The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-08-02
,uI,ty Of me- crt.e. md vices alleged against

guilty OF The crnoes ana s'ce' .e
Tn svrsker den retired to the early education
LIE VI Grant. SUMNER, ne says, -
him by reminding rs thai be eanne9 n,e- IT, ala
rnssoucrsde 81 : wood chopper. He did not
iis.,re hi pictorfsls al farmer; he did not go
round telling what be knew about anyaa.nf + h. '1 shc
seheHioe Il EnoWn 10 the whole world. Subse.
- Democrats sought % nominate nim
fT te Presidency, but he decllnea. ms ln.sS-
a f..Ss nn sim e. s''s o,S S9es ia somebody is 70 Se
cheased, smd by Grants consent no QUO e'e' -
or ever win be CHEATED. - -.
s,.rsser ~. cited nom the New York World and
Horace GretIey illusions complimentary so'rAn'
In l56S.
Coming to the question Of gin taking = By Grs sos
that Country had enriched is distinguished nee
acts OF fAriiament md voluntary suDscfiP9Soc
America, too, Asd been lavish IN 1ls sesTT 49, =
sums were given 10 S~tanton's and TO kswita.e
famiiics. more than . hundred thousand eacd.@
Were these things dish0norabie? was wIOnS
for ;ora Srs y ,s 2 s .ss;aa ; .So ss aan : eas and spspiaaasa
he nroceedinr' II cannot have been dishonofa.
Bile Or improper for him 70 accept the sta Mir2se.
i being ~disho1 .s.!st, ap pee aPV : hsSea a state g
a vir. And ~ msde . prince. The charge thaf
Grant received Q EiR afssf be became fIesioenI,
Or after be was nomln.ted 10 Mnouy is.ss, .e
iuaffoS; nos even . carriage horse, although Lin
coin, Bnchanan, Pierce, Taylor and other Presi-
dents did accept carriages amer tneir eeSnon:-
spDointed 10 once. The i~nsinuatiou e that they
Tere snnointed because they . subscribed TO
gins. lie fact that hundreds WIG gsse nsse nevea
: .ppoinisd e .nyta sSss o SSJ,d Us,ron.xe has
been nsed 10 repey gifs. Only three. or q most
four, contributor 70 funds raised for Gr;1t ave
ever been offered appointment: ~PI mr. fnr
he reason spplyinE TO more than three hundred
sseW.rt sabscriSa 70 The Grsne fsa;, 20
York wno then sspported the Republican party.
No man on HaI6aftan Island who has been
thought Of ior The Cabinet refused 70 subscribe
named for bis Cabinet, E. D.. Morgan. Geo. OPP
dyke, jackson s. Schultz, William \. Dodge,
Henry Clews, or. any other leading banker or
merchant who supported him y WOULD hsse
President. The same thing is true OF Mr.. Borte'
late Secretary Of the Navy: These cabinet min
listers were selected for their supposed fitness, De
cess In an imnense business convinced the Presi-
dent that he mixht render great service - Sec
retary of the Treasury. BOrie, q retired mer-
chant, was Senvsd TO have e.. : ,a ygst kn sSs TsIeu aPe
was foremost in urging the appointment Of men
who were not politicians, and because OF the
blu.ter in the public journals ne =. r rrss,dsn .ho WA
uISNII JIG" BE 1s -
be chosen upon principles on which ne Is Iryln4
TO bc Presideut-passing over all men whom you
know 10 he lit, and taking . man Ia ven,ufe'
Greeley once told the President that, In his opin.
ion, offices should never be given to those who
could take care Of Themselves, but should De iof
those who could not make = living any otner M NJ;
Wa. first to acknowledge his mistake. The Prcsa,
dent. manliness In meeting everything anu
shrinking no,hinS on tnis .t os ri inof heSsISers'M
lie offended Stewart, and Impaired his niens'ship,
vet the boli pretense Is now m1de That ne uscu
Official power to recompense 2 gin -. p,o.,a.,,
has grown rich. They. parade his property by
millions. We haye fallen ON sorry times wnen
the chief magistrate, when y fame 80 great and 90
rroprrty. IN answer 10 eiecftouccring falschoods.
