New-York tribune., 1871-03-31
A CARD FROM TIE PRESIDENTS FATHER.
THE SCANDAL ABOUT THE CINCINNATI APPOINT
MENTs-MR. JESSE X. GRANT MAKES AN EX-
PLANTATION.

the way came 10 have any: was going along Lower
tion met, when young man came out OF u store and
said his father wanted to sec me: dd not know VINO
any more than dd before, butfolioWed MN ~. a
very pleasant smiling little man met met ne Tas ga% Cn 20
rnittee of Hamilton County and was gOlngo get secteu
delegate to the Chicago Convention on purpose 70 so.o
for Gen Grant. He saw me TWO OF tnTcc tbeo "oHio
the Convention and after the nomination kept cOng
often and whenever was near his store tey w. nou
run after me tn in He was very pleas!nI. ne e
taIkatve confidential kind OF man Toward the end OF
February he and gave me tickets lOf Aliss ,
and myself and said the railroad company nu m ECO G
anything He went on the same traln III ",,m innrncy
nleasont On fhe way told all about his son Horace
the Assessor OF the First District; what g9od syuoi
he was and what good Republican he hadalwayS Dee,
although President johnson did appoint him. ana niI
was irstrate young man, and very popular pnti tS
the journey and at times when We met before ne iod
me All about hmsef-that he was one OF the Orlghai
Republicans, and had always worked hard, anu spch.
To- have Gen Mcroarty's place the Collector of the Sec
ond District. lie said If he got that his son Horace
would give up the Assessors office ,,. -, oho,t
After the inauguration, told the President al aDou,
Mr. william stom, and how Kind he had Deen ana a'k9u 1I
him to appoint him Collector OF the SecOhd IlStlct
did not say what be would We returned home on he
2Gth OF March. About week after saw III the us us
patches that the President had decided 10 appoint sVe
body else than William Stoms Collector In the Second DIS
tric and out Horace from the Assessor once III
the FIRST Immediately wrote ana maze an eaIIo'1 i
quest that the OF my friend might be retained al
ways thought it this request that caused Horace
under obligations 20 his friend Secretary Cox for keeping
him IN his place hope it il So for 1t Will relieve me
OF a heavy burden. / called ON Horace the first time
went to Cincinnati after my return from Mashng-
ton. 1t was the first week In April, 1862 thlnk IL was
the first time had ever seen nm To speak Win MN
told him that person in COylngt0D WnO hau Deon
Gauger wanted to ask If there was any chance iSr
his getting an appointment GaugeT lie said that ne
very glad OF the opportunity TINS mans name was
Pease He had been very kind and attentive ~ me- Just
like Mr. william Soms, and came u IKE MN IN the
same way Afew days afterward gave MI; Sdchet
note, recommending him Tor gauger Ihat IL All ui,i
in his Both Pease and sackett were appointed
without hesitation. -. A., ..,,,,.. .,
April, 1861 told William stOms at his store, that sey
ea merchants IN the bottom mad asked me 10 speak 10
gaugers IN the cityTaylor and Wethoh He said lay
lOr was "A drunkard worth $4,000, and WelthOn was
rascal to vepS epSsS one wI sSa We WeS wa,
hard working Dutchman, who aid his work well' ana
Inn ot because he had not worked to elect his father
One OF them in talking said that he would give $500
TO have WeitOif appointed. went again 10 hniidiu
Stomss store and told him all had heard; that
I knew Taylor was not o drunkard, aud that
onct NOT 70 suffer because Of what that said, and
that he had better take the $500 and give il TO the poor
turn lin ont do not believe william Stoms looked
upon the remark OF the Ocr TO brlDe any more
talk was to abuse Wethof and this made want to
have him appointed more, because It proved what had
been told tnat he obstinate KIND or DutChman,
who could not be used by old Bly-tls was the name
he went 10y with some Of his neighD3rs that spoke
TO me-and might blow some things he was
fixing up to make money out OF the gaugns business lo
his relatives. thought II there was AWNING IN tis
IL was this account talked with the Iatuer ABOUT H.
