The daily gazette., 1880-03-01

AZ the only man In the country who cal
| meet IL adequately, because he is tn
only man whom, representing a grea
cause and aiTying great principle, I'd
conservatism Of the North can rally to
He is the only man who can give TN
real balance Of power in the conIest
guarantees at once aga inst the ooutn-
which will be put forward as the hadi
c u issue---and against Grant VINO WI
be equipped as the image Of ioyaity ans
o der.
Substantially, the crisis has alread!
come. That General Grant will be
the Republican nominee is as certain
now as it will be on the afternoon oi
the I'd of June. Those foolish Demo
Gratis who complain that we use Grant
to boost Tilden, misjudge us and mis-
lead themselves, and all to the injury
of the party they pretend to love and
serve. The Democratic National Con-
vention will not be held until after the
Republican Convention. Therefore,
if our representation as to Grant be
wrong, our argument for Tilden--to
that extent-falls to the ground. But
we are not of those who believe in
waiting upon events. "Wait" is a
good word, but 'smeasure" is better,
aud when we can let us anticipate.
General Grant will be the Republi-
can nominee. His nomination is revo-
luton. Speaking not thoughtlessly
but Familiarity, it means fight or a
foot-race for somebody.
The ground-plan of the Grant mana
gers, who are brave, able, and alert
very much stronger and more respecta-
BILE than any body of conspirators
known among men, since those who
made way with Caesar, and thus, by
a curious inversion of history, seeking
both by paradox and conspiracy, to
bring him to life again-the ground
plan of the Grant managers does not
rest upon either the result of the popu-
lar vote or the vote cast in the cleo
toral College,. Mr.. Conkling knows
as well as Mr.. Curtis, Mr.. Cameron
knows as well as Mr.. Halstead, that,
with all his personal popularity and
prestige, General Grant is bound to
be the weakest candidate numeri-
cally speaking, the Republicans can put
Ii the field, But, what he lacks In num-
hers they propose to make up by the
force Of the issue they are to precipitate
upon the country. That issue is q solid
North against solid South, first. Sec
ond, an easl y arranged confusion of the
returLs, and, by consequence, dispute
of the count. Here comes in the query:
WHO'S to unit the vote? The Vice
President, ofc)urse, for whom they
claimed 1t before. But the Vice-Presi-
dent, being set aside by a disloyal Sem
ate, made up Of pardoned rebels and
traitors, who next? The. two houses?
But both the Senate and House OF Rep.
resentatives are controlled by the Con-
federates. Brigadiers; unrepentant rebels
and traitors; MI shall the loyal North
permit its Military Hero, the very man
who crushed the rebellion and spared
these wretches their lives, to be cheated
of his election and fraudulently counted
out by such n?UPerish the thought.
There are two courses open to prevent
so borrid an asc -ndance of the tlost
cause" over the cause of the Union. 70
begin with, the margin is so close that
the lmpecunious may be bought, and to
end with, the wavering may be intimi-
dated. In any event, whilst General
Grant may be weak before the election,
he will be stroDg after it, and, calculaI-
ing the balance of chances, the Repubh-
can party, suckled by passion, and rear
ed upon war--and by nature the party
war-is to-day overwhelmingly for
Grant; and though Blame may make a
hot opposition, and Halstead. Curtis,
and McP herson-clad in linen and fine
raiment may put in a thousand theo-
RES, he will be named to do the things
we have sketched, not merely by Conk.
hing and Cameron; but by the legions
who follow them.
This is scheme, and the Democrat who
does not see 1t, and, seeing it, does not
conceive its power and its danger, is
hopelessly welded to idols which will
tersake him when he most needs them.
Who Is to meet this crisis? Surely not
nominee set up by the Southern lead
ers IN CDngress-representing the blum
ders and failures of the extra session.
for this would give the conspirators the
very is ue they want a. d point both
their guns and their moral for them.
Surely not some nobody, dictated at the
instance Of a handful of traitors, headed
by John Kelly, and selected mainly to
crush Mr. Tilden and to rebuke and in
suit all who have stood by him; for this
would be to do more execution at the
breach than at the muzzle. Who then?
Why, the man on whose person the
fraud was perpetrated; the man who
represents the outraged majesty of the
the man whom the enemy most breads,
and who for three years has stood the
fire of incessant attack from friend and
foe, at times almost alone, ard never
moved muscle. II we don't take Tilden
we are fools; If we desert him we are
towards. And If 1t comes to passage at
arms, he, and only he among Democrat
ic leaders, can Set squadron In the
field. But, representing none of the stu
pidities Of Democratic extremism, and
supported by the Justice of the case,
magnified, and by the conservative in
terests of the North, which would know
themselves to be safe with hlm-a fair
count in his favor could neither be
bought up nor trampled down; and
should the worst come to the worst, he
is the one Democratic leader of 1877
who did not urrender at The first fire.
These are eincontrovertible truths, and
we defy any Democrat using the simple
weapons of fact and logic, to upset eth
or our statement or the argument built
thereon. 1t Is easy to call names. 1t Is
easy to invent motives. But the dangers
before us demand the serious considera-
ton of those politicians who have set
themselves to rule or ruin; for benin l
them are dlsinterested and intelligent
masses of the people to whom we shall
and confidently appeal
against passionate cliquism and unrea-
sonlDg ambition.
The formation of an I.lO. o. F. en-
n ,npY,apt in Nawarlr 10 haipr tallraJ