The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31
GRANTISMi
The Long Arrstg nme mt of tse Ad0ints-
sratton OF the Psst seven Years Ia.
Crimes, Ostrages, 1mmsraIittss and
PubIic A 6ronts.

Especial Correspondence Of the y. Y. world
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE jargon OF
newspapers which explain Belknap In the
interest Of party can not much longer con-
ceal from public apprehension the true dis
ease OF the American body polite from
which Belknap and other official pustules
rose.
The disease IL GRASTIsM.
General Grant, emerging from dissipation
and obseurity in turbulent time, assembled
TO military rank and achieved military sue
cess by grim obstinacy and "a lavish use OF
greenbacks and human lives. IL will one
day be seen that he actually prolonged and
added 10 the cost OF the war for the Union.
| His personal acquaintance was used by dis
honest quartermasters, commissaries OF sub
sistence, contractors, suffers and othe
thieves dependent upon military operations
| for the enormous fortunes they accumulated
At the expense OF the soldiers and the Gov
eminent. The very man whose doom - now
! TO follow that OF the late Secretary OF War
was then in high military position at Grants
side.
His administration as President has been
marked not only by the same stubbornness
and waste that distinguished his part in the
conduct Of the war, but, Of course, by much
greater blunders ara scandals The future
historian, seeing this time in perspective,
will discern In IL the elimination Of the heed
lessness, moral dullDess, widespread igno-
rance Of the true principles OF government,
successful demagoguery, public knavery and
theft, loose legislation and loose handed
rulership, social folly and extravaganza and
general drunken goings-0n. which charac-
terize the end Of the experimental century
| of the Republic.
That elimination, repeat, is GRANTIsM.
Beginning with mistakes Oike the uncon-
stitutionsl appointment Of ". A. Il. Stew
art 10 be Secretary OF the Treasury which
denoted not merely his forgetftllness OF the
rudimentary principles Of government and
Of the provisions OF the organic law which
1 West Point taught him, out also his moral
obtuseness and lack II proper notion OF his
great stewardship, he announced by his
subsequent acts, as plainly a he could have
proclaimed In words: 81 am Grant and this
i my government. have earned this place;
the people have paid me for my services by
putting me In IL; and propose ~ run II 10
suit myself, my family snd NV friends
Declining TO choose his Cabinet from
among men trusted by the party who elect
ed him and whom the opposition could not
have seriously objected 10 see in such high
Office, he gathered about him n heads Of the
executive departments a cabal OF crOnies.
Washhurne, whose services To Grant aud
the Republican party had been considerable,
and whose abilities Though OF the third
CLASSY did not altogether misfit him for the
temporary administration OF the Depart
ment OF state, was the only tolerable person
in the first series OF Grants ministers assist
ed 10 their places by seryile Senate. Re-
moved 10 Paris, he gave place TO a man who
has ,ince been the one prop i'm his executive
household that has by respcciability, UNI
furnished honor, conservatism and patriot
ism rooted back far in the annals Of a
sturdy American family, prevented the
President from being fully recognized as the
Incapable he IL.
The Cabinet selected and maintained by
Gran. has been the worst, and in some re
spects the most ridiculous, known in any
country in modern times. IL has included /:
CresweH, the hero Of the Chorpenning
contract and other jobs;
Williams, the Attorney General from
Oregon, whose use Of the public money in
providing his wife with private landaulet
and misapplication OF the funds OF his de
partment for electioneering uses in the
Southern States compelled the people TO de-
, maud his resignation
DeganO, who was forced TO retire by I'M
refuted charges Of corruption in connection
with the Indian supplies;
BOutreH, the Groton grocer, and as al :
die psted meddler with finance As we read
Of;
Richardson, Boutwell's scandalous sue
cessor, who was rewarded for his compelled
! resignation by an appointment as Judge Oh
the Court Of Claims;
Borie, the good natured old Frenchman.
who found himself too much outof his depth
, and comfort to stick in the Navy Depart
, ment, even To please Grant;
Robeson, who succeeded Borie, and whose
. maladministration OF the navy and navy
yards has occasioned u continued series oi
: ugly charges and constant public discomfort
, Mizzer Chandler, Of Michigan; and
)I BRLKNAP'
The only man OF established character ex-
cept Mr.. Fish who has been appointed by
Grant TO the Cabinet was Cox, of Ohio,
who, early perceiving that the reformns HI
, was disposed 10 start were stoutly and
shamelessly opposed in the very heart Of ths
Administration, resigned In SORROW and dis
gust. Bristow and Pierrepont are still OF
) trial. The ugliest reports are afloat con
| corning the action Of Judge Pierrepont Ia
. respect to the Babcock case. He viii hav,
to dispose clearly ~ the charge OF assisting
the Presidents military secretary In his de
fense before he can be rid In the public nos
trils Of the faint OF Grantism.
, From the Cabinet outward through ever,
Government department the evils OF Grant
ism have made themselves felt.
The wrongs inflicted upon the South; tn
reign OF carpet-bag Governors like Moses
, Holman and Amer; the military supervi
! sion OF fraudulent elections and military pro
lection OF bogus State Legislatures; tn,
A Louisiana outrage; other Federal oppres
, sions. all having the effect to foist upon TIN
: Southern people rulers not OF their choice,
TO send As Southern Senator's and ''Repre
I sentatiyes' TO Washington a set OF schem
ing scoundres and ignoramuses whose cleo
tons were bought, and to heap up burden
Of debt and discomfort upon southern mel
g and women which In the unwhippcd ans
! energetic North would have provoked an
4 other civil war-these are among the fruit