The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-01-08
The Next Republican Candidate far
President.

The ISTELLIGENcER, in opposing third
terrnism, has no war Of any kird to make
on General Grants name and fame as a
great General and most deserving
patriot. His reputation as soldier and
patriot Is secure for all time to come. We
yield to none in our unreserved admira-
tion for his pre-eminent services during
the war. When we think Of his quiet,
accomplishing, patient and valiant career
as a soldier, in the various positions to
which he was called, and his magnanimous
disposition, at all times manifested, towards
his fellow officers, always giving them
full opportunity and full credit, and Of the
TACT that he has never yet opened his
mouth to extol any OF his own perform
ances, even under the strongest tempta-
tons, We are deeply impressed with the
grand record he has made for himself.
Tie stands out, and always will, as the
central figure in the group Of great Gen
erals on the Union side during the war.
1t is not necessary to underrate in the
slightest degree Gen. Grants excellencies
Saman or soldier in order to be intelli-
gently and intensely opposed to theides
Of his nomination for third term. As to
honor, the American people could not with
in the utmost bounds Of all precedent in
the history Of the Government, honor him
more than they have done. As to emolu-
ment, they doubled the salary ofthe Pres
idential office in order that he, Of all
others, might have the benefit Of it. They
stand ready TO do any remaining act, com.
patible with their traditions, to
make his life enviable. But having
made him in oil respects equal to him
who was first in peace, first in war and
Grst in the hearts OF his countrymen," by
reason Of the great offices conferred upon
him, they arc not willing to say that Gen.
,irant is more 10 them than George WASH
ington, the Father Of his country. 1t Is
enough for any man to have been made
The official equal OF the man whom Lord
Brougham declared 10 stand without
peer in the history OF his race,
and there the American people, for
their own sakes, and for all that they
owe to the past and to posterity,
desire to stop, and there they will stop.
Nofriend OF Gen. Grant, nor Gen. Grant
himself, should ask or expect more. 1t
will be agreat, Il not a fatal, mistake on
the part Of both TO venture further. No
man Of all the immortal number who
staked "their lives, their inrtunesand their
sacred honor for the establishment OF
this Government, ever asked for more than
Gen. Grant has received, and few otthem,
even the most illustrious, ever received as
much. They were jealous OF hero worship,
because Of its history in the old world, and
/, they sought to repress rather than encour-
aS popular homage to great name.
They believed in restriction and limita-
aon in oil that pertained 10 the one man
+, power, and at the close Of their offices
they stepped down and out, content like
ClncinRatus, 10 return to the ranks OF the
people. As it was in the beginning Of the
Hepublic, so II should be forever, as q
matter not alone Of justice to its founders,
but as a much greater matter Of justice to
ourselves aud those who will come after us.
For what reason should We inaugurate
the third term precedent in tia Govern
taeRt' Is It because "Rome has lost the
breed Of noble blooas, and that there is but
one name whereby the Republican party
can be carried on TO victoryT ItthIs were
50, then, as the laSt resort Of desperate
patriotism, to save the country from tho
dangerous reactIonary tendencies OF tht
Democratic party, we csuld sympathiz'
With lit. But nothing is further from the
tSet' Gen. Grant ia by all odds the weak
tS Of all the prominent candidates namet