Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-07-03
A T. N r FOR GRANT.
II may be all very proper for ssna-
Tor Whytc TO oppose the River.and


II may be all very proper for soma.
tor Whytc TO oppose the River-and
4a.sac -, WIN a the Niser that hol
can. Hc may speak against u, "a
noancc it, vote against il and Induce
others to vote against il Il he can.
But IL is a great pity that he cannot
do that without going into fulsome
cnlogics of Ulysses $. Grant, and the
manner in which he "stuck his sword"
into the kiver.and Harbor Bill. We
have rarely heard from a Democratic
lcadcr-scntiments more undemocratic
than this
al admire Ulysses s. Grant. There
was II heap Of Roman in that man
which inspired the admiration Of every
American. lie was great on the bat
tleield he was great in the White
House, and that character which liken-
cd him to Andrew jackson won upon
the hearts Of the American people, and
be never did a Drawer act than when,
in the summer Of 1876, he took his
sword and stuck ii into the Rivcr-and-
Harbor Bill, and told his officer up
there ut the War Department, Thus
far shalt thou go in the expenditure Of.
public money and no farther"
We say undemocratic, not because
it offers incense TO Grant who was a
Republican, but because there is in il
that worship of one-man power, of the
man on horseback, from which this
country has suffered so much. No
more unfortunate figure OF speech could
be adopted by Mr.. whytc to express
bis admiration OF Grants veto than to
say that "he took his sword and stuck
IL into the River nd-ilarbor Bill"
That Grant carried his Sword" to the
White House that he called his Cabi-
net his AStaf," and carried on the
Government like a military dictator, is
that which made him unjemocratic.
He ordered the troops to South Caro-.
lima, Louisiana and Florida TO control
the elections; be ordered troops TO
Washington and connected the bar
racks with the White House by n mill.
tary telegraph, the better to back up
by force the electoral frauds that
counted in Mr.. Mayes, How Mr..
Wbyte can call this man " great in the
White House" is bard to understand.
1t is true that Grant stuck his sword
into the River.and. Harbor Bill, under
the pretense OF guarding The treasury.
And yet at this same time he was sus-
tanning by all the means in his power
the thieves of the Whisky Ring, the
Indian Ring, the Customhouse Rings,
the Secret Service fund frauds, the Real
Estate Pool, the District Rings, the
Post Traders Rings-rings Of all kinds
that flched money from the people, to
feed a fat and insolent set OF swindlers
who were his bosom friends. The
reason why he stuck bis sword into the
River.and llarbor Bill was because
that appropriation vas not so readily
used to fatten contractors. BY ITS ma
tuic it gives employment to thousands
of poor men who might otherwise be
out of work, and for this Grant cared
nothing. Just as 6e was Indifferent
to the slaughter of bis soldiers who fell
in ill-planned attacks while he smoked
his cigar in the rear just as he was
Indifferent TO the fate Of his Union
prisoners in the South, when he refused
to exchange them for Confederate pris-
oners just so he was Indifferent 10 the
sutierings of the men who were out Of
employment, and for whose benefit in
part the bill was passed. If he had
stuck his sword into the Whisky Rings
or the Indian Rings, or the straw bid
Postal Rings it would have been much
better.
1t is now the general opinion that
Grant will be the Republican nominee
for the Presidency in 1880. The
Democracy will oppose him for thcvery
characteristics that Senator Wbytenow
so much admires. Whent the campaign
begins, the Republican orators will
quote with approval Senator wbyte's
panegyric, that there was a heap Of
Roman" in Grant, and that he was
"great on the battle field and great in
the White House."-Bdlimore Gdsete.