The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-01-15
Grant an Asplrant for the White House.

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South, joined to Philadelphia develop
ments, can have but one interpretation.
He is a candidate for the Presiden-
cy- precisely as much SO as John
Sherman or James G. Blaine. The
boomers throughout the country have
been duly notified. The silence of Gen.
Grant is no longer mystery. 1t simply
gives consent. The Southern trip amounts
to a public advertisement that Gen.
Grants longing for home scenes and
friends, of which so much was said while
he was abroad, was of singularly brief
duration, and that week of the repose
said to be so essential, at Galena, was
quite enough. The truth is, Gen. Grant
goes South on on electioneering tour and
to be ont of the way for a few months,
while the boom works. After he satisfies
his deep curiosity about Cuba and Mexi-
co. he will return to find an organized
series of boom5 from New Orleans to
New York. Gen. Grant declined the
proffered hospitality of the White House
i'm spite of the extraordinary induce
ments held out there to q temperance
man-for two reasons. One was his re-
membrance that Hayes did not accept his
hospitality at Long Branch in 1876; and
the other, the President had not called
upon him, so as to establish relations.
Gen. Beale, whose guest Gen. Grant
was while here, said:
"Gen. Grant is no affected in the
slightest degree by the ovations that were
rendered him during his grand tour. He
is thoroughly unspoiled by it. He is as
modest as young lady in her teens. His
modesty is one of the evidences of his
greatness. In my opinion he is the
greatest man in the world, and my great
est pride is that / am counted one OF his
fast personal friends"
The fact is that Gen. Grants modesty
is curiously illustrated by his pertinacity
in questions of social precedence, which
was so strong in Europe as to make his
meeting with the ambassadors OF the
sovereigns highly embarrassing. But MIR.
Beale goes on to say:
"He comes back to US with the incense
of royalty's praise still clinging to his
garments, and doubling Thomases on
this side of the water are at last forced to
believe Gen. Grant has never thought of
the Presidency, and he is making no eft:
effort whatever to secure the prize, and
will not do so; nor would he, in my
opinion, except il unless it was the will
Of the people. In that case he would
accept out of sense of duty"
His friends go 80 far as to resent as an
impertinence the candidacy of others. A
story was put out last week that Sherman
had given in his adhesion to Grant. 1t
was started with the view of imptessing
him that it was high time he was
out of the way of the chariot. Sherman
promptly said he was candidate; would
stick to the last, and was on principle
opposed to the third term. Another
member ofthe Cabinetopposed to the third
term is the secretary of the navy, and it
is noticed that while Gen. Grant called
on Evarts, (who is a boomer he did not
call on Sherman or Thompson: The
pressure for anearly convention in
Pennsylvania is to lead the way
for Grant. It is arranged that
when Cameron puts in Pennsylvania,
Conkling is to follow with New York:
The postoffice machine is being worked
by Gen. Tyner to bring Indiana next to
the front, and Logan and Washburne are
competing for primacy in the boom in
Illinois. The calculation is that with
Pennsylvania, New York, Indiana and
Illinois ahead for Grant, Republicanism
can be made matter personal to Grant.
Washington Dispatch to the Cincinnati
Commercial.