National Republican., 1880-02-24
SPARKS FROM THE political ANVIL

The Grant men will conquer because they
have courage. They fear nothing and nobody.
N. y. Sun.
The Democrats can beat Grant, provided
harmony exists in tho party and a strong
ticket is nominated Whitehall Times Dem. J.
There is no man in the Senate so high that
his dignity would bc lowered by placing his
name next to that Of Grant on the Republican
ticket.-BuDaiO Express (Rep.)
Wendell Phillips isn't a Grant man if he
knows himself but he says that the man who
dreams of Grant turning into dictator in case
lie is reelected, would have awakened Noah
with the cry Of "Fire !"-NonpareH
If Grant is the real choice of the people, lie
should be nominated Ii ho is the only man
that can save the country. no should be
nominated. If he is tho only man the Repub-
licans can elect hc should be nominated
Ciereldad Herald (Rcp).
All rational persons are aware that if Con-
eral Grant were nominated ho would have to
depend on Republicans for election. The talk
| that Democrats, North or South, would break
the party lines to vote for him, is childishness
General Grant, as the nominee of the Rcpubli-
can party, would have TO be elected by Re.
publican votes, if elected at all.-Cincindti
Gasctie.
1t does rot need any thorough canvass nor
any grand demonstration to prove that the
people of Ohio to-day would rather put Gen.
cral Grant in the Presidential chair, knowing
that he can be thoroughly and entirely trusted
| in the dangerous times which are certain to
come within the next four years, than any
other man in the Nation, Columbus (Ohio) cor.
N. Y. Times.
If tho Democratic papers really believe that
| General Grant is weak candidate WHY are
they devoting so much timo and attention to
him Why abuse him more than all the other
| Republican candidates combined If he would
be the easiest man to defeat2 Perhaps some
one in charge of Democratic mudswivol will
stop long enough to explain this thing
| Cheyenne Sim.
General Grant alone, of all tho prominent
candidates, has following in the creation of
which he has neither part nor lot, whose sup
port he has done nothing to secure whose
votes he was not in position either to bribe,
coerce, reward or punish, and whose votes will
represent, as votes have rarely represented
before, an honest, deep, unbought, uncor-
rupted and uncomfortable impulse of the
popular heart-BOston Trare'ler.
Grant viii be strong enough to enter upon
| his own way and to march over it in triumpb.
not needing just few votes more to win
success, aud disdaining to be the second
choice of majority in the convention. lie
will have no fear of the dark horse" which,
| had he not been engaged in this contest
| would have been as great terror to Blaine
and Sherman as he himself is now In the
Chicago Convention the chances of his rivals
will 90 to ruin, and dark horses" will STAY in
the dark.-Riclmond State.
| 1t is said that when General Grant has fin.
! ished his tour through Mexico, he will know
more about that country, its people, govern
ment and needs than any public man In it,
Aud this information, obtained by careful
personal observation, will he of great use to n
future President of the United States The
same may be said respecting General Grants
| knowledge Of all other nations and countries
| in the world. No public man has had equal op.
pOrtunities of becoming acquainted with tho
peoples of foreign countries and the interior
of their governments. This cosmopolitan
knowledge renders the great solder.states
man peculiarly qualified for becoming tho Ex.
ecutive of the grandest republic the world
has n.--ROchesterErpress
Senator Blair, of New Hampshire. says that
conservative Republicans regard a third term,
not as a menace TO republican institutions, but
as confession Of weakness in the party
which would injnre it in the campaign. Not
so the stalwarts Of the West They recog.
nize in q third torn of Grant tho safety and
preservation of republican institutions, in
the face of Democratic monaco to their per.
petuation and safety. The nomination and
election of General Grant to so. called third
term is not confession of Republican weak
ness, but a recognition of Democratic strength
for OWL Tho strength of the Republican
party will lie precisely whore 1t lay twenty
years agO--in its courage, Its decision, its
energy its abiding determination TO protect
aud perpetuato free institutions from tho
peril into which Democratic treason aud Gus
sedness are again bringing them. Precisely
that is what the nomination and election of
General Grant will mean,-O0ldhd Republican.