Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-07
pREsloeMrlAl PREFERENCES.
Chicago Inter- Ocean.
wAat sAs PaPsss Are sayin9 Of Gran
DlaiMe,5 ana sherman.

bin, and the movement will DO irfeslstible.
II they don't want him they will make II
equally manifest. The people are to decide
this question Ecening Journal.
Independents will not commit the utter
blunder of srecoiling from third term INTO
the arms. III. Blaine. Meantime the dgh,
against B!aineism has not yet really begun,
Il can be made terribly effective when the
proper time comes.-SprinaieM (Mass,D
Republican,.
Il 10 % curiosity Of the present canvass
that the very papers that are BOW trying
to antsgonize Grant by putting Blaine for
ward arc the very journais that in 1876
slaughtered Blaine without mercy or con-
science. Are they any better friends at
heart for Blaine now y-Omaha Republican.
We believe that Grant once.s candidate,
the political hacks and wire-pullers will
have about as much chance Ot success 40
Buckncr had at Fort Donaldson, or Pember.
Ton at Y%icksburg. Finally, we believe in
General Grant, and we do not believe in the
politicians and wire-pullers.-NeW York
Era.
The action Of the republican state COM
mtttee gtvss general Satisfaction tn the re-
publicans OF this section. The delegates
are all staunch, stalwsrt republicans, and
they will vote for no man at Chicago who
Will not stand by the republicans of the
,0utb, regardless of COLOR ikningt0n(N.
C.) Post.
Mr.. Washburue has q host of friends ip
this state Who would be glad to give him
their earnest support for the republican
domination for governor, and he certainly
ought to give them a definite understand
ing also his " desires In the matter. II
Mr.. Washburne will accept the nomination.
let him say 80. If he will not, let the fact
30 authoritatively stated.-Bbominqton
Leader.
Should Grant take the office to morrow
ho would enter it as unfe,tered BY any
third term objection as when he first
stepped into the Office from the rank OF
c0mmsnder-in.chief of the U. 8. army.
The whole third term cry lis utterly mean
|lngless. 60 tar as it effects Gen. Grants
I eligibility as y candidate, but may serve Q
purp0se In advancing the interest OF q less
available man.-16bdo journal.
All of the distinguished men named for
the republican nomination are eminently
good and 6t men, and would administer the
government with decided ability and fdeli-
~; but the name of Blaine has a charm for
4 w ~ ASkuUAAN04o CACC6Oluk tudt Oh
any other, and they would delight to rally
under his banner in the great contest Of
1880. They would work for him in the
fullest confidence Of victory Wisconsin,
State Journal.
Grants chief strength 10 in the hearts of
the great body of the common people of
America. who recognize in him the great
man of the late war, whose genius al d
ability as q soldier preserved the integrity
Of the Union, and the perpetuity Of our re
publican form of government; and whose
statesmanship as chief executive of the
republic preserved the peace and promoted
the walfare of the people in the very serious
crisis of affairs during the process Of recon.
struction. Whether Grant or Blaine are
selected, the name of either will rouse the
republican party to a degree of enthusiasm
in the coming campaign that We have not
witnessed since the time that Lincoln led
the Wide-awakes to acknowledgements
Paragraph.
Let no experiments be made. The Office
demands the highest ability and the largest
experience. Both ability and experience
can be found in any one of the three who
are mentioned. Give US as a candidate a
man We know. Let US 20 into the contest
with our eyes wide open. Let the views of
the overwhelming majority of republican
votes prevail. Let not republicans after
the nomination, be forced to ask, who is
the nominee Let one of the three men
who are now confessedly the strongest be
nominated. Let not the strongest have 10
give way to the weak. Blaine is strong /;
Sherman is strong; Grant is strong. One
of these three men should be the next can
didate.-Gn. Times.
General Grant is the only man We have
that answers all the republican requirements
Of the time. The cant about q third terms
hangers is ridiculous, and proper only for
Bedlam. No "unwritten Law could be yio-
lated in bringing him forward, for no such
law exists. The constitution contains ALL
the law that We are bound to observe inl
slecting q president and the constitutional
says nothing about one term, or a second
term, or a third term of the presidential Of
Zee. As to "dictatorisl power coming from
making y third term president, it is nothing
but bad fun, and will have no effect on the
mind of any man who would not expect to
see ghosts on State street At high noon. I'll
is, if s%erioue, the drivel of second childish.
ness, and will pass into mere oblivion
Boston I+aneler.
General Grant is the typical American
citizen of the nineteenth century. Not
more 60 than many other men, perhaps,
privately speaking, but in a public eense he
10 the most prominent and central figure.
General Grant is the only northern man
that can break the solid south in 1880. This
will do through the support of the bust
ness element of the white population, and
he solid negro vote in several of the states.
The name Of Grant alone is enough to dis
pei the timidity Of the negroes engendered
" the bull.dozine, shot gun policy, and
rant Of national protection in the past few
The nomination of Grant at
Chicago secures the chief executive in
1880 to the only national party in the
United States, and proclsius to the world
n words of great and lasting potency that
he blood of the union martyrs in the late
ebellion, shall be the seed and seal of a
'reat and glorious country, free from sec
ional strife.-Eort Madison Nora) Plain.
IeaLer.
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