San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1880-01-17
4 sousd View Or tho Political
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Courisr-J ourual interviewed Ex-Sen
stor Doolittle. of Wisconsin. He
gave his views thoughtfully, and with
much consideration, as follows:
rGraut will certainly be the Repub.
licsp candidate. He will be forced
into il. He will be elected, too, uu-
less the best wisdom Of the Democrat
10 party organise . united aud hsrmo.
niods opposition. Grant, left to him.
sslf, would be 10 spomy Of The South;
but be Is ip the hands Of the most
reckless, desperate aud uuprincipled
politicians the world ever knew. His
election assures them permanency 10
Office. He is tho one most easily
elected. They will mass upon him as
the embodiment Of the military spirit
and principle which believes in the
supremacy of force instead Of the su.
premacy Of law. As long ago as 1866
Grant told me at Milwaukee, the night
previous to the Republican State Con.
vention at Madison, that the enforce.
ment Of. the, negro equality in the
South would require . standing army.
He authorized me to say this in the
convention. His prediction and my
conviction have been realized. There
is no use Of endesvoring to hide the
fact that great alarm exists with the
masses at the North through what the
newspapers tell them, through what
the stalwarts tell them. that the peo.
pie of the South are determined to
nullify the results Of the war. This
will certainly eoalesce all Republicans
and large numbers of war Democrats
on some man like Grant, confidence in
whose ability to compel the utter
equality Of the negro by the use Of
the standing army exists. There is
but one course left for the people Of
.he-South. That is to show the whole
country willingness to permit these
questions to adjust themselves; to re.
train wholly and absolutely from i'm
proper methods or any form ofintimi.
datieaa to veqthe negro upquestion.
ed equal rights at the polls; aud'to re-.
ly for the control of their own affairs
wholly upon the superiority Of their
intelligenosAnd their rmoral supremacy.
The curse of the Democracy Of the
whole country and Of the people. Of
the, South is this Solid South bust.
ness. If q Democratic president is to
be elected. we must secure victory
through Northern votes, and nothing
will SO result in permanent oppression
Of the South by an inoonsiderate,
conseienceless military power, brought
into existence and perpetuated by un.
relenting stalwartism, IS for the South,
as q section, to continue to assert its
defiance of the wish and the will Of
the whole country; for the alarm Of
which I speak il the thunder Of the
stalwarts, and it IL in their power to
mold il into controlling force. Yes,
the boomers are with Grant; the Stal
warts are with Grant; hundred thous-
and ofice.holders are with Grant: the
whisky. thieves are with Grant; the
whole Methodist church is with Grant
its priests and its bishops praying
for his candidacy and election; the
Graad Army Of the Republic is with
Grant; the whole country is aroused
and will be for Grant, and great
standing army as against what the Stal.
warts have succeeded in bringing for
ward ss profound public dsnger. Grant
elected to a third term means Grant
reelected to . fourth. fiftb, and D
sixth term. The same influences will
repeat the same results. Then In
perielismI Revolutionl Anarchy! -
"The remedy. in my opinion. only
lies in wise and patriotic action on the
part of our national convention. We
must unite-the Democrats OF the
North and South will be compelled to
unite-on some man with marked
Union procliyities. possessing broad
statesrpsnsbip. sound on all financial
questions man with clean hands.
Then the sharp issue will be drawn
whether the whole people OF the
United States desire . President rep
resentiDs 10 his administration the
theory of force and q strong suspicion
Of imperialism. or one embodying the
idea Of republican institutions and the
supremacy Of the Law. Then, and
only then, could Grant be defeated.
Il would defeat him"
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