White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1872-02-08
TraH PREsIDENT AND ms AcCU.
SERS. ~.
some Of the Chafges Of Nepettsm
EGectualy Answered.:


EGectuany Answered.
trtvn the New York Ttmesl
A few days asn, the Brsoklyh Eagle bronght 70.
rcther into one article the accusations against
+! Gen Grant, which the San, the Wor!d aud other
papers bitterly opposed TO the President are con-
sta,rtly repeating. The pre1Acnt - defamers-
and il may save Inisconstr,cscn to Asy here that
| IN the remarks We have z make ais'tit fhrin we
| do not in any way refsSta lie Es5te. whieh il
simuly r.perrs charges wthont iDycn .ii,s them
b,V,. =, i,.. t,,..,r evIapkiisfs often that at
last tley prcabIy almost believe in their Justice.
To preyent others fallinginto the same error, We
unfer;.r,k IN reply To tie Eagles article rs soon
| az we hid fine to enquire into tie facts. We
now pruceed Ia do so.
The Eagle says, "Grant went isto Office poor
and j. notoriousiy millionaire already; and he
cannot have made his million out of hi. official
salary. or his legitimate eipts in public ser
si"~' - y 5ne part Of the duty of the President
Of the United States was 10 answer every ques-
tion addressed to him abcut his private circrm-
stance, and empty his pocket book to every visi-
tor To show how much money he had about him.
the dignity Ofthe ofiicewould not be emuchincreased
and, perhaps the people would not consult their
own interests by subjecting their chief officer to
such illusage. The President considers his own
sslfrespect, and we believe he also considers the
wishes of tie people, by never reply to any at
tack made upon him. We have no authority to
speak for hin-but careful inquiries have assured
does not exceed six Thousand tlsilars a year. His
principal property IL his farm of six or seven
hundred acres, hear st. Louis. part of which was
inherited by Mrs. Grant, The .rsrnainder was
bought by Gen. Grant from che other heirs, ont
Of the one h,n,fpa tlIossapds sollars given him by
dent. Onef the cRRges agahst the President
is. that this St. Louis faEGl- was~a present to him.
The rest of the one hundred ti1onsand dollars re-
ferred to was used in paying of the mortgage on
\ L.. e.
Sherman, and in purchasing and furnishing his
house at Long Branch which he is charged with
receiving as a present from Mr.. xnrphy-that
being another Of the numberless fabrications set
afost by the San about the President, and re-
peatsd eagerly by journals spposed to him. Not
dollars Uorth of property kas been presented to
Gen. Grant since he became PFesidext
During the war the President saved something
out of his pay Major General-we are half
ashamed to refer to such matters, but since the
Eagle asks for the facts, it may well have them
all-and with the money SO saved he bought
part interest in some Chicago lots which have
appreciated in value, but hitherto have yielded
no income. He has also bought a small amount
of horse railroad stock, which he still OWNS, and
which paws a moderate dividend. He was given,
while General in the army, house in Philadel-
phia, which be rents for about two thousand dol
lars year.
Another statement of the Eagle is that the S~R
has printed repeatedly, uneontradicted from any
whom Grant has appointed to Office under him.
SELF We hope that the day will come when
honorable journalists will be ashamed to assert
that anything is true of Gen Grant because the
Snm says it is true. The list in question has been
contradicted; it is false in every particular! and
we will print it at the close of this artiee, with
comments which prove it to be false. The Presi
dents relatives who do hold Office chiefly
appointed by his predecessors; was he bound to
turn them out when he came into office himselff
T. if hat nfn flafx hans a
accepts responsible position he is to begin by
thrusting his kinsfolk ont of any office they may
happen to hold, and giving up all the property he
may possess! DO the people expect this!
A third statement is that Gen Grant received
twenty-five Thousand dollars stock in the Seneca
Stone Company, gift and then appointed
Mr.. Cooke, the President of that company, Ter
ritorial Governor of Washington, Thereby en-
hancing the value of the stock of Messrs. Cooke,
Grant & Co." This is total Misrepresentation
of a very simple transaction. Shortly after the
organization of the Seneca Stone Company in
1867. nearly year before Gen. Grant was nOmina-
ted President, he was invited by Mr.. ii. D. Cooke
and Others to take twenty Thousand dollars worth
of stock an Investment He thought well of it,
and surely no one will deny that he was free to
invest his money in any enterprise he chose He
had as much right to use his money al iiig discre
tiOn as any other citizen. He invested ten thous-
aud dollars in the purchase of the stock, and it
has Rerer paid him a cent. He has been anxious
the aecusers would like to buy it! Gov. Cooke
was appointed last February-stock bought in
1867; Cooke appointed 1S71-and that appoint
mept had about as much TO do with Seneca stone
~ it had with. the deposits of the past-tertiary
period.
The charge that President Grant quarrels with
Summer and is friendly with Nye, &C. and that
he absents himself from Washington during sum-
mer, we leave people to form their own opinions
about. The accusation that somebody very near
tn he al in
"gold gambling" affair Of Fisk and Gould, is
utterly refnted by Jay GOuld's own evidence, as
published in the official report of the investiga-
tion, by the FOrty-frst Congress. The President
himself gave orders to sell gold on the infamous
Black Friday"-that order which brought the
conspiracy TO an end. The only man who ever
attempted to drag Gen. Grants name into the
transaction was James Fisk, Jr.,-a notorious
thief and swindler. Is there any respectable man
or woman in this country who would suffer her
or his estimation Of n friends character lowered
by anything James Fisk, Jr., might sayf And
yet the President of the United States must be
condemned by party papers, on the evidence of
a who has committed the worst kind of often
ses asEainst the law, and who to the eternal dis
grace of the Judges who administer that law, is
still reveiling in his stolen wealth. instead of
breaking stone in Sing Sing.
As to the objections to Gen. Grants course on
public affairs, We do not profess to answer them
now, we merely repeat our own opinion, that in
the main his policy is q sound, wise, and benefi-
cial one. A man of purcr private life than Gen.
Grant never occupied the Presidential Chair. Is
it justis it worthy Of the Presidents position,
or of this great natioit--thst he should be called
to account at any moment by every disappointed
Office seeker who chooses to invent new Islander
against mimi We have replied to these charges
because, by constant repetition, they might have
imposed upon credulous minds. The more thor
oughly they are siftcd, the more shamefuly false
malicious they will appear. We believe that the
majority of the people look upon these ealumnies