The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1872-04-04
GENERAL GRANT.

number of men holding seats in the
United States Senate and belonging to
the Republican party are hostile to the
re election ofGeneral Grant-that nine
teen OF the best Republicans in the
Senate would support almost any
other man who could be named as
nominee of their party for the pre>i-
dencv rather than the present incum-
bent. These Senators are representa-
tives of fourteen different States, five
of which are south of Mason and Dix
on's line. and are all staunch Repub-
Leans. Among the more prominent
are Fenton, Terry, of Connecticut;
Hampshire (than whom there is not a
man of finer culture, or better reputa-
ton for integrity, in II a body /;
Sprauge, Of Rhode Island, and Upton,
of Nebraska. InaSinuch as all the
patronage of the administration waS
used in the late election in California
to defeat Sargent, ii might be strongly
surmised that he would feel under no
weightv obligation to support Grant;
and the same may be said with refer
euce to Allison. of Iowa, who had a
like influence used against him last
wear. Oh course we do not know that
these men are anti Grant, but in view
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be supposed To regard his renomina-
ton with especial tavor.
Now what does this wide spread dis
affection show? We regard it a. prov
ing thai a large portion oftht integrity
and ability of the Republican party
have become Disguised with the cor
ruption of Grant and his relatives. and
are looking about for some method TO
get rid of the incubus which he has
fastened upon the people OF the coun
try, are determined that the system
of plumber which has been encouraged
during the past fou years shall be
broken up, and that the offices of the
Government shall he purged once
more of their accumulated filth. 1t is
an Herculean task-the cleaning of the
Auuean stables We're nothing in COM
pari>On. Ofcourse this new movement
i opposed by those who have not Yet
made enough from their offices; those
whose hands are yet covered with the
muck of bribery, and those who have
still unfinished job,t to perform. From
these IN up "A wall, like the howl
of a sore headed canine. They Cry
out, ''the party will be defeated"
The Democrats will be once more
then We shall be out in the cold"
No true man, of any political party,
can desire a continuance of the abuses
of the PAST -four years, and every hon
est citizen will .joyfully accept any
method of remedying the evil. Some
of the trucking tools of ~unprincipled
principals i'll this State go about like
their great masters. and denounce a.
unworthy OF calm consideration, or
even of notice, the efforts made by
sumner and Schurz, not to break
down the Republican party, o to de
moralize it. but to expose the abuses
of Grant, his relatives and minionS,
and enCe.vors 10 supplant him by an
honest man within the lines of the
party. They cast off with a contemp-
tuous shrug of the shoulders, the
suggestions of brother Republicans
that. nlayhap ''soinething is rotten in
Denmark" and that there is u bare
possibility that somewhat of wrong
and corruption is being developed by
the investigations the true men of the
party have set on foot. Welook upon
the late utterances and actions of 10Th
the friends and enemies of Grant as
evidencing that there is a greater prin-
ciple, or at leas. policy, i'll contest be
tween them than merely the spoils of
office; that it is something far deeper
seated than the mass of the party is
vet aware of, and that SO far from be
ing merely an effort of the ''outs' to
get in, it will require greater efforts on
The part of the "ins" to convince the
people of the country that they should
not be out.