The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-06-07

and his love Of peace by an arbitration Q
international disputes which stands th
wissst, tho most ms leslie example cf II
kind Ia the worlds diplomacy. !,
When iDh,tlon, at the height o. ~
popularity and frenzy, had exept boil
Houses oil Congress, Ii was the veto o
Grant, single and alone, which overthreN
expansion and cleared the way for speci.
resumption. To him, immeasurably mort
than to any other man. Is due the iac
tia! every paper dollar 10 at las. as coed 4,
gold. q
With him as our leader NO shall have nc
defensive campaign. We shall have moth
Ing % explain away. We shall have nc
apologies 10 make. The sbais and Ar.
rows have all been aimed al him, and
they lie broken aud harmless al his
feet. 3 's'Ez-j = Tf' fl
Lie, liberty and property will And a
safeguard In him. When be HAid Of the
colored men In Florida, "Whercyer ! am
they may come Also" he meant that had
he the power tho poor jewellers In the cab.
ms Of the South should no longer he driv.
on In terror from the homes Of their child.
hood and the graves Of their murdered
dead. When he refused 10 receive Denis
kearney In California, he meant that
communism, lawlcfsneEs and dirorlsf
would always find a foe In him. He mcs n,
that, popular or unpopular, he would hew
to the line Of right, Lot the chips lly where
they may. .aag
His integrity, his common 1ense, his
courage, hia untqualed eI perlencr, are the
qualititH offered 10 bis country. The only
argument-the only one-.hAt the art Of
man or the stress Of politics has devised Is
one which would dumfounder Solomon,
because Solomon thought there was moth.
Ing new under tho hun. Haying tried
Grant tsics and found him faithful, |
We are told that we must not, even alter an |
interval Of years, trust him sgaiu. Ny
countrymenl-my countrymeI !-what Blul.
tihcatlOn does such iallacy involve. The
American people excluds Jefferson Davis
IRON public trust. Wby2 Because hc WAS
the arch.tIai.or and would.bs destroyer
And now the same people arc asked to os.
tIaciae Grant, and not to trust him. Why7
Why? repeat. Because hs was
Il THE ARCH rREsEayER or Ills COUNTRY,
and because, not only In war, but twice az
Civil Magistrate hegaye bis highest, o5lttt
/ HurB to the Republic, Is this an cleo
iuggls or Is 1t hypocrisy's mas.
q1oIadt2 There 10 no field OF human nc.
tIvisy, responsibility, or reason In which
natural beings object to an agent because
be has been weighed In thC balance and
not found waning. There is, l say, no da.
partment In human reason Ia which cane
men rtjec. an agent because he hts had
experience, making him exceptionally
and d., = -
What makes tho Presidential Office an
10 all things else In the common
sense to be applied to selecting It's lucuul.
bent2 Who dnres to put letters on that free
choice and Judgment which Ia the birth.
right oil the American people? Can Il be
said that Grant hiss used official power
and place to perpstuale his term =? lie has
no place and otficial power has not been
used Tor him. Without patronage, without
without committees, without
bureaus, without telegraph wires running
from his house or from the seals Of II III.
ence tothis convention, without appliances,
without electioneering conlrivances, with.
out tIIrt on bis parI, Grants name Ia on
his ctnntIy's lips. lie Ia struck at by the
whole Democratic party because his nomi.
nation 70 the deathblow oil Democratic enc.
Gees. lie Ia struck at by others who find ;
an olIsDse and disqualification Ia The ysry
services he has rendered and the yery er. g.,
psrisnCe he has gained. SHOW me a better
man. Name one, and am answered.
But l do no. point, as qualification, 10 ,
the very experience which nakes this man :
ft beyond all Others.
There Ia "thiid term" Ia he casa and !
the pretenso will die with the Political dog. i
days that genderod it One weak alter he :
Democratic Convention weshall uayc heard !
the last Of this rubbish abou "tiird
term" Nobody now ia really, iisqnieted
about third term excep! thoqs lopelessly
longing for first term, and thtr dupts
anu coadjutors. Withou, { rt c,;ntrisue :
on bis part he is the candidate whosn'riends
have never threatened 10 bolt unlss Ibis {
Convention did "a they said. lie Is Rpub-
lican who never wsvers. He and his finds
stand by tine creed and the candidate Of
the Republican party, Thsy hold tina :