The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-08-07
Presidential speculation.


The New York .Snn believes that
Speaker Blaiu will he the nominee Of
the next Republican convention. lie
has great strength in the party in the
North, while the carpet baggers Of the
South, controlling the secret political
organizations Of that section, are t1r
him.
Gen Grant is still resolved to run
for third term but the discovery
that BIain is sure to beat him in the
Republican convention is believed to
ex plain his unconcealed determination
to veto the Civil Rights bill had it
been passed at the recent session of
/ Con gress. The Sun intimates that
/ Gen. Grant will take advantage of the
! first opportunity to break with the
Republican party, and, as an Jude
pendent or semi Democratic candidate.
gain voters enough from the Democra
oy, in addition to his own personal
following, to make his reelection
probable.
All of which we give as we find it,
and the reader may take it for what
it is worth.
Since putting the foregoing in type,
/ the Atlanta Heraid's account of an
interview with Senator Gordon, of
/ Georgia, has come under our notice
The significance of what Gen. Gordon
says will be better appreciated when
the personal relations between himself
aud President Grant are known. Gen
eral Gordon says: Il am very intimate
Il -
aud he is always very cordial to me-.
Cen, G95d /. then nr9eeeds to
to run again and is apt to do Z;
does net, however, think that Gr
desires u party nomination. at the hands
of the Republicans s; his ambition Is
to run as the peoples candidate, not
as a Democrat or Republican candi-
date, but as a candidate of the Grant
party.
Gen. Gordon thinks moreover-and
this is in conflict with the Suns opiu
ion-that Grant can have the Repub-
lcan nomination if he wants II; in
deed it may turn out that the Repub-
lisans will force the nomination upon
him as the most available man for them.
What about the Democracy? Lis
ten to Gen Gordon's cheering words
81 think the Democracy will have a
certain victory" They will have three
points, either of which will be almost
( irresistible.
Frst-Graut cannot be elected on
/ his financial platform. The most of
people are opposed to the speedy re
turn to the specie payments that he
/ advocates, because they believe It will
/ bring panics ten times worse than the
! one we are just recovering from, and
ruin the country. They all believe in
/ hard money as a fact, aud lore to talk
about it as boast, but they don't be
lieve in wading through ruin aud
bankruptcy TO resumption.
! Second-It would be almost impos
sible for any man 10 enter the White
/ House for third term. The whole
spirit of the Republic is against it. 1t
would be esteemed an audacious grasp
at dictatorship. The people who
revere the Republic and its traditions
/ will rise to put it down.
Third-The corruption and the rot
tenness of the Radical party. 1t can
not s;agger along much longer under
! its load of iniamies The Sanborn
contracts, The Credit MObiler, the
Moiety System, the District of Coldm .
bia jobs, and above all the Carpet bag
scoundrelisms in the Southern States;
all arrayed against the party will kill it.
OF the candidates for the coming
nomination of the Democratic party,
Gen, Gordon thinks Allen O.. Thur
man, of Ohio, at present, by far the
most prominent candidate. Next to
him, Gov Hendricks Of indiana.