The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-02
n,.a Naxf Presidency.

MI. t,,,c for fixing up tor the campaign
e,r ,,a newt Presidency is too far oil Tor
anv General movement on the subject; yc1
II L. T,,st exactly the favorable opportunity
for tive superserviceable partisans to be the
first to nominate their heroes.
General GRANT has been brought GU.
for denomination by several presses. Du'
II Is evident that q portion Of the kep"pii !,
can party IS not ready to take MN ".u
there arc r,,mors, as our readers are aware,
of movements on the chess-board 10 ac'c"'
him, or, rather, to bring other Iroi','n, ~
men to the front. And we look ior 'h' =.
production of the "singlc term "rS"l.'' NV, n,,
Tha Cincinnati Commercial, one Oh '''>
r,oux Observation-Disclosures and tar-sce,'s ,i IT,,
1890, the Union, as we'll rs ." tho
Republican pzper, boldly oCle' ~ at this
bringing forward Of General "HN ..,,u,atod
.;n,a 90 :. r,npropitious and not 'ai.o" wv
.,,n,,o I. enthusiasm outSiue '"'
" w Stockholders" adding 80 lie HIS
."u. ,.,o;nted expectations in the appoint
- which he has made, and chilled inc
uardor of those who gave him a jealous
:. sunport in 1865 by putting all sorts OF III
CONSEQUENTIAL people into places OF Srea'
responsibility" This is very true. lhe
course of General GRANT, as to inc onceS
has been cnigmatical. He has pleased the
Republican party almost as seldom as he
has that opposed to his Administrators
We confess to have been frequently sra''-
fed with the acts of the President, ana, OF
course. they could hardly be received WITH
satisfaction BY ultra Republicans.
The Commercial objects to Gencral
GRANTS policy as lacking positiycness, ana
hints that he may not be acceptable 10 inc
Presidential Convention indeed, 1t IN erect
declares he will not he renomlnated unless
in the interval between this time and the
assembling of the Convention he retrieVes
the plumbers Of the past.
We suspect that the rumor OF the plot
tings of the Massachusetts .unto is q smoke
that indicates fire. The politicians from
that State have controlled the Government
for ten years, and it is not surprising That
they should feel that it belongs to themy
and that they must now have It's first ONCE
and the whole patronage of the nation at
their command.
But movements from that quarter can
hardly at this time be received with favor.
The day Of power for those politicians has
gone by, and it is likely that they will now
soon be given to understand that no Presi-
dental ticket they can offer will make head
wav against General GRANT. If no stronger
opposition is brought out he will have no
difficulty in securing his nomination for
second term.
There is no installing the signs of dissa-
tisfaction with General GRANT that have ap-
peared in the Republican party. There IS
no enthusiasm now felt for him in any OF the
divisions of that party. There has been little
in the Presidents policy to keep it ccmented
together, and the murmurs of discomfort
and even denunciations of the President
were freely expressed by Radical congress
men during the late session. 1t may he
safely concluded that ct the present time
such has been the effect of General GRANTS
administration of the Government that he
must rely more for reelection upon the
difficulties in the way of 4 combination
against him than upon the hold he has upon
the Republican party.