The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-10-13
Grant and DeIanO.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer.

The loving correspondence be-
tween these two high officials is
something rich Of It's sort. The way
that Delano tries to cover up his re-
treat i'm dishonor from the Interior
Department, by a1shower of self
praise and a Haunting parade of his
extraordinary Iabors. is novel as we'll
as refreshing. Why, the fellow has
actually been holding up nearly the
whole fabric of government for the
last ''four years and eight months"
and has been vainly trying ever SO
long to get relief from his great bur-
den! lie very much resembles At
las Of old, who had TO support the
earth on his shoulders, while its un-
grateful inhabitants never once
thought of the great debt which they
owed him. The greatest fear of this
country now is that his experience
will resemble that Of Atlas in an
other respect. On one occasion
Hercules bad some need for other
services by the great world suppor-
ter, and he therefore agreed to take
the world upon his own shoulders
until Atlas could attend it for him.
The latter did the little job, but
when he returned he had no idea of
again bending his shoulders to the
great load that he had supported so
long, and Hercules could not drop
it, for in that event the world would
have been precipitated to utter de-
struction. So, by some artifice
which does not now occur to us, he
induced Atlas to take the place
again only for little while, until lie
could attend to some worldly busi-
ness, promising soon to be back /;
but he never returned. The thing
which this country now has most to
fear is that Grant will decoy Della
no back again and make him resume
his old load.
The most covert, but at the same
time the shalIowest object Of this
correspondence, is the attempt to
conceal the fact that public indig-
nation has compelled Delano to leave
the Cabinet and Grant to accept his
resignation. 1t may all be true that
Delana proposed to resign nearly a
year ago (he ought TO have done so
long before that time), and that
Grant then declined to accept his
resignation. There are very appar-
ent reasons why the resignation
then was not insisted on. But that
does not alter the fact that since
that time charges of a most damag-
ing character have been made against
DelanO by men of his own party.
and many Republicans have been
clamoring for his retirement ''for
the good of the party Had he re-
mained until Congress met, his De-
partment would have been investi-
gated and even if impeachment had
not followed, such damaging revela-
tions would doubtless have been
made as to destroy the last hope of
the Radical party. Therefore it
was tina: DelanO. initiating Williams,
stepped down and OUT to prevent
a Congressional overhauling. and
Grant turned another Escape goat
loose into the wilderness as a pro-
pitiation for the sins of his Admin
istration.
There are very natural reasons,
too, why grant and Delano should
wish to hang together as long as
possible. The heaviest charges
made against Delano were in refer
ence to the management of the In
dian Bureau of his Department, and
the chief agent of that Bureau is
Orville Grant, the Presidents broth
er He has the control of huge con-
tracts for supplying the Indians,
and complaints have been made that
he is making thousands of dollars at
their expense. Is he. too. to go out
with Delano? The President pre-
sumes greatly upon the confidence
and patience Of tie people in think
ing that all that he has to do to pre-
vent an exposure of corruption and
bad administration is to throw some
Jonah overheard every time the
wave Of popular indignation rises
Incomfortably high. and that his
bark will thereafter glide along as
as if no storm had ever
'ent its sails or strained its timbers.
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