The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-05-02

Filings and Gneers.


e fact-that the Republicans who IA
r vor the denomination of the Presl
is dent are bitterly intoleraut of thos
o who do not. Yet it would seen
J. upon careful reading of newspa
/. pers and speeches, that the Republi
u cans that oppose the denomination
Q have at least an equal chance of ex
& pressing themselves, and that th'
= chances are improved. It is. how
n ever, natural that those who low
the cause more than any man, and
: who believe that the welfare of The
q country depends very much upor
J; Republican success, should heal
!, with Dissatisfaction unmeasured de.
nunciation of the Administration
, and all who support it. Why should
; every sneer at the President be as.
: sumed to be sincere and unprejudic.
} ed, and every suspicion cast upon
the administration most justifiable Z
If an insinuation against the Chief
: Magistrate is Indignantly challenged
or repelled, "Whatp' is the reply,
ais this a Roman Caesar, who can
do no wrong?" No, he is not Ro-
man Caesar, but he is an American
gentleman, and entitled to fair play.
The people of the country who do
not personally know the President,
must judge by his words and acIs.-.
1t is skillful sophistry which charg-
es him with every evil that may ap-
pear in the Administration and re-
fuses him the credit of all the good.
He is criminal or a cipher, as the
iexigencies of his opponents may de-
mand. "But why is it that certain
igentlemen are known as his friends
and certain others as his enemies ?''
is a question often asked "and
why, when his policy is opposed,
are some opponents treated as ene-
mics while Others still remain
friends ?" The reply is not far to
seek. Some of his warmest friends
opposed the San Domingo Treaty,
but they opposed it as friends.-
They represented it as a mistake of
policy, upon which there could be
natural and harmonious differences
Of opinion. The result showed that
it was not mere opposition to his
policy which occasioned alienation.
But when his motives and character
are impugned in opposition, why
should there not be feeling upon his
part? A President must be silent
when he is aspersed. Is it not all
the more duty of honor in party
opponents not to asperse him?
So certain Senators are warmly,
even contemptuously, opposed TO
civil service reform, which the Pres
ident favors. But their relations
probably continue friendly, al
though it is clear that if they de-
nounced him as the root of all off.
cial corruption those relations could
not fail to be disturbed. A Presi-
dent, it is said, ought not to quarrel.
But has Senator, the constitution.
al adviser of the President on many
Occasions, no similar duty? There
are Senators who oppose as we'll as
who favor his policy of civil service
reform, who are upon friendly terms
with the President. That point is
not determined by sympathy with
his views. There are Senators who
honestly think and frankly say that
the President disgraces his Office
Is it surprising that they are not up
on friendly terms with him, even if
they are friends of civil service re.
form?
The country can also easily under
stand that thousand tales are told
of the President. which are simply
false. They are repeated, and EN-.
phasized and enlarged until they are
accepted as true, and one such fact,
as it is called, is supposed to indi>
cate a myriad more of the same
kind. There is, for instance, the
dull SANDER about the Seneca stone
quarry. 1t represents the President
as deeply interested in a quarry for
which contracts for Government
works are obtained by his influence,
which are enormously profitable to
him. This is the story Industrious
ly repeated. The fact is, that six or
seven years ago General Grant in
vested some money-which we be-
lieve nobody ever alleged to be dis.
honestly earned-in a stone quarry,
from which he has never received
any dividend whatever. We have
heard the same kind of a story told
of Gen. Logan in regard to some
Chicago,lots. "He grew rich in the
army, did hep" asks Mrs. Candour,
with shrug of her moral shoulders.
No, Madam he invested in land
some Of his small savings from his
Generals pay. The sum was very
small, and the terms of payment
very easy, and the land rapidly rose
in value; and, as every man who
honors one of the bravest and most
skillful soldiers of the war will be
glad to know, the General has the
legitimate benefit Of his bargain.
We do not believe that the people
of the United States hear with pa
tience these incessant filings at a
President whom the most elaborate
iuonnuifV has failed to stain ovo,,