Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-24


cred. Other stockholders complained of
this, saying they were punished because
/ the President owned stock The Pfesi-
dent replied, expressing his regret, and
saying he would sell his stock, o give it
away, but for the imputations cast upon
him by his political opponents because
Of his ownership, but be deemed it un-
suitable even to seem to defer to such
calumny by parting with his stock.
| Grant, however, was not a money
maker, or, indeed, an Office seeker. The
PREsTDENcY SOUGHT HIN, "a.
/ and he never consented to stand a sec
4 ond time until he was assured that he
was the only man that could not be
beaten in the convention at Philadel-
phia. 1t turned out to have not more
than thirty office-holders. No national
convention of a party in power ever met
before in which men holding official
station Were not largely present. Per-
haps no single precinct IN the whole
country so effsctually gave the lie to the
pretense that offiee-hOlders controlled
the people, as the Seventh ward in Bos-
I ton, in which Sumner lives. The Re-
pubicans turned out en- Bld3se, and voted
unanimously for Grant. Sumner, in his
opposition, could not command the vote.
| The announced wish of
SCHUYLER COLFAX
| to withdraw from public life, left the con-
vention without the unity of sentiment
as to the second place on the ticket.
The choice fell on a man who Mr.. Wade
has well described as the incarna-
ton of American citizenship; born the
child Of poverty aud toll, the Natick
cobbler had Won place N the respect
and good viii of his countrymen, which
made it fit the second office in the Re-
public should be held by Henry Wilson.
Without a contrast between his col
league and himself the prize might not
have fallen to him; but the inexcusable
conduct of Sumner led the convention
to prefer Wilson, and for his own great
merit also; because his nomination
would record national judgment against
the pretension that the party belongs TO
any man, or is subject to the whim or
dictation of any knot of men, however
petted in the past. Wilson has been
Senator many years during General
Grants whole
MILITARY AND CIVIL SERVICE.
He has, at all times, upheld Republi-
can measures, and therefore is unanswer-
able, as he wishes TO be, for the acts or
party policy of the administration. The
objections to either candidate apply to |
both, and can be argued together. The
administration is ON trial, and charges |
are made against it which must be met. |
The speaker then proceeded to show how
George Washington was abused by his !
political opponents, and said: Suppose |
ali that has been said about Grant was
true, he had made good President
Senator Conkling then took up the |
San Domingo question, and said that
when the treaty was proposed Grant |
asked Sumner, Chairman of the Com |
mittee on Foreign Relations, if he would |
support it. #fH
GENERAL BABcoCK AND COLONEL FOR |
NEY
were present at this interview, and all |
understood Sumner to say that he |
would support it, that he could not think |
of doing otherwise than supporting the |
administration in the matter, and, fur /
ther, that there was no object to the /
instrument, as a whole. Yet Sumner, |
meanwhile, had taken offense, because |
his views and wishes in other matters |
were not deferred to, and become in |
censed at the President and Fish, and |
denounced them, and, among other
things, the
SAN DOMINGO TREATY, -
and raising the issue of veraeity with !
three witnesses, denied that he ever in |
timated that he would give the treaty /
his support. Among the glaring ab- !
surdites heaped upon the san Domingo |
e.
made upon the Republic of Hayti. The !
foundation for this is that a vessel or two !
cruised in that part of the ocean during |
the negotiations. Not a gun, pocket |
pistol nor percussiOn-cap was fired, and |
the only war-like demonstration ever
heard of was that at sea the captain sent
up a sky-rOcket from the deck. His |
purpose with this sky-rOcket, or where |
the stick came down, has never been as
certained.
The Senator then spoke on
SUMMERS REMOVAL % H
from the Craftsmanship Of Foreign Re
lations Committee, and said it was not |
removal at all. All of the Senate
committees die at the end of each ses-
sion. He was not deposeG because of
his opposition to the San Domingo |
scheme. Sumner did not hold commu- /
nicatiOn with the State Department and |
tine Senate was delayed for weeks for !
lack of Information. Simple indeed, I
but the only cure for all this I
WIS to select another Chair
man. This was done and nothing 4
more, and it turned out that the trea- i
ties, six or seven in number, having i
long laid buried in the committee, after a |
change of Chairman, were at once
brought up and ratified. The Senator
then took up 4
~ 20 THE CHARGE OF NEPoTIsM
against Grant, and enumerated many
instances where public mea appointed !
relatives to office. President Johnson's
son was his chief private Secretary;
Governor Stewards son was Assistant
Secretary of State; Edwin NJ. StantOn's /
son was clerk in the War Department, /
Gideon Wells's son was Chief Clerk OF
the Navy Department, and when Gid
con Wells employed a relative at great
remuneration, to buy ships, the scandal
was not that he paid just sums
TO his relative, but that he
paid such sums at all. Reverdy
johnson, Minister to England, male
his son Assistant Secretary Of Legation.
JohnA Dix, Minister TO France, did
the same thing with his son. Schurz
pressed his brother-in-law on the Presi-
dent, and obtained for him a lucra-
tive Office, and when Trurnbull caused
his removal upon statements impeach-
ing his fitness, Schurz raged against the
President for removing his brother-in-
law. Trumbull seems to have procured
appointments for his brother-in-law, his
sons and his nephews, and be broke, it
is said, with the President because he
refused to appoint Trumbul's son to Of
fee. That shrill and fris,xy reformer,
Mr. Upton, although not colossal him
self, would need a hay scales to be
weighed along with all his relatives he
has
HELPED TO GET OFFICE.
Three bTothers-in-law, nephew and a
son in Office, with other thiags for other
relatives, did not satisfy his liberal in
clinations, but he vigorously piled the
President and the Secretary of State tOt
give a valuable consulship to another
son; and after they declined he fire.
quently ayowed-onee, pipingly, TO thet
President hinself--that the refusal was
the cause of his opposition. Since Pres
ident Grant came in but nine persons in
all connected in the remotest degree
with him or with his wife have held po-
litical Office under the United States. OF
these nine relatives or connections inef-
flee, two were appointed by
= ANDREW JOHNSON,
viz: the Presidents father, Postmaster
at COyington, Kentucky, and his BROTH II
er-in-law, Rev. Mr. Cramer, Consul at !,
Leipsic. Deducting Jesse II. Grant and n
NJ. ]. Cramer, appointed by Johnson,
seven instances OF relatives i'm political Il
Office remain, and of these, but two
xvare in truth and in fact aDnoiDtad Fv