Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-11
GRANT.
How u Woman Regards a Third
Term for the Old Regime.


Mrs. Mary Clemmer, the most racy
woman correspondent in Washington,
wiring thence of the third term talk,
says:
who that loves his country, can
hear with indifference the first certain
war cry of the politician marshalling his
clans for his own possible personal tri-
umph for mere mercenary victory? One
must smile at the names that i'll the
first flush of Republican triumph are
bazoned on the triumphal gates as that
OF the possible President Of 1880. They
are such very old acquaintanCes, these
names and their owners. Personally
and as public men We are exceedingly
well acquainted with these gentlemen;
and the people have only to he equally
well acquainted To make it impossible
that any one OF them shall ever be the
President of the United States. To one
perfectly conscious OF what the Grant
administration was, and OF the lingering
odor OF il left i'll the atmosphere, the lit
tie cutlery for Graut which followed the
elections was perfectly natural Sc
quence Ever since he left us, 1t has
been an amusing and yet a forlorn sight
to watch the pilgrims who have come
hither tn pronounce his name with
praise, and prayer and efiusiye prophesy.
Men who fattened on the treasury for
years; men who held place and patro-
mage through his personal favor; men
who love themselves supremacy, who
for the chance Of power are ready to for
get honor and honesty-thcse are the
men who are manWuyerlng Tor Grant.
To them may he added a small company
of poets, orators and drummers, who
adore the soldier, 1.-The captain OF our
armies" who attempt to cover eight
years of terrible fact, ofnational disgrace,
with few flowers of sentiment and he
roic nonsense. Alas our real heroes,
who fought our battles, who preserved
our liberties, are unknown, IN their
graves forgotten. The country Is not so
rich in great names that it can afford to
forget one of them. Let the modern
ULYSSES wander in strange lands, as did
the ULYSSES of old, for twenty years,
fsted by kings, feasted by goddesses; and
il Calypso spies him on the seashorc
grooming for his country may she cry out
IA she did To the first hero: "Why art
thou So eager for thy home? Surely, If
thou knowest all the trouble that awaits
thee thou wouldst not 90, but would
rather dwell with me" Let him live III
the gratitude of his countrymcn as the
stolid general who dragged tens Of thou
sands of brave men To death without
tear. Let him live anywhere but IN the
White House AZ President OF the United
States. We're he the greatest soldier
that ever brought slaughter or victory tn
men, his civil administration-an adj
ministration Of vulgar seliishness, at
cupidity, of plumber. 1t was all this not
because Ulysses Grant was himself dis
honest man; but because, with the same
blind pugnacity that he dragged his
armies on to death and victory, he hung
10 the men who fiattered and won hun
for their own ends-at last To drag ms
administration down to moral defeat,
into utter disgrace.
"The tenacity that never gives up
friend is splendid, if So he 1t Is allied
with the spiritual perception that never
makes friend Of the unworthy, the
iynoble. All who know that, with ms
own Matcrlal bilustiiSSs ~ Voc w.
friends Of Grant who made the shame OF
his administration. Habit been within
the scope OF his nature to have been rs
devoted to good men as he was to bad
ones, tens of thousands OF dollars would
have heen saved to the national treasury,
and many dubious blots tn the national
honor.
.Oi these friends OF Grant.these
parasites of lost power, 80 hungry for the
iicsh-pots of Egypt, so hungry for the
criuging homage, that crceps after othcIal
honor, so eager for the prestige and the
peli OF THEFT lost condition the PEG.
ple beware. Fill your ears withwaX, II
necessary, like the crew of Odysseus;
hut let them be deaf TO the bewildcrlns
tales told of "the great captain IN PRINT
or speech. Never mind il kings do IN
wife him tn dinner, ii queens graciously.
cnndescend to exchange with this son OF
Illinois the compliments OF the day;
that does not make him any more tit to
he the President of your country. Free
your minds from cant, wipe your eyes
of glamour, hold in your heart Of hearts
the ungarnished truth, and he never will
be-"