The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-03

From the Cincinnati Commercially

From the Cincinnati Commercially
The editor of the Washington Republic, in his
paper of October 49, says. concerning the third
business and General Grants feelings
1 have the information from the highest possible
source next to the General himself. that Grant is
really Indifferent the question OF the Presidency.
What he wants is to enter into an active business
life where good practical judgment and hard
work will win pecuniary reward. General Grant.
were he to follow his own incnatons. would be the
president OF great railroad company. He finds
himself on his return to his own country greatly
duced fortune and his two years OF travel. feast
ing and idlepess have given him appetite for hard
have heard. and the whence heard it,
really believe that General Grant had rather be pres
iden OF great railroad than President Of the United
States.
General Grant can greatly relieve the suspense of
the country in dozen words. and it is not i'm
probable. when he reaches the Atlantic States, and
proper occasion offers. he will make statement.
positive in its terms. of what he proposes to do.
The chief. though by means the only objection
to his denomination. is that 1t violates the prcce
dents of all the Presidents from Washington down,
and would be mischievous in future times should
ambitious and INSCRIPTIONS seek to install
himself in the White House for life.
The second objection of general character is that
it is virtual proclamation to the world that have
other statesman equal to the task of governing
the country. 1t has hardly come to that pass yet.
There are unmistakable signs that the Grant
boom is dying easy. and gradual death. few
days ago every republican paper in the land glowed
with Grant literature. There end to The
counting OF the honors that have been paid the
greatest American, living or dead. abroad and AZ
home. Special kilograms, letters. rehashed accounts
Of European banquets and ceremonies, biographical
sketches of the entire Grant family, and adulaton
al filed every stalwart journal aud whole
columns fairly gttered with scintillations OF the
brilliant boom that electritying the coun-
try.-St. LOUIS Times.
General Grants countrymen. whether stalwart or
not. have taken genuine pleasure in the honors
paid him by foreign governments during his trip
round the world. The modesty NTH cch he has borne
these une1anlpled couresies, ascribimg them all
casions TO the fact that he representative Of tho
great american Republic has heightened their pleasure.
and all the accounts Of has receptions. the addresses pre-
sented to him his replies haze been eagerly read Tie
newspapers that omitted to publish the reports Of these
doin9s abroad ,cdting in enterprise. Nor does it
follow because they made much of them as current
news and spoke Of them in terms of eulogy that
they were or are favorable to the third term
ment. Even the New YORK HERALD, which has made
Grants travels special and striking feature of its
columns, opposes the third term movement with
emphasis, and So indeed. do many OF the warmest
aud best personal friends of the General They
wish to see him follow the example of Washington
and Jefferson and decline a reno nation.