The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-04-19
THE FIGHT on GRANT.

tnau tuoO -tAlo trOuDltD OF tue COuu-
try come from, uneasy politicians"
A state of turmoil Is necessary to
their sxistence. The demagogue
can ride into popular favor only on
the storm, and " hen he is not in
Office, he seeks always to raise .
storm that his lehsnces may be en-
HANGED. We do not charscterise all
who are opposed to the Republican
party and its admin stratIon as dem
agoguess or uneasy politicians. II
is necessary to the existencs OF Re-
publican institutions that there
should be two parties IN this coun-
try, with opposite principles and
policies for the administration Of
the gov eminent. II is OF the gen.
orally bogns third, or half way par
ties, we speak. Not always, but
generally, the leaders OF these are
uneasy and disappointed aspirants.
We do not believe there Is any
necessity for the present attempted
division of the Republican party.
simply because Of opposition to |
one member OF that party, who
happens to be the choice of large
majority OF the party adherents for
President. That evils exist We do
not deny, but the place to remedy
those evils is In the party-not In
aiding its political enemies, ~ must
certainly be the effect Of q division.
The fight the politicians are now
making on Grant 10 both mischiev-
Gus and malicious. The same kind
OF q fight was made on George
Washington and his administration.
The object now Is, as it was then,
TO destroy the President in the con-
fdence OF the people. Alexander
Hamilton was q greater man than
Trumbull or Horace Greeley, yet he
was accused of seeking the over
throw of the government, and of
corruption. The cry OF corruption
was just as fierce against Congress
In the days OF the first President rs
Il 10 now. Jefferson said thst "thc
snmity to WashiDgton's administra-
ton, generally speaking, had been
sharpened by its success" So it is
now. Grant has been successful,
and that of itself is enough to beget
the opposition and enmity of thous-
ands OF envious politicians, who
want tn run things themselves.
Adams and Clay were denounced as
corrupt in their day, and the angel
Gabriel would be were he to Occu-
py the Presidency, or become pol
itician. Some uneasy minds could
not be suited with anything. Pres
ident Taylor said, on his death bed
81 have met since ] came to Wash
iDgton, what 1 could never before
for O moment have anticipated.
Ny feelings have been most grossly
outraged; my acts misrepresented,
and my motives maligned." Grant
was called to the Presidency, not
on his own motion, from the field,
where he had won such renown as
no other citizen had won. He cary
cd his own way to the topmost
round of fame, unaided by wealth
or power. He made himself what
he was at the close of the war. He
accepted the call to the Presidency
from the American people, and en-
tered upon the discharge of the du-
ties of the Office with the confidence
of the people. None but rebels and
their sympathizers denounced and
beraied him. soon, however, and
as II seems to us without sufficient
cause, he began to encounter the
bitter opposition of Republicans
with whom he differed. He has
Jared worse at their hands than at
those of his old enemies, and to-day
many who took prominent part in
his nomination and election abuse
him worse than they ever did JEFF
Davis. Washington wrote TO JEFF
ferson as follows: "Every act of
my administration has been tortur-
ed, and the grossest and most in-
sidious Misrepresentation of them
made by such exaggerated and indie
cent means as could scarcely be APP
plled TO Nero, q notorious default
or, or even Q common pick pocket"
We make these comparisons to
show that those who are the most
revered by the people have gone
through just what Grant is now I'M
dergoing by malignant partisans.
Fifty years from now Grant will be
written down as Q statesman and q
hero. This will be after the asper-
tiles of partizan hatred and jealousy
are gone, and impartial history will
do him justice.
History repeats itself and in the
present bitter fight against the Pres
ident there Is nothing surprising.
All men have suffered 1t who have
been prominent actors in such times
as these. People should not be led
away from the party which they
have voted with for years, and
whose glorious principles have done
so much for the country, simply be-
cause q few politicians are denounc-
Z ing the most popular man in the
party. It would be just so with
any other man in Grants place. He
has done more and is doing more to
purify the party than the self-con-
is,ituted purifiers will ever do. II
he has appointed some bad men to
office. he Is not to blame, but those
who recommended them. In the
twenty thousand appointments he
has to make It could not we'll be
otherwise than that q dishonest man
will occasionally creep into eftice.
We believe he has done more to
bring offenders to justice than any
other President ever did. We be-
lieve he has made a good President,
and hence have no sympathy with |
abe Democratic Republican effort
now being made 10 kill him on.
I'VE can see nothing better IN pros
pect now, and hence we are OF opin-
kon that Grant should be kept in the |
White House another term.
Mr.. D'Israeli, 10 . recent speech,
took occasion to say that the United
States cannot possibly recedc from
he position already taken on the