The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-26
soup Societies ana the Presidency

Soup Societies and the Presidency.
FfOn ne Tribune.
The Union Republican General Committee
Of this city is composed Of number of gentle-
men who left the Republican party because
they were not allowed to remain in 1t. They
are forlorn hope of the Democracy. and fight
under false colors. These gentlemen having
been beaten at every election, probably would
have already disbanded their meagre forces
had il not been for Mr.. Thurlow Weed, whose
extraordinary imagination conceived the highly
original plan of nominating General Grant for
the Presidency. The Committee jumped at
the suggestion; 1t met II nominated the Gene
raj, and its members are now quarrelling as to
who shall be the Secretrry Of State, and whe
shall name the New York appointments in
1869. Mr. Weed has several hundred friends
to whom he has half promised the Collector
ship, and they are all quarrelIing. Each of
these Collectors in future has promised or sold
the Custom House offices to host Of famish-
ing applicants, and they are all quarrelling. III
taot by this time everybody connected with
the nomination is in fearful condition of
rivalry with everybody else-except General
Grant himself, who, unalarmed by this sudden
attack upon his reputation, is enjoying the
sea breeze at Long Branch. = Fl.
Of course, nobody thinks a nomination by
the Union Republican Committee of the least
intrinsic Importance. This Committee is a
soup Society, differing from others in this
respect, that it does not give soup but asks
1or IT. Every member now presents his ladle
to General Grant, and will remain in an atti-
tude OF eagerness and hunger which is
piteous to behold. Such nomination has
not much national influence; the hack-drivers
might as well pass resolutions of thanks to
George Washington for his services in the
Revolution, or a committee representing the
pie-sellers declare their entire confidence in
the correctness of the multiplication table.
People would believe that two and two are
four even If the pie-men denied it, and Gene-
raj Grants popularity is not the least in
creased by the fact that the Soup Committee
believes in it. The nomination, therefore,
would not be worth notice were it not for the
taot that it was prompted by Thurlow Weed.
His approval of General Grant is one of those
extraordinary events which need to be looked
into, and that the Committee gave ''three
enthusiastic cheers for General Grant and
Thurlow Weed'' should scarcely cause the
hero of Richmond great uneasiness. II is
sinister combination. Shall we next hear of
thres cheers for Abraham Lincoln and Vallan-
dighamY ,elrl ,'t i... Toy !
Dreadful would be the fate of the General
commanding the Armies of the United States
should he fall into the hands of Mr. Weed, as
"Oliver Twist into the clutches of "Fagin
the Jew" We all know what Mr.. Weed will
do with the General if he catches him. Just
as "Fagin'' tried to make ''0liver' thief
Mr.. Weed will seek to turn Grant into one of
those nondescript party leaders who are half
Democratic, half Republican, and wholly de-
testable. He will turn the Generals uniform
inside out; he will array him in blue and grey;
he will make him anew after his own image,
so that we shall have victorious soldier
objecting to the conduct of the war; patriot
whose highest ambition is Office and states
man whose noblest policy is to make the peo-
pie forget that principle is greater than expe
dienoy. General Grant, bound in chains by
his cenqueror will be led through the land as
one of the trophies of the forlorn hope. Mr..
Weed will turn triumphantly to the Demo
Gratis, and say, "Eave we done you no SER
vice, thenH Can you abuse us any longer !
as renegades without influence, and deserters
who can't fght2 See what we have brought |
you ~ The chained lion will be patted on
the head by Vallandigham and embraced by !
Doolittle. Woodward, Of Pennsylvania, will
pare the lions claws, Jesse Bright will pull
his teeth, and Horatio Seymour clap on the /.
muzzle. Having thus secured themselves
from any sudden remorse or insubordination
of the lion, Mr.. Weed will mount his back;
Vallandigham, Tilden, Thomas b. Seymour |
Sunset Cox, Samuel Randall, William b.
Reed, James Brooks, will get up behind and |
with James w. wan OF New Jersey hanging /
to the tail, the whole party will set off
on a trot to Washington. We don't think ,
they would ever reach it; the load would
be too heavy.
We need not say that this nomination is in /
the interest of the Democracy, but if it were
not, we should advise all trading politicians to
let General Grant and all our other great Gene
rails alone. The people don't want to be engi-
neered by ffth-r rate local clubs; want no Grant
or Sheridan or Sherman parties at this day.
In their good time they will settle the Presi-
Dental question, and in the meanwhile are
only amused by the intense admiration of Mr..
Weed and his friends for the virtue of popu-
larity, and their Unsuitable appetite for soup.
Since Lee resigned at Appomattox Courthouse
we have known no such attack ON General |
Grant as this. The forlon hope could offer |
him no greater impertinence than to nOmi-
nate him, for if he has Presidential aspirations,
there is nothing that could do more to lessen
his chances than the support of renegade
Republicans and tools of Democratic wire
pullers. aI.l
Our Diplomacy In the East.