National Republican., 1880-03-03
ANrr.eRANT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

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then.
| ANrI-GRANT DIsCoURAGEMENTs.
The cry of "Third Term," the wall of
anything to beat GRANTw the talk about
bosses and machines, the revilings of CAM
ERoN and CoNKLING, the threats of the
"scra tchersr and the mutterings of the
growlers have evolved full chorus of music
that has been relied upon to overcome and
silence the GRANT boom and discourage
those Republicans who prefer General
GRANT to any other candidate for the Presi-
dency, but who will support the nominee,
be he who he may, with their most Jealous
efforts. The wild and unreasoning cry
against GRANT, which is strongest where
his success thus far has been the most re-
mnrkable, has melted other ambitions to
come to the front with degree of conf
dence that has clothed itself with much
activity. We now have three distinct
booms in the Republican cOmp-the SHEER
MAN, the BLAINE and the GRANT booms-
all of which are booming with more or less
industry and power throughout the Coun-
try. The GRANT boom, which springs
| llbAl Nho GOluldA hSNlNf lhONNS SNSbN'Aiy
on, gathering material strength in q prac-
teal way by the garnering of delegates in
his interest so fast and so far as the people
speak through their conventions and de-
clare their preferences. His friends make
no war upon his rivals. They concedc to
each the right to be ambitious for the
Presidency, and TO use all legitimate
L. I'd a.. al, Ihnir
terests and hopes of success, Relying en-
tirely upon the popular wish and will and
upon that measure of intelligence which
gives healthy impulse and direction to that
wish and will. the friends and supporters
OF General GRANT have not called to their
aid, to any material extent, special organi-
cations in his interest in the way of clubs,
literary bureaus or other appliances of the
kind. These have been left almost entirely
TO his competitors for the nomination, and
thus far they hold a monopoly of such ap-
planes With this and the developments
the supporters of General GRANT are
f entirely satisfied for they are en-
couraged by the fruits that are ac-
cumulating in their store, that the
people are with them and they have
nothing to fear in the final result. If the
people desire the nomination of General
GRANT it will come in spite of the agen-
cies of personal ambition that may be ar
rayed against him. If they desire some
other name it will he selected at Chicago
and every true Republican will cheerfully
abide by the result, bending his best ener.
gies and efforts to secure victory at the
e ballot-boX.
}. We notice that Mr.. HAssAUREK of Gin.
cinnati, who is strongly enlisted against
General GRANT, and WHO has recently
u made visit to New York, has caught {
'e glimpse at the popular currents, and is dis
NJ turbed and discouraged at what he ha'
seen and learned. He has discovered tina
e the danger of GRANTS nomination has in
lie creased in few weeks past and he venti-
st lates the cause of his fears in his journal
the VoIks5tqH, which seems TO take higl
rank among the GRANT haters. He says
BLAINE and SHERMAN are such strong rival
y that they thereby play into the hand of the
d third term If between the prominent friend:
of BLAINE and SHERMAN an understanding
could be arrived at whereby common cause
" COllu nc nOuei Jne matter WOulu h5SuIne mort
o hopeful shape.
=, This is the Judgment which common
sense would have formed at the outset O
this contest BLAINE and SHERMAN can
ID not in this canvass divide and conquer
L. neither MS they are now drifting can the,
IN make common cause against General GRANT
Their fight in Ohio is with each other
VIII ere the bitterness of the BLAINE me-
II has been very great toward Mr. SHERMAN
- even at the door of his own household
There is an offensiveness about that whic
will not readily placatc under an effort I
y harmonze the BLAINE and SHERMAN in
of terests, and really there can be no blendn
IS in that direction which is not secures
It. through q surrender of SHERMAN to BLAIN
by taking the second place on the ticke
= BLAINE, in all probability, will never con
10 sent TO take the second place on the tcke
u behind the man his friends have insulte
III on his native heath Unless we greatly mis-
u take the temper Of Mr.. SIBERIAN, the treat
ment he has received at the hands of the SUP
n porters Of Mr.. BLAINE will close the door t
he any hope of nm honorable alliance betwee
N. these rivals. A chasm has been opened b(
or tween them which cannot be bridged nov
,or and hence the contest will go on in il
present shape until it reaches the nomina
ing convention, when it will be discovere
at that their combined strength will fall fl
he short of that of the man of the people, WI
10 depends solely upon popular sentiment f
,S' his preferment
10 1t is not surprising that the opponents
General GRANT are becoming disheartene
nd They have felt of the popular current, an
er they find it too strong to be successfully r.
n sisted even by the most skillfully devise
nd machinery of modern political invention
ne They are confronting the inevitable, an
must sooner or later abandon all hope und,
that conviction. In the meantime IL
'e' people will go right on with their work
no making President
,L TEE OUTLOOK IN MISSOURI