Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-07-25
they were of the right blood and appro-

they were of the right blood and appro.
| pirate persons for the place
! His record, during the last two wears
as Governor of Missouri, is clear on this
point. lie has not appointed a person
whose pedigree he did not understand.
and whose blood was not all right. For
example, he appointed his brother-in-
law, Calvin Gum, tobacco inspector for
the State. Colonel Dougherty. his
cousin, he appointed warden of the State
Penltentiary, and for its factor he an
pointed Colonel Swain, a near relative
OF his wife. For Secretary of the State
Geological and Mining Bureau. and also
for Chemist of the State Geological Sur
yeY, he appointed son of his cousin
Frank Il. Blair, who holds the two of
fees formerly held by Professors Water
house and Litton, of Washington Uni
versity. These four examples should
convince any one that, as Governor,
Gratz has not made appointments for
the most lucrative and important offices
In his gift without fully understanding
what he was about and fully knowing
his men, and furthermore he seems to
have complied with a command intimat-
ed in Holy Writ where it speaks of those
who fail TO provide for their own. especi-
ally for their own household.
Thus it will be seen that GratZ is
man OF the people; of extensive rela-
tionship: a natural born financier: a
man of Kentucky honor; a man of lib
eral proclivities; would have been a
hraUa If ha haI
show it and had not been a pacificatOr:
is ever watchful of his country's liberty
and dignity; is master of rhetoric and
eloquence, and, best-of all, he takes care
of his own household.
He is, however, in spite of all these,
badly abused man, and the nature of
that abuse win lie given in then chap
ter.
CHAPTER II.
THE BADLY ABUSED ORATOR AND GOV
ERN0R OF MISSOURI.
Governor Brown, the candidate for
Vice-President, is an orator Should
he, by the accidental death of Greeley,
become President, the people of this
nation would not be Inundated by the
thought that they had President who
will not or cannot make speech. GratZ
can can make speeches. This has been
proved both before and since he was
Governor. He can edify an audience,
or at least he will try, at a religious fes-
tival, school convention, political meet
ing, horse race or cock fight, and what
is most gratifying, he lie always willing
to make speech. 1t is said that at the
Planters House, in st. Louis, one even
ing last Fall, he insisted upon going out
and making speech to a band of music
which he supposed was serenadiug the
Governor, but which, in fact, was play
ing for a third-class museum nearly OPP
posite the hotel
Some OF the Opposition" were so un-
charitable as to circulate the report that
His Excellencv had imbibed too freely.
and was
DRUNK.
One Ralph Keller, "A correspondent
for E'perg Satltrddy, abused this badly
abused man by reporting the case, and
intimating that His Excellency was ''in
a maudlin state, and insisted upon adj
dressing the monkeys of the museum.
Now, this was a libel on Graft. for he
would not address an audience of mon
MY nv. llDJ llt. ItAuhtNS AlDll I AADlt.
During the campaign for the Gov
Gratz was very badly abused
by the radicals. He knew it, and said
he was the worst abused man that ever
sought an office.
Those radicals accused him of being
irreligiOus and using much prOfane and
vulgar language, and worse than that
they insisted that he was not a safe man
to be Governor, because he would get
drunk. He clearly proved all these
to be false, by asserting and
getting his friends 10 assert for him.
that he was a consistent member of a
Christian church, and the report that
LIE GOT DRUNK AND BUTTERED HIS
at the time of the con-
ventiOn that nominated him was a radi-
cal lie, got up to defeat his election.
The tremendous majority he got over
his radical opponent ought to convince
any one that the people Were satisfied
that the report was lie.
But the abuse Of this consistent Chris
tian gentleman did not end with his cleo
ton to the Office of Governor. He was
invited TO make an address at the com
exercises at the State Uni
yersity at Columbia, and being ever
ready to respond to calls of this kind. he
accepted the invitation. In company
with his cousin, the Warden of the State
Prison. he started to fulfill his engage
ment. On his arrival in the suburbs of
Columbia, it was discovered that His
was sick, very sick-tOo sick
to make the address, and was so sick
that he could not walk without limping.
doubtless the result of that little affair
Of honor by which he got his knee hurt,
or it was something else.
The programme for the day was ac-
cordingly altered to conform to cIrcum-
stances over which the assembled au-
dience had no control.
Some in that audience had the auda-
city to say tie G0UerHOF 2oGs dralllk and (
talked as freely of it as though Gratz /
had been only a private citizen. This /
was unkind, for they knew that he had /.
promised he would not get drunk if he /
was elected to the Office of Governor, /
and for them to say he was drunk was
equivalent to saying that GratZ had not /
kept his word-a thing upon which /
those who knew HIM have no doubts. /
The scandal of tile Columbia drunk. /
Is the radicals ungenerously called this /
sickness of the Governors. +
lid not end in mere talk, but it found (
It's way into many of the newspapers of /
.he State. What was most lamentable /
Of all, some of the papers that advocat- /
I'd the ''libera" policy and its standard .
bearer. GratZ, were of the number I
Two instances of the latter are cited. T
which, if they do not show that repub /
les are ungrateful, will show that these f.
Liberal Republican papers .'went bach" .
IN Gratz. whom they had helped 10 (
,lect to the highest office in the gift of .
he people of the State. The first un-
grateful allusion to the much abused /
Governors sickness is from the Nerico .
Ledger. 1t says:
1--WE were not able to get near enough to .
Governor Brown the other day, at Column (
ria, to either see or hear him. but we con
Tersed with many persons who did. We
'ecord the fact with sorrow. that the uni
orm verdict OF those with whom we con-
oil His "a.