The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-05-13
GENERAL GRANT.

One of the most unpleasant features
connected with the present politica
contest is the attitude many Republi
cans have assumed toward Genera
Grant.
We concede the right of those who
prefer Blaine or Washburne or Sher
man to express their preferences, anC
labor for the man of their choice. But
we do not concede the right of any Re
publican to take up and reiterate the
cry of the Democracy of four years ago
and assail Gen. Grant, as was recently
done at st. Louis, and is done by some
of the readers of the TELEGRAPH daily.
Let it be understood that in writing
this article we are not advocating the
nomination of the ex-President, for we
can support either Washburne or
Blaine as heartily as we could Grant,
should we be called upon to do so by
the action of the Chicago Convention.
But we regard it as very unfortunate
that the friends of any one man should
find it necessary to assail any other
man for the purpose OF making capital
for their favOrite. If Grant be nomin-
ated, it will be upon his own merits
and We are greatly pleased that up to
the present time his advocates have not
attempted to press his claims by BELT
thing his competitors. 1t seems strange
indeed that Grant should be treated in
a more respectful manner by hundreds
of thousands who are politically op-
posed to him than by many of his own
party.
Senator Conkling, of New York,
stated the case fairly to a Herald re-
porter who asked: What do you think
of the Republican Presidential out
look?" Conkling said:
THAT General Grant will be nomin-
ated by the people and elected by the
people, and by large majority. L say
by the people, for this reason: Nothing
has been done for General Grant: ey-
Ierything has been done and is being
done against him. say nothing has
been done by General Grant, because
no committee, no combination, no bu-
reau, no patronage and no money has
been enlisted for him; but all these
have been arrayed against him, with a
systematized and arranged combina-
ton of many newspapers besides. The
sole support General Grant has receiv-
ed has been from spontaneous iudg-
ment and action. The common sense
of men, with no purpose save the sue
cess of the Republican party, and the
safety OF the country, has espoused
General Grant. If anything else has
supported him, [ do not know it.
Many persons write to me to know
where they can get a Grant document
sure enough, where are they? Not
a document OF circular has ever been
sent out OF printed for Grant that I
nave heard OF. Not clerk has been
employed to write a letter for him.
Any other candidate would have been
buried out of sight by this time. The
strength of General Grant, and his hold
on the regard and confidence of the
country, have never been shown more
conspicuously than in the fact that,
pummeled and buffeted on every side,
not only by the whole Democratic
press, but by the unheard-of instrument
talities which have been resorted to for
his competitors, yet, without organized
effort for him, he distances the whole
field. No other man in either party
could have survived such constant
concentrated fire. A few months ago
no man could wink so hard as not to
see that in national convention of Re-
publicans, held then, no other name
would be seriously canvassed.''
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