Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-26
THIRD TERM AND EMPIRE.
Grant onos More Aasr the Presidency.
The scheme Already Wen Developed Hs
Long. H. Live In the white House
AgaiD-- Estimates Concerning
his Chances.

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Grant \ one 81 the commissioners Oh
the part OF the United states TO nego-
tlaie a new treaty OF commerce with
Mexico. This il the osten-ible object
Of hts present Visit to Washington, but
IL IL not by any means the only or the
most important one.
Chat he came 10 help Fitz John
4 Porter IL openly declared by himself.
( Bui IN a curious fact that, with all his
( military prestige and his political
afilnjties. Grant was not able to affect
1 n single vote In the senate. With the
exception OF Hoar, the Republicans
who voted for Porter were all com
mitted before Grant espoused his
( cause.
When General Grant got the an
/ nouncement made that he had with
E drawn from politics, he did not
( accompany the advertisement. a. Mr.
/ Conkllng did, with notice OF an en-
eagnent in another pursuit. He
/ simply retired on his laurels. Now
I the Old Guard that viii not die. and
does not know how 10 surrender, IS
/ unwilling 10 have the general put on
I the shelf. and Grant has long since
/ been convinced that the shelfis bad
/ place for his merits.
4 movement II organized 20 bring
I Grant out next year "a fuil-iledged
( candidate for the presidency. The
( managers think the third term clam
or" as they call IT, has died out. They
/ claim that new conditions have arisen
! since 1880, and that the ''prejudiees'
/ against Grantism have also ceased to
/ exist. One argument used to promote
/ the new scheme is the support that
Grant gave to Garfield In the dark
hours Of the campaign, when Blaine
had lost his own state, and the out
look everywhere was dismal and for
bidding.
Strange "a il may seem, the scheme
il advocated by certain so-called Dem
ocrats. who have failed to graft fy
their ambition in the party lines.
Grants aid To FitZ John Porter nat
urally strengthens him with this class
of persons, and the effect of IL IL par
TALLY saen in the attentions of McClcl'
Ian aud his immediate friends 70 the
aspiring third terner during his
present visit to the capital.
Grant came here as the guest, OF
''Nedn Bealc. who managed as sur
veyor.general in California, to put
aside a valuable ranch, which il III,
backbone of considerable fortune
He il now at one Of the large hotels
where familiar intercourse with til,
transient population is more easy thar
nj IA private house, and where hi
, movements will be less remarked
upon.
When the question Is asked, VIVA
are the sources of Grants strength as
possible candidate for the presidency
His special friends answer without re
: serve. They are to be found IN dliler
, ent directions some Of which are re
gardedns unpopular by thepress, hut al
OF which are believed to have element
of strength for political purpose,
IT l. alleged that the great railroa
:, and manufacturing corporations, th
banks, the rings, the spectators, IN
iobbers. the contractors, the shodd
princes and the adventures tbs
Il swuiIned ubout the White House fror
y 1870 to 1877, viii rally and put fort
all their power to elect Grant. Tie
believe In u strong government and j
one-man rule, such az was audaciousl
exercised in 1876, when the presidenc
: was stolen, backed by force and b
threats of civil war
OvergrDwn wealth, acquired by
binntions, of which the people are M
~ iformly the victims, longs for titula
distinctions, which shall separate IL n
q class from the toilers and the con-
4 mon taxpayers The posscSsOrs of thi
4 wealth are ready for nm empire, an
II they would pay literally to bring
d about. They have long apcd, in POM
d in parade aud in merctricious display
n the vanities and the vices of that whic
Is fell In France when the fist gun TIN
10 Germany fired overthrow its glide
" rottenness.
v That experience, with all its ster
Il instruction, is not needed by men VIII
4, havebno faith In free institutions TIL,
70 saw under Grant n pruIiigncy IN puI
|, leland private life, and desire e
> show such rs had been witnessed al
y der Louis Napoleon, with moro res
10 lutte viii in the former than In I'll
n latter TO carry out any plan he migl
is adopt, IN utter defiance Of the pop
IN lar will.
- Hence the confidence that Gral
20 would not only protect at every haznl
Il theirmoneycd interests, but that
nt would also crafty their selfish amt
Il ton in other respects They u
III greatly encouraged also by the centra
ixing policy of the Republican leader
10 whose legislation all tends to the q
struction of state boundaries and
% state autonomy, and 10 the buildli
10 up of gigantic monopolics.
III When 1t il suggested that Balm,
er followers combined To defeat thethir
IA. term conspiracy at Chicago, and th
no the eX-secreialy stands M u lion In q
ar path for the coming convention, &
e. Grant managers pooh the obi,
ed ton. "Iou don't know Blaine y
.. they, "Why. he Is dead duck pol
q; ically, and II he was not, we can rea,
the capitalists who own him, some
he whom are principal hackers in n
nd movement. He will be forced 10y q
| necessities of his pocket to make COZ
- mon cause with us, Blaine goes
ny money primarily, believing IL to he t
ed handspring OF power. He VIII n
no trouble Us in lSSi.n
The Grant bali is thus set in motto
ut