The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-31

L fof supplies IN VI
the public service, which count up by tens
Of millions, are manipulated by these rings,
each Of which has liz specially, and all com
bine against the Treasury. IL IL now com
monty reported that ring nearest the Pres
idenf, composed of his most intimate per-
sonal friends, like Horace X. Porter, Bah
cock, Boss Shepherd, Rufus Ingalls, and
Others, has made hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars by farming out Offices which Grant
was induced 10 give 10 the payees.
Such are specimen fruits Of Grantism.
The Presidents official fay0rs 10 members
OF his own aud his wife's family early be-
came a. notorious a. his cOmplsisance to-
wards his croDies outside Of that domestic
circle. Brother law Cssey's connection
with the worst phases OF posibellun Missis-
sippi politics. the dominion Of the Dents at
the White House, the monopoly IN l1dian
leadership given to Oryil Grant, the career
Of Cramer a. "A foreign Minister, and worse
than all, the personal complication OF the
President himself with the airocious Black
Friday speculation, Ia which his brother-in-
law Corbn figured along with Fisk and
Gould-the.e but partially illustrate the
baleful influence OF the Grant family upon
our Government and social concerns. The
list Of uensionaries upon the United states
Treasury, related by ties OF blood aud mar
riage 10 Grant, once numbered between
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nepotism was the promotion Of the Presi-
dents eldest son, Fred. (who left West
Point with very moderate honOrs), TO be
Lieutenant- Colonel over the heads OF A score
Of gray haired veterans.
The robbery OF the merchants Of New
York by bonded warehOusemen authorized
directly from Washington; the shameful ex-
postres in connection with the monopoly OF
Leet a. stocking; the case Of Hodge, who
stole half million within hundred yards
OF the White House; the scandals OF the
Freedman's Bureau under the direction OF
Parson- General Howard; the Overbearing
and corrupt career Of the Washington Ring,
and the charges, never successfully refufed,
against the Presidents military secretary,
BabcOck, in connection with the measures
ment Of public works i'm Washington, pro-
long but do not complete the index 10 the
series OF miserable schemes against the
Treasury and public rights in which Grants
intimates have ever since his accession 10 the
Presidency been engaged.
Meigs was exercised from the Quarter
MASTER Generaship that :" Rufe - ingalls,
might be put in. Murphy was set AZ the
head of the New York Custom House for
no other apparent reason than that he might
get rich and be on hand 20 hob-nob With the
President at Long Branch.
These are further fruits OF Gratism-the
fruits Of Government presided over by an
unstocked, uncultiyaied, unreguated mind,
unused TO meditation even upon the great
problems Of civil law and order, regarding
the most exalted public station a. u dis
pensary Of public fayors Instead Of a guard
house over the national welfare.
! So overawng i Grantism, that il has sub
/ dued not only the governments OF States but
/ their courts. and al last II obtained control
over the highest court TO which Americans
can appeal. The subserviency Of United
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\ into notorieiy; the Difference OF Judge Dil-
/ Ion TO every point that could be construed in
Babcock's favor is admitted by lawyers who
have studied his charge; and the packing OF
the Supreme Court by Grant for the plain
purpose Of obtaining from a new majority
OF that tribunal the reversal OF a well-con-
sidercd and righteous decision. Is tower
ing incident Of the country's, or rather the
Republican party's, shame.
Congress, very soOn after Grants inaugu
ration. became the scene Of such legislative
spoliaiions upon the Treasury, and di-
rectly upon the people, as have been wit
messed In no other civilized country. WASH
ington. and the halls of the Capitol, were
crammed with lobbyists who pressed
upon Senator's and members OF the
House alternate arguments and seductions.
The int ,rests at stake were. In some in
stances, so enormous that vast sums were
hazarded TO procure favorable legislation;
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temptations the consciences Of men 81 high
talents and stainless regulations succumbed
along with the weaker cOnsciences Of the
mass OF the majority in power. Brains and
brilliant speeches and the votes that gave
huge subsidies TO powerful corporations
were bought with grcenbacks, bonds and
stocks. For sumptuous and often for scaly
brides men honored by the nation sold them
selves heediessy OF deliberately away. In
the Credit Mobilier investigation the then
Vice President Colfax, the late Vice-Presi-
dent Wilson, Dawes, Kelley, Allison,
Bingham, Patterson, schoheld and Others
were found with the scrip and the magnit-
cent dividends in their possession......
Not department or revenue OF Govern
ment Is free from the curse, the strong in
fiuence Of Grantism. The Republican party
is rotten with 1t. The Republican majority
In the Senate has for years been under H..
One by one the veterans, the earnest, in
domitable men of that party Of whom the
, whole country was reasonably pr0ud--ths
. Sumners, the Trumbulls, the Schurzes-
! have been o-tracized to make way for mere
servile hangers on and whitewashers Of The
white House, including Cameron. Conk-
ling, Morton. Logan, sherman. Edmunds,
and the low Senatorial interlopers from tbs
south. me patronage OF the Government,
distributed through these men, was used
: To aggrandize Grant and to keep the Senate
subseryient TO his will. To-day there l. mol
one OF these Senators who does not looI
more TO Grant than 10 his State for power
and Conkling and Morton, both ambitious
: for the Presidency, are ready % surrender
their dubious chances Of obtaining the mex
Republican nomination for the certainty OF
something sure under Grant, should he b
the favorite candidatc......
Bclknap's downfsll-,hc first throb OF tn
earthquake which l. 10 upset the fabric o
Grantism--may set citizens rejecting upon
| hundred indications Of wrong doing rmde
Grants Administration, rumnrs and asser
tions OF which have passed by their ears un
needed like whiting winds. III the Demo