Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-08-08

sentiment Is to the second place ON the ticket.
The choice fell upon the man who Mr. Wade
has well described as . the incarnation
c. American citizenship, the born chief
ofpUyerty and toll. The Natck Cobpier
had won place in the respect and good VIII
OF his couutrymen, which made It lit that the
second Office IN the republic sLoult be hell. by
Henry Wilson. Without the coutras between
his colleague and himself the pfIze might not
have fallen to him. but the neXcusaJ.e CON
duct ofSumner led the convention TO prefer
Wilson for hi. own great weight, also because
ms nominate IA was record OF tie national
judgment against the preteusion that tue pa Y
belongs TO any man, or rs subject to the Whlm
or dictltion OF any set OF men, however petted
/ in caste. Wilson has been Senator many
years. During Gen. Grants whole military
and civil service: he has at all times upheld
+ reform measures, and therefore is answerable,
as he wishes To be, for the acts Of party policy
i'll tAe admins ration. The objection to either
candidate apply 10 both, and can ne argued to-
gelher. The administration Is on trial
Charges are made against 1t which must be
met.
The Senator then took up the San Domin-
80 question. and said: When the treaty was
proposed Grant asked Sumner, Chairman OF
the Committee on Foreign relations, II he
would support it. General Babcock and Col.
Forney were present at the interview, and all
understood Sumner 10 say he would support
it that he could not think OF doing otherwise
than supporting the Administration in this
matter: and further, that there was no OBJ
lection to the instrument as whole. Yet,
sumner, having meanwhile taken offence
because his views and wishes III other
matters were not deferred too, became
incensed at the President and Fish, de-
nounced them, and, among other things, the
San d Jmiugo treaty, and raising an Issue OF
yetaeity with the three witnesses, denied that
he ever animated that he would give the
treaty support Among the glowing absurdl-
ties heapcd on the San Domingo matter is the
allegation that war was made on the Republic
of Haytl The foundation for this is that a
vessel or two cruised in That part Of the ocean
during the negotiations. Not gun, not
pocket pistol, not a percussion cap was fired,
and the only war-lke demonstration overheard
Of was, captain sent up a rocket. Where
the sticn came down has never been ascer-
tanned
The Senator took up the charge of nepotsm
against Gen. Grant, and enumerated many III
stances where public men appointed relatives
to office President Johnson's son was his
chief private secretary Gov. Stewards son was
Assistant Seer tary Of State Edwin NJ. Stan
tons sou was clerk III tue War Department,
Gideon Wellcs's son was Chief Clerk of the
Navy Department, and when GIDEON Welles
promoted relative, at great remuneration,
to buy ships, the scandal was not that he pad
such sums to a relative, but that he paid such
sums AJ all. htNcGuN JONusDu, NH sltI 70
Ecngland, made his sou Assistant Secretary
OF Lega ion Johu A. Dix, Minister TO France,
did the same thing with his son. Mr. Schurz
pressed his brother-n-law upon the President, /
and obtained Tor HIM lucrative place; AID
when lrumDull caused ms removal, upon 7.
statement impeaching his fitness, Schdrz rag /.
ed against the President Tor removing his
brother-in-aw. Trumbull seems To have pro-
cured an appointment for his brother-ln-law |
has sons and nephews, and he broke, 1t is SAID,
with the President, because he refused to APP /,
point lrumbull son to Office. That thrilling /
aud hisky retormer, Upton, although not col
loSsal himself, would need hay scale to be Z
weighed along with all bis relations he has
helped to get office. Three brothers-in-law, Il
nephew aud son Ill office, with other thing. +
for other relatives, did not satisfy his liberal
ipclinatlonn; but he vigorously applied to the
President and Secretary OF State 10 give a val
liable cOusulship to another son, and after
they declined he frequently avowed, once to
the President himself, that this refusal was
the cause Of his opposition. Since
President Grant came in. but nine persons IN
all, connected III the remote~t degree with HIM
or his wife, have held office under the United
States OF the nine relations or connections
in Off re-, two were appointed by Andrew john
son, namely, the Presidents father, postmas-
ter at Covington, KY, and his brother-ln-law,
Rrv. Mr.. Cramer, Consul at Leipsc Deduct
ing Jesse i. Grant and W. }. Cramcr, appoint ,
ed bv Johnson seven instances o. relations IN
political office remain and of those but two
were il truth and fact appointed by the Press
dent. Orlaudo II. Ross, Il cousin of the Pes
ident, holds n cleIkship under the Third Audi
tor Of the Treasury. He was a soldier IL the
war and a General. Logan, as he stated IN
the senate, procured ms appoint
out the knowledge OF the President, who, IN
fact, never heard Of it until he read 1t in
newspaper. This leaves six; and Of these,
four noid local offices, namely, Geo. w. Dent.
appraiser at San Francisco; James Z. Casey,
Collector at New Orleans; one, brother-ln-
law of Mrs Grant, Peter Casey is Postmaster
at Vicksbusg, Miss; a brother OF u brother-iu-
law of Mrs. Grant, George Il. Johnson, is as
SCISSOR of the Thlrd District OF OHIO, who mar
RED third cousin of the President. Alex.
sharp, connection of Mrs. Grant, was APP.
pointed Marshal of the District OF Columbia,
and SilaS Hudson, a cousin Of the President,
Minister to Guatemala.
AS to the Presidents appointments being
partisan the speaker cited the cases OF Adams
appointed arbitrator to Geneva, and EVars,
who was not his partisan, and Gushing and
Curtis, political opponents a. counsel.
Coukling then spoke of his and his col
leagues early attitude toward the President,
and sand ii had been ntimated that $ natur
address d the President letter alludlnS TO
his own aspirations tor the Presidency, and Of
ferug to withdraw and give tie state OF New
York to him providi an agreeable unior-
standing could be had concerning patron &c.
The senator then referred to the Saratoga
Convention, IN 1870, the di,af,cton of Feuton.
and attribute to him The election Of Hoffman
by q spy ech made IN October, throwing wet.
blanket over the party. lie iDstdnegd
Greeley's letter to Cornell, declining to
take part in the proposed reorganization #
the Republican party IN Now YORK., aud using
these WORDS: ." Had a little torbearauCe and
concession been exercised by the appointing
power at Washingto ton, think TINS mn Int h We
been different" The differences We're the re-
salt of the appointing power. The Senator
said none of Fentons friends had been re-
moved except tor cause. Not SIN postmasters
have been appointed IN the state at the speak
el's instance, while FeDtou secured two hun