Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-08-01
General Sherman-A Talk on Poll
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saratoga July 2O) Correspondence Of the New York
Commercial Advortiser.l
General Sherman, all sunburnt and
dusty, and fresh from the plains, got
in unannounced on the late train to-
night. This morning met
the General early, and stroled down
to Congress SpriHg, and then around
the park. He was vivacious and
sparkling as Hathorn water and walk
ed and talked like a boy.
"Been killing a good many Injuns
out West, General 2" asked.
"No; the papers kill more Injuns
than We do. Why, if we killed half
as many Injuns as the Herald does,
we'd be short of Injunsl"
81 see Parker has resigned ?"
eyes; we've had so many dishon-
est Indian Commissioners that Con-
gress resolved to stop the frauds, and
corked up the Indian Bureau so
tight that poor Parker had nothing
to do but now and then sign his
name, and frank envelopes fer the de-
partment."
"They say he is rich ~
"Not n bit of it," said the General,
Indignantly. parker has never
made one cent out of his office. His
record is pure as snow"
"Your friends were little dlsap>
pointed when you refused to have
yonr name used Presidentially," |
remarked
mo, not my friends. They want
me to stay where / am. General of
the Army for life is better than Pres
ident for four years. Grant regrets
that he ever left the army now, and
SO do |, except that he has done
good work as President"
"Do you think it policy to elect
Grant again =
"Of course | do. Why not? He
knows the ropes now-he has become
acquainted with the duties-acquaint-
ed with thousands of public men, and
ten thousand good-fOr>nothing White
House bummers who would do moth
ing but harrass a new President for
the first year. He has just got where
he can tell a good man at sight. Hum
bug men always get the best cred
entails every Congressman signs
their recommendation ut sight, and
many of them deceive new Presi-
dent. These party frauds are now
getting pretty much played out, and
Grant is enabled to deal squarely
with true men. Experience and ac-
quaiutance is the stock in trade of
u good President"
"Who will win in 1872"
"Therc is no question in my mind"
said the General, enthusiastically.
''I'll bet on Grant against the field
two to one"
"Who will run against him ?"
"There won't anybody run but,
not being a politician, | can't guess
for a moment who will be nominat>
ed"
Hancock ?"
"Well, be may be tempted to run.
Hancock, you know, dislikes Grant
personally, and it would be an i'm
mense triumph for him to get where
he could rank him. Grant never
shows any dislike to Hancock. He
went more than half way to concili-
ate him a year ago; but there is a
clique in Washington, social clique,
which manipulates Hancock, and
keeps up the feud. Women have
more to do with it than men,"
"What do you think of the Ku-
Klux bill?"
Good bill, sir 1t has already
stopped a good many outrages. The
fact that the President has power to
send troops into any state to quell
disturbances, in itself, is enough to
brighten the disturbers of the public
peace"
But John Quincy Adams says
the bill is an absolute surrender of
the principle of free government
placing in the Presidents hands the
power, through that and the "EIec-
ton Bill, " to raise himself to the EN-
pre-"
Cali stuff How ridiculous to
talk about a man raising himself to
the empire in this country Such a
man, after declaring for the empire,
might hold regiment of soldiers in
the White House yard for just one
day, and then the people would put
him in the Potomac River. Why,
they shut up Napoleon at Strasbourg,
and ducked him in the sea at Bou-
logne, for just such nonsense"
"But in '52 he did ride to the top,
after all I"
ayes, but France was not compos-
cd of states-sovereign states, as far
as each state controlling its own
troops-and every governor, Demo-
cratic and Republican, watching jeal-
ously his own state militia. We are
not France. Let some crazy Presi-
dent declare himself emperor, and in
trench himself in the White House
yard with the whole regular army
about $4,000 fighting men-around
him, and how long would it take
Governors Hoffman, Jewett, Ran>
dolph, Geary, and the rest, to sur
round and capture the whole con-
Germ p? No, sir said tho General,
indignantly when a President de-
Glars imperialism, every governor
will have to be in the mess, too, and
when that shall be the case, the coun-
try will be too rotten to be worth
preserving"
adams calls the Ku-Klux bill
Grants negro policy" | remarked.
"All humbug again 1t is simply
law making it possible TO arrest and
dispense unlawful gangs of rascals,
black or white, in any of the South
ern states-to imprison them and try
and punish them. Grant don't have |
any negro, nor German, nor Irish
policy. His policy is to protect all
citizens remain at peace, economic.
and try and pay the debt. All this
etuff and talk abont ip,nerioEspo &,