Arizona citizen., 1872-09-28

Republican any how on national is- sues; so is Oregon. The Germ vote that did so much for Booth here last year, is not going to be nearly so much divided on Grant as some would have it. As to the number of "Lib- eral Republicans on this coast, they simply embody the more disappointed few who did not get post-offices and the ike-and no more. The campaign generally is already so far decided that the question is only as to how great Grants majority will be. l have claimed. all the time that he will have even a majority of States as great as that of Pierce over Scott after the Whig party came on to the Demo- cratic platform and notwithstanding Gen. Scott was the hero of two wars as it were. I contend that the test of the force against Grant was the cleo tions in New Hampshire and Con- necticut last Spring, right in the face of all the trumped up charges against him by Sumner, Schurz & Co. in the Senate. And that the sell-out of Greeley, instead of any further divid- ing the Republican party, only in- tensifed it for stronger fight than ever. The Senate party received its Gettysburg repulse at the time, and although Greeley in the Wilderness of Chappaqua may have seemed a "stumper for time, Grant as usual is coming in on the "all Summer stretch, and his victories always were in the end @ general gobble-the car cass, cannon and commissary of the enemy. But above all these minor considerations, the Republican party is too new to be whipped out by mere personal proclamation. It in- cludes too many young men of the country, schooled in war and thor oughly conversant with the startling ideas to American society which the party has so successfully enforced; and while they have no hatred for the Southern people, they cannot be ex- pected by anybody versed in human affairs, to go back on such an organ ization at this stage of the game just to please such an old partizan haber- dasher as Horace Greeley. There will be a little split in the Republican vote in the Pennsylvania election in October, but that State will give Grant from 25, ,OOO to 30, 900 majority; Ohio, 50, ,OOO; Indiana, 10000; Illinois, 75,OOO; Iowa, 45,OOO; Nebraska, D. 900: Minnesota, 5000; Wisconsin and Michigan, each 15,OOO; New York will give her electoral vote for Grant as for New England, the late elections in Vermont and Maine are indicative of how that section is pointing; as for the Southern States, North Carolina tells you that "the colored troops fight nobly."
 With me the only concern is-What will Grant do next term? He IS a strangely silent and wonderfully suc- cessful mana man above all others since Washington who can "bide his time," no matter what or who may contend against him. There IS much truth in the one-term theory, so far as Presidents trying to re-elect them selves is concerned; but, on the whole, that theory will never obtain Ill the face of the reelection of all the Pres idents we ever had of any note Washington, Jefferson. Jackson, Lin- coin and others. I have had my sus- picions that San Domingo was mere feeler, and that what with the eternal anarchy throughout old Mexico and the very extensive and almost inde- fensible border on the United States, Uncle Sam will very soon realize the utter folly of catting that dogs tail off by inches. but reach ahead at once and slice it off behind the ears as far as the Isthmus of Tehauntepec, wherela railroad would protect us from the rest. A move of this kind will be en- t,rely the best thing for all hands and specially popular on the Pacific Coast. There never will be peace with the Apaches until the United States troops can also be at home Tn Sonora and other Mexican States.
 These little political predictions are my own, and "you pays your money and takes your choice"
 intended saying something about diamonds and precious stones gen. erally, but your space and patience can't stand everything at once.
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