Year: 1872

another thing. There is an under


standing among all Senators tfTat no
person is to be confirmed who is ap-


pointed 10 public Office, without he


has the approval Of the Senators OF
the State for which he is appointed,


who are Of his political party. And


Gen. Grant found that under that


trick and that custom, offices and pat


Tonage were divided I'D and farmed
out through the country, I do not


wonder that he found two gentle
men such as could imagine not from
the State Of Massachusetts,, for Henry


Wilson never sanctioned the trick,
and Charles Sumner had very little
to do with Offices, two jObbing Sen
atOTs, acting and struggling together
10 get an appointment each Of them
for an individual man, who was some
tool of his own. / 40 not wonder, If
Gen. Grant knew some good honest
friend or relation, that he should, IN
der the circumstances, endeavOr TO
appoint him instead. AT any rate,
he was reduced to that alternative
frequently. Why, what can you ex-
pect of the President when the great
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alternative Of Senators COnkling and
Fenton? tell you, fellow-citizens,
Gen. Grant is honestly in favor Of
civil service reform lapplause D; and if
you are in favor of that reform, if
are opposed to this jObbing, take good
care that you don't send Office jObbers
to the Senate or the House of Repre-
sentatives.


Fellow citizens: I have detained
you too long. Mr.. Greeley is a can-
didate for the Presidency as we'll as
Gen. Grant. may say the only one,
for don't suppose Judge Davis cares
if his candidacy is mentioned nOW-a-
days or not, and perhaps Mr.. GrOes-
beck will not care too. But Mr..
Greeley is a candidate, and while we
have often heard of a party in search
of "a candidate, this is the first time, l
believe, we have ever seen a candi-
date in search of q party. 1 do not
mean TO say that l believe Mr.. Gree
ley is formidable, but at present the
organization reminds me good Ceal
of the Scotch chieftain in the ballad,
who went out to war with two and
twenty fighting men and seven and
twenty pipers. Laughter think
the amount Of piping is largely dis
prOpOrtiOned to the fighting force.
But, fellow citizens, We need not de-
ceive ourselves. This contest is a Sc
rious one. It is to be with the old
Democratic party. They may come
and hold up with one hand the Gin
cinnati platform, every particle of
which is taken from the Republican
platform and the Republican party,
and they may assume to hold up and
initiate Greeley, but it is that party
which we have met over and over
again, whose principles, whose ideas,
and purposes we so well understand. Ii
they have abandoned all their party
principles, if they have TO get dis
cOntented Republican editor as their
decOy duck, what is the necessity of
their existence? Why can't they
come over fair and square, be ridden
of this sin, and take = candidate worth
having, and he manly about it, as
will be doing before they get through.
But the practical question which we
have to study, simply comes to this:
To whom are you willing to intrust
the carrying out of four years of Re-
publican principles, the maintenance
of Republican doctrines, the security
of peace abroad, of safety at home, of
the public credit, of the public faith,
of tile protection of the cOlOred race?
To the Democratic party? No. Jap
plause.l