The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-05-31
Do the Democrats want Grant
l for Rresa6enI?

Do the Democrats want Grant
for President?
From Chicago Tribune, May "A.
Ever since the Inauguration OF
President Hayes. there has been
more or less desultory talk of nomi-
mating Gen. Grant as the Republi-
can candidate for 1880. All the
machine politicians opposed to civil
service reform, as well as those
hostile TO his Cancellation policy ;
all the displaced Office holders and
disappointed effice seekers; in a
| word, all the discontinued elements
of the Republican party arrayed
against the present administration,
have more or less turned to Grant
| as the one man most likely to unite
them in the next presidential cam
| paign. The movement has assum-
ed no definite shape, partly because
the malcontents have not formally
| organized an anti-administratio
party, but mainly because President
Hayes is not q candidate for re-elec-
ton. If the Hayes policy were q
factiOnal issue within the party by
reason Of the declared candidature
Of Hayes for reelection, it might
be practicable for his opponents to
concentrate their strength on Gen.
Grant, and the struggle for the
nomination would then be between
Grant and Hayes. But Hayes refu-
sal from the first to be a candidate
prevents the malcontents from unit
ing upon any one man as against
him hence Grants strength as the
antipode of Hayes is lost, and, if q
candidate at all, Grant will have to
contend against Conkling, Blaine,
Edmunds, Sherman, Washburne,
Garfield, Hartranft and others not
directly representing the Hayes
policy. AS a consequence Grant
will be at an insuperable disadvant-
age by reason of the traditional and
we'll grounded prejudice against q
third term; and it will not be pos
sible for the Grant men of their
own strength to nominate him
merely upon the basis of antagoniz-
ing the Hayes doctrines. II this
were possible Grant would be de-
feated by Democrats,
But while the Grant men cannot
elect Grant, the Democrats can both
nominate and elect him as the Re-
publican candidate. And they are
in fair way of bringing about Just
this result. Already the spread of
communism in the cities, and the
notable indications of Democratic
demagogues pandering to the So
cialistic demands, had given a new
impulse to the Grant talk. Bust
ness men, property owners and con-
sentative men of all classes had be-
gun to say to one another that, if
communism should become formid-
able, there was one man who could
crush it. All naturally agreed upon
Grant for that mission. at this
juncture the Democrats in Congress
deliberately present an issue more
nenacing than that of communism,
1t is the Issue of revolution or civil
war. A resolution is introduced
under Democratic auspices, and
forced through Congress under the
whip of the Democratic caucus
which points to the unlawful and
unconstitutional overthrow of the
present administration. This means
revolution or it means nothing and
revolution, under these conditions
means universal anarchy and civil
war. 1t will not result in a war o.
sections as secession did, but it will
result IN neighborhood war. Their,
will be factions in every State, eve
ry county, every city, every town
and the communists will find an on
portunity to burn, pluHder AM
murder that they could never other
wise obtain in this country. Tn,
prosecution of the Democratic>co con
spiracy, under the name of Gan in
vestigstion," to the real end o
owding Hayes out Of the office
will sound an alarm. that, will rever
} berate from one end, of the countr,
to the other. The popular echo viii
be "let us have peace" and the as
surance of peace will be found Il
u. 5. Grant--the man who conuues
ed it once before, and who has Ii
nerve and skill to conquer it again
u is not q mere surmise to "a
that the Democrats have the power
and apparently the disposition. (
force the nomination of Gen. Gran
upon the country. The statemeu
is based upon experience. At q
times nations have been. accustom
ed, when menaced with reyolutio
or disaster, to call iRAO. service tn
: man of strongest wal,, iron nerve
and greatest capacity for the matte
in hand. In this country there
no question as to- who that man i
Gen. Grant has, his personal an
} partizan friends and his persons
and partisan enemies, but all unit
. upon him as the first soldier of tn
day and the firmest and most reso
lutte man, in America. There is
: universal sentiment at the Mort
land at the South, that, in q lon
Estruggle or q short struggle, GEL
EGrant will stamp ont revolution
anarchy, communism, and ever
form that treason and passion ma
} take on to destroy the government
, He is the iron man of our time an
, country to whom the law and o,
dee people will appeal with one q,
cord, without regard TO forms
dissension or an estimate of his c,
a ipacity in other political affair
whenever 1t shall be necessary I
!. apply to force for the suppressio
VI EONOlubhOu-Iu INC certainty TINT
/ in every case the destructian of d
reasonable violence will be certai
and complete.
Grants nomination and electio
are undoubtedly in the hands of th
Democrats, for the same condition
J that would prompt the one woul
surely lead TO the other. Graz
was first elected by the Republ
cans to put down "Andyjohnson
ISM" He was elected the secon
| time by Democrats. Some 10000
or 100000 Republicans probabl
voted for Greeley in 1872, but full
half million Democrats voted 70
Grant, and as many more Demo
Gratis remained away from the poll
to make his election sure. Their
was no menace of revolution theH
but the conservative dread of 9 die
turbance of trade under such q veal
Ior erratic administration as Gree