The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-09-11
IT CAN'T BE DONE.

Referring to the paragraph IN the teie-
graphic reports of yesterday morning, in
regard TO the rumo.ei attempt 10 create a
new Office in the army, the Kansas City
Times says:
The Office Of General vraS created by Con-
Rress n II supreme reward to Grant, and
when he stepped INTO the Presidency IL was
conferred on sherman, Sheridan advancing
10 the grade OF lieutenant General. Grant Is
now Ia civil life, and cannot recover MS Old
position with the prlucely salary attached
IL is therefore suggested that Congress create
the office of captain General of the army and
put Grant in il. II Is claimed the 6nti-third-
term Republicans will favor the motion and
that the Democrats would be glad 10 shelye
him AT any price.
The Captain General idea seems to have
originated with the New Yo.k Herald, and
was intended to head off the third term
movement. But it is sort of chaff that
sn't likely to deceive anybody. So long as
The Yazoo policy continues TO be, as at
present, the policy of the solid South, the
solid North will continue to demand the
placing OF man z: the head of the
government who will have the strength and
the courage 10 fight the devil with fire. The
Republicans OF the whole country, without
regard to section or faction, demand the
nomination Of man for President on the
Republican ticket next summer who, when
elected, will utterly stamp out the spirit
of bulldozing, secession aud notification,
which is rampant ali over the South, and
which, encouraged by Its lIte victories, no
longer makes even pretsTce of concesliDg
its true character. Such man is L. s.
Grant. The demand Of the times is for a
strong man, and the eyes OF the country in
stinctively turn TO Grant. There may be
other men equally as strong, and who
would serve the emergency just as well,
but they are not known, and the Repub
licans are not in the humor TO take any
chances. They want a man who will take
this southern monster of terrorism and
states rights by the throat and give il
such a shaking that the now almos,
forgotten lesson Il lSGl-5 will be
brought wildly 20 its mind
they don't propose TO take 4 man that they
hope will be all right, but they intend 70
take one that they klo1 will be right. And
by common consent public opinion has set
tied upon Grant az the man. The South
knows him and fears him, and because it
does know him and fear him, the simple
fact Of his election would do much to re
store orde, and the rule Of law in that
section.
S;cce the close of the war, y,Iy con-
siderable element in the Republican party
has been in favor Of a policy Of conciliStiou,
OF letting bygones be bygones, and Of
claspipg hands across the bloody
chssm, but the manner in which
the conciliation policy of President
Hayes was received ~ the south went far
toward wearing out this spirit, and the en-
dorsement Of the Yszoo policy By the whole
south, together with the certainty Of the
election of JEFF Davis TO the United States
Senate from Mississippi, has eI,inguished
it altogether. There is 10 longer sny diff
ference of opinion among Republicans up
on this question. The party is solid. Re-
publicans are Ill stalwsrts now. The signs of
the times sll point to Grant as the man for
the occasion. He viii be the captain gen.
ersl to lead the Republican party to victory
in 1850, but the scheme to shelve him csn-
not be made TO work.