The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-08-10
THE TWO CANDIDATES FOR PRES.
IDENT.

Lie comparative experience ana
capacity of the two candidates for
President of the United States is
briefly summed up, as follows:
General Grant was educated at
West Point, at the nations expense,
although he graduated not very far
from the foot of his class, and has
never been able to earn over $500 a
year, except when he has been in Of
fee. He undertook at one time to
buy and sell pork fer a living, but
the attempt was a failure-and he
never touched any business with any
better results. Since he has been
President, that branch of his educa-
ton has not received any considerable
attention. He did figure a little in
the ST. Domingo business, and per-
haps learned something by it in the
way of warning-but it is taxing
public credulity beyond the require
ments of even a quack doctor, to PEE
tend that he knowns anything about
the national finances beyond the por-
ton assigned for his salary and per-
quisites, Or that he has anything to
do with determining the financial
policy of the country.
Mr.. Greeley went to New York
without money or friends-all his
worldly goods tied in a handkerchief,
and all his money amounting to but
few dollars. But he carried with
him what was better than either
friends or none, an enlightened
mind, a resolute will, and an amount
of courage which no encouragement
could overcome. He went to work
and built up one of the greatest
newspapers in the world. He
achieved wonderful financial sue
cess, in a business requiring sound
judgment and a clear head beyond
that of almost any other Lind of
terprise. If the world had waited
for General Grant to accomplish
what Mr.. Greeley has, Jobs endur-
ance would have been outlawed as a
test of patience.
The difference in the men is, that
while Grant has been passiyely car
RED into a high position by circum-
stances, Greeley has conquered cir
eumstances, and made his position
fer himself. Now, in the light CT
these facts, we ask the reader to
of the two men he would en-
any business of lis own-t to
Greeley, who has succeeded in what
he has undertaken beyond almost
any other man living, or to Grant
who never earned anything out of
the public service, and who found
his level in civil life, and as a bust
ness man, in the lofty and response
BILE position of porter in a leather
store at 5000 per annum?-aDd
whose ambition aspired to nc higher
or more intellectual employment. To
be sure, it is to be said to his credit
that he thus showed a more Just APP
probation of his own capacity than
did those who engineered his election
to the Presidency. For what he &C.
complished as a military commander
we give him full credit, without be-
ing particular to charge up against
him the fearful cost of his victories
in human life-and for his services in
that capacity he has been abundant.
ly paid in the honors which chivalric
men value above all price, and in
money which sordid men, like him,
appreciate beyond all things else
but in the name of common sense do
not ask us to believe that he knows
anything about business" or that
be pays several millions each month,
out of his own pocket, to reduce the