The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-03-14
Grant and his Enemies.

Grant and his Enemies.
The Republican opposition to the
admin stration as now onicered and
conducted is mostly personal, and Gen.
ters against the President and bis r.
nomination. Sumner, Schurx, Trum-
bull, Fenton, Greeley, Cox Gratz
Brown, aud the half dozen other Re-
pubiicans who join these "disanected''
party leaders in their hue and cry
against Grants denomination, have
every one of them some personal pique
and grievance, or else some personal
ambition, to be gratified by their war
against Grant and his administration.
1t is "too thin" for these "statesmenn
to boast the virtue Of disintere sted pa.
triotism and freedom from persona
llotlses In their war on Grant, while
.lee'y charging the opposite upon the
PRESIDENT and His supporters. Since
the local fight of the Republican fac.
tions in Missouri in which Grant rave
the public patronage the anti Brown.
Schurz party, those Liberal" Nilsson.
rians have been the head and front of
the Republican opposition to Grants
denomination. The detection of Fem
ton and Greeley in New York, may be
accounted for on like grounds; the
administration has distributed the bulk
of it's favors in that State under the
direction Of Senator c. nkling and the
New York Congressman who support
him instead Of Fenton in the local
politics of the State. Greeley, to be
sure, has another axe to grind in try
ing to get the Presidential nomination
for himself, either from the Repuhli-
cans, the Democrats. or the "coalition.
Summer was greatly enraged and
badly soured by his removal from the
craftsmanship Of the Senate Committee
on Fu1rfgn relations, step deemed
necessary by the Senate on account Of
his unfriendly personal relations with
Secretary Fish; and since then the
Massachusetts, Senator has waged his
war against the President with Indian
vindictiveness and savagery. Cox has
not forgiven the President for not let
ting him have his own way in treating
the McGarrahan claim aud other mat.
ters within the Interior Department
while he was Secretary; and Trumbull
Is more than suspected OF having secret
hankerings after the Presidency him
self. Indeed any one of the men nam
ed as the foremost opponents of Grants
re election would like place on the
Presidential ticket, if not the first, the
second; and the whole circle is q com.
bination Of the ''outs" to beat the ..insn
aud get in themselves.
On what ground Of principle do these
enemies of President Grant pretend to
oppose his denomination? Their plat
form as laid down in the recent Mis-
souri, Convention, opposes the Ku K.ux
law and the tariff. and favors amnesty,
free trade, civil service reform and the
abrogation of all temperance and sun.
day laws and the exclusion Of the
Bible from the common schools.
Whether the Cincinnati Convention
will foist this last plank of Missouri
liberalism" into national platform,
remains to be seen aud may be doubted.
fthey do they will have platform
distinct enough, though quite too mar
row to form the rallying ground of
new national party. But the other
articles of this "liberal' faith are either
Objectionable to the masses of .Republi-
cans, or have already been adopted by
that party in advance of the threatened
Liberal" Republican bolt and coalition
with the Democracy. The Ku Klux
law has justified itself before the coun-
try in its practical operations, and
Republicans ought to leave the bust.
ness of denouncing it entirely
to the Democracy. President Grant
recommended amnesty in his last mes
sage; the House passed bill granting
II; and Sumner killed it in the Senate!
The President has also put civil service
on a practicable basis, and actually
startled the politicians by the sudden.
ness with which he has put the new
regulations in operation. So that. be.
sides the hu Klux and tariff laws,
absolutely no ground of opposition to
the general Republican policy, upheld
and executed by the President.
remains, excepting those personal to
the President and his enemies. This
ls narrowing the thing down to a fine
point, and if the Presidents enemies
nope to make national issue out of
thei. personal grievances and dislikes.
they will find themselves, we think,
reckoning without their host.