The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-07-24

forts to tarnish the fair fame of his country
| Every dollar he owns came from sources open
| as the day, and every month of his Presidency
| has made him poorer than the month before
and yet the country and Congress are disgraced
| by inuendoes and poisonous hints that vast
wealth has been amassed in the Presidential
office. Had wealth gained in Office been Grant S
| aim lie never would have been President
AS General of the army he stood the foremost
man of all the earth. His pay was for life and
was nearly if not quite as great annually as the
| Presidential salary. In money value and money
making, opportunity as well as in ease and
| freedom, his position then was UNNECESSARILY
better than the Presidency for four or eight
years. We know the Presidency sought him,
and not he the Presidency, but had avarice
been his thought he would have refused the
Presidency and kept the life place of General
The Presidential salary has not lured him.
The Presidency not Sought.
Now we hear of his pretensions and his in
sisting on being a candidate, yet first and last
he never made himself . candidate, and never
to my knowledge has he expressed a wish to
be reelected. So far from it that for more than
year his friends were uneasy with solicitude,
lest he sholhd withdraw absolutely the use of
his name, in place of dividing the Republican
party by seeking denomination. He never
consented to stand a second time till he was as
sured on every hand that the party demanded
him as the only man who could not be beaten,
and my firm conviction Is that had no aspersiOn
gladly be mustered out. ..
San Domingo.
Mr.. Conkling proceeded to review the San
Domingo treaty affair, claiming that the part
acted by the President was that of an honest,
modest man, walking in the path of the con-
stitution and of his predecessors. AS to the So
called removal of Mr.. Sumner from the Senate
Committee on Foreign Relations, he was never
removed at all.
All the Senate Committees are created anew
at the beginning of each session. The Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs in either House must
be composed of men who can and will consult
freely with the President, Secretary of State
and their assistants.
Mr. Summers conduct and language, public
and private, had rendered this impossible, yet
this action of the Senate in managing and ex-
pediting its own business has been made a grave
matter for public consideration and thrust at
the President, who had no more to do with it
than the Senate had to do with deciding how
many vegetables the President has ON his ia
BILE.
The Charge of Nepotism.
Mr.. COnkling next came to the charge of APP
pointing relatives to office, saying that the rue
full reformers themselves will not bear examin-
alton on this point. Mr. Schurz pressed his
brOther-in-law upon the President and obtained
for him lucrative office, and when Mr.. Trum-
bull caused his removal upon statements inn
peaching his fitness Mr. Schurv raved against
the President for removing him. Mr.. Trumbull
seems to have procured the appointments for a
brother-in-law, sons and nephews, and broke it
is said, with the President because he refused
to appoint TrumbulPs son to office. Three
brothers-in-law, nephew and a son in office
did not satisfy Mr. Tipton's liberal inclination,
but he vigorously piled the President to give a
valuable Consulate to another son, and fire.
quently avowed that the refusal was the cause
of his exposition. Mr.. Fenton saw no
objection to giving an adopted son his influence
for an office nor to obtaining it from Tammany
Hall and keeping it all through the exposures
of Tweed and the rest.
Mr.. Sumner, with brother-in-law in office
under Andrew johnson, was inflamed by his re-
moval and did not hesitate to make known his
displeasure. Even Mr.. Greeley did not scruple
to countenance his brother-in- law in obtaining
the most lucrative relationship of internal rev
enue in the United States, nor has he hesitated
to urge appointments clearly unfit on the
ground of intimate terms between himself and
those he urged
Gov. Hoffman in 1867, when Mayor of New
York, appointed his father-in-law Starkweather,
Collector of assessments, and he remained jim
Office till july 1871 receiving as compensation,
$500, S24. Among the worthy and needy pro-
vided for by Starkweather was VIM. M. Tweed,
who received for nothing, $1O1,97S. But if
Gen. Grant has done wrong the crime of others
cannot help him. 1t has been said that he has
fifty relatives, forty relatives, thirty
relatives, and Mr.. Sumner estimates, thirteen
relatives to Office. Since President Grant came
in but nine persons in al connected with him
or his wife in the remotest degree have held po-
litical office under the United States. This !
does not include the son of the President, sent
to West Point long before his father became
President nor does it include his brother-in-
law, Dent, who has long held a commission in
the army by the same tenure under which every |
officer OF the army holds his place.
OF the nine relations or connections in Office.
two were appointed by Andrew johnson, name |
ly, the Presidents father, Postmaster at Coving
mer consul at Leipsic Mr.. Cramer was trans |
ferred from Leipsic to Denmark, by President
Grant, on recommendation of Bisbops Simnson
Jayne, and many other well known persons
Seven instances Of relatives in political Office
remain, and of those, but two were in truth |
and in fact appointed by the President t--
Orlando H. Ross a cousin of the President
holds clerkship under the Third Auditor of
the Treasury. He was soldier in the war
anu al a., uenerll logan procured ms appointment
AZ rno 80 tS Wlthout tne Knowl-
=; bo ~ roaI = 90 th ~ never ieara Oh ~ UNI
VI ". no iedu ~ IN 'ne ne%spapeI Ihis leaves
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pres;Jont I've A. Co. :, ,,,t;,i " T Sno
had the Mission to Gnata%aia hef,'ra Pros;Je,3
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and on his retirement Toya yo,o;n,aa - Ill ~
presented the nome If M Hmdsnn nh" 70 III J,
scribed as an able and ,ccomniiShad maU 10 ~"
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ApPoin'mehts'
AS TO the PRESIDENTS appointments being
partisan, the speaker cited the case of Mr.
Aoams, appointed as arpitrator 10 GENEVA, and
MI. EVSIts, VINO was not ms partisan, and
nlessrs. Oushlmg anu Curts, poiltical opponents,
as couhsei. Inc speaker tnen referred 10 ms
relatloHs Win GOV. MORGAN ana sad they had
Deeii Oh the pes1 accord I'LL the ADVENT OF NOR
NJ GonII;,t. .ho,, .>o,,o &c IL, oo,,o., =.
titude toward the President. and said it had
been intimated that a Senator had addressed
the President letter alIudinp tn his own asn;
rations for the Presidency. and Offering to with
draw and give the State.of New York to him.
provided an agreeable understanding could
pc mad concerning the patronage. The,