aud did not say anything TO the SON What su @ Wos s
think anything more about 1t, which surrey wou II
had been conscious or having done any wrong
made Otner recommendations, but think the
only persons that ever appointed by Horace just
ON account of my recommendation were Pease and
Sackett nearly always talked with Mr.. VIM. Stoms,
because he seemed tO run the Office from the same Ia
orIy care which they now charge me with trying to
exercise This state of good feeling continued to near
the close OF the year 1859. L did not suppose ne
harbored any malice because had talked to h but
see ms from the certificate OF Pease, that he
publishes that he did. The thought then likely came up
Wcithof in April he did not show it, and our meet
ings continued friendly until week OF TWO altef "rght
Clarke came here, think In December called at ms
store ana told him Horace had tried TO insult me IN the
manner he had turned Pease OIL told him that Pease
and Sackctt were the only men tbat had Ueeh apOhteu
at my request and ought 10 be treated as well as the
Others and not turned out without any hearing or any
notice, ana told him that Horace ought 10 90 as ne Wo9
be by and think how e would ieel ne was eaed
in that way About the 22t OF January, le7l re-
ceyed few lines from tue PRESIDENT WIN TWO 1ptters
inclosed written 70 him by Wm Stons ana Horace
stoms. They shocked me. The ngralitude and perndy
of these two men DeYlldered me ~ ApouC mo niohtn m
after received the letters one of the city papers nd an
account OF private conversation with me- II seems
had been deceived Dy an lmposteI, WHO hdu cas,cu
TO me to express the pleasure he Iet aC stehS MS
old classmatc and intimate friend connrmed as
Minister to Denmark lie talked Ianildr!y auoul tHes
connected vita my family and was much entertained
by his talk II he told his name nave forgotten It, but
he lived In Xenia. believe now that somebody sent
him to lind out whether had heard any thing OF tue Two
letters, and 70 tell any thing SAID somebody VINO was
willing to believe such thief made IohS story 3uC OF
what he told Inn, and pupllohed IT, Every one KNOWS
what the soinses ami their friend Bloss ado o. IT.
They tried TO drive ne 10 publish Their conndennal et
ters, and, when would not, they ala IT, VIM. stOms
said he had Kept copy OF ais, but published what he
could rccollect OF IT, and Bo-s published Horaees from
recollection der hearing IL read.
Before close will correct other fasehOods mat nave
been spoken saying tnat have been settlng up tIe
offices here. This Is ali can remember DONG wrote
letter recommending Mr.. Stephenson ior the Custom,
House. and tried all could to got the POstOnlce ior
Fred. Mayer. / do not remember of ever nearing OI
Weitzel or Puan until after they were made Collectors
and never wanted Shaw for Assessor Al uld apVut
the Supervisors Office when wright Clarke sent for
me 10 help him turn out Weit1el and Pulan, ana
put John Hooker and James sands in their place.
Then blow up the whole plot that Stoms and sands
ana that set nad laid 70 get hold OF tne revenue %
offices. tlnk did sOmc good tLeh III Stopping ING
whisky and tobacco ring from staitlng AGAIN 40 not
remember ever to have SAID anything aD4nt any Oh me
other Offices The Ony hlns ABOUT tue ohces hslT tao
ever MOuglt the President Id Tor me was 10 leave
stoms in the ONCE johnson gave NM ana he mas turned
out bad that conclude To bVe no more ree0Mueha,
tions. find that good men do not come Tor theIn ana
mean ones do one or tWo OF tIat hhd haVG M Asey e
now nearly 20 years DID, only because am the Presl'
dents father nor that al OF them put together can can
future than ho has III tAe past even as p2a mas com
Coringlo1, March 40, 1871.
The Ga=ee publishing the above card. edtOrally:
MIR Jesse II. Grant appears before the country this
mOrnaS IN fn bn d dd ig snd do now sn6
sist between himself and that "talkaye, confidential
kind Of man, Mr. william stomA L Is the frst olpor-
unity the old has had Of presenting his case fairly
and squarcy before tho public Od age II prONerDmy
garraous ard fron the afternoon Xenan stsaneer with
cnliulhe ptHSA'0 rhilIt, Ncit W JcH'S
talked famil arly about things connected with the
Grant family" aud afterward told Times reporter
what had been tCd him in the course OF this private
cony ersatiOn; this old has been pesered and fol-
lowed by the representatives OF three papers and his
words distorted his manners ridiculed, and his
statements laughed Al IL is source Of
the country were found base as TO
thus take advantage Of old mans weakness for the
qualification o. low partisan malice. They are all
three to be cassed among those whom Udpers Weekly
has well called feIociOus abusers OF the President" II
Mr. Grant had been wise some OF the children Of
this generation hc would not have listened TO the propo
tion Of the who offered $500 for the appointment OF
Welthol. But IL old ago Is garruous, the old age
which coniides In sucn stranger Gs the man
from &enia ID unsuspicOus. The square way In which
Nj. Grant Went to the stOmses aud tod them or the
offer that had been mace him, shows that he had no
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