The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-02-03
s:rcescy on Grant.

Fr".u the New York Tribune.
But we further object to the denomination
Of General Grant that he is nanIlestly 4 weak
candidate, there bsing very many Rcpubli-
cans who will oppose him if renomnatcd.
That il should lie So in this Stale, and in any
other where his heavy hand las been laid
upon one ewing" of the purity which elected
him, is too plain to need proof. There are
hundreds Of active, prominent influential
Republicans who have been expelled from
Office 10y him. o. his instruments, and who
cannot, in the nature Of things, work for his
reflection as they would work for one WHO
had never treated them rs enemies. Who
doubts that il is SO iii other States? Who be
iicycs that lie could carry Louisiana after the
Sailing gnn performances OF last summer,
engineered in part IS the hrothcI-in-law who
loidS TIC best Federal Office i'll that State:
We speak to sensible men, and demand all in
tcl'igcnt Judgment on the Gndouhted facts.
Fouror five years ago the Republicans car
ricd Georgia by majority Of 5000. That
minority has been sqlandcrcd by mcrccnary.
corrupt officials, some Of whom have had the
icccncy 10 run away, and who have ruined
he pariy's prospects almost beyond reucmp-
don. Elit though there is but the skeleton
| of Il party, there is still a State committee ;
and that committee gets together, elects to
| pAladclplli delegation composed mainly of
| lis own members. and pledges them to Grant,
| First. last. and all the time well knowing
| ihat they can 10 mere give him an electoral
| vote from Georgia than they can make him
pour. Contrast this with Connecticut, where
| the Republicans meet in convention, nomi-
nate q state ticket, and choose delegates TO
rhilHdclpha, taking care not to pledge them
to Grant. Can YOU ask wig: They want to
carry their State in April, aud know that the
| way 10 Go il is not to nominate Grant.
| NV look ut the case Of Missouri. The
| St. Louis democrat, having turned its coat
| since 1870. now hclttlcs the liberal move
! lncn1, saying that it is CT 40 account; ar;i
| The times "cuIs IT, o: course. But the men
| who led ttf,t Increment 10 victory were Carl
~r!iGr&. GraiI brown, Grosycnor, SC, and
uut r!lr I'll l.t">c is iuT Grant. On tie con
!r4G}. they are all dead against Him. The
i,3e3 lays they oniy lcd oil twenty-five
| thousand Republicans in 1870. We answer,
rhcv led of enough to carry the State by
| over forty thousand majority. Perhaps
| enough oi these have come back to reverse
| hat verdict; hut we know that there arc
| thousands Of thoa Who would vote for an
uthcr Republican candidate, but will not
yol, Tor General Grant. And there is
scarcely nc,t:':y- ba!anced state in the Union
| wherein General Grant is not weaker c:ill-
ditls1c than almost any other Republican
| who could he nominated.
We state facts well known TO intelligent
politicians. We do not say that General
Grant will not, ii nominated, re elected; we
DO not say that we shall not support him
sc TO say that his nomination renders doubt
iul Republican triumph which, with new
candidate, publicly pledged TO the one-tcrm
principle, would lac morally certain. And
This } 50 palI@blc that intelligent, thought
| lN Republicans, who esteem the cause more
than any man, arc bound to consider it.