The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1876-09-07

theft by his signature. He appointed
famous poker-player q Minister to Eng
land. and kept him there till public opinl'
ion on bo h sides of the Atlantic compel
ed his Withdrawal, on account OF his dls'
graceful connection with the Emma Mine
fraud. He withdrew the custody OF gov
ernment funds from the house OF Bar
ings, who, believe, had held it for gen.
erations, and intrusted them 10 Clews q
Hatch, who have since become bankrupt
as a reward for their partisan services
notwithstanding the warnings that TINS
house was untrustworthy. He defended
the moiety system by which the reve'
nues of the country were farmed out t6
political scullions for the purpose Of Sc
curing the fortunes of some of his favor
ties, " hile Gen. Babcock, who has justly
been branded as sneak-thief by the
press, in the methods employed by him
in securing his acquittal of high crime
isBtill holding his position of Chief Of
Engineers and Commissioner of Public
Buildings and Grounds. But surely
need not extend this itemized arraign'
ment of Grantism any further. Let me
say, however that by the term Grantlsm
| mean Republicanism under Grant, and
in full cooperation with him. The par
ty unanimously indorsed him four years
ago when all intelligent men knew him
and his evil tendencies almost as well as
they knew him to-day. In all the State
State conventions of the party, North and
South, East and West, through all these
seven and half years of misrule and
prohigacy, his administration has been
increasingly Endorsed and lauded: Our
State convention of last February declar-
ed that ''the administration of President
Grant commands our fullest confidence
and appreciation, and that we especially
commend him for the example he VIII.
leave to his successors, of removing from
Office those of his own appointment,
whenever he has found them to be un-
faithful; and of causing those who are
proved to be dishonest to be 30 prcsecu-
ted that no guilty man should escape"
AS if to emphasize this, and make its
moral significance perfectly clear, the
convention fulsomely eulOgized Senator
Morton, and believe unanimously re-
commended his nomination for the Pres
idency. The Cincinnati convention
brought down the record still later, and
declared that president Grant deserves
the continued and hearty gratitude Of
the American people for his patriotism
and his immense services in war and in
peace" And Gen. Hayes a. month later
says, "the resolutions are in accord with
nv views" The manifest truth is that
the President and his party are inseper-
able. Their union is unmistakably SIAM
ese. The party clings to him as a dying
man clings to life. The Cincinnati in
dorsement of Grant was after the expo
sure of the whisky rings, and the aCcep-
tance of Belknap's resignation; after the
trial of Babcock, and the shameful inter-
ference in his behalf; after the disgrace
ful conduct of Robeson and Delano, and
the disagreement of the President and
Bristow. The tarty found nothing to
condemn in the later misdeeds of the
Administration and remembered moth
ing amiss in its earlier record. 1t had no
fault to find with the ostracism of Sum-
ner and the appointment of Cramer and
Casey and Packard, with upsetting the
govern nent of Louisiana through
drunken and corrupt 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 encouraging
the operations of Jayne and Sanborn,
and allowing Oivile Grant to make a
living by the traffic in appointments, and
with greedily taking the increase of one
hundred per cent on the Presidents sal
ary, and his lobbying for the bill allow
ing him to do so, while making his ad-
ministration an asylum for his numerous
and unsavory kindred. Allthis wasmeek-
ly shouldered by the party at CinCin-
natl, which crouched like spaniei at
the feet of the master it had obsequiOus-
ly served for seven years. The melan-
choly truth is, as so admirably stated by
the New York Tribune, that president
Grant has dropped by easy stages to these
depths of shame. He has parenthesized
in history eight years, which will be no.
ted hereafter as the era of personal gov
ernment and the period of greed; eight
years of such official corruption and dis
honesty, such selfshness and shameless
ness, such low aims and base purposes,
such grasping avarice and eager over
reaching, such speculation in official in
formation, such bribery and barter and
sale of Office, and such degradation Of all
things which the nation has held to be
high and holy and worthy an honest
pride, that to day the country hangs its
head and holds its nose and waits for
tLis administration to pass" 1t lies wal
lowing in the ditch, the spectacle of Ma
items, while Senator Norton from his Sc.
rene mount of vision, pronounCes it the
"best and purest the country has ever
had"
GOVERNOR HAYES-WILL HIS NOMINATION
WORK MIRACLES?
But now, gentlemen, having shown by
irresistible proofs that the Liberal move
ment of 1872 was justified by facts and
called for by the times, and that the Re
publican party, instead of retraCing the
steps and recovering its lost estate, has
steadily gravitated farther and farther
from its primal integrity, it may still be
said that the nomination Of Gov. Hayes
will cut the ugly thread of history from
behind it, and launch itgrandly on new
and blessed departure. Believing, as |
do. that the age of miracles has past, l
find myself compelled to reject this view
| am acquainted with Governor Hayes
and believe him to be honest and patri-
otic, and most gladly and cordially would
support him if any Republican could
explain to me how his accidental selec-
ton at Cincinnati can make saints out of
the distinguished sinners who are the re-
cognized leaders and managers of the
party now, as they were four years ago.
II YOU place the hat of an honest man on
the head of rogue, will the roguery in.
stantly depart? Every one has heard
the story of Fortunatus. He had wish
ing hat, which relieved him of the ex-
pense and labor of travelling. By pla-
cling this hat on his head, and wishing
himself at given place, he straightway
found himself there. Who would not
ioin in building monument to the sore
" needed genius who could manufacture
a Presidential hat that would enable
q, --..-e. uoyao hy q ainnla wish IN