The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-10-04

Was not dismissed from the Cabinet be
cause he was the friend of Bristow, aud
his eo-worker in reform, then the cause
! Of his dismissal Is ihscrutsble. The ap-
pOintment of Tyner as JEWELS successor
naturally enters into the warp and woof
of the same civil service fabric, he be-
ing the facile instrument of Senator Nor
ton, the leader of the Indiana delegation
In the Cincinnati Convention in opposi-
ton TO Bristow, and claiming also the
glory Of having secured the nomination
of General Hayes.
When the nation was grooming under
an enormous burden of debt and taxa
ton, and the Representatives of the people
voted themselves salaries they had never
earned, and doubled the pay of the
President, he personally lobbied for
the measure in both houses of Congress,
and promptly legalizsd the theft by his
signature. He appointed famous po-
ker player as Minister TO England, and
kept him there till public opinion on
both sides of the Atlantic compelled his
withdrawal, on account of his disgrace
full connection with the Emma Mine
fraud. He withdrew the custody of gov
ernment funds from the house of Barings,
who | believe had held it for generations,
and entrusted them to Clews Il Hatch.
who have since become bankrupt, as a
reward for their partisan services, and
in spite OF warnings that this house was
untrustworthy. He defended the moiety
system by which the revenues of the
country were farmed out to political scul-
lions for the purpose of securing the
fortunes of some of his favorites, while
Gen. Bsbcock, who has been Justly
branded by the press as a sneak thief in
the methods employed by him in secur-
ing his aequittal of high crime, is still |
holding his position of Chief of Engineers
and Commissioner of Public Buildings
and Grounds. But surely | need not
extend this itemized arraigHment of
Grantism any farther. Let me say.
however, that by the term Grantism |
mean Republicanism under Grant. and
in full CO operation with him. The par
ty unanimously indorsed him four wears
ago, when all intelligent men knew him
and his evil tendencies almost as well as
they know them to-day. In all the State
conventions of the party, North and
South, East and West, through all these
seven years and half of misrule and
prohigacy, his administration has been
increasingly Endorsed and lauded. Our
State convention of last February de-
clared that the administration Of Gener-
al Grant commands our fullest confidence
and APPROPRIATION, and that we especially
commend him for the example he will
leave to his successors, of removing from
office those of his own appointment when
ever he has found them to be unfaithful,
and of causing those who are proved dis
honest to be 50 prosecuted that no guilty
man should escape" As if to emphasize
this, and make its oral significance per
fectly clear, the convention fulsomely
eulogized Senator Morton, and | believe
unanimously recommended his nomina-
tion for the Presidency. The Cincinnati
convention brought down the record still
later, and declared that president
Grant deserves the continued and hearty
gratitude of the people for his patrios-
ism and immense services in war and in
peace" And General Hayes month
later says: "The resolutions are in ac-
cord with my views" The manifest
truth is that the President and his party
are insepsrable. Their union is unmis-
taxable Siamese. The party cling to
him as a diving man clipgs to life. The
Cincinnati Endorsement of Grant was
after the exposure of the whisky rings
and the acceptance of Belknaps resigna-
ton after the trial of Babcock and the
shameful interference in his behalf; after
the disgraceful conduct of Robson and
Delano and the disagreement of the
President and Bristow. The party found
nothing to condemn in the later misdeeds
of the administration, and remembered
nothing amiss in its earlier record. II
had no fault to find with the ostracism ol
Sumner and the appointment of CrameI
and Casey and Packard with upsetting
the government of Louisiana through 9
: drunken and corrup. Federal Judge, and
dispensing the Legislature of the State
with the bayonet; with backing up Kel
logg and Spencer, and putting Billings
in the place of Durell with encourag
ing the operations of Jayne and Sanborr
: and allowing Orville Grant to make
living by the traffic in appointments
I and with greedily taking the increase o
! one hundred per cent. on the President
l salary, and his lobbying for the bill al
lowing him to do so, while making hi
II administration an asylum for his numer
e Gus and unsavory kindred. Ali this wa
: meekly shouIdered by the party at Cir
t cinnati, which crouched like spaniel a
the feet of the master it had obsequioui
ly served for seven years. The melar
. choly truth is, as so admirably st ted b
e the New York Tribune, that ''PresideI
'f Grant has dropped us by easy stages I
l. these depths of shame. He has parel
,e thesized in history eight years, whic
lie will be marked hereafter as the era
is personal government and the period
is greed eight years of such official co
n ruption and dishonesty, such selfshne
rs and shamelessness, such low aims al
IS base purposes, such grasping avarice ar
u eager overreaching, such speculation
rs official information, such bribery al
ne such barter and sale of office, and SUI
ed degradation>of all things which the 4
Id ton has held to be high and holy and "
e thy an honestpride, thar to-day the coul
Sc try hangs its head and holds its nose al
X waits fo- this administration to pas
ed 1t lies wallowing in the ditch, the spt
y; tacle of nations, while Senator Morto
nd from his serene mount of vision, pl
res nounces it the "best and purest the eou
eW try has ever bad"
De,
IN We saw handsome young lady
Z, no- the streets last Tuesday, with a Den
Lne cratic badge upon her breast, and h;