Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-25

Justify the opinion entertained of him by those
who placed him in office. He found some
obstacles, and find one thing in Mr.. Summers
speech 70 which want to allude. He SAYS that
among the despotic intentions manifested by
Gen. Grant was the fact that at the beginning OF
his term of office he asked congress to repeal the
tenure-ofoffice act.
That act was a war measure, got up TO tie the
hands of Andrew johnson in his departure
from the republican party and his principles,
and when it was thought necessary 10 save the
country Now the greatest trouble President
Grant has had, in my Judgment, has been the
inheritance from the johnson administration,
and the greatest danger to the institutions OF
our country and the just distribution of the
powers of the government is in his inheritance
from the Johnson administration, and that is,
that the senate of the United States for about
three years thought itself to be, and for a good
deal Of the time practically was, the entire gov
eminent. 1t is not in human nature TO give up
power Then there is another thing. There
is an understanding among all senators that no
person is TO be confirmed who is appointed to
public office without he has the approval of the
senator's of the state for which he is appointed,
who are of his political party. And Gen. Grant
found that, under that trick and that custom,
Office and patronage were divided up and farmed
Outlthrongh the country. | do not wonder
that he found two gentlemen such as could
imagine, mot from the state of Massachusetts,
;
and Charles Sumner had very little to do with
offices,) two jObbing senators acting and strug-
Cling together 10 get an appointment each of
them for an individual man, who was some
tool of his own. do not wonder, if Gen. Grant
was acquainted with some good honest friend or
relation, that he should, under the crcum-
stances, endeavor TO Q Ooint him instead AT
any rate, he was reduced to that alternative fire.
quently. Why, what can you expect of the
president when the great CITY of New York is
giving him the alternative of Senators COnklng
and FentOn? ! tell you fellow citizens, Gen.
Grant is honestly in favor of civil service re-
form (applause;) and if you are in favor of that
reform, if you are opposed to this iobbing, take
good care that you don't send office.jObbcrS to
the senate or the house of representatives.
Felow-citizens: have detained you too long
Mr.. Greeley is a candidate for the presidency as
well as Gen. Grant. | may say the only one,
for don't suppose Judge Davis cares if his
candidacy is mentioned nowadays or not, and
perhaps Mr.. Groesbeck will not care, too. But
Mr.. Greeley is candidate, and while we have
often heard of party in search of a candidate,
this is the first time, believe, we have ever
heard of candidate in search of party. do
not mean TO say that | believe Mr. Greeley is
formidable, but at present the organization re-
minds me good deal of the Scotch chieftain in
the ballad, who went out to war with two and
twenty fighting men and seven and twenty
pipers. Naughter.) l think the amount of
piping is largely disproportoned to the fighting
force. But, fellow. citizens, we need not deceive
ourselves. This contest is to be serious one.
1t is to be with the old democratic party. They
may come and hold up with one hand tn e Gin
cinnati platform, every particle Of which is
taken from the republican platform and the re-
publican party, and they may assume to hold
up and initiate Mr.. Greeley, but it is that party
which we have met over and over again, whose
principles, whose ideas, whose purposes we so
well understand. IL they have abandoned all
their party principles, if they have to get dis
contented republican editor as their decoy duck,
what is the necessity of their existence? Why
can't they come over fair and square, be ridden
of this sin, and take candidate worth having,
and be manly about it, as some OF the manifest
of them l think will be doing before they get
through. But the practical question which we
have to study simply comes to this: To whom
are you willing to entrust the carrying out of
four years of republican principles, the main
tenance of republican doctrines, the security of
peace abroad, of safety at home, of the public
credit, of the public faith, of the protection of
the coored race? To the democratic party?
No. (Applause.)