The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-19

i ,hs day 10 be supcraisIcus; yet all per-
IONS Of more than average intelligence, as
we'll ss all very ignorant coes, are said to be
afflicted with that weakness. AAcAuI.AY
.ays that in order to appreciate poetry thor
ougtly the readers mind must be more or
less uuscund. This sort Of unsoundness OF
mind n perhaps indicated on the surface OF
tho Uranium by the same bumps which
point oot superstition as one OF the chsrac-
OF certain peesons. Why not, then,
own to little supcrstitiousness, and pro-
coed to prove that General GRANT Is man
OF destinys
Our readers know how much afraid we
were last spripg that General GRANT would
be nom,nates by the Chicago Convention.
Even when we we're most confident that he
would be defeated OF the nominsSion OF that
Convention, we could not bat confess that
we experienced a sort OF unaeined and SUI
perstitioes dread that Fate might deceive
us and'tresent him before tine people OF the
United STATES as a candidate for the presi-
dency who could ret be defeated. We did
all that we could 20 prevent such a result
WORKING with good will against this
"ssshed and beNed spbynx."
Almost as soon as webcard the good news
|from last Mondays election in Maine, we
turned eur minds eye TO-
wards General GIANT ence more. lie stood
before our mental vision as already candi'
date for President of the United States In
1854. We said on Thursday last that CoNK'
LIMO and CsMgR0K and LOGAN, the noble
tr,umyjrate OF stalwerts, do not feel partlcu-
larly anxieus TO eject GARFIELD, nor does
the northern Methodist Church. The tri-
umyirate and that Church would rather con-
vince the northern people that success can
be achieved by no other Republican than
General GRAFT. The defeat OF GARFIELD
means the nomination OF GRANT four years
hence; aud, we fear, his election.
GRANT haunis us, you will say. Well, II
be does. be haunts other people as well.
| Our cool, bipartisan contemporary OF
The Chicago Times, which rises far above
all the prjudices and faiIings OF mere
Democrats and Republicans, and sees things
in the clear light Of an atmosphere OF its
own, has gone ahead Of us. Ii suggests the
nomination OF General GRANT, not -four
years hence, as we did, but forthwith. His
name Is needed now. GARFIELD must Ie'
tire and make way for him. 1t says:
alt Is now quite manifest that the Re-
publleans need strong man. The North,
| that was TO be solid as protest against the
solid South, breaks early. Maine Is lost.
The prospect is that Indiana will follow in
October, and the situation remaining with
reference to candidates as it is, New York,
New jersey, and Connecticut, possibly
PENNSYLVANIA and Illinois. will be lost like
! wise. 1t may not be too late for The Re-
publcans to retire Mr.. Garfield and the
man with whom he is so unhappily ass0-
cialcd, and present 10 the country the name
OF Grant. The situation certainly suggests
| that strong man is needed. Perhaps Gar
| field will retire voluntarily"
We must own that our sharp-sighted con-
temporary has got ahead OF us We had
not thought of such a thing as the running
OF GRANT this year; and so, though we
were borrowing trouble from 1884, 1t never
once occurred 10 US that the Man OF Destiny
might yet be brought out and compel the
support of the supersktious mob this fall.
We commend this suggestion from Chi
cago to the only Republican journal in
The capital of Virginia. II Colonel POP
HAM can get GARFIELD off the track and
place GRANT on it in his stead, it may posi-
bly, be no longer necessary for him u rally
bis forces to the support OF General Ma
HONE. The little General may perhaps
conclude to support Colonel POPHAN's can
didate for President. DR.. r. A. WISE,
one Of his most jealous adherents, said in the
meeting OF the Conservative State Central
Committee held at the Exchange Hotel last
spring 10 call State Convention, that as
between TILDEN and GRANT he would vote
for the latter IL for either. We do not say
that he spoke the sentiments Of his chief !;
but we do say that at the time the General
and Colonel POPBAM were trying so hard to
get the Staunton Convention not to nomi-
nate Republican electoral ticket for Vir-
GINA it was pretty generally supposed that
our Confederate General would not need
any great deal OF persuasion 10 induce him
to support the Man of Destiny for Presi-
dent.
These last remarks, however, are diver
sioa. Let us return TO our hero. We find
that HENRY WATTERsON's mind has strayed
Off into the very same sort of speculations
ia which we have been INDUCING. Apropos
OF the Maine election, he writes:
"Tbere are four men," said Republ-
can yesterday. who, should Garfield be
defeated, will 90 off to themselves, break
some bottles. and have good time. mean
GRAFT, Logan, Conkling, and Don Cam
eron.0
There's the same idea in another form.
LOGAN, CONKLING, and DON CAMERON are
the triumyirate who, in WATTERs0N's opin-
ion, are laying the wires for the benefit Of
General GRANT in 1884.
The Man OF Destiny he Is. He Is upper
most Just now in many mems minds.
Perhaps, however, HANCOCK in 1884 will
prove to be the WELLINGTON Of this modern
NAPOLEON.