Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-14
GRANT rs Il CANDIDATE.

A Washington dispatch to the Chicago
Inter Ocean asserts, on the authority of
gentleman who has been travelling with
Gen. Grant, that he will not be candidate
for the Presidency under any circumstances,
and only waits an appropriate time to make
his decision known to the country. His
modesty has hitherto deferred him from
refusing to accept an honor taat has not
been rendered him, and for that reason he
has remained silent, much against his will.
The story told is altogether too diapha-
nous. Such decision will never be pro-
mulgsted to the American people unless
it shall come to pass that Grants ncmina-
ton is an impossibility. The convenient
season he awaits will arrive at such time
but no sooner. Mr.. Grant is to-day the
only candidate of the Republican
party for ths Presidential Office.
He is supported and urged
by the most respectable portion of that party
Robson, Belknap. Babcock, Williams,
Mcdonald, the '.Sylph," and Shepherd. The
Indian ring supports him; the New York
custom house ring supports him; the District
of Columbia ring supports him; the army
ring supports HMM fact, all the rings in
the country support him. Columbus Delano
will spend money to secure his election, and
so will Old Subsidy Pomeroy. He has the
united backing of all the carpet-bag and
scalawag crowd of political bummers and
| ;,,& no
convention will poll the votes of a solid
South. He will secure the vote of Mime
sofa, and Bill King and Little William Fletcher
will stump the State in his behalf Madison
Wells and William Pitt Kellogg will marshal
Louisiana in his support, and Patterson,
Kimpton and Chamberlain will attend to his
interests in South Carolina if they can in
the meantime secure pardon for their
crimes. Tom Murphy, Lett and Stocking
will rally to his support in New York, while
mitted to Ef1igy Sargent and Nipple Mitch.
ell. No candidate ever had, a year before
the nominating convention, as large and en-.
thusiastic a following, with kindred interests
and aims. No other candidate can hope to
cope with him, and when he finds the char
aoter and enthusiasm of his supporters he
will not dare to decline the nomination, anC
should not do so.
The journalistic fdus achates who is at
present accompanying him in his trip around
the globe, informs us that Gen. Grant has
taken great deal of interest in the modes
of government of European countries. He
was especially interested in Herr Bismarck'E
methods, and expressed great admiration
or the facility with which he succeeded
in governing the German people. Again
when he visited Constantinonle, he had 6
long interview with the sultan, and was evi
IDENTIFY pleased with the way in which he 60
rid of "his cousins and his sisters and hi
aunts.'' He has evidently been studying tc
some purpose and when he again ascend
the stairs of the executive mansion he will
no doubt be competent to introduce SOM
reforms in our system of government, baset
upon his observations in Europe and Asia
These improvements or reforms will n
doubt meet the approval of the American
people. At least we think that person VIII
his travelled as widely, and who is supporter
by such strong element in the Republican
party ought not to decline its nomination t.
the Presidency. We are furthermore of tn
opinion that Gen. Grant will not send in hi
promised declination, for the reasons here
tofore stated.