The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-12-21
GRANT.

A few years ago General Grant was refer
red to as Tie spnynx, OF as Grant the silent.
His public uLlerances We're few, simple aild
tar between. He said but little, but tile
lew words we're directed al the centre OF the
subject aud seldom failed TO hit tile mark.
he devoted more tune TO Thought than "
words. HIS AaDlLual silence Was uiarkeu and
proverblal. BuL a great hanse has been
wrought III the hitherto LaciLurn soldier.
The adulaton Of the world appears to have
turned his head. His tongue Las become un-
looseu. During the recent presidential CAM
palgn, contrary " his previously expressed
determination 10 take no part III The canYass,
he flew his little eagle, rauted and rayed upon
The stump, Llckled Tie ears OF the "Boys III
Blue " and succeeded in convincing himself
LnaJ he Is an orator ami Statesmen. Demos
the hes corrected his impeachment III speech
by filling Ills mouth with pebbles and taiklng
To Tie waves vi The sea. The once tongue
tied Grant las corrected his by a liked glance
upon The presidential chair OF 1854. Demos
tnenes became the greatest orator ot his day.
Grant has developed into d hrst-class political
SHARP. lie las become The central ngure i'll
AMI the oracle OF his party. His opinions
upon the leading questions OF the uay are
heralded throughout the land. he Is sharp
very sharp. He has been lately watching
the democrats in congress and has discovered
a large sized mares nest in the electoral
count resolution That has recently passed the
senate and is now under discussion i'll the
house. He says the democrats have some
= Interior object " III view in passing that res
olutiou. II has been left to Grant to lind
that out. While under fire OF the republic
cans in the senate, no Interior object" in
the resolution was seen by such keen eyed
men as Edmunds, Logan and others who
Joined ia the discussion OF it,. But Grant
found it. He doesn't say exactly what the
democrats propose to do after they pass the
resolution, but as it las an &C Interior object !"
in it, there must be something dreadful con-
cealed. Probably it provides for the appoint
Ing of another s to 7 commission. Democrats
are fond OF these creations, but we don't re-
member to have heard that august body call
ed all -" Interior object" though it strikes us
we have heard it mentioned as all ultimate
OF some very long but inharmonlous words
not found in King James version OF
L4e Bible. Whether electoral commissions
and I" ulterior objects" are SYNONYMS we will
not decide. But Grants discovery has been
t~elegraphed to the uttermost parts of the land
and the American people are holding their
breath in expectation Of seeing the republic
can minority i'll the house prod that "ul
terror object" out of the resolution and hold
aleft its dormant body to the gaze of an i'll
dignanJ nation.
Four years ago, when the democrats of
congress yielded to their feelings of patriot
ism rather than to their sense of right and
justice, and relegated the counting of the
electoral vote to an electoral commission,
there was no Grant conveniently at hand to
warn them of the ''ulterior object" that the
republican members OF the commission-in-
Guiding the president elect-had in view
when they advocated the resolution that Gre
ateu chat ever memorable s to I body. 1t
would be better for the country to-day if
some one of the then prospective candidates
for the presidential nomination in 1880 had
uttered a warning cry and prevented its pas
sage. Tllden would be in the presidential
chair and Grant would have re aimed en-
throned in the hearts of the American peo-
pie as their idol, and his lame would adorn
the brightest page in American history. He
once occupied that position among the great
names Of the earth for which ADLER men have
unsuccessfully battled. But when he caught
the presidential bee in his bonnet for the
third time he descended from the high pedes-
tai upon which a grateful people had placed
him and mixed with the tumultuous rabble
in a scramble for power. Since the day he
characterized Hancock as a "Weak, vain
man" he has been gradually but surely losing
the good will and confidence OF his fellow
men. Grants measure has been accurately
taken, and hereafter he will be estimated
only at his true worth.