The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1871-12-14
GRANTS LORE.

The Presidents recommendation
that the government purchase the tel
tgraph lines of the q. S. is a job. 1t
is the last and worst, and greatest job
of his official careers
AS President Mr.. Grant pushes the
use of Seneca sandstone in the public
buildings, sidewalks, &C., of Washing
ton. As stockholders in the Seneca
Sandstone company, Sir. Grant and
his military encourage III pocketing
the profits ~z-
AS President AIr. Grant pushes the
purchase and obsIinately maintsins the
war power protectorate to Santo Do
mingo. Success therein-now iniposs-
sble--wouid have feathered his OWN
nest and the nests of all the White
House ring.
AS President Mr.. Grant appoints or
removes internal revenue officers at
Chicago. AS thrifty investor Mr..
! Grant sees his brother 0rville, by
/ foreknowledge and influence in ap-
pointments and removals. make him
| self and his whiskey ring rich.
| AS President Mr.. Grant dictated, be-
fore and on Black Friday, the policy
of the United States Treasury Depart
ment in Wall street. As fond hus-
band he had the pleasure of seeing the
Fisn-Geuld-Corben job pay over $25,-
900 on the Fish and Gould transaction.
! BY the bye, will not Mr.. Stewart dis
close how it was invested!
! AS President Mr.. Grant nominates
persons to the civil service of the
United States. AS plain Mr.. Grant he
receives from them presents by the
score, from part-price of his cottage at
Long Branch to bull-pup from Sac
ramento.
AS President Mr. Grant especially
recommends favorable consideration"
of the telegraph purchase. = AS hon
est Mr.. Grant if he bought one year
ago (tbrough friends" of course) s.
900 shares of Western Union Tele-
graph Company, stock at a, which to-
day is worth 6S, he has made four
times his annual salary, and what
with the power of his office and the
margin of profit still remaining (on 8
par sale to the United States) open to
venal Representatives like the late
Thad Stevens and carpet-bagging Sem
ators
Mr.. Grant stands fair to make his
Office just about twice as profitable as
his reelection. Grant is jobber. Sc
was Tweed. This is his tone, This
is his conception of public and private
morality. He is not indeed an abso,
lutte thief, but Grant is fast becoming
a millionaire by precisely the same
methods which made Tweed rich be-
/ fore he turned thief to become richer
Grants Seneca sandstone job is q
weak imitation of Tweed's bluestone
quarry job. is even more scandal
Gus, for the Seneca Sandstone is &
miserable stone, costly, chips badly in
cutting. and is not durable. Tweed's
bluestone was the best of its kind
/ Neither Grant nor Tweed see wrong
in such use of official position for pri.
vate profit. a
Grants telegraph purchase job beats
/ Tweed's County Court house job hol-
low. Tweed's net profit of the S6.-
100000, as tracked in Mr. Tilden's
affidavit, is fiea-bite to the profit
that viii go straight to the pockets oi
/ Grants "next trends" when the
Western Union stock is the highest
Grant will rank higher than Tweed foi
distributing the cost OF his private
gains over the backs of forty millions
1 of tax payers. For Tweed cruelty
saddled his extortions upon one mil.
lion. But as between Grantism and
Tweedism, morally, there is little to
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