The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1872-09-05
THE MAN ON HORSEBACK.

i There was all undrniable sense of fitness II
unroling at the Philadelphia Convention tn
pictorial representation of "Tbe Man oI
Horseback" 1t was tha outward and yisibl
sign OF the military will that has already man
ifested itself. bootrd and spurred, in many q
me States and on many occasions, and of th,
representative Chief Of faction that has bur
dened the country with debt; harrassed ant
oppressed it with a swarm of spies, corrup
tionists. and office-holders; plundered. or vast
ed, It's enormous revenues; destroyed its 0cear
commerce, and made the administration o
justice odious to the whole body of the people
Are the charges too strong? Let us cite facts
In support of them:
| Who rewarded the infamous dOings of HOl
den in North Carolina with an official position
the ruffanism' of Kirk with South American
Consulate. and the malignity of Senter witt
the mission to Peru?
The Man on Horseback.
Who sought to buy San Domingo of Baez
| for the benefit of spectators; sent war ships
| to protect him; menaced Hayti with war il
she interfered, and was indignant that the
Senate should reject his schemes and criticise
his conduct?
The Man on Horseback
Who revenged himself for his defeat, by
causing Mr. Summer, the most prominent Sen
atoriai opponent of the San Domingo swindle,
to be deposed from the Chairmanship of the
Committee on Foreign Relations. and put in
his place Mr. Cameron, whose ignorance of in
ternational law makes him totally unfit for the
positon'
The Man on Horseback.
Who packed the Supreme Bench with par
tisan Judges to reverse the Legal Tender de-
cision, in the interest, not of the public at
large, but of wealthy corporations?
The Man on Horseback.
Who was it that held Congress in session
until it passed law clothing hun with dcta-
t0rial powers, and authorizing him to ride
rough shod over the South
The Man on Horseback.
Who was it that parceled out all sorts of
Offices among his relatives, as if they were
royal fefs, and he himself invested with more
than royal prerogatives?
The Mar on Horseback.
Who was it that sustained and enforced the
Bayonet Election law, and, not content with
the authority already given, sought. in the in
terest of his own ambition, to have it extended
to every election precinct in the country?
The Man on Horseback.
Who was ii that interfered in the local poll
tics of Missouri, and vindictively undertook
to decaptate all the prominent Federal officials
that withstood his arbitrary willl
The Man on Horseback.
Who is it that was suspected of having more
than a vague knowledge of the gigantic specu-
lation in gold in which his brotherin. law, A. r.
Corbin, was engaged, and which eliminated SO
on the memorable BLACK Friday!"
The Man on Horseback.
Who let Badeau and Leet loose among those
very records of the War Department of which
six chests-ful have mysteriously Disappeared
aud rewarded Badeau with the office of Consul
General at London, and of Leet by letter of
which turned over to him the
most lucrative appointment in the gift of the
New York Collector of Customs!
The Man on Horseback.
Who dismissed Mr.. Grinncll, and made the
notorious "ToW" Murphy Collector of the
Customs at New York, in spite of the frauds
by him 10 his war contracts, and
simply because of his unscrupulousness in pack
ing political Conventions, and of his infinite
capacity for doing any amount OF dirty work
that his Chief might require?
The Man on Horseback
Who made his brother-n-law, Casey, Col
ector of Customs at New Orleans, and con-
ni,ed at his use of Federal trOops and Gatling
guns to prevent recacitrant Republican dele
gates from assembling in Convention?
The Man on Horseback
1t is this man, by nature reckless and self
wlled; by military training. despotic; the as
sociate OF advrnturers, SPECTATORS, and des- |
perate gamblers in politics, and as absorbent
IF gifts as sponge is of water; before whose
. Equestrian Portrait" as the New York Times
,enderly described it, his white worshipers fell
nto ecstacies, and his black ones yelled. Act |
ng under orders, they nominated him to the
Presidency for a second term, not caring what
become of the couRtry, SO that they fattened
IN his bounty, and were assured of being duly
when detected in picking and
Gazette.