San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-12-06
Shall We Fake Grant:

The Austin otaIesuuu, '"o s'aa.
political India.rubber contortionist oil
tho Texas press-"eyerything by turns
aud nothing Longs advocating. with
more than its usual tenaoity. the adop'
ton Of Grant Us the Presidential
choice Of the Southern Democracy.
Adopting the sentiment OF the New
York Herald, it says;
The people Of the South believe that
Grant would not repeat the errors OF
years gone by in regard to the South,
and they believe that they can deal
with him, and that they made blum
der by opposing him. Through his
military achievements. they could in-
spire the policy Of the nation, foreign
and domestic. as they could not hope
to If they chose conservative Demo
crat like Bay ard or soldier OF less
influence like Hancock.
Sweet confdiug innocence!
It goes on to argue 10 favor OF Grant
on the ground that the adventurous
part of the South" is in favor Of "a
strong and costly Government" We
quote further:
1t sees in the General the very quail
tiles which it likes best-he sticks to
his friends, and these Southern Demo
Gratis mean more than this, they be-
lieve that General Grant would join
them in those great aud costly schemes
of internal improvement tor which
many are hungering; that he would
favor subsidies for Southern commerce
and Southern railroads, and large ap-
preparations for Southern internal i'm.
proponents. They remember also that
General Grants foreign policy was
always an adventurous one. looking TO-.
ward Cuba and Mexico, and controlled
by that feeling or sentiment which
speaks Of our manifest destiny" to
gobble up all the outlying tcrritory-a
sentiment which is stronger 10 the
South than anywhere else.
The Statesman is apparently oblivi.
GUS to any question of principle In this
fine scheme of a personal dsspotism,
Wholesale robbery of tax'payers, and
wild 6llibusteripg schemes Of lawless
invasion and rapinc Of neighboring
countries. 1t winds up by saying that
Grant is the man for the South above
any other, OF EITHER PARTY"
We find q good deal Of this sort OF
twaddle in our exchanges, but cannot
suppose that it reaches beyond few
political Adventures and sensation.
moneers. Those political traders in
the democratic party who in 1876 con.
spired with the republicans to keep out
Tilden aud put in Hayes by fraud,
would Of course be quite ready to fall
in" for Grant, but we cannot for mo.
mcnt suppose that the honest men Of
the party anywhere have any such idea.
We concur with the views Of the New
Orleans Picayuue on this subject. 1t
says:
Now comes the New York Herald,
and imputes to the South crime sur.
passing all of which they have hither.
to been accused, and q folly exceeding
any with which they have hitherto
been charged. What, we have a right
to ask, have we done that this thing
should be laid at our door? Wherein
have We shown that we are so vicious
as to embrace the cause against which
we have SO long struggled. or SO driv.
elingly idiotic as to help to impose on
ourselves the chains and slavery which
the reelection of Grant would fasten
upon US? The Herald says that prom.
inent and influential democratic jour.
nails in the south have declared a pref.
erence for Graut. Where are those
prominent and Influential journals?
Let the public know who the men are
that are willing. for the sake of that
kind of peace which reigued in War.
saw, to ally themselves with all that is
most infamous in American politics.
There is no such feeling in the South.
No proposal so degrading could find
favor except among few schemiug
Adventures who fancy that their per-
sonal fortunes might DO advanced by
a coalition with the worse elements of
the republican party. Such persons
may cherish the illusion to which the
Herald refers; but to say that it has
spread to any extent in southern com.
munities is an insult to the morality
and the intelligence of large proper
ton of the American people,"