Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26
The Grant Movement.

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It is announced that Senator Conkling,
of New York, declines to be . candidate
for the Presidency in 1880, unless Gen..
Grants name is withdrawn. This an m ].
nouncement surprises many, for il has
been quite generally understood that
Conking and Blame were both laying
plans. to secure the nomination for Pres
ident, by the next national Republican
convention. But in our opinion neither
Conkling nor Blaine dares ito oppose
Grants nomination. They are d doubtless
aware Of the powerful organization Of
bankers that has been formed to make
Grant the next President of the United
States, and they know that no Republic
can, no matter how influential, can. sue
cessfully resist this powerful compact. J.
The leading Republican newspapers are
falling in line, and now quite generally
favor the nomination of Grant: The ex-
tent of the organization that leads this
movement cannot be determined by out
slders. Doubtless its membership is very
select, and the great mass of politicians
who are joining the Grant movement do
so because forced to by the logic of
events. Every day the line between the
rich and poor in the United States Is
more distinctly drawn. The Grant move
ment is emphatically a movement on the
part of the wealthy to make a so>called
''strong government" The ultimate aim
is to establish mot monarchy, but an ar
istocracy. With Grant IN the Presiden-
tlal chair, the first step toward an aristo-
cratic form Of government will have
been taken, thedrst victory of the money
power will have been gained, which will
result in the gradual disfranchisement of
the workingmen of the United States.
The attentive reader of the current polit~
1cal news of the past two years can hard
ly fail to arrive at this conclusion. First
there were indications Of Grant move
ment, butso insignificant that the Repub-
lican politicians and newspapers general
ly considered it only political joke, and
made sport of it. Gradually it became
apparent that some Of the heaviest capi>
talists in the United States were IN the
movement, and the politicians begun to
treat the 'joke" with more respect.
Grants protracted and expensive Euro
pean tour, the undue and extravagant
homage that was everywhere paid him by
the nobility and royalty, who are ordi>
narily inclined to spit upon representa-
tive of Republican institutions, the fact
that all this expense was paid out of 9TH
er peoples money, the additional fact
that the government of the United States
has offered, and Grant has accepted, the
use Of one of the steamers of the U. S. ma
Wy to convey him around the world, and
that it has been arranged for HIM to re-
turn to the United States few months
previous to the next meeting Of the Re-
publican national convention, and for
the most extravagant demonstrations to
be made on his arrival to excite popular
admiration, these and many other facts
of similar import are too suggestive to
require comment. Hayes, Conkling,
Blaine and other leading Republicans,
are as thoroughly devoted to the inter-
ests of the bankers as Grant is, but they
are not as willing as Grant is to destroy
all opposition by force of arms. They are
accordingly assigned to the position of
second fiddlers for Grant, and Hayes
places the U. s. navy at Grants disposal
to increase the grandeur Of his tour and
impress people with his greatness Conk-
ling lends his open and avowed influence
to the Grant movement; Blaine seeks to
| excite sectional animosity between the
! North and +heSouth, knowing that Sec
| tional issue would pave the way for
Grants succession to the throne. And
now the movement is no longer consid-
cred ':joke." It is now fully devel>
| NoS~ 1SNSAASj OesSh0u Ny eAOoo WHO COu~
troll the Republican party, and in whose
hands the destiny of the Republican par
ty rests. Although there is no possibility
Of Grants election without wholesale corr
ruption, fraud, and the purchase of votes,
and many people quiet their fears on the
ground that he cannot be elected, there
is abundant reason for serious apprehen-
sion. The power of money can hardly
be overestimated. With organization,
discipline, unity ofaction, and money on
one side, and serious lack of all these
things on the other side, the advantage
is certainly on Grants side. We pre-
dict that unless some very important
change IN American politics is developed
in the next eighteen months, Grant will
be the Republican nominee for President,
and that only the most determined and