Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-06
Nrs. CIemmer on Grant and BIain c
 From the New York Independentl

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 Next behind Grant stands Blaine. His po- tency as a candidate is purely personal. His power with the people is not the power of noble character, but of aggressive vitality; not of unselfsh service, but as a selfshness as pervasively subtle as it is visibly charming. Scarcely another American can so move a mob at his finger end. The upturned faces of throng vibrate to 1t as to a magnet. This po- tentiaI personality makes him in every politi- cal campaign power with which wisdom, virtue, honor, has nothing to do. Were he laden with the three, set in another tempera- ment, the crowd would behold him and listen to him unmoved It is the electricity, mixed of blood and brain and speech, that stirs the people and makes them shout, alike in Cooper Institute and in the pine woods of Maine; to the lofty inspiration of manhood worthy of their worship. But vitality, electricity, elo- quence, purpose, at least, are real. Nothing human, not even ''pure reason" can be wood en1y insensible for the instant to their enchant- ing charm. Vastly more may be necessary to the makeup of good President; but in the man who wants, who is determined to be President, let no one underrate the potency of such factors to gain his end-most of all with the minimizing, impulsive multitude.
 The claims of Ulysses Grant to be made third time President of the United States are far more preposterous and fictitious. The country has paid him ten times over for all that he ever was or did as 8 soldier. Had it not, his civil administration would have an- nulled the last lingering fraction of a debt. Are the crowds adoring ''the great soldier now Not at all They are running after the man who, for two years and seven months, has made public spectacle of himself around the entire globe, for the glutting of his own vanity and for political end. So monstrous greed for self-adulation-when has the world seen it before It must have been in a prehistoric age. If he would subside in Ga lena long enough to give the human race rest, and slight relief from the sight of his name, 1t might, at least, be grateful; but no, having squeezed Europe and Asia of their last stovation," now Cuba and Mexico must be seized. They will do better than nothing till the moment of his triumphant reappear- ance. after the meeting of the two national conventions next June. No matter which one, if it will only gubvert the Constitution and make Ulysses Grant for the third time Presi- dent of the United States. Nothing could sug- gest with a keener odor the old Grant regime than the names of the men who sit down with him to dinner in Philadelphia to-day the first day of the Grant .sovation''-viz Borie, Boutwell,, Pierrepont, Cameron, Robeson. etc, every man sure of Grants reelection and of his own lost fesh-pots.
 What is the matter with the people Only this. The majority don't think. They feel. They live less in facts thanin persons lessin principles than in pageants. They want not the man of truth; but the man who will please their fancy. fill their imaginations. The man who would serve their country best, who would place its government on the surest ba- sis, is not a magnetic man, nor Q fictitious man, nor t'the greatest soldier of the age;' therefore, they will have naught of him. They must hug hero-at least, in their minds; and, as they live in an inelorious age, when heroes are not they seize Etish, and, wooden though it be, hug that