Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-11-18
GRANT IN NEWARK:

The Newark Register, q reliable
newspaper, although of strong Demo,
cratic proclivities, has this much to say
for the President, who is censured for
visiting his aged mother, for one day,
and that day the Sabbath
Considerable private denunciation as
well as some public criticism has been
passed over to the credit of the Presi-
dent and his Secretary of the Navy for
absenting themselves at this time from
the seat of the Government 1t is true
that our affairs in Cuban waters are
just row in precarious situation.
The American flag has been more than
insulted-it has been trampled upon
and the Government which it repre-
sents has been defied. The Spanish
home government has been cast off by
the infamous volunteers, and the re-
sponsibility of none but the butcher
Buriell and his infamous and irrespon-
sible volunteers can be assured. They
are williams all, and war of extermina
ton would be the popular one just now
to wage.
But the critics, public and private,
make mistake. The president and his
secretary do not ride in coach and six.
They travel by lightning express, the
Pullman palace cars attached. They
came here to Newark to view the won
ders of our great exposition. The pre-
sident was here last year, and the won~
ders which he then saw--apart from
that generous hospitality which Newark
so well knows how to dispense-ind
him to come again. If what he saw on
Saturday night may be taken as the
measure of Newark's progress in one
year, his visit has not been in vain. If
the country throughout could show the
same amount, no man would be found
stupid enough to despair of the Repub-
lie.
But there is something else which the
critics forget. New Jersey is the native
state of the secretary of the navy, and
he has filial pride as well as an honor.
able one, in coming back to see the
place of his birth and the new glories
which it has to offer. The president,
too, g are glad to learn, was also in the
performance of filial mission. The
one to whom he owes most in life is
passing the winter in the company Of
some devoted relatives near this city.
The critics, who have mothers, will
scarcely blame him for paying that at.
tention to his mother which tenderness
will always suggest, and which will moi
fail when it is possible to discharge SC
pious duty.
Besides-as we said before-these are
not the days of coaches and Six" We
live in an age of telegraphs. General
Grant was, on Saturday night, nearer tc
Washington at every hour, than was the
first President when he went to pass ,
day at Mt. Vernon. Indeed, Newark Ii
as close to Washington to-day as Alexan
dria was in the days of Hamilton ant
Jay. Men are drawn MS near to eacl
other as was Samuel to the voice of God,
and every day is drawing them nearer.
The President cannot, then, be far from
Washington so long as he keeps near q
telegraph wire, and the critics have been
too fast in their denunciations. He is
doing all, it is hoped, that he can do, in
view of the Cuban business, and what
he has yet to do can be done as well
here in Newark as in Washington.
We are not of those who take much
stock in the President nor yet as much
as we would like in Secretary of the
Navy, but truth and candor, and es-
pecially that reputation for fairness
which the Register would always main
tain, has compelled us to say this much.
If the President, on his return to Wash
ington, will only send his secretary of
state about his business, we will gladly
further excuse the presidential absen 9e
from Washington. If he took the OPP
portunity to ask what Newark thought
Of the recent policy of the state depart
ment, he learned that we are not yet
ready to adopt, as our national fish, the
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