The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-09-29
Reasons Why the Republicans Can.
not Nominate Grant-Granfs Char
acferleRs AdYiserS.

Ex-Congressman Julian's Indiana
Radical contains the following:
'"As to General Grant, it will not do
to nominate him for number OF good
reasons, (which the following may be
specified: A large division Of the Re
publican party hold to the old Wing
dogma of one Presidential term, and
believe it utterly corrupting to have a
President employing all his powers
during his first term of office in secur-
ing a second. They believe the Presi-
Dental office, thus abused, becomes unfit
for the same hands for second term.
Every many Republicans are op-
posed, upon principle, to electiug mill
tary chieftains to this high office. They
see much in military life and training
to unfit man, and nothing at all to
qualify him, for civil administration.
"Multitudes of Republicans are out
ragged by Grants shameful official
favoritism for his own kindred, which
has been publicly defended and even
lauded by Senator Morton, who paraded
his disgusting sycophancy in his late
Louisville speech.
Not less offensive to all honorable
instincts has been his open acceptance
of rich presents from men OF wealth,
who have been paid back in lucrative
and honorable positions Nothing
could 60 further to debauch our politics
utterly than such an example from the
chief OF the nation.
His lawless and unconstitutional
acts in the San Domingo affair, and his
organized conspiracy to degrade Charles
Sumner and put Simon Cameron in his
Official place, is very far from the least
Of the reasons for not renomlnatlng
him, if success is desired; to which
might be added his exploits in the late
'Gatling-gun Convention in Louisiana.
And finally, if a man is to be known
by the company he keeps, Grant would
have to be condemned under this rule,
if no other objection could be urged.
His intimate friends, companions and
advisers are such men as Pomeroy,
whose conscience has long since ceased
to perform Its office, and who has been a
calamity to Kansas; Simon Cameron,
whose political career has illustrated
everv phase of audacity, knavery and
corruption, and whose national reputa-
ton in these particulars is perfectly es-
tablished and unchallenged; and 0. ?.
Morton, whose private character has
been a continued defiance Of decency,
while in public life he has been on
nearly all sides Of every question, from
the beginning of his career to this time
mounting the greenback theory a few
years since, and dismounting the mo-
ment he thought it would not pay;
swinging around the circle with Andy
Johnson in 1865, and swinging back
again when he found the swing went
the wrong way; denouncing Charles
Sumner and the Radicals in his famous
Richmond speech, and the next year
eating his own words and impudently
taking the highest seat in the Radical
synagogue, while evincing in his whole
public career total lack Of any honest
intuition or any heartfelt sympathy for
the truth as a thing to be priced and
maintained for its own sake. These
men are enough to damn a better man
than Grant; and a thoroughly true
man, fit to be President OF the United
States, would not select them as his
most intimate confidential friends and
advisers, and surrender to them the
chief control OF public affairs, committed
to him under the solemnities OF an oath.
These objections to General Grant,
to say nothing of others, will defeat his
election if nominated. They would
have far less weight il parties, instead
of tending to disintegratlon, were COM
pactly organized on living and clearly
defined issues; and they might be en-
tirely overborne in the presence Of
great National danger, summonlnS the
patriotism of the country to its rescue.
No such danger is now manifest. We
are not dealing with the past. Bygones
have had their day, and we are now
called on to act in the living present.
JUNIUs.'