Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-06-30
Grant in Galena.
[From the Chicago Times j

When Mr.. Grant was first approached
with the tempting offer of a nomination for
the Presidency, he responded that he did
not want any civil Office; that he did not
know anything about politics. and he did
not expect ever to learn anything about
them; that there was but one office within
the gilt OF the people that he would like;
and, when the war should be over, he in
tended to run for Mayor of Galena, in or.
der to have sidewalk built from his house
to the postoffice! From this it appears that
Mr.. Grant entertained no doubt that the
people OF Galena would elect him to the
office of Mayor, notwithstanding that his
desire of that office was not inspired by
any consideration of the welfare of Galena,
but by the purely selfish motive of having
a particular sidewalk built, for his
personal convenience, at the NUM-
cipal expense. 1t is highly prob
able that Mr.. Grants presumption upon the
political favor of tue Galenaites was in-
duced by his habit. of reading an obscure
Jacobin newspaper concern called the Ga
lena Gdzette, ''the only newspaper" as he
stated on another occasion, that he ever
read" 1t was that newspaper sheet which
first encouraged him to believe that the
Jacobin party was serious in the PROPOSE
tion to use him as its Presidential candi-
date. 1t was the same print, without doubt,
that persuaded him to believe that he could
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other paper, he isolated himself from the
knowledge of facts that would have dis
abused him of that mistaken notion. Ga
lena is the home of U. S. Grant. More than
that, il is the home of Elihu B. Wash
burne. Still more, it is, or was, the
home of j. Russell Jones, "Grant's
relative" who has held a fat Fed
eral office during two Jacobin administra-
tions, and who of course expects to contin-
ue in office under his 'srelative." Being
the home of three such wonderful states
men as Washburne, Grant and Jones, is
enough to excuse any small place like Ga
lena for ever having voted the Jacobin
ticket. An election occurred on Tuesday
last, just eleven days after the nomination
of one of the three great men of Galena for
the Presidency. Astounding as the fact is,
Galena elected the whole Democratic tick
ct, straight. What does it mean. 1t means
that Mr.. Grant was egregiously in error
when he supposed he could be elected
Mayor of Galena. 1t means that Mr.
Grant has been shockingly misinformed by
the only newspaper he ever reads. 1t
means that Galena has poor appreciation
OF her three great men, and their able bod
led party relatives" who want Office. 1t
is to be regretted that Mr.. Grant is to be
kept in ignorance OF the fact and its mean
ing. The only newspaper that Grant
" reads refuses to publish it. The object
is apparent. 1t is desirable that Mr.. Grant
should be kept under the belief that he
could be elected Mayor at Galena, and that
therefore the people of Galena, who best
know him, regard him as fit for even a
higher Office. 1t is desirable to prevent him
from foreseeing, in the judgment of the
people of Galena against his assumed fit
ness for the office of Mayor, what the j judg-
ment of the American people will be con-
cerning his assumed fitness for the office of
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