The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-19
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c. April Is, '76.
FEARFUL RESULT OF GRANTIsM.


FEARFUL RESULT OF GRANTIsM.
We have all become so accustomed
to the vitiated political and social at
mosphere we have been inhaling since
Grant has been at the head of the
government, that we have got to be in-
different to it. This is, perhaps, the
most fearful symptom of the danger
Gus disease which now afflicts the
American body polite. The time
was when an officer of the U. S. Gov
ernlnent could not hold his place q
single day, in the fact of imputation
upon his honesty, unless they were
met and disapproved at once. And no
man, in those days, would have dared
to wantonly and loosely accuse an
official OF corruption. When Andrew
jackson became President, it was dis
covered that Tobias Watkins, 3rd
Auditor of the Treasurer for many
years, had, by a systematic alteration
of accounts, succeeded in embezzeling
$4,000 of Government money. He
was at once arrested and sent to prison
ike amy other man accused oftelOny. In
stead of the power of the Government
being used to defend him, it was used
to convict him. To this mode of deal
ing with official criminals we must
return. 1t is becoming more certain,
every day, that the next Presidential
contest will be fought solely on the
issue of an honest Administration, and
that the party which neglects to nOmi-
nate a man Enthusiastically Unidentified
with Administrative Reform will be
defeated. Nor can any man be elect
ed who fails to carry the States of
Connecticut, New York and New
Jersey. All over the country, the
democrats are discussing these ques-
tons with reference to their bearing
on the presidential nomination, with
great seriousness; involving, as they
(the questions) do, the abandonment
of all sectional differences in order to
attain access.
GRANT ON THE RAGGED EDGE.
The Washington organ of the White
House Ring, the National Republican,
is very much disguised at the disclos.
ures made by Col. Whitley, implica
ting Gen. Babcock in the safe bur.
glary plot, by which an innocent man
was to have been sent to State Prison
and coolly remarks, this morning, thai
the investigations now going on are
"tiresome and monotonous." 1t is t.
be hoped they will become more anG
more so for the scoundrels whom the
Republican defends, until the investi
cations get to be "really unbearable
you konw." Grant is on the"raggeC
edge" now. These things are gettin.
a little too close; and it is rumoreC
that he begins to fear impeachment
unless he takes steps to clear himsel
from all responsibility for the conduc
of Babcock and Porter. These tw,
distinguished warriors and Statesmen
have literally run the government. 1
is a fact well known here that Gran
is sometimes drunk or Supplied witt
liquor, for days together, and that
OF such times, it has been his habit t
sign papers brought to him by Bal
cock or Porter, without knowing thei
contents, and to issue orders of whicl
he did not know the purport, at tn
I instigation of the above named wor
thies. 1t can be proven that person
: here have been offered, for certai
: sums of money, appointments to va
: rious offices which it was understood
were to be obtained in this way, an
t in this way only, from the President
$ while under the influence of liquor.
e SENATOR MoRToN's WILMINGTON PHI
GRIMAGE.
1t has been published extensivel
, that in compliance with request fror
o the ex-Union soldiers, and loyalist
generally, residing at Wilmington
: North Carolina, Senator Morton hs
) consented to pronounce the CRATIC
: there on decoration day, May 30tl
e This mistatement might as well |
/. corrected at the outset. The invits
4 ton in question came from Gen. ALE
v Rutherford who was recently dismis.
ed from his position as Third AuditC