Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-11-19

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H.e THE PRESIDENT ELECT. 2g'r@.
Now. that the election is oyer, the quid nuncs
are busily engaged in speculating as to what Gen.
Grant viii do, and what he VII not d.. He is
still however, very reticent and is quietly attend
ing to the routine duties Of his Office. Upon his
return to Washington he positively refused any
public party demonstration, st which the radicals
were taken Ill aback. Not satisfied with one re-
fusal, small ooterie Of radical politicians visited
bis Office With the view Of getting day appointed
IN the future for demonstration and glorifcation.
IN this they as signaily failed as in the previous
instance A letter in the Baltimore Gazette fur
nishes the following account Of the attempt:
"After waiting for GONE time In a small ante
room, word was received by the party to walk up
TO the Generals Office Here he received them
with as much ease and indifference % If they had
been 90 many: orderlies, when Mayor Bowen spoke
Gsnsrai In behalf of the citizens and the Re:
publican organizations Of this city, we have called
to tender our hearty congratulations on the result
Of the recent election, aud to make known to you
their wishes that they be permitted to attest their
feeling Of happiness and joy by . proper public
demonstration welcoming you as the President
elect to the capital Of, the nation. As they were
deprived Of that pleasure on your arrival here BY
! eort of .stfiank movsmeat by which you stole q
u so1o fho hov<o fhof
you will now accede to their request, and name the
time and place for such demonstration that viii be
The General, after i moments pause, replied !:
Gentlemen I am glad to meet you all and re:
ceive your congratulations, but hope you viii
spare me any public demonstration: + Another
long pause, the General standing with his hands
in his pocketsl / like to avoid demonstrations
everywhere, and, with my consent, there will be
none here or elsewhere. ] am always ready to
meet such gentlemen as call at my Office, without
public display or demonstration. This will be much
more agreeable to me, and, Lhope, will be agree.
able to you.,- Mayor Bowen Certainly, General
eral Grant, am not unmindful Of the feeling i1-
tended to be displayed by such demonstrations but
you must take that for Granted. Laughter
The General evidently intended no pun. ..f::
The above is an exact verbatim report Of Gene
raj Grants remarks; and as he is not given to
much speaking, care has been taken by your cor
respondent to place this speech before the country
precisely as it was delivered. Mayor Bowen, SEEM
ingly much disappointed and dissatisfied, took the
General aittle to- one side, and, in an under tone
addressed something to the. General, to which he
declined to reply except by shrug of the should
ers The party then left like the young man who
was told to sell all he had and give it to the poor
wos,fE Eka
neral procession '''r = M 'fasG.r1l UaE -
General Grant, spent the most of his time to-day
at. his Headquarters. Having arisen early in the
morning, one of his first acts was to order the de-
struction Of several bushels Of letters which have
been sent to him here, in relation to Offices, &c,
which had been opened and read by his staff No
record of them was kept and this timely warning
will probablysave the vast amount of importantly
in advance, and indicates determination not to
allow the cares of state to weigh him down prena-
+turely. :,, g..
The Army and Navy Journal which has, through
the campaign, spoken in relation to Grant in an
authoritative tone, discusses bis probable course
now that he Is elected to the Presidency Itrefers
to his candid and dspassionate views regarding the
South set forth in his official report on the situa
ton soon after peace was declared, and to the
terms of surrender which he dictated to Lees ar
my. It then adds: 49, .... ... -.
General Grant, we repeat, is by nature we'll
balanced calm, moderate, conservative man. Such
will he appear as President, and those who con-
template his being either tool or tyrant reckon
without their host. Next we may count on Gen.
Grants administration being Of an exceedingly
practical character This is the essential charac-
ter of his own mind. ~ General Grant, without
making q great noise about it, will aim to make
his administration generally useful by economy, by
honesty, by sound judgment and common sense.
His Cabinet will be selected with a view to rem
der him assistance in this practical way. The
entirely of this sort. The finances and the civil
service will be among the foremost of general po-
litical subjects to receive attention, and we may
safely predict that the great word of the hour the
great feature to strike a observers as soon as Gen.
Grant has been month in power, will be the con-
fdence inspired in people Of all parties and all po-
litical creeds 2t31r ri - '''.'.- -' - - '7-
Grant, as a soldier, understands we'll the bounds
of coordinate and subordinate authority. Con-
gress will not be suffered to encroach upon his pre-
rogatiTes as the Executive, nor he attempt to en-
croach upon Congress as the legislative department
of the Government A soldier Is used both to
what civilians will, for any administrative Office,
from pound-keeper up to President
We shall make bold to predict that he will real.
ize more than any man who has sat in the Chief
Magistrates s chair since Andrew Jackson, the Ex-
ecutive idea which should be the central idea con-
nected with the Presidency"
A Washington telegram to the New York
Herald says: ...'. g.. n...
ga statement made last evening by gentleman
in whom may be placed implicit reliance and who
enjoys excellent opportunities to enable him to
speak intclligently on the subject, may give some
indication of General Grants position in relation
to the Republican party. He states that after the
General was nominated he sat for quite long
time carefully reading and ponderng upon the plat
form adopted by the Convention that he finally
expressed to his confidential friends that he did
not like it, and was in great doubt whether he
would accept the nomination on that platform.
This coming to the ears of certain leaders of the
party they hastened to call upon the General, who
stated to them his objections to the platform. This
intelligence was received with no little consterna-
ton by his visitors, who feared that Grant enter
tanned the intention of declining the nomination.
They at once opened upon him with every con-
ceivable argument they could bring forward to in
duce him to accept, one Of which arguments was
that the platform need not be regarded by him in
50 serious Gght-it was simply an enunciation Of
the general principles of the party, only necessary
TO make up the issues Of the campaign They
urged him to accept at all events and to say moth
ing more about the platform. Many other argu-
ments of similar character were used, it is said
which gave Grant to understand that they wanted
him to accept the nomination, if even il had to be
on platform Of his own adoption -.... .