Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-05
THE PROBABLE CANDIDATES.

There Is nothing startling about the news
which comes from Washington that the
managers of the Republican party have about
determined to run Grant for third term.
It is rather early IN the day for casting the
Presidential horoscope, but the Republican
astro,ogers will undoubtedly be on the safe
side in predicting that Grant will be the
party nominee in 1880. The Cincinnati
Enquirer devotes eleven columns to dis
cussion Of the probable candidates for the
next Presidency, gives the views of leading
men in almost every State IN the Union, and
after a careful survey of the situation,
comes to the conclusion that ''the
race in the Democratic ranks is between
Thurman and Hendricks, and is a very even
race at that" and that Bayard has many
friends north and south, and may be regarded
as in the race. In regard to the Republican
candidate, the Enquirer says: Grant has
the advantage Of position, and fairly leads
all other aspirants' In almost every State
IN the Union the Republican opinion seems
to be crystalizing around Grant. His
nomination seems to be an assured
fact-and it should not be surprising,
because he is, no doubt, the best living
embodiment of the remaining prin-
cipes of his party. He is consplcuously
identified with all the acts, motives and pur-
poses of the organization. He is the cham
pion salary-grabber. He grabbed more than
anybody else. He believed in the grab,
lobbied for the grab, signed the grab bill,
1 kol 10 l,oc - Ebo
gresham was only two thousand FIVE hum
dred dollars year. The grab of Grant was
twenty-five thousand dollars year, or just
ten times the amount of the congressman g
grab. The fitness of General Grant for the
Republican nomination is just ten times
greater than that of any congressional grab
Der. General Grants claims to renomina-
ton were also increased when he became the
apologist of the credit mobilier congressman.
He deprecated the investigation. Nothing
could come Of it, he said, but matchmaking
the character of some of our best men, and
damaging the party accordingly. When Mr..
Colfax retired from his Joint debate with
Cakes Ames, and with Nesbit's money in his
pocket, he Immediately got a certificate of
good character from the White House. Mr..
Bingham had been denounced by his con-
stitueLts for his operations in credit mobilier
and his completely in the back-pay grab,
and General Grant at once APP
pointed HIM minister to Japan. General
Butler had made himself conspicuous as the
attorney of the credit-mobilier congressman,
and led the advance guard in the fight for
poused his side as candidate for governor of
Massachusetts, and filed up the Federal Off
ces in that State in Bntler's interest. General
Grants peculiar fitness for the Republican
nomination does not stop here. He was the
chief support of the bogus Kellogg govern
ment in Louisiana. He sustained Durell and
General Emory to hold his troops
in readiness to enforce the fraud at the point
of the bayonet. Shall he go unrewarded fog
standing firmly by the carpetbaggers? There
is another reason why the officeholders will
rally about General Grants standard. He
does not believe in ciYil-service reform.
Neither do they. Nor does the party. Gen,
eral Grant retained the Caseys and the Cra-
rers, and he appointed the Holdens and the
NeWnlanS. his Is the KIM or men the
party want. They are sure of Grant; they
could not be so sure of anybody else. 1t is
also intimated that the railroad people, and
the monopolists generally, have an
abiding faith in Grant. The carpetbaggers
were protected in their robberies of the south
ern people, and of course they are bowling
for Grants nomination. Patterson, of South
Carolina, has already announced himself for
Grant, and says he will be elected. OF course
Spencer and Dorsey and Ames and Madison
Wells and Chamberlain, and all the adven-
turers who prospered during the eight years
of Grants administration, will advocate the
nomination of their protector. They hope
to see the southern States reconstructed,
placed under military rule, so that they can
be restored to that power which enabled
them to rob the southern people and entail
upon them debt of three hundred millions
of dollars. Grant is unquestionably the
coming man. His nomination and election
will sound the deathknell to cur republican
institutions, and show that the American
people are ready to spit upon the precedent
of Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe
and Jefferson, and elect President for life,
and the next step will be an emperor or dc
tator for life.