The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-05-26

the opposing ,s elements and solidify
| the Morton folks into the representatives, of tn.
past policy Of the republican party, be Ger,
taicly stands In q very imposing position. &C
far as welding party power goes. It is the
concurrent testimony Of Washington observ.
srs that the controlling forces Of the DEM
ocratic organization are eager to constitute
Grant the head and front OF q new coalition.
The recent swell mob gathering In New
York is construed as strong fseler in tLis
direction, and those who know most of the
signs and tokens of party management
do net hesitate to sfirm thar the
party that purified itself by the adoption OF
the Cincinnati platform and the candida
ture of Horace Greeley is about to degrade
itself by the support of General Grant, with
all his known incompetency, perversion
and misdoing. Ifany argnment.were needed
to convince the thinking public of the
dangers Of party sway this very probability
would be sufficient to confirm the skeptical.
General Grant is precisely as unfit now as
he was three and seven years sgo
20 be the president OF this republic.
Every action OF his since his re-
election, save one, has, confirmed his
unfitness for the great Office which he has
degraded, and yet, for the ignoble chance OF
success, the men who have most resolutely
opposed him as a co-worker of Morton and
Logan and that class are ready to adopt him
and make him the standard bearer, to
take up the battle where the Greeley cam
paign left. tits Grant, the representative
of the spoils thai these party jugglers want,
not Grant, the embodiment OF q great prin-
ciple. or the exponent of an established
doctrine. The observing Washington
of the Missouri Republican,
having enumerated the chances and grouped
Grants recent coquetries with eminent ex-
of the slave power, adds this
very significant comment:
Grant means a third term. He don't want the
republican organization to be Kept in sine. He
any other man would not amount TO anything, |
lfit should nominate anyo;her; and meanwhile |
he Is industriousiy at work gathering in all the
about loose. That heightened dinner party at |
The Manhattan club the OF her day was exactly /
he undying democracy might nominate him
themselves. Now, 1t strikes me / had heard of I
like this before. have faint recol- |
Blair about seven years ago, in which Grant |
vas pretty roundly endorsed IS the proper man |
or The democi ats to nominate in 1868. Well.that
speech probably cltnched the republican NOM |
nation for Grant the following summer. How /
'ver, this is matter of-history. But history |
ometimes repeats itself a
This is the testimony of Henry Watterson,
nan whose observation is as keen as his
whose most impossible vaticin-
'tions have the singular fortune of pretty |
generally coming to pass. Meantime Oliver
?. Morton is scneming. and you may be
ure he don't mean to let such chances as
he tancies he has slip. He will group the
'aser elements of his party into bsttallions
md make grand Advance, as soon as his
couts have reconnoitered.rhe enemy. Oliver
lever changes his base. as he did recently in
he currency business, without some definite
purpose. Meantime, the Independent
movers, are wedging in between these war
ing forces. l1'f d-o tlt ,ts. ,tsla