The daily gazette., 1880-01-06

take export freights at low rates and the
difference would be added to the pro-
ducers of corn, produce, etc.
GEN. GRANT TO BE FORCED UPON
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY From the
best evidence that is presented to the
public, it is quite evident that an effort
Is now being made to force General
Grant upon the Republican party as a
regularly nominated candidate for the
Presidency. This nomination is 10 be
forced too, by such political tricksters as
controlled his administration during the
last years thereof. Senator Don Cam
eron has undertaken the work in Penn
sylvania; and Senator Roscoe Conkling
is to do 1t in New York. These men
and others managed Grants administra-
ton when he was President, and that
they propose to do it again is quite evl-
dent If we believe what we learn from
some Of the Republican journals which
are not willing to be made to serve
their purposes. A Republican news
paper Of Philadelphia, now before US,
objects to this in language that cannot
be misunderstood. 1t says:
"The truth is, the people have nothing
whatever to do with nominating their
public officers, and every new election
they are having less TO do with electing
those who are nominated for them by
Mr.. Cameron's or Mr.. Conkling's or Mr..
Somebody Else's State Conventions.
Nominations are made by the eighty
thousand ofice-holders OF the United
States for the purpose Of keeping them
selves in power, but they have seldom
appeared so ready to set the viii of the
people at defiance, and thereby invite
defeat for the party, as in their present
attempt to force the nomination of
Grant upon the Republicans, and to
give them no choice between him and a
Democrat
Whether or not they will do it in the
face Of the opposition that is everywhere
developing towards him in the face OF
the record of his eight years of corrupt
misrule; in view Of overturning the cher
ished traditions Of the American people,
which have grown to the force of princ-
pies in view, too, of the fact that the
entire German population of the coun-
try is opposed to him, because Of the
idea OF Imperialism involved in his can
didacy /; in view, too, of the fact that the
Roman Catholic population is opposed
to him, because he publicly insulted
their religion and in view, too, of his
own confessed unfitness for :he Office, is
q question that only time will answer.
But they are now proceeding upon the
theory that they can do without the peo-
pie and more fatal theory they could
not possibly proceed upon.
Political despotism is as obnoxious tc
the American people as any other form
of despotism, and when the time comes
they will resent it, even at the cost OF
voting for a Democratic candidate fol
the Presidency or by not voting at all
The leaders could do nothing else Sc
certain to ALLEVIATE tens of thousands O.
Republican voters in every Northern
State, and nothing else that would S,
please the Democrats. A leading Jour.
nal Of New York says :-"BeyOnd al
question, the Democrats will be able t,
make such a campaign against Grant
reelection as they could not at presen
hope to make against any other candi.
date now talked of by their antagonists
The Democrats may not be successful
but If they cannot defeat Grant the
cannot defeat anybody" Again, tn
Brooklyn Eagle says :-"rhe Gran
managers of Pennsylvania bid fair to d
for the Democrats what they cannot a
present do for themselves-enable then
to unite their party and to make such
Presidential contest as was probab
never known before in the history of thi
country"
No Intelligent man outside the politi
cal or official Rings, who has at al
sounded public sentiment, can den,
these facts. However magnificent Ger
eral Grants services to his country as
soldier, his civil administration was S
bad that there came during his last teri
Uf office word to be invented to d,
scribe and embody in itself all form
Of political crimes, and that word wa
"Grantism." Under what it implied I'll
Republican party fell to pieces, lost I'll
control of State Governments, of til
Federal House and Senate, and yer
bhC OO IIlt
suppose that the people have forgotte
that in less than three years, that the
are ready and eager to welcome bac
"Grantism" and what it involves? The
do not forget, they are not ready to he
In another era of political corruption
and though the leaders nominate Graz
In every State of the Union doze
times over, the people, who remembe
who cherish their traditions, who wal
fit, not self-confessed unfit men for his
and honorable offices, will not confir
the nomination. Senator Cameron al
his docile committee may be able
make candidate, but they cannot NAL
President. The stone that the peop
rejected in 1876 they will not make Il
head Of the corner in 1880. There a
some things which prove themselyt
and this is one of them."
That language is direct and sever
but still it may well be considered tru
just and appropriate. General Ora
showed all through the eight years th
he was President that he had not 1
ability as Statesman to confer hon
upon the country as its Chief Magistrat
and we doubt whether the good sense
the Republicans when they take Il
sober second thought, will not appro