Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-11
Frves Plea for the Man from
Maine" and Spooner's Ad-
vccacy of Rusk.

IL is interesting to recall that great
effort. Conklir said:
and when asked what state he halls from,
Our sole reply shall be,
He tails from AppomattoX,
and the famous apple tree.
"Obcying instructions l should never
dare to disregard, ! rise 10 behalf Of the
state Of New York to propose a nomina
tion with which the country and the re-
publican party can grandly win. The
election before us will he the Austerlitz
Of American politics. 1t will decide
whether for years to come the country
will be republican or Cossack.' The
need of the hour is a candidate who can
carry doubtful states, north and south;
and believing that he more surely than
any other can carry New York against
anv opponent, and carry not only the
north, but several states Of the south,
New York is for Ulysses S. Grant
He alone OF living republicans has
carried New York as presidential can
didate. Once he carried it even accord
ing TO a democratic count, aud twice he
carried it by the peoples vote, and he is
stronger now The republican party
with its standard IN his hand, is stronger
now than in 1868 or 1872 Never de-
feated in war or in peace, his name is
the most illustrious borne by any living
man; his services attest his greatness,
and the country knows them by heart.
His fame was borne not alone Of things
written and said, but of the arduous
greatness of things done, and dangers
and emergencies will search in vain in the
future. as they have searched in vain in
AL . J. 10,
ton leans with such confidence and trust.
Standing on the highest eminence OF hui
man distinction, and having filled all
lands with renoWn - modest, firm,
simple and self pclsed-he has seen not
only the titled but the poor and the lowly
No the utmost ends OF the world rise and
uncover before him He has studied the
needs and defects Of many systems Of
government, and he comes back better
American than ever, with a wealth of
knowledge and experience added TO the
hard common sense which SO cOnspiCu-
1usy distinguished him in all the fierce
ueh, that ne It upon him throughout the
most eyenttul, trying and perilous SIX
teen years of the nations history
Never having had a policy to en-
force against the viii of the people, be
never betrayed a cause or a friend, and
the people win never betray or desert
him. Nilided and reviled, truthlessly
aspersed by numberless presses, not IN
other lands but in his own, the assaults
upon him have strengthened aud season
sd his hold upon the public heart. The
ammunition of calumny has all been
exploded; the powder mas all been burn
ed once, It's force is spent, and General
Grants name will glitter as bright and
Imperishable star in the diadem Of the
republic when those who have
tried to tarnish il viii have moldered
in forgotten graves and their memoir
les and epitaphs have vanished utterly.
Never elated by success, never de
pressed by adversely, he has ever in
peace, as In war, shown the very genius
Of common sense. The terms he pre-
scribed for Lee s surrender foreshadow-
ed Inc Wisest principles and prophecies
of rue reconstruction.
"Nictorin the greatest of modern wars
ne quickly signalized his aversion 10 war
and his love of peace by an arbitration
of international disputes which stands a-
the wisest and most majestic example OF
It's kind in the worlds diplomacy. When
Initiation, at the height of its popularity
and frenzy, had swept both hou. es OF
congress, il was the veto of Grant
which. single and alone. overthrow ex-
pansiou and cleared the WY for specie
resumption To him, immeasurably
more than to any other man, is due Tho
fact that every paper dollar is as good al
gold
with him as our leader We shall have
DO defensive campaign, no apologies o.
explanations to make The shafts anC
arrows have all been aimed at MIN anC
10 broken and harmless at his feet
Life, liberty and property will find safe
guard i'm him When he said of tn;
black man in Florida, Wherever ] an
they may come also. lie meant that
had be the power to help it,, the poo
daellers in the cabins Of the soutl
should not be driven in terror from thu
homes Of their childhood and the grave
Of their murdered dead When he re
fused TO receive Deus Eearney he mean
that lawlessness and communism, al
though 1T should dictate laws 10 whole
city, would everywhere meet a foe u
bum, and popular or unpopular, he vii
Dew 10 the line Of right, let the chips fl
where they may.
His integr .ty, his common $ sense. hi
courage and bis uneqUaled experience
are the qualities offered to his country
HE only argum MT against accepting
them would amaze Solomon Ii
Thought there could be nothing nei
under the sun Having tried Gran
twice aud found him faithful, We ar
TOLD We must not. even after an interya
OF years, trust him again.
What qualification does not such
fa.laey involved The American paoul
exclude Jefferson Davis from publ!
trust Whyy Because he was the are
traitor and would be destroyer. An
now the same people are asked t
2slraelze Grant and not trust him
Mnyt Because be Was the arch pre-
server Of bis country; because, not opl
Y var, but afterward. twise as a cjvi
magistrate, he gave his highest, mobiles
Efforts 70 the republic Is ahch absnrG
Ity az electioneering jugglery or hypo
E.sl j. masquerade.
There il 10 field of human aetiyit,
responsibility or reason in which ration
81 beings OBJECT TO Gran tbeoause be Ia