National Republican., 1880-03-31

dare to make the first move to oouut him out.
-Hdwkcye
Indiana is said to have produced midget
Hendricks p and giant (Morton) Dayton
Journal.
The Third Termigant' is the very appro-
pirate name given the Chicago Tribune by tho
Inter. Ocean.
No man can question the purity OF General
Grants life, the sincerity of his acts or the
solid strength of his character-Gotden Rule.
Ex.Congressman Banning of Ohio, a Demo.
crat believes tho issue next fall will be
Grant vs. Tilden, and the former will be the
victor.
Ex-senator Stanley Mathews Is Of the
opinion that the nomination ut Chicago will
lie between General Grant and L. B. Wash
burne.
The Mobile Ala, Register (Dem.) says that
the Democratic candidate for President must
possess u Union record which the Republican
party caunot assail."
Don Cameron says he doesn't know much
about the Presidential contest; that he only
knows that Grant is positively suro to be
nomnated.-C Cincinnati Enquirer.
Ex-Governor Pease was the only anti-Grant
man in the Texas convention. He wanted to
20 to Chicago as a delegate, but after hearing
his speech the convention said, Let us not
have Pease"
The Groenback party has been struck by
the hand of death; and the very bitterness of
their quarrels would prove, If the miscrosco-
pic proportions of their votes at the last cleo.
tion did not.-Utcd Herald
The public mind, when an extra session of
Congress revealed revolutionary designs,
turned instinctively to General Grant. If,
when our National Convention meets, similar
apprehensions exist General Grants nomina.
tion will be vindcated by his election-and
under such circumstances only should his
nomination he urged or desired. Hence, dele
gates to the National Convention should be
left free to respond to the public sentiment rs
they find 1t when they assemble.-ThHrloic
Weed in Albany Journal.
The Democratic Legislature of Louisiana
| has formally resolved that IL will not invite
General Grant to visit tho city of New Or
leans. This is one Of the highest compliments
| that has yet been paid to Grant. 1t will graf
| ify him and his friends to know that he is not
regarded with favor and that he will not be
insulted with compliments by a Legislature
which was elected by murder and fraud, and
| which followed its natural incliGations by
cheating the creditors of the State out of their
money. If General Grant happens to want to
| go to New Orleans, of course he will act with
out reference to the wishes of the thieves who
sit within the walls of the capital.-Phitddel.
phid Bulletin.
The Omaha Herald (Democratic) "does not
agree with those who hold U. s. Grant to be q
weak man." 1t says General Grant will be
the Republican candidate for President, and
adds: "In view of this fact it does not be-
come Democrats, nor is it for their interest,
to underrate their adversary whose mettle is
not Of the mellow sort"
| Mr.. Blaine has won in the first county conven-
tion held In Illinois, having obtained seven of the
thirteen delegates elected to the State convention
| from Lake cOunty.-IhRddciphfd Press
Tho first county convention held in Illinois
was that of Shelby county, which was over
whelmingly for Grant. The second, that in
Kane county, is the one referred to by the
Press, and the morning after the Illinois State
convention that paper will probably record
the fact that the Kane county delegation
either voted unanimously for Grant, or gave
him eight votes out of thirteen Stick pin
there Chicago hite Ocean,