The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-10-14
While president of the United States,


General Grant Was partisan of the
worst type. His administration was
conducted solely with view to strength
ening the party which gave him office,
and this by means of abusing the powers
delegated to him 10y virtue of his cffoe.
The election from state capitals OF the
legally elected legislature by the army of
the United States, and the induction TO
Office by the same agency. of the persons
who were rejected by the people, are
fresh in the minds of the people. The
army was used III southern states to aid
carpet baggers in despoiiing the people.
The army was concentrated at Washing
ton to intimidate the people and prevent
the Inauguration of a president with a
popular majority of 100000 and ma
jority of presidential electors amounting
to "A. Corruption fourished under the
| fostering care of Grant. Post trader
ships were sold by member of his cab
met and the president, in order to pro-
tect his friend from the penalty which
his thefts merited, forestalled the law by
accepting Belknaps resignation, and
went SO far as to express confidence in
his integrity. The government was be-
ing robbed by lot of whiskey thieves
who were protected from prosecution by
Grants confidential advisers. The gov
eminent lost 50, 1000. 900 by the completely
of United States officials with manufac-
turers of whiskey. So confident did
these men become that they would be
protected in defrauding the government,
that whiskey was sold at price per gall
Ion less than the government tax on the
same. Over 1000, 900 were paid to the
government officers, whose duty it was
to see that the revenue taxes were paid,
to bride them to disregard their duty
and allow whiskey dealers to defraud the
government. A portion of this went
into the pockets of Babcock, the conf
dental secretary of Grant. Assessments
/
those managing the republican campaign
IN the interests of Grant, and the demand
was accompanied by threats that in case
the assessment was not paid, the whiskey
men would be prosecuted for violation of
law. Bristow, who fought the whiskey
thieves, was dismissed from the cabinet
of Grant. Every obstacle was thrown in
the way of the prosecution and those who
were convicted were promptly pardoned
tors bribed the president through pres
ent of $50, 900 to Mrs. Grant, to instruct
Secretary Boutwell, not to sell govern
ment gold, and then the spectators pur-
chased gold, ran the price up, made mil
lions themselves and ruined thousands
of honest business men. Grants family
made $50, 900 by thus making the gov
ernment party to this outrage on the
people. The influence of Grant was
sold by his brother and brothers-in-law
| for hard cash. Thieves piled their trade
with impunity confident of the presidents
favor and pardon when their rascahty
was discovered. Every corrupt ring in
; the country had countenance either di-
! rectly from Grant or from these so near
him that it gives color to the presumption
that he was privy to all. A man SO no
toriously corrupt as this dares to criticise
Hancock, against whose honesty or hon
or not one word has ever been uttered.
Hancock is weak, vain and ambitious
and crazy to be president says this man
whose corrupt administration has been 8
. disgrace to the nation. Compare Han
a cocks manly conduct with that of a mar
, twice elected to the presidency and whose
, greed was not then stated. The example
of all the great men who preceded him
must be disregarded so that he might be
, again honored. The traditions of the
q nation must be outraged SO that his
thirst for holding Office may be gratifed
For days the convention at Chicago was
! protracted solely because Grant was crazy
to be president. Party managers wanted
to force him upon the people and Gran
> like Bark was wilin'. is there anything
t. in the record of General Hancock going
to show an infinitesimal part of the craze
for the presidency which devoured Grant
When he was defeated at Chicago bit
sulked. He ielt as i his craze for thu
presidency should have silenced all OBJ
lection on account of the corruption
which ran rampant during his admins
!, tration, that it should have been suficien
, to annul an unwritten law, deriving fore,
from the practice of century and the
: we'll known wishes of the people. AL
, this should have fallen before the low
greed of an insatiate Office seeker. Han
cock was nominated on the second bal
lot, and this without the work of boss
I AS to vanity; are the utterances of any
man who figured in history, more preg
{ nant with vanity than the reasons giver
I by Grant why he should have accepted
the nomination to the presidency? His
hasty trip around the world, in his OWL
8 estimation, made him the fittest man il
= the country for president. Notably bis
brief stay in Mixico. Could human
vanity go farther than to believe that 6
visit of few weeks to Mexico makes Q
man fully acquainted with the conditions
t of that country and enables him to
4 materially benefit the commerce of the
United Statesl
e Does history furnish parallel for the
/ unmanly and ungenerous criticisms OF
: Grant on brother officer? The Grant
e who visited the south and whose utter
. anees were catholic and conciliatory was