Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-28
YOUNG GRANTS IDEAS.
No Member of the Family Will Ever
Cast a Vote for Blaine.
THE OLD FIGHT STILL RANKLES.
An Admission That the Plumed Knight
Will Probably Be Named.
A WARM ADMIRER OF MAJOR M'KINLEY

CHICAGO, Sept. 27-The Herald contains
the following interview:
'I don't see how Grant could vote for
James G. Blaine for President or even
favor his nomination for that Office on the
Republican ticket. If man should call
you thief and pickpocket, or call your
father thief and pickpocket, you would
not be likely to think well enough of that
man to aid him in securing public Office.
That is the reason Grant could not vote
for James G. Blaine for any Office"
Those are the words uttered by Jesse R.
Grant in an interview with a reporter at
the Auditorium yesterday. Jesse Grant is
compactly built and under the Medium
height. His complexion seems to have
been acquired by outdoor exercise, and he
wore broad-brimmed, black slouch hat.
This hat was not arranged in the military
style, but the whole crown stood up with
out dent in it, giving the wearer the ap-
pearance of the practical Western miner
that he is. In conversation Mr.. Grant is
extremely modest, but impresses one as
being solid, substantial young business
man of the West who is taking pains to
travel through this world on his own
merits, and not on account of distinguished
parentage.
WILL NEVER VOTE FOR BLAINE.
s'No, sir; Blaine will never receive a vote
from me for any political office, after the
way in which he and his friends attacked
the personal honor of my father here in the
Chicago convention" continued Mr.. Grant
in answer to further queries. "Blaine and
his friends virtually charged my father
with being a thief and scoundrel and being
no better than common pickpocket, and
can it be expected that could forget those
malicious charges? There was no occasion
for Blaine and his friends to enter into any
such personalities. But under these cir
cumstances you can easily see why Grant
naturally has an antagonism to Blaine.
'FBlaine seems to be talked of for the
Presidential nomination everywhere, and if
he wants the nomination there is no doubt
he can get it," continued Mr. Grant. 'He
can get solid delegation from California
to the National Convention. Everything
is Blaine on the coast; they have nothing
particularly against Harrison, but it is just
simply everybody talks Blaine. IF he be
made the nominee of course could not vote
for him. III were a politician could vote
for Blaine or anybody else on the ticket,
but am not politician. But it doesn't
make much difference with other people
how may vote, as am not in politics-I
am plain, everyday miner, and have been
for ten years"
M'KINLEY HAS FIRST CHOICE.
And in a spirit of fun, Mr.. Grant added:
"I guess I'll have to vote for the Alliance
candidate for President, as 1 am too good a
to vote the Democratic ticket
Mr.. Grant said he regarded Major Nc
Kinley, of Ohio, as the greatest man in the
nation to-day and thought his high tariff
bill was just the thing the country needed
He said he would rather see Mckinley
made the Presidential nominee than any
other man in the party. Mr.. Grant is ac-
companied by his wife, who is the daugh-
ter of ex-senator Chaffee, of Colorado.
Their child and maid are also with them.
They left for the East last night. They will
visit Mr.. Grants mother in New York until
the I'd or Sd of Octocer and then jesse |
Grant and family, his mother and his brother,
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., will come to Chicago
to be in attendance at the unveiling OF the |
Grant equestrian statue in Lincoln Park. |
They will arrive in Chicago several days be-
fore the unveiling.