined to carry on the war, if
they could have had their own way; but the
people scattered them. There were Republi-
cans who were very anxious to prevent the
reelection of Mr.. Lincoln; but once
more the voice of the people made
itself heard And SO it will be again,
or there will be little hope for many
of the political privileges which we