The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-01-18
Ii there is a New Election, Grant will
Run


We see class springing up disposed
to look toward new eletion to be held
in November Of this year. Among these
are to be found fewRepublicans, whose
proclivitics are eminently in the direction
Of peace at all hazards, let the party
and the country go where they may. In
order to accomplish such an object it is
proposed to postpone the count. upon
the pretext OF d,bating inCongress such
questions as may arise, and at noon on
the 4 III Of March next find vacancy
in the Presidency, and have it filled by
thePrcsident of theSenate in due course
The present members Of theCabinet can
hold over, with the exception of the
Postmaster General, and all will go love-
ly. The party forces Of the country can
then be put in battle array once more
and proceed to elect President for the
un,xpired term.
Should this be the condition of affairs
the question will soon arise who shall be
candidates of the respective parties =
OF course Mr. Tildcn will be on hand.
We may safely calculate, also, thatHen-
bricks and his Indiana voters Will be in
for it again. But what Of tiff Rapub-
licans, the friends of Hayes and of all
other gentlemen prominently named.
should conclude to have no fcoling with
the Democracy, and proceed to nominate
the ''silent man of the White House?
After an interre"um of year the peo-
pie can again choose Gen. Grant, If they
so desire, merely to fiji a vacancy of
three years. In this course of proceed
ings the cry Of C;esarism will be unavail-
ingly uttered. No one need object to
this except the Democracy Gen. Grant
is a safe man. AM we all know it. He
would be electe by an overwhelming
majority teyocd per adyentlre.-No ION
al Republican.
MILITARY IDLERs.-The number Of
men at present maintained in the stand
ing armies Of civilized nations is not less
than 5000, coo All these are snatch
cd away from useful industries and con-
dcmned to idianess and a vicious life,
while the laboring people are taxed for
their sunnort and for-tha- easilv-arma-
mcnts they require. The annual amount
of the military and naval budgets of
Europe is S593, 963, 800; the loss of la
Dor involved by the withdrawal of SO
many men from productive industry
costs S6G0, S74, AGO; and the interest Of
capital invested in military and naval
establishments amount toSl52, 200, Geo,
This makes a total of more than ST.
400. 600, 600 taken every year from the
people of Christendom for the mainte
nance OF military establishments. But
this is not all; for nearly as many more
men are required to wait upon them in
some form or other. and they. too, become
consumers Of the world supply of fool
The first effect of this is that the inan
ces of nearly all European States are
embarrassed. On the other hand. let
US for moment suppose that, by an
understanding with the great powers,
disarming in the proportion of one half
was effected Immediately more than
,, 500, 600 OF men, from twenty TO
thirty-6ve years of age, constituting the
flower of the population of that age, are
restored to the labors of peace. and at
once an annual saving of S6i0, 900 600
is effected on the toiality of European
bud gets-a sum which in twenty years
would pay off all the European natiolal
debts