Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1872-08-09

did accept carriages and horses afte
their election.
But it is said that men who subscribed
to gifts have been appointed to Office
and the insinuation is that they were ap
pointed because they subscribed to gifts
The TACT that hundreds who gave have
never been appointed to anything woulc
of itself seem to disprove the charge
that official patronage has been used tt
repay gifts. Only three-or at most foul
contributors to the funds raised fol
Gen. Grant have ever been offered ap
pointments, and it would seem far-fetch
ed to explain the selection of three for q
reason applying to more than three hun
dred who we're never selected at all
But the facts answer the charge.
NEPoTIsM.
! The rueful Reformers " themselves
will not bear examination on this point
Mr.. Schurz pressed his brother-in-law
upon the President, and obtained for him
lucrative office, and when Mr.. Trum.
bull caused his removal upon statements
impeaching his fitness, Mr.. Schurz ragged
against the President for removing his
brother-in-law. Mr.. Trumbull seems to
have procured appointments for his
brother-in-law, his sons, and his nephew
and he broke, it is said, with the Presi-
dent because he refused to appoint Mr.
| Trumbulls son to an office. That shrill
and frisky Reformer," Mr.. Upton, al.
though not colossal himself, would need
hay-scales to be weighed along with
all his relatives he has helped to get of
fee. Three brothers-in-ls a nephew,
and son, in office, with other things for
other relatives, did not satisfy his " lib
eral inclinations, but he vigorously pill
ed the President and the Secretary OF
the State to give valuable consulship
to another son, and after they declined
he frequently avowed, once pipingly to
the President himself, that the refusal
was the cause of bis opposition.
Mr.. Fenton saw no objection to giving
to his adopted son his influence for an
Office, nor to obtaining it from Tammany
Hall, and keeping it, through all the ex-
posures of Tweed and the rest, although
no service was attached to it equivalent
to the pay.
Mr.. Sumner with brother-in-law in
Office under Andrew johnson, was in
famed by his removal, and did not hesi-
tate to make known his displeasure.
Even Mr.. Greeley did not scruple to
countenance his brother-in-law in OBJ
tanning the most lucrative collectorship
of internal revenue in the United States.
Nor has he hesitated to urge appoint.
ments, clearly unfit, on the ground of the
intimate terms between himself and those
he urged.
After citing numerous democratic pre-
cedents for appointing relatives to office,
among them being Gov. Hoffman of
New York and the State officials of Ken
lucky, the speaker continued:
RELATIVES OF THE PRESIDENT.
But if Gen. Grant has done wrong, the
crime of others cannot help him. Let
US look into his case. You might sup
pose from the noise, that he had used a
relative as a peg for every hole in the
country, and that he had put round pegs
in square holes, and square pegs in round
holes, everywhere. 1t has been said that
he has appointed fifty relatives, forty rel
atives, thirty relatives, and Mr.. Sumner
estimates, thirteen relatives, to office.
None of these statements are true. Since
President Grant came in, but nine per-
sons in all, connected in the remotest de-
gree with him or with his wife, have
held political office under the United
States.
have list of them, and do not speak
without information. Nine is the total
number in political Office This does
not inc, ude a son of the President sent
as pupil to West Point, long before his
father became President; nor does it in
clude his brother-in-law, Dent, who has
long held commission in the army by
the same tenure under which Sherman
and Sheridan, and every other officer of
the army holds his place, and which the
President has no more power to give or
take away, than the man in the moon.
OF the nine relatives or connections
in office two we're appointed by Andrew
johnson, viz. the Presidents father,
postmaster at Covington, KY, and his
brother-n-law, the Rev. Mr.. Cramer,
Consul at Leipsic. Mr. Cramer was
transferred from Leipsic to Denmark by
President Grant on The recommendation
of Bishop Simpson, Bishop Jayne, and
many other well known persons, friends
of Mr.. Cramer. Being the brother-in-
law of the President. he of course became
a mark for I" liberal" abuse, and was
charged with drinking beer, and being
refused membership of social club.