The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-01-08
Why Grant is Wanted.

The list of third term boomers would
not be complete if the name of Senator
Sharon was omitted. Mr.. Sharon rep
resents in the United States Senate the
Radical rotten borough of Nevada, and
has principally distinguished himself as
chronic absentee. Like most of the
Pacific slope Senators, he is interested
in silver mining, and is fabulously rich.
He bought a seat in the Senate pretty
much as he would have bought yatch
or a span of horses, because he thought
it something wealthy man should pos
sess, and is now preparing to purchase
his reelection. Recently he decided to
pay a visit to Washington, and while on
his way to the Capital unburthened his
mind 10 the reporter of Western news
paper. Mr.. Sharon has very decided
opinions, which he does not hesitate to
speak, about the propriety of making
Gen. Grant President for third time.
He says we need q strong central Gov
ernment--the wealth Of the country de-
mands it; without capital and capitalists
our Government would not be worth a
fig; the capital of the country demands
protection, its rights are as sacred as the
rights of the paupers who are continually
prating about the encroachments of cap
tai and against Capitalization. "We
have tried Gen. Grant, and know him to
be the man for the place above all others.
He has nerve. As President he would
be commander of the army and navy
and when the communistic tramps of the
country raised mobs to tear up railroad
tracks and to sack cities on the sham cry
of "bread or BLOOD" he would not hesi-
tate to turn loose upon them canister
and grape. The wealth of the country
has to bear the burdens of government
and it should control it. The people are
becoming educated up TO this theory rap
idly, and the sooner it is recognized in
the Constitution and laws the better it
will be for the people. This is plain
talk. Messers. Sharon and his associates
want Grant made President in order that
the capital of the country, concentrated in
the hands of few thousand men, may
control the Government and rule fifty
millions of freemen. Grant is the man
for the place, because his sympathies are
with capital and against labor, and he
can be relied upon to feed hungry stom-
achs with 'grape and canister" Senator
Sharon's platform is simple and compre-
hensive: Labor must starve that capi-
tai may thrive, and strong man must
be put at the head of the Government,
who will not hesitate to drown the cries
of starving humanity in the roar of can
non. Mr.. Sharon does not think it pos
sible for the candidate of the Republican
party-who is to be Grant-to encounter
defeat. He frankly says that without
bloodshed-and rivers of it-there will
be no political change of Administra-
ton" Fhe moneyed interests of the
country, for self-preservation, must sus-
tain the Republican party. The rail-
roads, the banks, the manufacturers, the
heavy importers, and all classes of bust
ness in which millions are invested, will
maintain the supremacy of the Republi-
can party. Like all of his class, Mr..
Sharon regards, or processes to regard,
Democrats as repudiators and robbers.
He says that Democratic success in the
next Presidential election would be
bankruptcy to all the material interests
of the country, and that, "to avert fear
full bloodshed," strong centralized gov
ernment should be established as soon as
possible. The Nevada Senator is frank,
at all events. He boldly utters what his
confederate boomers" only hint. He has
no concealments. He thinks the time
has come when the Imperiaists can say
what they think and openly work for the
success of schemes that would have been
considered reasonable in the days OF
Washington and Jefferson. The men
who have millions of money, who con-
troll great corporations and deal in Sena-
torships as they would trade in stocks,
are anxious to make a change in the
form of the government. They are fear
full that the Republic is not strong enough
to protect their plumber and want cen.
tralized governmeut-a kind of bastard
Imperialism-administered by man like
Grant, who, Indifferent to human suffer
ing and to human life, will defend capi-
tai with cannon and guard monopoly
with bayonets. Mr.. Sharon is not a
loose talking blusterer. What he says
he means, and, that he expresses him
self so freely shows that he and his con-
federates feel confident they have the
game in their own hands and that con-
cealment is no longer necessary. His
words give force to the prediction that if
General Graut is elected next year he
will be the last President of the Repub-
u. Il 1,ey