The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-09

The Nominee Tor PRESIDENT
eYAe country brcsthcs freer this morning
The shadow OF the third tcrm--a synonye
OF the empire-has darkened the land 10
months. An Undesirable apprehension
that the republic might be near its end ha
possessed the breasts OF many OK the wises
and purest Of patriots. But to-day Il IL an
nouuced with glad acclaim thai all DANCE
Is past for the present. The people oil To
Republican party have saved the people 0
the whole country the trouble OF dispersinI
that dark shadow. Gen eral GRANT Is re
msndcd to private life, Ind the republic ha
new lease OF existence.
We have never ceased to war upon th
third term and against General GRANT
nomination. We have from the beginning
aided his strongest rival to the extent
our opportunity. We read aud heard ina
General GRANT would be more easily DC
fested than any other nan; yet we pre-
ferred decidedly to bcst him In Chicago
aud take the risk OF betting his successful
compe,iter next November. Our ardeh
desire for his defeat has been gratifed.
We rejoice with the best Republicans, an'
almost Oh the Democrats. In this sectioh
over the defeat OF the man who few year
400 ordered Genera De TaoBsIAND to or
eanize Republican Legislature in Louisi
ana, and whose presence In the Whiu
House encouraged the Republicans TO stea
the presidency In 1876. We rejoice that th'
friend Of the whiskey thieves, and the pa
from of Boss SHEPHERD, TON MURPHY, ano
the rest OF the GRANT gang. is no more &c
rule this country. We rejoice that the man
Is beaten who In 1876 said to Governor RAN
poLPH, "Dsmn the Supreme Court" (ol
South Carolina.) We rejoice that the man
"a beaten who has no respect for laws and
constitutions, aud holds In contempt the
rights of the States and the liberties OF the
people. But above all, we rejoice that 1t is
now as good as the written law OF the land
that no man shall occupy the presidential
chair longer than did GEORGE WASHINGTON.
But what as to General GARFIELD? Well,
we have seen the day when we did not like
him at all. We have, however, lost some
OF our dislike for him. Compared with
GRANT, he IS as HYPERION to SATYR. Since
"GLAUcps gave bis golden for TYDIDEs'
brazen arms, no better exchange has ever
been made than that OF GRANT for GAR
FIELD; but GRANT is the brass, and GAR
YIBLD tue gold. General GARFIELD has had
q long experience in public life. Next
to Mr.. KELLY, OF Pennsylvania, he
is, we think, the oldest member OF
the National House of Representatives.
He has served almost nine successive
terms, or nearly eighteen years. He
has become familiar with public men, been
lberalized by contact and strife with them,
been curried down by RAN. TUCKER and
others, been warmed up by bis association
with soutberDers, (oi whom he generally
has smart sprinkling at his social parties, }
and been made lit to administer this great
Government. Unlike GRANT, GARFIELD, if
elected. will be President himself. He will
not allow CoNKLISG, or CAMERON, or LOGAN,
nor all three of them combined, to usurp his
functions as the highest executive officer in
the land. Unlike GRANT, GARFIELD is a
good constitutional lawyer. Unlike GRANT,
GARFIELD knows that in times OF peace at
least the civil authorities must be superior
TO the military. Unlike GRANT, GARFIELD
has at least some little respect for the rights
OF the States.
Shall we say that unlike GRANT, GAR.
FIELD has never been charged with corrup-
ton in office? We can't. He has been
charged with receiving a good deal Of
money i'm rather suspicious way; but at
this moment we cannot recall the facts.
However, this charge will il true make 1t
all the more easy for the Democrats TO beat
him next November; and the reader need
not fear but he will before that time read or
hear OF all the offences Of which the new
nominee has been guilty during the whole
course OF his life. We shall publish in an
other column biography OF Mr.. GARFIELD.
Mr.. BLAINE made the fight, and another
has the glory of the victory. He wove the
wreath which adorns Mr.. GARFIELD's brow.
His is indeed hard fate. We sympathize
with him now, as we did four years ago
under somewhat similar circumstances.
We suppose that there is no other man in
the Republican party who could possibly
have prevented General GRANT from getting
the nomination for President. Colonel
P0PaAM said to us recently that il GRANT
was defeated at Chicago, the Democratic
party would owe debt Of gratitude to the
Dispatch, seeing, as he thought, that GRANT
would be so much harder to beat than any
other man. WeSay, for like reasons, that
not the Democratic party particularly, but
the whole country owes Mr.. BLAINE debt
Of gratitude for the labor Of HERCULES which
be has performed.
General GARFIELp will easily carry Ohio
against anybody else than Mr.. THURMAN;
and even against him, we suppose. He
lives In the Western Reserve, and his own
congressional district will give him ten
thousand majority, although he voted to
sustaia President HAYgs'G veto Of the silver
bill. II he had lived in any other congress
sional district ia Ohio than the one in which
he does i've, that vote would probably have
cost him bis seat in Congress. But the
Western Reserve stood by him even on this
question. The Cincinnati Commercial, the
leading Republican paper in Ohio, does moi
like GARFIELD very well, and disikes his |
votes upon the silver bill; but that Journal |
IS so much rejoiced at the defeat OF GRANT
hat 1t will probably welcome GARFIELD
IS savior. Mr.. GARPIELDs tariff views
10 pot suit the western people. His failure
% put wood-pulp on the free-list recently