Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-11-29
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Senator Grant.

MONDAY EVENING, NOV. 40, 1890.
Senator Grant.
The people who are 50 anxious to find
soft place for ex-President Grant think
they have found just the thing in the
Pennsylvania senatorship. 1t is very be-
coming that an ex-president should be
asenator !; and some think that they ought
to he sodisposed of as soon as they 60
out of the executive Office. There are
just now half dozen vacant senator
ships at the disposal of the Republicans,
and one among them certainly should
he assigned to Grant. He is lowering
over the country in an eagle-like sort
of way, looking for nice fat prize in
the waters below, and hankering sorely
after an elevated eyrie where he can be
lazy and comfortable and conspicuous.
He has no local habitation in any par
ticular place, though it was lately an
nounced that lie had bought the New
York home of the father of his son-in-
law, and proposed abiding there. At
that time there was talk of the New
York senatorship for him. But now the
Pennsylvania prospect is brighter for
him, for several reason of very par
ticular force. The choice of Grant
in Pennsylvania would not only
satisfy the Republican aristOcratic feel
ing that he should be pensioned on the
government, but it would be par
ticularly grateful to his many rich
and weals-minded admirers in Phil
adelphia; and, more than all, would
be very agreeable to Senator Cameron,
because he has thus the best
chance to beat Grow, and that
with candidate, who will suit him
exactly: for Grant would cheerfully
leave the disposition Of the patronage to
Cameron and that is the particular
value to Cameron Of the senatorial Office.
He has been very sorry that he was to
have Republican instead of a Demo-
cratic colleague and he would be tempt
ed to resign if he had TO take such one
as Grow, with whom he would he con-
stantly snarling over the bones. Having
been SO long in supreme authority it
would go i'll with him to have to take an
aggressive partner. With Grant by hisside.
however, the situation would he lovely,
and it is very likely that the feat of ele-
waiting the general into the vacant Penn
sylvania senatOrship will be undertaken.
1t has our sympathy. We should like
to SEE Grant staked down somewhere. We
do not consider him to be SO important
a man as his friends think him, nor do
we find in him the qualities which will
enable him to shine rs a senator. But
as we are not in charge of his repu-
tation We are quite willing and
even anxious that he shall try that
place, or any other that will enable
him to demonstrate his talents, if he has
any. lie has been ballOOning long
time Oh the reputation he Won for dog
ged fighting, without counting the cost,
that waS successful against Il weaker ene-
my. And today no one disputes Grant, S
obstinacy. Some people think that he
has, beside, Il great deal of brain power.
We shall be heartily glad to see him show
it in the Senate. 1t will be great satis-
faction to know that a man whom so
ma;;y people have been paving over and
exaltins has tie profundity of thought
and the perspicuity of speech which will
make him a valuable senator. 1t
will show that his trumpeters are not
the soft-headed creatures they have
been suspected Of being, and that they
could tell a hawk from lland-saw when
they came across it.
General Grant las cur best wishes for
his success in his swoop upon our sena-
torslip and we hope that when he gets
it lie will know what to do with it.