The President would disdain to do IT. and have
no snthoity to do It. I do NOT assume to do u on
hts behalf. but Ia the behalf OF me party cr Luz
Senator ihrn said the house In Galena, MT
Grants Missouri farm, \ slo0, 90 house In wash
ington, which he sold IN Zen: sherman; tne 81.
tagc at Long Branch, and . house In Phiisdci-
pl,is, which tents for sud- per annum, COM
pl-trd thr President property, win one keep
lion, some years ago he purchased s.o'c1, IN
Company. To this day II has paid n.thing-
IL because the President interfrred TO prevent
Seneca s.one from being adopted rs . building
submitted for the State Department required
Ssnccs stone. Eccause OF his being . stockhoid-
er, the l'rwsidentrefused 10 allow the plan 70 oe
even considered. Otn~r ssoek noadchs SoM hIPs.na
tsr President owned stock. 1hs freeadent y,
piir,i, expressing HE regret, saying ne woala
tations cast IN him by political opponents; but
he dc~med u unsuitable even to seem 70 1efr'"
to such c~.lunlny b. parting with his stock;
Grant. however,, vas not 2 money maker, OF;
s ,sss.. Ind II 5: :n =: Is san2sa.la q s :::S$ ne : :essaI
time until assured thAt he was the only man wno
could not be beaten. The convention NJ Phiis-
delphta turned our 10 have not more than three
oHice-hoiders. No national convention Of a par
~ In power ever met before In which men hold
srntcd. No single precinct in tie whole country
30 enectuaily gave The lie to the pvetense that Of
nce.hal 1ers controiled the people a. the seventn
Ward of boston, In which sumner lives. Inc
Republicans turned out ca @ans and voted unau-
inon4iy &c Grant. Sumner, In hs opposition.
could not command y vote. Tbs announced wish
sss S".a: 70 without SisS%" : . unity IT,. Il f :en.in sas =. .sa e he he
second placs on tho ticket. Inc choice fell oe .
man whom Mr.. Wade has well described - the
is,;s ~ M. q A me so', ci y. Ss,,ct G rSss =
had won n place In the respect AID good viii o.
his coanfrymen. which msde u ~ the second Of
flee In the republic should DO held ~ Henry Mii-
son. Without contrast between bis colleague
and himself, the prize might not have fallen TO
him; hut the incScasabie conduct Of summer led
thr conveniion TO prefer Wilson for htsown great
ntYltS 0loo, DfC8At~t hs psAe
rrcorf the national Judgment Hgsinst The pre-
tension thai the party belongs to any maa. or u
subject ~ the within or dtctstton Oh any h~af Of
The speaker then proceeds % show how Geor1
Washington was abused by his political oppos
n-nts, and said. suppose that all that had beer
said about Grant was trsic; he had made soot
President.
The Senator then took up the San Domingo
question, and said when the treaty was proposes
Grant wsksd Mr.. summer, chairman Of the -
,ntttsS sn Rorctuu Ralaiinna IN hr WOuld suD-
port Il. General Babcock and Colonel forney
were present ut this interview, and all understood
eas"Id NOT think Of dslns csnerwisr than support
the administration In the mttferi AMI further
that there was no objection TO the tnstrun,ent NJ .
whole; yet Mr.. sumner having me,nwhiss takrn
matters W,re not deferred To, bscame tncensstt
NJ rhe President aud Sir. Fish. denounced fhein,
and. am as cfher things. III. san no'l.ingo
treaty, AMI, raising an issue OF ycraeify with
three witnesses, denfr,i he ever intimsted that he
would give thr treaty his support.
The Seiiafor then spoke Of MI summers re-
lstiOns Committee. aud said IL WAS not . rcmvvsai
~ all. All the Senate c0mmitters dissolved at the
end of each session. lie was not deposed be-
causc OF his opposition 10 the San Domingo
scheme. MIR. sumner did not hold communities
tiOn with ifle State Department, and the senate
was delayed four wccks for lack Of information.
The only care for all this Wa ~ select another
chairman. This Ma dome. and nothing more,
and il turned out dat treaties, six or seven in
number. having long lain buried In the commit
tes, aftrr the change Of chairman, were IL once
brought up and ratified.
The senator fhcBtosk zap the charge Of ''nepot-
ism. > sgainst Grnef, nsal enumerated many in
stances where public ItH-n appointed relatives to
Offices. President Jofst<rn's son was his chief
| private secretary Governor Stewards son was
Assistant secretsyyO Of STATE. Edwin NJ. STAN
t,n's son was caSk ia. the War Department. -
Gideon Welles' son vas Thief Clerk Of the Navy
I,~Departmeni, and When Gi,ieon Wellrs employed
n relative. ut q great remuneration, to buy ships,
the scandal was not ihai he paid just sum To q
relative, but that he paid such sums af all. Rev
| erdy Johnson, Minister to England, made his
SON assistant Secretary Of legation. John A.
Dix, Minister 10 France, DID the same thing
| with his son. SehIg pressed his brOther-in-law
five nfscs and yrh.s Irra,niu,i caused his 70.
| ns0Cai upon statrnpnts impeaching his fitness,
| Sclurz ragged agaiustthe President for removing