Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-08-08


| had already passed; whlie that about centlali-
ization. If 1t meant anything, referred to meas
. ures Of Congrt S. winch Greeley had himself
| EprOved. Where, then, is the political issue
the peoTle are to pass uponI 1t cannot be
| civil service reform, unles, dishonesty is i'm
putcd to the President. He is for civil service
reform. He recommended and maugurated 1t.
| The Philadelphia Convention specially eecar-
ed for it. There can be no issue If that kind
| except by pretending that Giant is hyp0crite
and that Greeley Is not Neither of these
| things would be easy to prove. The coaii-
ton presents only assaults on the President.
and is nothing more OF less than chal nge
! OF comparison between the candidates. The
issue is, which Is pei sonally the fittest man for
/ the presidency The Democracy has sur
rendered It's creed, and now, to wipe out the
very memory OF Democracy, these vaunting
managers selected as their ii gure-head a pro-
! fessed ultra Republican, and ask honest DEM
| ocrats to vote for hlm against MAJ born and
bred Democrat, no never acted with the
/ Republican party TIL after the war had raised
new issues upon which the Democrats divided.
! The autl-Grant managers are daring if tDey
| are not silly. They atter pit to crowd down
| the Threats OF Democrats who fought the
! Maine law, a man who drowned all other voices
| III bis outCries for penal statutes Sunday laws
| TO stop by force vending even lager beer.
| Upon what grounds, be asked, were Democrats
expected to vote the Greeley tickle There
I
C ntidence or respect, and deserves to be found
| guilty Of the crime and vice alleged against
HIM.
The speaker then referred to the early edu-
cation and life OF Grant, reading from letters
written to his parents over thirty wears ago.
sumner, he said, withcrs him by reminding
him that he tanned hides at Galena at few
hundred do lars year" He dld not mas
querade as the wOod-chopper He did not
figure III the picturials as farmer He did
not go around telling what he knew about any
thing that ne did not understand himself
His career III the rebellion is known to the
whole world. subsequently the Democrats
sought to nominate HIM for the Presidency
but he declined. His integrity taught him
that when a party chooses candidate irOm
the other side, somebody is to be cheated, and
by Grants consent, no one ever VIII be cheated
Coming to the question OF git-takluG by
Grant, lie advered 10 English example to show
how that couutry had enriched its distn-
guished men by acts of Parliament and VOlun-
tary subscriptions. America, 100, had been
lavish in this regard to sherman, Sheridan,
Faragut and Grant. Large sums were given
to Stantons family, aud to Rawlins's were
given more than 500, 900 each We're these
TIM Is dish noiable Was it wrong for Grant
to accept such gifts? The charge Is an insult
to the nation who witnessed and appauded
the proceedings 1t cannot have been dishon-
Orable or improper To accept gifts without dis
honor to the otfcrers. Bismarck recently re-
ceiyed landed estate Us a git, and was made
prince. The charge thai Grant accepted
any Gift after he became President, or after
he was nominated, is wholly false. He ac-
cepted nothing of value since his first nOmi-
nation, not even carriage and horses,
although Lincoln, Buchanan, Pierce, Taylor,
and other Pre- sidents, did accept carriages aud
horses after their election. But 1t las been
said the men who subscribed the gifts were
appointed to office an inslnuatOn that they
were appointed because they had subscribed
gifts. The fact tlat hundreds vino gave have
never been appointed to anything would Of It.
self seem to disprOve the charge that official
patronage has been used TO repay gifts. Only
three or at most four, contributors 70 the
fund raised for Grant have ever been offered
appointments 1t would seem ar fetched to
explain the selection OF the three, for the rea-
son applies to more than three hundred who
were never selected az all. A. r. Stewart sub
scrIhed to the Grant fund; SO dId every
/ leading man IN the city OF New
York who then supported the Renub-
hcan party. No man on Manhattan
Island who would have been thought OF for
thu Cabinet refused to subscribe Wnen Gen.
Grant b came President, had he named for
his Cabinet K ID. Morgan, Geo. Opdyke Jack
son S. Schultz, William f. Dodge. Henry
Cievs, or any her leading merchant or bank
CT vino sup Imported hlm, 1t would have turned
out tuat he to-, was "a giftbCarlng Greek "
The same thing is true OF Bore, the Secretary
Of the Navy. These Cabinet ministers were
selected for supposed itHess, because they
were not politicians. Stewards success i'll an
immense business convinced the President
that he might render service as Secretary OF
I the Treasury. BOrie, reur q merchant, was
believed to nave large knowledge applicable
to the navy. The \. Y. Tribune was foremost
in urging the appointment of men VINO re
not politicians, and because OF the blusttr III
pub ic journals, the President was misled
Greeley INSISTED that the Cabinet should be
chosen upon the principles on which he Is ny
ing to be President ; namely passing over all
men whom YOU know to be lit, and taking men
at a venture, with no reason to believe them to
bt fit. Indeed, Greeley told the President chat
IN his opinion, offices should never be given To
those who could take care of themselves, but
should be kept Tor hose who could rot make
living any other way. Stewart's case was one
in which tho Presid, mt WAS first to ackuoWi-
edge his mistake. The Presidents manllness
in meeting everything and ~hnklug nothing
on TINS occasion raised hrm greatly in the es-
tlmaton of all just bcholdcrs. lie offended
Stewart, and impaired his friendship yet the
bold pretcuce Is now made that he used his
otlic al power to recumpen-c GIT. Another
OF he subscribers TO { Grant fund appoint.
ed to Office was Moses II. GrinuCll ana when
Griuncll was removed, then men accused the
Prcsi jeut OF lngrariude for thu act.
Political scaVenScrs pretend tuat the Presl-
dent has grown Ilch as President 10y uuclt
in. They parade his property by millions.
We have fallen on sorry times when chef
magistrate with fame 50 great and pure must
give an account of his private property TO
quiet electi0neerlug nl-ehoous, The Prcsl-
dout would disdliu to do II. | have no au-
thur.ty to do it. | don't assume T. do II on
his b.nalf but on behalf OF the party cause he
represents | venture to state ia t.. The - ua-
tor then said the house inGa'eua IsMrs.Graut's.
The Mlssuuri farm valued at 500 GOO the
house i'm Washington, watch he sold g. Gen
eral sherman, the cottage at Long Branch,
and a house at Philadelphia, rented al $4,000
prranuum. completed the lreslJtnt'- property
with one RECEPTION. Some wears ago he pur-
chased $4,000 m nominal value II stock
III the Seneca Stone Company. To this