The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-08-01


carefully which of the two will, by his
Presidency, do the most good, and pre-
vent the most harm, and vote for him.
Our objections to Gen. Grant are
largely, but not wholly, on the ground
of taste. We wish he did not smoke
so necessarily. We wish he had q
broader mind, and . larger culture.
We wish he we're more select in bis
associates. Nor when we have said q
few things of this kind, have we said
quite all. There are serious faults with
which we charge him. One Is that of
too much Difference to bad advisers In
appointing some men to office, and too
much inertia, or stubbornness, In not
removing them when such removal
would, as the public think, be for the
public good. The dreadful charge of
.nepotism, on which such changes have
been rung, we regard a. of no real &C
count whatever; since, if his relatives
make good and honest officials, they
may as well fill the vacant places rs
anybody else; and If they do not, 1t is
no worse for him not to turn them out
than it is for him not to turn out Gen.
Buffers relative, whose consulship at
Alexandria has long been stencil In
the nostrils of respectable Americans
travelling in Egypt. and who seems at
last to have gone far enough in his
rascality to necessitate the blow of de-
capitation which ought, In decency,
to have fallen long ago.
But, after all the drawbacks of this
and every other description which are
honestly to be alleged against it, in
the main, there is clearly no denying
that Gen. Grants administration has
been a success. Peace and prosperity
have followed it North and South;
industry has been recuperated; the
debt has been reduced with an ease
and in proportion, the prophecy Of
which would have seemed to be be-
yond belief; taxes have been heavily
lowered; our difficulties with Eng
land have been put In the way Of final
settlement; we have been kept out of
disgraceful and greedy interme1dling
in the quarrel between Spain and
Cuba; and everywhere, and in all
things, we have enjoyed remarkable
degree Of commercial and general
prosperity. We have been o we'll
governed country, and the President,
both for what he has done, and what
lie has refused to do, deserves q large
share Of the credit oft. While it Is
impossible to ignore the fact that with
the experience he has gained, and the
momentum he has, SO to speak, ac-
quired, he would be much more likely
to do well during another four years,
than he was to do so during his first
official term. It is not to be conceived
that he should pass through this can
vass without becoming fully aware i'm
what ways his best friends and strong
est supporters think he has made mis-
takes and incredible that, should he
be reelected, he will not take advan-
tage Of this light, to remodel his
theories, aud reform his practice. We
have no doubt whatever, as the late
editor of the New York Tribune him
self has said within the year-that
good as he has been already, he will
make q much better President during
his second term, than his first.
Turning now to Mr., Greeley, we
have q man who deserves the greatest
respect for the use which he has made
Of his opportunities in life, for GER
tain intellectual vigor, and for some
admirable qualities of heart. As the
founder and foremost man in one Of
the foremost journals of the country,
he is entitled to great praise for much
which he has done, and much which
he has said better than any other
man.
1t is impossible, however, not to feel
that in two qualities, obstinacy and
taciturnity, President Grant has great
~ the advantage of him. Mr.. Greeley
is very fond Of talking, and says a
great many foolish things. While he
SO wofully lacks persistency Of charac-
ter-except in some few directions
that one cannot predict from any data
of his past where he will not be, and
what he viii! not say aud do, to-mOr-
row. Indiscretion in exigencies has
been his besetting sin. He wanted to
let the South secede in peace in the
beginning Of the Rebellion he want
ed to have the North cave in disgrace
when Lee entered Pennsylvania; and
we all remember what an annoyance
to use no harder name-ke made
himself to President Lincoln in his
Niagara" plans for ending our diff
culties, and the other superintendent
sloppings-over Of his ill-regulated al
though honest zeal.
Mr.. Greeley's prominent character
istic seems to be an inordinate self
conceit. He is one Of those men who,
at the shortest notice, and on the most
reasonable terms, would take . con-
tract to do anything, from removing
the North Pole to the Gulf Of Mexico,
to telling an audience Of Bowditches
what he knows about arithmetical cal
Gull and would never have suspicion
but he could carry out the contract to
the satisfaction Of all concerned.
He has itched to be President for
many years, and the Democratic par
ty have scratched him In the right
place. A Binghamton journal pro-
fesses to have seen in sndeniable black
and white, the evidences of corrupt
bargain and sale, as the result Of which
the nominations at Cincinnati and
Baltimore have been made. However
this may be, men who know Mr.. Gree
ley, know that should he now be elect
ed President by Democratic votes, his
past Repubiicanism will have no more
influence over his future official action,