The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-08
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN AND PRES
IDENT GRANT.

| Grant has recently had lifted from his Shout
ders most oppressive weight, and he brea hes
freer. His most eloquent and persistent, if
not most formidable, antagonist has formally
abandoned the field, and the track for the
third race over the Presidential course has
, been left open and unobstructed The with
drawal Of the favorite will cause much disap-
pointment and chagrin among his thousands
Of admirers who had bet heavily upon his
coming out winner
We are advised by that most ve.acious aud
reliable journal, the n. Y. Uerald, that George
Francis Train, who is now luxuriating, in
| common with our Presidential Sybarte, in
the pleasures and frivolities of Long Branch
has officially withdrawn his opposition to
Grant and declared that he will not contest
If he should not actively support, his re-elec-
ton. George attributes the present GOODNESS
Of his brain, and the calm content that has
taken the place of his restless ambition to
rule and reform the country to his having en-
tirely given up eating animal food.
This affords most valuable hint to the
multitudinous office-seekers of this city and
State, who are now eating meat and are hun
gering after positions of honor and profit, es-
pecially the latte. If the Train theory is cor
rect, change Of regimen would have a sooth-
ing and subduing influence upon these eager
aspirants, and be of material advantage to the
community at large. If such devoutly to
be wished consummltion could he brought
about, we would 'toss our ready cap in air,
and proclaim George Francis Train to be the
great benefactor Of his race in general, and of
Louisiana in particular.
But Professor Train still clings to the right
of exercising his prerogat:ve as prophet He
makes our hair sta ID on end and our pocket
nerve to vibrate with most unpleasant accel-
Grafton OF motion, by confidently predicting
that between September and November of
the present year there will be a financial panic
throughout the country Of such a magnitude
that those great bugbears Of 1887, 1877, 1857,
1867 and 1873 will sspale their Intellectual
fires" Now, this is downright cruelty in the |
Professor. Not content with ABANDONING the
Presidential candidacy, and thereby assuring
to Grant, beyond the possibility of a doubt,
his reelection for third term, he must add |
% our woes, already too grievous tie be borne.
~ forecasting commercial disaster and ruin ,
The Herald says:
Our financial edice is likcned BY the ey-Presi-
lential candidate to a five story building the
ground story being the first mortgage tie next
he second mortgage, the next the third mort
he no ifa., |
lower and the roof outstanding bills When the
'anc comes 1t must knock away all the structure
Except the ground floor first mortgage, and
his will be immediately destroyed by legislation
)ur property necessarily falls to pieces like
louse built OF cards.
WHAT WE ARE COMING TO-
1t can readily be understood what must follow
ccordinS to the Train philosophy. The great
heatre at which the play Of life is being enacted
. divided into two parts, the reserved orchestra
hairs and the body OF the house. In the select |
lrcle are seated 100000 favored individuals who
re all property and no taxes the ''bloated bond
olders" as Thad Stephens called them III the
ody OF the house are the 40, 600, 900 people who
re no property and all taxes. 1t will not be sur
rising if the crowded audience behind should
reak INTO and overrun the orchestra reserved
ats
All this might have been prevented if the
eople Of the United States had elected George
rancis Train their President instead of ULYSSES
Grant; but they did not do it and must take
le consequences. Five conventions were held a
the last Presidential canvass and the platform T
as specie payments and national banks in some, !
I'd national banks and specie payments in
hers. Vor p0p,ui, with forty million people ;
nped Oh to the convention end of the see-saw. I
ID ror Train, with thousand and twenty t
Sht at the other end went up in the air Grant |
ought up at the White House-George Francis
the Tombs. Hence Mr.. Train has made up :,
$ mind that he will have nothing to do with a
'litics or press, and desires to keep out of =
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