Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-11-12

Tuesday Evening" hOVeAnDer AoSo
THE COMING CANDIDATE.
Grants managers have concluded
that they can take the risk of bring
ing him home right away instead of
sending him on a voyage around the
world. Grant is quite agreeable and
will be back in this country probably
about the first of December. The
idea is that he may be induced to keep
his mouth shut until November, 1880,
which was not to be expected of him
while abroad and surrounded by SO
many ~sovereigns, sprigS and newspaper
men. The latter, some how, managed
to pump more out Of him than there
was in him, and the process was so
exhausting that it was thought safer
to have him under good training in
this country than Topping around
loose in the Old World. 1t is be-
lieved by his managers that
General Grant as the nominee Of
the Republican party would command
the support, not only Of his party, but
of all the hard-money Democrats and
bond-holders Of the country, irrespec-
tive Of party. He could be set up as
the representative of the West, and
some man like Conkling from the East.
This combination, aided by another
appeal to sectional feeling, a vigorous
waving of the old bloody shirt, tOgeth-
or with heavy assessments on govern
ment employees, and a judieious use Of
money in places where it would do the
most good, will undertake to carry
the country. Grant, however, will
not be as tractable and manageable
a candidate this time as former.
". The recognition he has re-
ceived abroad by the sovereigns
Of Europe will only inspire him with
arrogance and greater contempt for the
mon who use him for selfish purposes
Grant is not a fool by a considerable
majority. He has knowledge of hu.
man nature if he is not a statesman
and this training business must b.
very repulsiye TO a man who has com
manded armies and been Pfesidento
the country for eight years. Still h
has a consuming ambition to go bael
into power and to let tn
royal people who have enter
tanned him in Europe kno'
that he is virtually, for tn
time being, every inch a king Me
of his type never relinquish grea
power. A few %soyereigns have add
Gated the throne, but they had pecr
liar reasons. There is a Grant part
in this country, a dangerous, reeklel
party that would sacrifice every col
stitutional safeguard for a temporal
lease of power. Grant had a militia
education and has. military ideas. II
has no conception Of the dignity an
sanctity of civil law. II is a dangero,
thing to place a West Pointer in b
Presidential chair. We know this.
our cost. Butthereis every probabili
that one who has great military pre-
tige, and whose imperial ideas ha
been Aattered and strengthened by
triumphal tour over Europe, will
in the field. The attention viii
General Grant received abroad is gu
misunderstood. 1t was not a conn
ment to our republican institutio
but to the man as the embodim,
and the best representative in
United States Of the idea Of one-n
or kingly power, He was recognii
as the best imitation of a king or {
peror that this country had yet I
duced, and of course was looked u
as a tough plant that would do to {
tivate. Grant takes to this kin
cultivation very well, and accepts
anything valuable that is offered.
has been compared to Caesar \
thrice refused a crown, but this
him gross injustice-he would not
fuse it more than twice. 9l.