National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-04-12
MIR. BELFoRD ON GRANT.

The following letter written recently to
the secretary of the Central Republican
Club of Arapahoe county, Denver, Col,
which appears in the Denver Times, has the
right ring:
SIR: l regard the approaching campaign as
one of vital importance to the people OF this Ma
ton, and / sincerely hope that the State of
Colorado may be found in the future, us in
the past. loyal to the Republican party. re.
gard General GRANTS nomination as II fore
gone conclusion, and inasmuch us Colorado was
tho first State to take position authoritatively
through the action of the State convention
in September last in favor of General
GRANTS denomination, trust the action so
taken will not he impaired by the Inaugural
ton of any different policy by the convention
to be held for the selection of delegates to the
Chicago Convention. 1t is clear to my mind
| that New York is the pivotal State in the COM
| ing campaign, and that we cannot carry that
State without the active support of Senator
! CoNKLING. We know where ho stands on
this question. II is fashionable to denounco
| the advocates of General GRANTS renomina'
| ton MS machine politicians
For my part | believe in the machine because
it is generally operated by the abest men in
| the different Statesmen whose brains carry
them TO the front in every great Conflict. Nor,
| TON, of Indiana, ANDREWS, of Massachusetts
1 CHANDLER, of Michigan, were ranked in this
category, and yet no brighter names have ap
peared in our political history in the last quar-
| tor of a century. Nor is there 10 be found in
| this Nation to-day an ADLER man or more
sterling patriot than Roscoe CoNKLING.
Men do not dominate great commonwealth
| like New York and Pennsylvania wholly
| through the machine, but through the machine
governed and directed by brains. Men do mo-
! long retain, especially in a free country
either the leadership of armies or the leader
shin of parties, who lack any Of those great
qualities which constitute the true basis o.
public confidence. General GRANT won hi
great fame through the proper use of ma
chine popularity called the army-a machine
that cheerfully obeyed his orders--a machine
that looked to him for guidance and direction
machine that trusted him with the planning
of the battles, and then, guided by his steady
hand and animated by his courageous will
carried that plan to victory; we had other Gen
erals who could possibly write better treatise
as to how military campaign should be con
Quoted, but we failed TO find one who coulC
fight a campaign better.
What is true of GRANT in the military felt
can be said with equal truthfulness OF CoNK
LING and CAMERON, Of MORTON and CHAN
DLER, of EDMUNDs and ANDREWS in the pc
| litical field.
would like very much TO see ticket com
posed of GRANT and BLAINE, for this woulC
DO a combination which would give bond Il
fate and make success doubly sure. If We can
not have this ticket, let US follow the old Fielt
Marshal who conquered for us at Appomattox
| and whose presence in the White House dur
! ing the last count Of tho electoral votes CAV,
the Nation assurance that our institution
should not be engulphe1 in the vortex of dis
puted Presidential succession, With the OK