Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-28

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House, Mr.. Washburn will be RELOCATED to
private life before the sides of March,
NURD OF WARMING.
The GLOBE is not an alarmist, yet it would
speak word of caution which, at this juno
ture, may not be inopportune.
Or late the columns of tho newspapers
have been surfeited with reports of converse
tons with various public men as to the ex.
pediency of creating an extra rank in the
army-thst Of captain general or field mar
shal-and comforting it upon Gen. Ulysses
s. Grant. The scheme has received favor
from several sources. Those Republicans
with Presidential aspirations who fear the
magic of Grants name as opposed to their
own, hope that by giving him life occupa-
ton he will be placed beyond the possibility
of competing with them for the prize sought.
There are Democrats, too, especially at the
South, who fear that the nomination of
Grant by the Republican party would per-
petuate the rule of that corrapt organization
for four years longer, if not indefinitely, and
think that, by giving him supreme command
of the army, he would be shelved, and
placed beyond the range of possibilities.
The GLOBE speaks by authority, and can
say with all the emphasis that language can
convey, that the scheme to make General
Grant the chief of the army is conspiracy
we'll digested, to overturn the entire fabric
Of republican government in the United
States. It does not spring from the impulse
to do honor to the greatest captain of the
war Of the rebellion, as some would have us
believe, nor does it spring from desire tc
get Grant out of the way, but from ia,
deeper motive. 1t is nothing more or less
than the determination of the Republican
leaders to Illustrate the Inauguration of g
Democratic President at eny cost, ever
though that cost might be civil war.
The conspiracy is not in its incipiency. I!
has progressed SO far that every officer oil
the army knows that it will be his duty, in
obedience to the command of the captain
general, to lave his forces in readiness on
the 18th of March, 1881, at Washington
there to obey the orders of the newly elected
commander Of the forces The plan is in
effect to use every endeavor under the law tc
prevent the Inauguration of the President
who may be the choice of the peo-
pie provided he be Democrat.
After ali legal means fail, resort
will be had to the arbitrament of arms. Gen.
Grant will be commander of the army, and
will use that power to continue in force the
present rule. That he will succeed, no one
who understands his character can doubt.
This is no speculation. The GLOBE has
authority undoubted for it's statements. If
Grant shall be made the commander-iu-
chief of the army by the action Of Demo.
cratic Congress, he will exercise his power
to the full. He will command the army FIR
purpose. That purpose will be the per.
petuation of Republican rule. The candi-
date of the Democratic party may have an
unquestioned majority both on the popular
vote and in the electoral college, but az long
as Grant controls the army he will not be in
augurated.
The conspiracy is compact. 1t has been
entered into with elaboration. Its aim is
the destruction of republican government in
the United States and the creation of an
empire upon the ruins.
Everybody in the country anticipates a
Democratic success at the polls in 1880.
Such result of canvass championed by a
popular leader is inevitable. But the Re-
publican party, now in power, is determined
that the peoples choice shall not assert his
prerogative. The means to accomplish the
object is the only question at issue with the
leaders of tho party.
The Democrats in Congress have lent
themselves to the Republican scheme. Their
course has been unwilling. They have been
made the tools of their foes-have under
taken to father the scheme of giving to the
arch enemy of Republican government su-
preme control of the army. The PROPOSE
ton to make Grant captain general of the
army is to be introduced by a
confederate brigadier," and as a
consequence there will be no opposition to
it from either the Democratic or Republican
side. But the moment the rank is created
and conferred upon Grant, he will begin
operations. He will have sufficient force
on hand to prevent Democratic Congress
from executing its purposes, and sufficient
to prevent the Inauguration of Democratic
President. ~. +
Any pretext can be invented as casus
belli. It will make no difference whether
Grant is Or is not the Republican nominee for
the Presidency. military expediency'' may
require that he be called to the executive
Office, and cnce there nothing can remove
him. .
The plot is complete. 1t has been fully
matured, and cannot be defeated except
by concerted action. It comprises in
the first place the erection
of new Office in the army by consent of a
Democratic Congress-; secondly, the investi-
ture of Grant with the powers and dignity
of that Office; thirdly, the exercise of those
powers for the purpose of defeating the will
of the people at the polls by the inaugura-
ton of President not elected to the Office,
and in the event of protest, the alternative
of civil war.
This is very unsatisfactory programme,
it must be admitted. Nevertheless the GLOBE
is positive that it is the programme of the
and time will demonstrate the
correctness of the information here given