The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-03-08
HONEST MIR. GRANT.

HONEST MIR. GRANT.
The publication Of indictments
against Grant and his administration
has come to be tedious business
To touch upon even small portion of
the rascalities and corruption with
which the President has Unidentified
himself would be yoluminous effort,
not to mention the frauds and villain.
les of those whom he has entrusted
with the peoples funds and retained
in places of trust and responsibility
Prominent among Mr.. Grants own
indeccncics since arriving at the Pres.
dency the World mentions the follow
ing: f H'. '
The Presidents recommendation
that the Government purchase the
telegraph lines OF the United States is
n Job. II is the last and worst and
greatest job of his official career.
AS President, Mr.. Grant pushes the
use OF Seneca sandstone in public
buildings, sidewalks, &c, in Wash
ington. As stockholders of the SEN
cca Sandstone Company Mr.. Grant
and his military encourage the profits.
As President, Mr.. Grant urges the
purchase and obstinately maintains
war power protectoraie of Santo Do
mingo-success thercin-now impossi.
bic, would have feathered his own
nest and the nests of all the White
Honse ring.
AS President, Mr.. Grant appoints or
removes internal revenue officers in
Chicago. As thrifty investor, Mr..
Grant secs his brother Orville, by
foreknowledge and influence in APP
poiutmenis and removals make him
self aud his whisky ring rich.
| As President, Sfr. Grant dictated,
before and after Black Friday. the
policy of the United States Treasury
Department in, Wall street. As q
fond husband, he had the pleasure oi
seeing the Fisk Gould Corbin job pay
over s25, 900 on the Fisk and Gould
transaction. BY the by. will not Mr..
Stewart disclose how Il 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 cot.
'tage at Long Branch TO q bull.pur
from Sacramento.
AS President, Mr.. Grant Especially
recommends favorable consideration
of the telegraph purchase. As homes,
as Mr.. Grant is, he bought one yeal
ago Through friends" of course
$500 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 witt
! the power of his Office and the margin
of profit still remaining ION par SALE
to the United States) open to vena
Representatives like the late Thad
Stevens and carpet-bagging Senators
Mr. Grant stands fair to make hi
Office just about twice as profitabl,
as his reelection. Grant is q jobber
So was Tweed. This is his tone
This is his conception Of public an'
private mortality. He is not in
deed an absolute thief. but Grant i
fast becoming millionaire by pre-
> cisely the same methods which mad
Tweed rich before he turned thief L
l become richer.
: Grants Seneca sandstone job is
g weak imitation of Tweed's blueston
: quarry job. II is even more scanda
Q lous, for the Seneca sandstone is
miserable stone, costly, chips badly i
: cutting, and is not durable. Tweed
! bIuestone was the best of its kind
Neither Grant norsTweed see wron
J, in such use OF official position for pr
vate profit.
Grants telegraph purchase 10
/ beats Tweed's County Court Hous
y Job ahollow. Tweed's net profit {
$ the 100000, as tracked in Mr.. III
den's affidavit, is a flea bite to til
II profit which will GO straight to tn
o pockets of Grants 'next friends
Il when the Western Union stock is at il
1t highest. Grant will rank higher tina
Tweed for distributing the cost of ii
cost of his private gains over the bacl
of forty millions Of x-payers. FL
Tweed cruelty saddled his extortioI
!, !, upon, one million. But as betwee
Grantism and Tweedism, moral
there is little to choose.
= None Of these things here charge
!. against the head of the governmen
: have been or can be successfully d
:, :, MED. They are trueito the letterlar
i. even the most seryile office-holdir
tool of that. funcionary would M
have the face to question sing
= count in this scathing Indictment
v What then must be the character
O. the man who with this record has Il
s effrontery to come before the countl
of in state document as the champie
re of purity and reform in the Cover
n ment service he has so largely aide
st to prosecute and corrupt Can no
ir est men of the Republican party
A longer deluded with the idea tn
n Grant has any desire to see the go
of ernment honestly or economically a
Id ministered. Is it not clear, on Il
IN contrary. that Mr.. Grant has hil
ns self done more than all others in a
Mt thority combined to corrupt his 81
n ordinates and encourage treasul
,ic plundering.