The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-05-01
VOL. XIV---NO. ~.
GEANT ON THE CHESS BOARD.
The Manner In Which His Backers Are
Moving Him all Over the World.

WASHINGTON April 21.-The methods
by which the hackers of Grant have con-
trived to use the power and prestige Of
the Government of the United States in
order to put foreign nations and foreign
municipalities in position in which it
would be next to impossible for them
without incivility to the United States to
refuse to extend unusual and elaborate
hospitality to General Grant, are likely
soon to come to the front In the form Of
official correspondence. 1t will be re-
membered that President Hayes,
out of complaisance towards his prede-
cessor in Office, for which no one can
blame him, directed Secretary Evarts to
issue circular letter on the subject of
the attention proper to be paid to Gener-
al Grant, to our ministers, consuls, con-
sular agents and naval officers all over
the world. The cue for the interpreta.
ton of the circular letter was given by
Mr.. Pierrepont and Consul General Ba-
deau in London, and out of the doings in
England it came to pass that there was
established in London, under Consul
General Badeau, sort of Grant min
compoop bureau" from which instruc-
tions were issued to the American lega-
ton or consulate in every place through
which it might be arranged that the ex-
President should go. If the place was a
political capital, the American legation
was to say at the Foreign Office that "the
government" of the United States would
consider itself to be under much obliga-
ton to the French or Italian OF Turkish
government, as the case might be, if es-
pecially official and pupular considera-
tion could be bestowed upon the coming
ex-Preident, when he arrived. If il was
only q commercial centre which was to
be visited, the, American consul
there was directed to say the same sort
of things to the municipal authorities
and to the leading manufacturers and mer-
chants, whose invoices might require
consular certificates and Endorsement.
All these official applications to for
eigners for civilties and expenditures to
be lavished on General Grant were as a
mere matter of fact so many drafts drawn
by the government at Washington upon
foreign countries, or their officials or cit
izcns and subjects, and similar drafts
must of course in time be honored at
Washington when they are drawn in ia
vor of any parsonage in Europe or Asia
against US. With European or civilized
Asiatic governments such direct applica-
tions made by nation of the rank ofthe
United State are of course equivalent to
those several letters of introduction
which are sometimes disrespectfully de-
scribed as "soup tickets" II the power
and credit of the United States are to be
exerted in similar manner in his favor
there is not prominent military officer
or civilian in the United States who
might not be put before foreigners all
over the world in way to elicit the most
distinguished attentions. The upshot of
the whole matter is that General Grant
has been kept wandering about Europe
and Asia since 1877 as "the government"
candidate for reelection. How the pri-
vate expenses of his wanderings may
have been betrayed concerns no one but
himself and his friends. Whether it is
to the honor and advantage of the coun-
try, however, that all these obligations to
foreign powers should have been incurred
by the people of the United States
through their public servants in order to
promote the candidacy of particular
citizen for the Presidency is, however, a
matter both proper and important to be
considered by the public. 1t may be
added, by the way, that in one instance,
at St. Petersburg, the bill Of the expenses
of grand picnic and reception rendered
General Grant by the Russian authori-
ties, at the request and solicitation of the
American minister, is believed on good
authority to have been sent in by them
to the American legation and there paid.
-SpeciaL TO " y. World.