National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1879-11-18
THE DEMOCRATIC RAID on GEGERAI
GRANT.

The GRANT boom seems TO be spreading
class of Democrats show signs of yielding to
its irrepressible forces This developement
is exciting considerable attention. and in
some quarters not little anxiety lest
the Democrats may be preparing to make q
sudden raid upon the Presidency by cap
turing General GRANT as their candidate.
They may entertain such purpose under
their dilemma, They find since the Northern
States have spoken in their recent elections,
that they are now without any available
issue or candidate. Their only hope was
to press upon the country the issue of free
elections, wiping out Of the supervisory
law, and the other measurers born of the
war, and with planks gathered here and
there from the political field to construct a
platform upon which they proposed to
standard-bearer, and march ON to certain
victory. They presented these issues in
California and were defeated. Then they
rallied under this flag in Maine and Col
orado, and shared the same fate that at
tended them in California. Then Ohio was
to have been captured, and perchance Iowa,
but they were worse beaten there than in
Maine and California. Then came the No.
vember elections, when TiLDEN was to cap
ture New York, and thus secure the pivot
of 1880. This effort proved a miserable
failure, for the people of that noble State
declared with emphasis against the issues
of State sovereignty, free elections, the wip-
ing out of the war measures, &C., that had
been pressed upon them by the extra ses-
sion of Congress, which was made necessary
by purpose to forge issues aud policies for
the future control and government of the
country.
The result has been that every Northern
and Western State that has spoken since
the extra session of Congress developed the
purposes of the Democrats, has pronounced
with marked emphasis against that party
and its dogmas, sophistries and candidates
This substantially leaves the Democrats
with no more hope of carrying the country
in 1880 than they had in 1863 or 1872
Thus confronted with certain defeat, the
Democratic love of plumber very naturally
prompts more or less of them TO seek some
measure OF advantage in them Admins
tmtion by declaring an early adherence Ia
General GRANT, who, they have shrewdness
enough to discover, is the inevitable in the
next campaign. Those journals and citi-
zens who were early in the field in behalf
of the GRANT "boom," rs it has been
termed--and THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
was among the first at the cross, and pro-
poses 10 be among the last ut the tomb
are in no degree discounted by the indi.
catioh that Il portion of the Democrats are
giving token of joining the boom also
This might reasonably be expected under
the circumstances. They are of the more
cunning of the class of rats who leave the
sinking ship early. They have discovered
that the wreck Of their own party is inevi
table She had hole stove in her bottom
in the late elections, and her pumping
power is inadequate to keep her aflOat. IN
this extremity class of the more shrewd
of the leaders and followers in the Demo
cratic party are early prospecting for ad
vantage, and they do not see ii any wher'
quite as clearly rs they do in the direction
OF General GRANT, and heace we now Gnd
them rendering tan'y in that direction, hop
ing for early recognition,
There is not the slightest prospect o
their capturing General GRANT rs they
may hope to do, by this early movement il
! his direction. He is not Of that class o