The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-06-07
CIR NTS POLICY.

designs, the third-term agitation and
the like, call for statement touching
the head of the administration which
may lead some people TO revise their
views Of his CAPABILITIES and character.
President Grant is notable for two pc.
culisrities. He has immense common
sense in dealing with present
emergencies, but he 10 a great measure
lacks foresight. 1t is understood that
in all his battles he never had plan.
He waited until he was face to face
with the enemy, and then his strong
common sense came into play, making
up for his lack of Imagination, indeed
of ability to forecast plan Of action.
1t is so with his administration. He
has no very definite purposes. but when
the time comes to act he generally does
50 with great deal Of wisdom.
| There is one service, or rather dis
service, which the president is doing
for our politics which il would be well
to heed and mark. He distrusts aud
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| of his own or Of the other party.
When he came TO Washington nc be-
came intimate at once with the lead.
ing statesn men Of the country, and why
they should be considered ADLER or bet
ter than other people he never could
understand II will be noticed that 10
all his appointments he studiously ig-
nores the leaders--the men whom the
country has been accustomed to look
up to and honor. If he shows any pref
erence at all it il to those who are con.
fessedly disreputable, and who are held
in the least regard by the people ofthe
country.
Death has been busy, since he come
into power, with the leaders of the ma
ton; but he has managed TO Kill more
than DEATH mean politically, of
course. No man of mark is in his cab
met. His appointments abroad are all
second and third rate men. His can.
didats for chief justice was Williams
aud finally Waite--both before his
time entirely unknown. The obscure
Mr.. Richardson will be succeeded BY
the equally obscure Mr.. Bristow lie
fails to see any special wisdom in the
men who came TO the front in the dis
cussion of the financial question; and
he picks up second or third rate Law
yer, sat- SIZED in his own mind that he
will do as we'll as the pretention:
people who affect to lead public opin
ion.
| II President Grant should wish t
run third time for president he Ger
tainly has done most effective work il
clearing the field Of all adversaries
The way he managed the recent imitation
business was very neat. Morton, But
Tor, Logan apd Carpenter tacitly as
6am'd ha 81 tfG To afT SSs e &c. 'h n gsy
them no sign. The veto was tbun
der'clap out of clear sky, which put
Messrs. Morgan, Logan, and all tn,
Western infationists out of the cues
ton as possible presidential candi,
dates.
The only man of mark to-day in the
Republican party who aspires 10 the
succession is james G.. Blaine. OF
Maine, the speaker of the louise. He
is strong, able, ambitious man; Grant
will know how to make him unavailable
before two years are over. There are,
moreover, those who look with rea
terror upon the future. They say that
even il those statesmen who have been
deeredited by Grant and put in dis
grace before the country-even il they
were bogus, brummagem. political he
roes, the public really revered them,
and is it wise to destroy the gods of the
people? IF the mass of the community
lack reverence for their public men
how is any government feasible? how
will it be possible to enact and enforce
laws? The great statesmen of the re.
public, from Jefferson to Sumner really
had following. They had a place in
the heart of their countrymen. They
may not have been worthy of it, but
the race of statesmen would not have
been possible had men like the present
incumbent occupied the presidential
chair
II would be difficult to-day to name
solitary public man who can compare
in public favor with the very least of
the statesmen who governed the coun.
try previous to the war. Grant is an
epoch making President. We are hv-
ing in changing times. II is well
enough to say that we should have a
new president in 76 but who is there |
that will command the confidence of !
the country? If Grant is not nomina-
ted, it is not impossible that the hearts
Of the people will turn to some other
leaders lead, and then Sher-
man, Sheridan, or Hancock may be
he heroes of the hour.
But | again reassert what ] have
stated before, that President Grant has
lone by his appointments, aud by the
raps lunconcious, II you please he has
aid for catching politicians more to dis
'redit American public men, than
my president the country has ever
mad.