Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-29
THE GRANT MOVEMENT.
No Do"ot of am Energetic Plot to R,sn HIM
for a Third Term.
Boston Post.

Boston Post.
The story having first been circulated with
due industry that Blaine and Conkling have
declared themselves unwilling to stand in
| the way OF Grants denomination, the next
step was to bring out Hayes as favorer of
the project, and that has now been done
with every appearance of cordially which
the scheme required in order to give il a
warmer coloring. We can by this time be-
gin to note the working of the internal ma
ch1nery of the partisan plot whose outline
was fairly revealed in the letter published in
the Post not long since, coming by way of
Chicago. Of the fact that determined
movement is on foot for the re
nomination of Gen. Grant, and that it is en-
| ergetcally directed by combination of
men Tor whom Its success means practically
life or death, there can no longer be any
reasonable question. The men who profted
IN so many ways and to such extravagant
limits by Grants eight years in the executive
Office are the ones who now seek his rein
statement to office. Doubtless they feel
that sickness at heart, too, which is induced
by the current era of utterly negative poll
tics, and seek change primarily for the
sake of relief. The combination of infiu-
| ences at work includes such Republicans as
now feel that their occupation is
gene, the men who lay for jobs and
contracts and subsidies, the ring that
has sweated such vast profits out of the pub
lie debt ty simply handling it, and those
who have keen scent for chances of what
ever nature; and while Grant lives and en-
joys undisputedly his high military reputa-
ton they cling to him as all that is left of
| them outside of regular employment and
the industry and thrift which characterize
good citizens. They fancy, in the confused
state OF their minds, that with Grant the
face of things can be all broken
| up and made over again. They
cherish fond idea that I'M
| der him all things are possible.
| Were Grant himself the man he no doubt
aspires to be thought, after his past unsatis-
factory experience in civil life, he would
reselutely withdraw from any further expo
sure of that kind and be content to repose
on his military laurels. If he were the best
qualified OF all American citizens to assume
| the executive Office at the beginning of the
new era of prosperity on which the country
IS just setting out, he would not then fail to
see the grave objections to his being made
the tool of those who plot through him only
their own aggrandlzement The inhe-
rent dignity of his character would act in
closest sympathy with the high dignity that
ought at all times to clothe the Presidency.
His experience should have been profitable
to him, instead of leaving him precisely
where ne was when the Republican mana
gers first took him up. But here comes
President Hayes, offering testimonials as
they may chance to be wanted in Grants
favor. If Mr.. Hayes is Intellectually and
| morally conscious of anything, he cannot
fail to know that the whole country never
before SO sickened of any ex-
perlence as of that of Grant
ism. He cannot but remember the
fact that the Republican party, which at last
nominated him, dared not nominate Grant
| for third continuous term. And he knows
| too, that it is the same class of men who
seek the nomination of the latter now who
were not permitted to be gratiied IN their
desire before. Their hope, like Mr.. Hayes
belief, seems to be that four years. absence
OF Grant from the country, with an Indians
string of European wampum about
his neck on his return, will
heip the country forget the era
through which it passed with averted face
and warm it again with the old war memo
RES, which in their freshness swept Grant
over all opposition into the Presidency.
| There IS nothing but personal calculation a,
the bottom of this movement. 1t is wholly
aside from either the position or the needs
OF the country. If we are indeed about tc
enter upon new era we cannot signalize it
by committing ourselves to any such I'M
natural scheme as this.