Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-03-13
The Grant Programme.

and dairy as they pleased-but when he
pleased he could be the master.
Eyebright, in Country Gentleman.
The Grant Programme.
Grans was first nominated with the
overwhelming if not unanimous consent
of his party. 1t was urged in his favor
that for this reason his Administration
would be free from the influence of pol
iticians Owing nothing to them he
would be comparatively independent
and become the President of the whole
country Some of his Cabinet appoint
ments notably those of MIR. A. T. Stew
art and Mr. Borie-were defiance Of
the political leadership of the party.
This, however, did not last long, and
his second term ended with a most
servile prostitution, not simply to par
tisan purposes, but to personal partisan
ship. to Conkling, to Cameron, to
Chandler, and to the cliques they repre-
sented.
After an interregnum of four years he
is the candidate for the third term. An
effort has been made to establish his
claims on the specious and liberal
ground of the distinguished American
citizen for whom the Republican party
would be and its opponents should be
proud to vote. There was to be nothing
narrow or heating or petty in such
candidacy. He was to represent the
pride, the generosity, the impulsive
ness of an admiring party. and,
to as large an extent as pos
sible, worshipful people. The very
nature of the broad, free approval of
him would, it has been said, lift him
- Al.
]y surrounded him. In his absence
from the camp he had, like those
stricken with leprosy of old, been puri-
fed of the taints which clung to his old
robes of Office He had been in quar-
antine, and obtained clean bill of
health from the crowned heads of
Europe. Nominated almost unani-
mously, spontaneously and with the
hearty assent and consent of the whole
party, he could afford to act independ-
emily of all politicians and all cliques.
His inexperience forced him in the first
instance to fall back upon their advice
and aid. But nominated with fervor
and without a contest, fortified by
eight years of service, he could afford
to take the Office and discharge its du-
| ties in serene Indifference to the pre-
tended ''claims" of anybody who
| assumed to have been the instrument of
| his nomination. In other words, that
| large flock of claimants, each of whom
| in former days pushed himself forward
Gas the man who discovered Grant.
| would have to find sustenance in other
| barnyards and no longer challenge at
tention to their Growing in honor of the
rising sun. At least it would be settled
that the sun did not rise because they
crowed.
The dream of those who sincerely and
disinterestedly held this view must
| have been rudely dispellsd during the
last few days. 1t is now seen that
Grants squabble for the prize is to be
just as vulgar, just as violent.
| just as fierce, and just as greedy
as anybody's. He or his representa-
i tives will have to figure as close,
and pull as many wires and lay as
much pipe as the shrewdest and hardest
headed politician in the party. Pre-
eminent already in the business are the
veterans Cameron and Conkling, whose
methods for carrying caucuses and con-
ventions leave nothing for the expertest
IN either party to learn.
Vanished is the hope that Grant
would represent any new and cleaner
elements. s'The old set'' have their
hands on IS the machine" and they are
working it for Grant to its fullest ca
pacity. They are turning out Grant
delegates as the nail machine turns out
nails, with heads just alike and made
out of the same piece. To them he will
be indebted for his honors. Upon him
erty can be deliverd, they are
| QlrQq6u alqYrInn fOJ1T
mortgage The closer the contest, the
greater the Indebtedness. The harder
their work the more he will have to
pay. The prestige of accepting the
nomination as free-win offering from
the party is already gone. The gloss
of the shining casket in which, in imi.
tation of foreign honors, he was to be
presented the freedom of the party, is
tarnished beyond repair Cameron
took it in his hands and left his finger.
marks upon it. Conkling has already
touched it and it's simmer is rubbed
off, and it cannot be replated or regal
vanized.
He stands upon the same level with
Blaine and Sherman. If nominated he
| will, like them, have friends to reward
and enemies to punish. ALI pretense
of an unsought, unbought honor has
disappeared. He must get down into
the dust of the arena, and sweat anC
toll with the best or the worst of them
The party cannot, if it would, tender
him its vote on a silver salver and wisl
him many happy returns of the day
He Or his friends must grab and grul
for it, or they will lose it. They may
lose it in any event, but if they gain i
it is to be gained, badly stained, torn
soiled with the marks of the conflict
not, like the addresses of foreign corpo
rations to him, embossed and engrossee
on elegant parchment, and in stately
dignifed text.-Detroit Free Press.
HAVANA cigars are likely to advance
in price for rather odd reason. Since
last October straw paper has gone vi
seventy-fve per cent, and it is fac
that many of the so-called Havan,
} cigars are made from this article, whicl
! is manufactured chiefly in New Yori
State. The straw paper is taken t.
Cuba, saturated in a decoction mad
from the stems and refuse of the cboic'
Havana seed leaf, and when properl,
| TOD a.