The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-01-13
THE THIRD TERN


WNNHtNfIDN, dHHuuTy Y, 1917.
Some aueer gossip has been anoat of late
relative to what may bs called
THE GRANT MOVEMENT
In the Eastern Hemisphere which goes to
snow that, however despotlc the old mans
notions may be touching tho proper methods
OF governing the people Of the United states.
he ID himself the victim " well nlvh jnsuffer
able oppression at the hands Of the little
clique Of bankers, bondbodcrs and enobs
who have him In training for third term.
IL appears that Immediately after the Octo.
Der elections Grant got sick Of junkstlnp
about strange rs that may seem and an
noinced In his private correspondence his In
tsntion to return homo In tho courses of two or
three weeks. He may have judged, indeed,
from the October election returns that tho
country was on the imminent deadly brink
Of destruction. from which nothing short
of an Immediate renewal of his tall-hoId
could save her, or he may have heard that
John Sherman was quietly laying pipes 10
steal from him the affections OF the national
banks and Shylocklsm generally, with.a view
10 being the next Republican candidate him
self; or he may have concluded that he had
already learned enough of the radiments ~
autocratic government TO begin business on
In 1881, without further prosecution Of his
preparatory studies. Be this as it may, there
Is no doubt that the old man had fully made
up his mind TO return home. and. had he been
allowed TO have his own way, would have
taken passage about the last Of November
But no sooner we're his trainers advised of
this insnb6rdlnats design than they straight
way put their heads together 10 compel full
fillment Of the original programme.
Accordingly tremendous pressure was
brought To bear, by cable, 10 keep the old
man on the track. TO hold him 10 his gait and
prevent break, as they say on the trotting
track. II is easy 10 comprehend why
THE MANAGERS or THE GRANT MOVEMENT
for tss0-Childs, A. M; Drexel, Conkline.
Aleck Shepherd. the Beigmans, Levi Morton
and cornpany--did not want the old man 10
come back TO this country and lie around
with nothing to do for the next eiQhtesn
months. They knew that. under such circum-
stances, the fourth OF March, 1881, would be
more likely 10 find Grant In an inebriate asy-
lum than In the White House, To
say nothing Of the magnificent oppor-
tunlty that would be afforded for his total
destruction by the great American inter-
vlswermb say nothing Of keim and George
Alfred Townsend. Moreover, as Grant is one
pf those characters to whose view distance
lends enchantnent ut enormous usury, It was
not deemed wise TO have him around where
the American people could see him frequently.
Under the impuislOn Of all these constdern-
tons the veto Of the Childs- -Drcxei clln1e
wos instantly put upon Grants design Of
coming home, and be was peremptOriiy or
dered TO prepare for the tour Of Asia. ne
originally mapped In tho preparatory cur
rlculum OF Imperialism.
Under this stress, therefore, Grant aban-
d0ned his notion 0f coming home this fall
and meekIy accepted the dictum OF the
Childs-Drexel directory.
III may seem triflc strange tO unreflecting
government as practlced In Europe and Asia
should have become requisite feature In
THE EDUCATION or PROSPECTIVE PHEsI-
DENT
of the United States. The American citizen
mas Tor . hundred years labOred under the de-
lusion that the peoples OF Europe were taking
lessons Of him. He has observed now and
.heh ,e, ea.tns Of kings and mobiles as In 1880,
win revolutions and erneutes without num-
Der, all the way from Spain TO Poland; and IL |
has been his fond dream that all these corn |
motions were caused by the echo OF the shot
he fired on Concord Green hundred and
three years ago, which shot, we are informed
by an eminent citizen Of the small town j,,st
mentioned, was heard round the world. I |
might remark, by the way, that have had |
my doubts as to the accuracy Of this DECLARE
Jon oi Emerson's, though II must be con-
fets Of those days, from one Of which that
nomentUus shot was undoubtedly fired
'oared like the devil when thev went On.
But leaving Emerson and his enbattIed
armeI arm. 70 nght II out on that line, let US re-
urn 70 Grant and his novel course Of study
or the Presidency. Not more than three
weeks ago man whose eminence In the Re-
ublican party, whether measured by the
uratioa adaa n oi his membership In II, the impor-
'olds. or the ability which has marked his
areer, 10 not surpassed, said to me that the
management OF Childs, DrexeI and the SeiiD.
mans a was not doing Mr.. Grant any good.
ltner Dy way OF commencing him TO the better
ense a.se oi Ine republican party for Its nomina-
alton, or, subsequently, to
HE sELF-nEspEcr OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
think, said he, that / can understand
ave modelled the conduct OF his newepaner
tier the press OF some European city Where
10 censorship excludes everything IN the
1ape OF an opinion, and imagines that a
uIopean model would work well as a Presi-
ent; But 1t is more than possible that
hiids does not understand the temper of the .
mer1can people as well az he dOes the arta {
sycophancy and OF vaunting his own char
les. |
Be this as it may the Grant move 1
ent, having exhaused Eurone Ia now '
Its way to Asia to re-enter the a
nlted States by way OF the Pacific slope in C
g course OF year or soto take the coun- o
IN the year, as 1t were, along with the p
ourges OIL Mongolian immigration and the o
ocky mountain locust. Under these circum-
ances IL becomes more apparent that II
rant Is the candidate of the Republican
lrty 10 1880 he will be 80 rather because the
lrty is reduced to the dimensions OF the 81
eeches pocket OF Childs, Drexel and COM la
ny, than because Of any sound political WI
ason. To say the least, SO
THE SCHEME IS NOVEL ENOUGH tn
be interesting, though the indications null W
ply that 1t Is too remarkable to be SUCCESS al
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The Value Of Good Legs.
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