The sun., 1873-06-24
Going Back on Grant.

Going Back on Grant.
To put it mildly the GRANr Republicans
are an amusing party. They carried the
country last fall bv immense maioritlcs.
II was fair to presume that in the Congress
of the following winter we should have a
forcshadowing of he policy which was to
control GRANTS Administration during its
second term.
Congress met i'm December. The Grant
ties were largely i'm the ascendant in both
Houses. What did they present to the
people rs specimens of the sort of measures
which are to prevail during the coming
four years? For only three things will the
second session of the Forty Con-
grcss he hereafter remembered, and for
those it will be remembered long after
the Republican party has ceased to exist
We refer. OF course, to the wlutcwashing
of the Credit Moblier frauds and pcrjurics,
TO the uphdldlng of the kELLoGd-CAsEN
usurpation~ ana corruptiou~ in Louisiana,
and To the passage of the hack-pay steal
and prospective salary grab bill. A CEN
tury and II half hence the names of the
men who figured in this Congress and rIe
name of the man at the other end of the
10
be preserved from Oblivion 10y their con-
ucction with these three infamous meas
urcs. lust us the names of the Chancellor
Of the EXchcqucr ana the members of
Parliament who took brides IN the great
South Sea swiudlc at the early part of the
last century are familiar to the present
generation.
one would have supposed that these car
diual measures, which were hung out as
signs at the very eve of GRANTS second
term, would be hailed as the guiding stars
of the party, at least through the first
year. Not at all! SO unpopular are they,
So inexcusable, so intriusicolly dishonest
and outrageous, that not only the rank
and file of the party are beginning To re-
pudiatc them. but even many of its lead
crs, including some of the very men who
supported these measures in Congress, are
turning their backs ON thcm-elvc> and eat
ing their own oIal by dencuncing them.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice
pays to virtue. The first symptom that the
Republican pharisccs were about to step
up to the bar OF public opinion and settle
cropped out AT the nominating Convention
Of the state which GARFIELD and BfNd-
HAM di,giaccd in the last Congress. and in
which SHERMAN is a judge. The Ohio Re-
publicans did not dare 10 put ticket in
the field until they had entered at least II
mild protest against those acts which Will
render that Congress memorable IN his
| tory. But iu so doing they struck n blow
at Gen. GRANr, who cordially approved
the Louisiana usurpatiou and the salary
| grab on the spot, and has since bestowed
! a cert iticate of good character aud "A for
cign mission upon two of the Credit Mobi-
/ licr bribe-takers.
| IN Maine the Pharisccs have been com
! PEELED 10 talk still more explicitly. This
l. BIAE;E's state, ana lie is n candidate for
/ President. At the recent nominating
/ Convention the party was driven to the
necessity of speaking very di>rospcctfullv
/ of the Credit Mobilicr oorrupfio"'' the
| Louisiana usurpations ana the salary
/ steal o"d --iau mn. HALE, the President
/ Of the Convention, who is the special pet of
BLAlNE, after hurting stone al the Credit
! MohllicrS said he was tired and sick of the
oarpet-bag governments, and wound up 10y
dcuounCing the salary swIudle in severe
terms. DINGLEY, the candidate for Gov
eruor echoed HALE, condemned all the
! Credit Mobiljcrs who received stocks and
/ dividends, and demanded the repeal of the
salary law AS soon as Congress convened.
Viewed from party standpoint tli,
will be regarded rs mere clcciiancrriug
CANNON, Il tub to amuse the whale while
the Republicans OF that state ride out the
September gales. The authors of tie
Maine resolutions and speeches know that
the Credit MohilIers have got their diVi-
dendS snug in their pock, Is. that the bnyo-
nets Of the army will continue to regulate
affair, in Louisiana, and that there is no
hope of repeating the salary law while
GEASr gets nm extra twenty-five thousand
| dollar, per year by IT,
But, viewed from the BLAINE STANDPOINT.
| the proceedings M Bangor are highly
| significant Every blow struck at the
1 three measures above specified IL blow
| aimed straight NJ GRANT. This is not only
| tuc III fact, but il was doubtless so intend
| ed by BLAINE, who prompted the action
! of the Convention. He is after GRANT
chair, and means to tip him ont of it if he
can, Aud the signs of the times indicate
that SO soon rs we get well into the next
session of Congress every Republican
aspirant for the Presidency will 20 back on
GRANT just rs BLAINE is doing now.
| The proceedings of the Ohio ana Maine
| Conventions, therefore, not only exhibit
| the Republican party in the ridiculous
aspect Of trying To save It's character by
! turning lis back upon itself, but in the
more serious attitude of aiming TO rid
| itself of GRANT by striking heavy blows
/ straight in his face.
Put Them on the Scavengcr Carts.