The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1872-08-30
National Bank Examiner for Missouri. Kansas,
Iowa, and portion OF Illinois.
Grantism.

Inc term ''Orantism mas acquired
definite meaning in this campaign. II
is the legitimate successor Of "John.
sonism," and arises out of similar
abuses, though il is sustained mainly
by different set OF voters. Ii includes
a great variety of elements, all of which
converge towards one point and end in
one object. viz: Making the Pre,i.
dents will superior TO the judgment of
all statesmen and party leaders, and
superior to the law and the Constitu.
ton. Obviously, nothing can be more
hostile to all true Republicanism than
Grantism, if it bears this definition. In
fact, it is simple absolutsm, and, ii not
crushed out by adverse msjorities at
the pole, would bring the whole coun.
try at the feet of this one man, who is
in SO few things great or even q capa-
BILE man. Yet it is simply astounding
to see thousands of selfstyled Kepubli.
cans sustaining every blunder, and
brazenly denying every act of turpitude,
that can be nailed to the door of Grant,
or charged to the account OF office
holders for whom he is responsible
The evasive style in which these wor.
shippers Of Grant defend him shows that
no argument penetrates their under.
standings. They may be capable OF
reasoning on other points, but on this
thew do not pretend to be-. Expose,
specifically, the illegal acts, frauds, or
| blunders of each Department; the pay.
ment by Boutwell, Of Sl,900,00O more
than an act OF Congress authorized, to
the Syndicate the payment by Bout
we'll of $4,000 without any authority
by Congress for "Rebel archives" to use
for campaign purposes the payment
by Boutwell, of $23O,000 in one year to
run single court in North Carolina
which has usually been run for $1,000,
the difference being for campaign ex-
penses the sale by Secretaries Robson
and Belknap of Government arms to
agents of the French Government,
knowing them to be such, for which
Gen. Sherman was recently rebuffed by
the Emperor of Germany, whose Aid
informed him that the Emperor could
grant no courtesies to the highest mill.
tary representative of our Government
because of those sales the payment by
Secretary Robson of $4,000 out of the
Treasury to the Secors FIVE years after
Congress had settled and paid their
claims in full the attempted corrupt
payment OF the Chorpenning claim by
Postmaster General Creswell TO one Of
Chorpenning's attorneys, which a Re.
publican Congress unanimously con-
demned as corrupt, and forbade its pay.
ment; the indecent appointment OF
various persons, mostly incompetent, to
office after Grant had received from
these persons valuable presents; the re-
tention of Leet and Stocking in the
General Order business in New York
after one hundred New York merchants
had denounced them as extortionists
and petitioned for their removal the
retention of Casey after he had been
exposed and condemned by Repub-
lican Committee of Congress; and a
score of other instances of misgovern.
ment, many Of them rank with the
manifest odor of corruption,-andt the
reply of these self-styled Republicans is
a ieering OUTLAW of laughter, with the
high toned comment that 1.-THE only
parties who are dissatisfied with the
corruptions of the Administration are
those who could not get their share Of
the plumber" and that, "If there are
any fools who would not take presents,
they would like to know who they are"
He who provideth not for his own
household is worse than an infidel !!
When pointed to tire attempts made by
Grant to coerce the Senate into sus
tanning the San Domingo policy, these
pseudo Republicans find it as impossible
10 comprehend how Senators can have
the right to differ from Grant, as the
French peasantry find it to conceive
why any portion of the people should
vote against the Emperor.
1t the whole people OF America were
of such pusillanimoas race, and could
elect representatives of their type, it
would require no amendment of the
Constitution, nor even the repeal of the
law, nor so much as the issue of a
proclamation, to convert our Republic
into consolidated despotism more au.
tocratic than that of Imperial Rome or
modern Russia. The Senate and House
of Representatives might still meet,
but their meeting or dissolving would
be of no more consequence than the
gathering or departure Of so many
Government clerks. This was actually
the case in Rome for several centuries
after the Caesars had abolished the Re-
public. The forms of the Republic
were kept up, the Senate met, but the
theory Of Cesarism or Grantism para
lyzed their usefulness, and the utter
absence of virtue in the State, or manly
Independence among the people, rem.
dered the Senate as powerless to check
the Caesar as if there had been no
Senate.
Grant, Cameron, Morton e. Co. have
a system of government by patronage,
which is neither Republican nor Demo.
cratic, and is wholly unknown to the