Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-05-28
Will it be Grant2

The Republican national convention
will meet in Chicago on Wednesday
next, and will develop the hottest fight
for the nomination of President ever
witnessed in the United States. Last
week the Grant forces captured solid
delegation of forty-two members from
Illinois, and another of twenty members
from Alabama. The Grant managers
claim that Grant will have majority of
about thirty on the first ballot, but it ap-
pears that he is really a few votes short
of having any majority at all. It is
probable, however, that delegates enough
will be bought to secure small major
ity for him. The Grant forces and their
opponents are all growing desperate.
Both sides are beginning to declare that
it is time to stop fooling and 60 ir with
a determination to overpower all opposi-
tion. What will occur when these forces
meet face to face in national convention
can be as we'll imagined as described.
The uproarous frenzy of which they are
all partaking more or less, has reached
such point that many of them would
much prefer seeing Democrat in the
presidential chair than witnessing the
success of their opponents. The follow
ing from the Pioneer Press of Tuesday
last is significant:
"The times demand prompt action if the.
Republican party is to be saved from disas-
trous defeat. The senatorial bosses who have
carried three northern States nominally for
Grant by riding rough -shod over the popular
will, are assembling at Chicago to consummate,
if possible, by equally violent methods, the
third term conspiracy. The voice of the peo-
pie should make itself heard. The men who
are running this thing imagine that the op-
position to Grant is mere rhetorical rant and
defamation, the artificial noise fabricated by
his adversaries to frighten them from the pros
ecution of their ill-starred scheme. Full of
this deusion, they believe they have only to
succeed in nominating Grant by any means
then all hostility will cease. They smile
serenely at the signals of warning which fling
their frey portents across the gloomy heav-
ems. For they are rockets as they think, not
shells. They sail on through the bombastic
firing of blank cartridges across the bows of
the third term, defantly. and cheerfully
towards the rocks where sbipwreck awaits the
Republican party, if it commits its fortunes to
the guidance of Conkling, Cameron and Lo-
gan. 1t is time to stop firing blank car
tridges to load with iron shot and shrapnel
to meet the bulldozing effrontery of the sena-
torial bosses with war and all that war i'm
plies" ~ >e&s'&'S .'.@
That's right, gentlemen; load up with
deadly material and 60 in for all you. are
worth. After the smoke of the battle has
passed away there will not be enough of
your party left to occasion much trou-
BILE. *r.r 4... -
For more than year past, and during
what was believed to be the decadence
of the Grant boom last winter, we con-
stantly maintained that Grant would be
the next presidential nominee of the Re-
publican party, and we do not give it up
yet. We still believe that he will be nom-
mated, though probably by very small
majority. .r- : = Fl ri q