The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-31

GRANTS ORDER to the Boys in
Blue does not appear to have eleotri
fed the country as the stalWart re-
publiCans had hoped and predicted.
This Iast act has been characterized
as grand, and partook so much of the
spirit of its author tGst it would spread
like wildfre from Maine to California
and bring out the full force of the
Boys in Blue for Garfield and Arthur;
the effect 80 far has been anything
but inspiring. 1t is scarcely men
toned in the dispatches and the
papers have PR ctically nothing to say
concerning 1t. Tho great charges pre-
pared by republican guns to fire at
democratic organs when they should
attack the order nave been wasted, IS
no attack WAS instituted. No sane
man, who has any regard for Wha
will be thought OF his judgment, could
charact rizs this General Order No.
1" as a grand move. and its results
will bs anything but satisfactory to
Grant. He seems to have forgotten
that the soldiers who fought under
him in the war, and who yet enter
tain the highest regard for their old
comm ander, we're not of one p0liti
cal Larty. Many were then demo-
Gratis, bat "a much opposed to
slavery as any republican could
be. Were similar great and weighty
cause to arise again the call of Grant
would act as he hal hoped this
would; but in exercising the influence
he gained in the defense of cause, in
which local or less important mat
ters were forgotten for the general
welfare, TO partisan ends, he has
pursued the surest course to destroy
that influence; and it is a safe pre-
diction that this order, which will be
famous only as a failure, will neither
change a solitary vote nor aRaken
any greater enthusiasm for the ticket,
Of which, in Grants opinion, the ''best
intsrests of the whole country, north
and south, demand the success" 1t
Ia surpri,ing that Gen. Grant who
has been acknowledged by his own
countrymen, and the civilized nations
OF the earth, 10 be one OF the greatest
men of his day, should give evidences
OF SO little good judgment, and should |
consent to knuckle TO partisan ssnti- |
ments. Great men are above such |
things, and the motive which actu-
aIed its issuance must have been a
strange one. No man could have
been more successfully laid out than
Grant was at the Chicago convention.
That he would ever consent
to the USE ois bis name as
a nominee for third term
few would have ever believed, and his
defeat has been generally conceded to
be a Just rebnke; that was mis- great
blunder, and unless he consents to
remain quiet nov that he is dead,
politically, be is likely to spoil his
record by a series of plumbers. Cir
cumstanoes so q long way towards
making men, and it was,so in Grants
case. Now the circumstances are
uniavorabls and be should accept the
condition and content himself with
the honor already bestowed upon him.
which ia certainly al that any mortal
should desire. Grant has passed his
political and public prime, and is on
tbs decline. He is not half so great
as he was before the Chicago conven-
ton, and every time he appears be.
fore the public &c q candidate for
public influence, he will but rob
himself of the esteem in which he is
nov held. 1t is a sad fate that men
cannot or will not know that thsy are
dead, and Grant seems no exception
ID this universal rule. II be persists
In Battling against his political burial,
which Is now going on IN the natural
course OF events, his remaining history !
Will be as remarkable for Its defeats :
as his past record is for victories.