The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-11
THE GRANT GROUP.
Their Part In the Campaign'-Srah'
Controls the Machine "a" me
HoldIt.-The People Not Re"dy
for Grant

t;on ia. "Who won it, and why
WAS Il won The answer must be that
many men and many causes combined in aid
Of the republicans. A careful analysis of
the voting and of the influences at work in
the communities where the change OF votes
was effected, will BIO surprising.
The Grant men are claiming the rewards
of the republican victory. in some measure
they are entitled to them. judging from the
ase with which they have influenced him in
the past, Mr.. Garfield will recognize their
claims as valid As a matter of fact, however,
the Grant people did not win the election.
What they did win was the leadership OF the
republican party-of the machine,and what
the republican party has to
fear from the election is that
the hold of the "Grant crowd" on the ma
chine is so strong that they will control the
national convention in 1881 IL is very ap-
parent to even the most Careless observer
that the mon who control the republican
machine do not fear this result, because Of
the incapscity or dishonesty of Grant and
his followers; and it is useless TO argue on
that point with men who fought with Bris-
tow in 1876 against tho whisky ring and
against all the other outrageous iniquities of
Grants second term, and who yet now pro.
claim thems Ives in favor of Grant in 'S4 1t
Ia very evident th,t such men we're not honest
four wears ago. Thew nevertheless represent
what they are pleased to call "the better Gle.
ments" Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati
Gazette when he declared himself for Grant
in s4, no matter what might be the result of
this years election, gave expression to the
deliberate Judgment of macy politicians who
have always passed rs reforuers. The ques-
ton is,
CAN GRANT HOLD ON TO THE MACHINE
for four yearsY OF course, he will always
own his end of the machine-tho 1906" the
men who never make any pretensions to vir
tue; but can he retain his hold on the others
who this year before the convention fought
both him and the thir term? That is the
serious question for honest and sober minded
republicans to ask The Smiths and Hal
steads have thrown away the pretense that
they think Grants second term showed him
unfit for the office. In the light of their re-
cent utteranc they can never again make a
fight against the third term or the Grant
crowd" If they are to be driven off from
their present hero, it must be done by show
ing them that the voters are as much op.
posed to Grant MS they were in 1874 or 1876.
Perhaps the Grant people won Indiana for
the republicans. Leaving entirely out of
view all the causes of demo cratic dissatsfac.
ton and discussion, especially the unpopu-
larty of En- gsb and Lsuders, il is perhaps
just to give Uonkling aud Grant and A thur
and Dorsey, especially the last two, the hon
or or dishonor of the victory. This is true,
if it Is assumed that Indiana was carried by
superior organization and by y lib
eral expenditure of money. If the state
were carried on the same issue that had
such potent effect ia n W York, the business
issue, the uud stability of change for those
engaged in trade and manufacturing then
Secretary Schurz is entitled TO more credit
than all the Grant men put together. He
struck the Or per keynote IN his speech at
Indianapolis; he mnde the argument upon
which the republicans won. If, on the other
hand, the Grant men did effective service
anywhere, it was in Indiana. II is one ofthe
few states in which it is possible for men like
Dorsey and Arthur to carry their peculiar
and disreputable methods to successful
result. This is hard thing to say of the
state, but il IA true. Dorsey and Arthur
managed the Indiana campaign The former
was merely the subservient and INSCRIPTIONS
lieutenant of the vice, presidential who, by
the way, did all in his power during the cam
paign to deserve tho reputation given him by
Secretary Sherman in the letter stating to the
senate the reasons for his dismissal from the
New York custom'house; Lot the Grant
men have
THE CREDIT of CARRYING INDIANA.
That does not show that they have Influence
enough to carry federal election. Had the
result in other needed state depend on the
been defeated. In New York Conkling's
been depended on alone tho democrats
would have carried the state. 1t was New
York city that decided the election. Tho
business interests wanted to be let alone, but
most OF all John Kolly's nduct called the
"scrNtChers" to the front, and kept the dem
ocratic majority so low that the republican
majorities in the country districts overcsme
il. G,onkling made one "etlort" in the city,
which was laughed at by all republicans who
were possessed of average reasoning facul-
ties. After that his eXertions in New York
state were confined to the country, where he
HNu lut tshlsbhllVo VI pIhub w NAV
was the RESULT BY skillful and uncontra.
dicted falsehood concerning the tariff cues.
ton in large manufacturing cities, and by the
putting forth of most extraordinary e1er-
tons, the rural republicans of the state have
about held their own share of the inreased
vote. Conkling promised that no and Grant
would carry New York for Garfield by co.
900 majority. That meant 100000 north of
Harlem bridge. There is no reason to sup
pose that, when he made that promise, he
expected the falling off Of the demoora ic
vote in the city. If he did not expect it, he
meant that rural New York would give
the republicans 10000 majority. As a
matter of fact, there was not enough gain in
the country to overcome the democratic ma.
jority Of four years ago. Had it not becn
for John Kelly and the frightened business
men, N York would have gone demo-
cratic by. between 5000 and 10000, if the city
had given its majority of 1876. Had the
democrats held their per centase of the in.
creased vote, the state would have gone from
10000 to 5000 for their ticket Conkling' s
campaign was a failure. The absur1ities he
talked about the tariff did not make votes
enough.
GRANTS EXHIBITION OF HIMSELF
did not rouse enthusiasm enough. All that
Grant and Conkling did would not, alone,
have carried New York for Garfield. Other
influences gave the republicans their victory
in that state.
Dorsey was given the management in New
Jersey. II is not claimed that he was AS
successful there is in Indiana.