Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-01-18
THE OLD GUARD
mat Never Dies and Don't Know
How to Surrender.
fepsriug to Bring Grant Out For the
Presidency-Ths President Mashed
Upon a Lady Of Rank
and Fortune.
stNEgAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.

wAsHIxGroS, January IA eorreSpon-
dent of the New York sun discourses IN
this wise about Gen. Grant: Gen. Grant Is
one Of the commissioners on the part oi
The United States to negotiate new treaty
OF commerce with Mexico. This IS the o.
tensible object of his present visit to Wash
ington, but it is not by any means the only
al the mos important one. That he came
to help Fitz John Porter is openly declared
by himself. Butitis curious fact that.with
al his military prestige and his pelitIcaI
nj mites Grant was not to be able To eHecI
asingle vote in the Senate with the excep,
hon OF HOar. The Republicans who yotcd
for Porter were all committed before urah'
rspOused his cause.
When General Grant got the announce
nent made that he had withdrawn from
politiCs, be did nos accompany the adver-
nSement rs Mr.. COnklIng did, with a nOt.ce
of an engagement in another pursuit. lie
Simply
Retired On His LAurels.
Now, the old guard, that will not die and
loes not know how TO surrender, IS un-
NhlIine To have the General put on the
shelf and Grant has long since been con-
rincpd that the shelf is bad place for his
merits. A movement is organized to bring
Grsnt out next year as a full Hedged card
for the Presidency. The managers think
the Third term clamOr, rs they ca,l IT,
has died out they claim new conditions
have aIr>ru since lNND, and that the pre-
judiCes" against Grant have also ceased to
eSist.
lone argument used 10 promote the new
a.
'Garfeld in the dark hours OF the campaign.
when Blaine had lost his own State and
the outlook rrywhere was dismal AMI Tor
hiGdiIS.
TS,range as i. my seem, this scheme is
ad,Ccattd by rtAin sO-Called Democrats
wln have tailsH To- grattty their ambition
irSije oi tie 2, " lines.
tIl Is siitg.d It the great railroad and
marui..' ing operations, the banks, the
I'D - psculaIorS, the iObbers the con-
uVC'u'>, ,Ae
$soddy Princes.
and the adventures that swa-med about
the White House from 1870 10 lS,I, Will
rslly and put forth all their power to elect
Grant They believe in strong government
and in one man rule such as WAS audlcious-
IN exercised in 1876, when the Presidency
was stolen. backed by force and by threats
of civil war Overgrown wealth, acquired
by combinations of which the people are
un fOrmly rhe victims, longs for tltular
,dis,InCtiOn, which shall separate il as q
chs from the toilers and the common tax
psSerS.
they saw under Grant a profisacy in
pobliC and in private life and desire tOr
shCw such as had been witnessed under
IouiS Napoleon, with more reSOlute will
in former then in latter TO carry out plan
he might adopt in utter defiance OF the
popular will.
Hence their confidence that Grant would
nor only protect at every hazard their
Noneyed Interests.
but that hc would also crafty their selfish
ambition in other respects. They are
xreal,y encouraged also by the centralizinS
policy of the Republican leaders, whose
lcciSlation all tends 10 the destruction Of
H<air hour HsripS. o. State autonomy, and
20 the building up % gigantic mOnOpOlies.
~ hen u is suggested that BlaineS fol-
low crS combined 10 destroy the third term
cor Sp.rary at Chicago, the eN-Sccretary
stald> As a line in the path for the coming
Coz yru.i.n. The rraut managers quietly
no. b }u.h the objection. You don [
NOV I.Dup. say they. Why. he is q
des duck politically. and IL he was not,
We San Tpa. b the capitalists who own him,
sOnlp ut ~ Nbum are principal hackers in our
movcmcLt lie will be- forced by the re-
ces>It,sS oi his pocket 70 make common
caslSc With Us.
Blaine goes for money primarily, beliey-
IN it 20 bee the mainSpriug of power. He
vi not T., gble us in ISL. The Grant ball
IS thus syt IN motion.