Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-16
Grant a CERT6ENTY.

1t is written in history, or somewhere else,
that sit is hard to kick against the pricks"
The anti Grant Republicans, we opine, have
already begun to realize how true the saying
is. For months they have been engaged in
the undertaking of stemming the Grant
boom, and though controlling a majority of
the newspapers of the country, they have
succeeded as we'll as the old woman did who
essayed to sweep back the tide of the ocean
with broom. The tide moves on with ir
reslstible force, sweeping all before it, and
the ex-President stands to-day with clear
majority of all the delegate votes in the Chi
cago convention pledged in his favor.
Blaine frets and fumes; Sherman storms; and
emphasis that the sentiment of the Ameri-
can people is against third term, and yet
that portion of the American people repre-
sented in the Republican party persists in
sending Grant delegates to the convention.
The two leading Republican papers of the
West, the Chicago Times and Tribune, have
been particularly active in the endeayor to
convince the people that they don't want
Grant for another term. They have all along
insisted that if an honest expression of the
Republican party was had tho man on horse
back would be repudiated by three quarters of
the party. Yet as convention after oonven-
ton has been held and the delegates ordered
to cast their votes for Grant, they have been
obliged to acknowledge that he has some
strength but declare that bis victories have
been achieved by trickery or the operations
of the machine. They have secuted the idea
that he had even a respectable following in
Illinois, yet of all the delegates to the State
convention thus far elected Grant has eight
out of ten, and their own correspondents
acknowledge the fact. The editorial col
umns of those papers, however, are
as confident as ever that Lo-
gan will not fulfill his boast
of turning the State over to Grant, and
sneer at the idea, although it is almost fait
accomph already. In all parts of the State
the Grant boom ia booming in style that
must grieve the hearts of his enemies and be
especially discomiting to Blaine, who expect
ed so much and will realize so little from
Illinois.
The anti-Grant men have made more noise
Union. They got to work as soon as the
Grant adherents did, and perfected an Or
ganization that would, it was expected, pre-
vent the delegates from that State from 60
ing to Chicago with instructions for the ex-
President. But when the convention met on
Wednesday they were Insignificant in point
of numbers and Grant carried the day with
out an effort. In Kentucky the anti Grant
element was stronger, and numbered almost
one-fourth of the delegates. They made
vigorous fight against instructions, but new
ertheless they we're given.
All over the country the same state of
feeling prevails. Fully three-fourths of the
Republicans prefer Grant as their leader in
the coming campaign, and it will be found
when the convention meets in Chicago in
June that he will lead his competi-
tors in like proportion. Matters have
come to such pass that nothing can
prevent his nomination save dispensation
of providence, and the sooner the anti Grant
newspapers fall into line the less they will
have to apologize for after the convention.
It is not at all probable that any consider
able number of them will bolt the nomina-
ton. They will not dare to do that, but will
quietly eat their dish of crow without max
ing 80 much as wry face. Grant IS the
coming man on the Republican ticket with
out doubt, and those who don't like him
will have the privilege of voting for Demo
crat, which will, perhaps, be the noblest act
of their lives.