Litchfield enquirer., 1879-12-04
A Reminder.

Looking over an old number of the Chicago Advance, paper which certainly cannot be considered unfavorable to Republication, we
 hit upon Washington letter from which we make the following extract:
 am sorry to be compelled to chronicle one event which does not reflect credit upon the
 President. allude to his nomination of ex- Gov. Shepherd as first of the Commissioners to govern the District of Columbia during the recess. Look at this act in whatever light one can, it still seems to be be utterly indefcnsible.
 Here was a man just legislated out of office by unanimous vote of Congress on charges of
 incOmpetency,-a man of whom joint con- mittec of Congress had unanimously said that he was guilty of extravaganza, favoritism and general ncompetency-and yet the President, who certainly could not know his character and fitness as well as committee which has ! all winter been investigating him, insists up- | oO nominating him again to govern the people of this District It may be well to stand by friends in trouble, but it can hardly be right 1 to force them upon other people if they are un- it for the place The worst of it is that it will
 everywhere be asserted that the President was influenced by the Washington Ring' to go against Congress and the people of this Dls- trict, and against public opinion everywhere. | Great credits due to the Senate for it's cour- age in rejecting Mir. Shepherd so summarly. Not one Senator of reputation and high char acter for integrity was found ready to say a word in favor of the confirmation of the ex- Governor, unless except Mir. Sargent of Cal ifOrnia, who, am sorry to say, has shown a disposition to defend the Board of Works and Gov. Shepherd at all times The vote of the Senate-36 to 6-was a sharp rebuke to the President when one remembers that there is tl,w E., <l,a branch of Congress. -Aduance, July 9, 1874. Such reminder, not from partisan paper,
 but from religlous journal allied with Re- publicanism, cannot but be valuable reading in connection with the 'boom, and the magnifi- cent reception recently given Grant in Chica. go. Speaking of the 'boom," the proposition of
 certain Southern Democrats to come to the as- sistance of Grant with the organization of a Southern party in his interest, seems so strange l that it is difficult to believe it serious. New
 ertheless, in their fear of Blaine, or some ir- reconciable Stalwart like Blaine there are un- occasionally many Southerners who would greatly prefer man formerly so we'll inclined to Democracy, and who is so little of the fa- 1 natic by nature, as Grant. Where they err is h expecting any independent action from him. | in case of Third Term. He would be
 more completely the tool of the machine than
 Blaine, even, unless two years of foreign travel
 has utterly changed his politics and policy.
 We can readily imagine how man who had
 not seen America for year or two might find
 it difficult at first to understand the Stalwart
 revival; but a little association with Stalwarts
 will soon cure that, and then what can South
 ern Democrats hope from such a quarter? As little will the proposition to make him | Captain General move Grant from his ambi-
 bition. Honorable idleness will hardly satis- l fy man who has been for twelve years cen-
 tre of great political activity.
 The Springfield Republican is reminded by
 the Grant bloom" of the old Clay "boom"
 which cost the Whig party the election of
 1SA. The enthusiasm for Clay in those days fairly exceeded the enthusiasm for Grant in
 the past month or two Yet, where allnost
 any other Whig would have succeeded, Clay
 was beaten by the narrowest possible majority,
 by an unknown man. It is not always the people who shout the loudest that cast the
 most votes.