St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-21

mas come when it will, indeed, be we'll
to award hOnors to those rare spirits
who refuse to despair of the republic"
Another Blast at Lincoln.
In spite of Mr.. Reid's assurances of
Lincoln's incapacity, and of the way in
which the country was going to 1.-The
demnitiOn bow-wows" under his feeble
administration, the people reelected
him in 1864. A few days afterwards,
viz, on Nov. II, Mr.. Reid explained this
extraordinary popular blunder thus:
1.-The election decides another thing, y
that the republic shall be undivided
and indivisible. These things
were not passed upon and irreversibly
settled by the people inconsiderately.
There was never political campaign
so unbiased by personal consid-
erations. There was no personal en-
thusiasm; men voted for the cause and
not for Mr.. Lincoln. Three
fourths of the leading speakers at the
meetings could not have been induced
to give the administration their indorse-
ment."
Attacking Grant.
| ly every crime on the calendar. His
| friends were denominated the ''robDer
| ring" and his relatives, no matter how
| young or obscure, were sought out and
attacked i'll the bitterest way. On Aug.
19. 1872, Mr.. Reid wrote in the New
York Tribune of Gsn. Grant, under the
heading, Bribery or Nepotism:"
1--WE have not yet published or re-
ferred to the serious statement made in
| recent number of the Chicago Tribune
| in regard to all alleged transfer of val
liable piece of property on the outskirts
| of Chicago from j. Russell Jones to the
president. without any further consid-
Grafton than that which might be in
| ferred from the fact that Jones was
| about that time appointed minister to
| Belgium. 1t is-a matter of the first i'm
| portance that the friends of Gen. Grant
! should pay prompt attention to the case
and make some satisfactory explanation
| of it. We receive every day clrcum-
stantial and apparently truthful stories
about the presidents misconduct in
| various ways, which we steadily refuse
| to publish, believing that enough is
already known to enable the people to
! make up their minds in regard to the
personal aspects of the campaign
After the denomination of President
Grant at Philadelphia in June, 1872, Mr..
Reid wrote:
"Grant has proven himself incompe-
| tent as civil administrator. He has
developed a shameless disregard of con-
StitutiOnal restraints and an alarming
fOndneSs for personal government. He
has surrounded himself with corrupt
favoriteS and demoraliZed the public
service by improper appointm ments. He
has fomented discord in the party, and
fI,ns fNf h1c bn, oh,
have degraded the legislative branch to
the lowest point it has ever reached in
our history"
And again Reid wrote of Grant:
but now that the time has come that
all the powers of government are to be
put In operation to compel the re-elec-
ton of this conspicuous failure and the
perpetuatiOn of this diScredItable eX-
ploitation of the executive Office, it is
the duty of every man who disapproves
OF such use OF the presidency to speak
plainly the truth that most men feel
that Gen. Giant is not fit man to be
president"
And again, on Aug. g. 1872:
"Various are tie names by which the
Philadelphia candidate is called. By
some he is styled Hiram Ulysses. By
others he is named the Great Renomi-
nationiSt. There are those who, with
eloquent simplicity, dub him Doctor
But Western newspaper. not inaptly,
names him the Seaside LouDger, which
is pretty and neat and classical and sim
gularly appropriate for gentleman
bearing the marine name Of Ulysses"
From this time OH till election day
Whitelaw Reid wrote about the presi-
| dent as ''Dr. Grant" Grand Army men
have not forgotten it.
Previously, on May 81, 1872. Mr.. Reid
had written Of the hero of Appomattox: :
Nv hile we do not expect Gen. Grant
to understand the scandal of many of
| the appointments which he has made.
/ it does seem incredible that he should
| SO obstinately persist in keeping men in
| place who have done nothing so thor
| oughly as to demonstrate their own un-
| fitness for it.
"Gen. Grant seems to have forgotten
| that the president is civil and not "a
| military officer, and this explains his
| undertaking to govern the South as if
1t were still great entrenched camp :;
his manipulating our foreign policy as
if he were treating with an enemy at
| his mercy and upon the point of sur
render-until, indeed, the tables in one
| or two cases were turned and he was
| ready himself 10 surrender: his issuing
| his instructions to free citizens about to
| vote as if they were his old infantry
about to engage in battle.
| "Gen. Grant is a soldier, and the Old
| habits of soldier stick to him. He has
many of the professional faults of Jack
son, and apparently no comprehension
| of that strict, law-abiding conscience
which redeemed the soldierly chal acter
| of Washington, of Taylor and of Harri-
| son. They were good soldiers. but bet
/ ter citizens. They never attempted to
| govern the republic by general orders" :"
A Stab at sherman.
Gen. Sherman was once quoted as
| saying of Whitelaw Reid. the war CORE
| spondent: 1.-The coward ran away from
| the battle of Shiloh, and never stopped
| running till ne reached Cincinnati"
| When Whitelaw Reid became the Trib-
| une's editor "Old Tecumseh" was trav-
| cling abroad with Lieut.. Grant. He was
| received everywhere with hOnorS and
| affection. He was not too far away,
| however, to feel the sting of Mr.. Reid
| pen. The present Republican candidate
for vice president had been in control
| of the Tribune's editorial columns just
thirty-three days when this contempt
uouS allusion to Gen. Sherman's notable
trip appeared.
sia is made to appear sufficiently an
| ovation to show that the Russian gov
ernment Is magnanimous enough to
| forgive the CatacaZy unpleasantness.
| Even the pre- sence of young Mr.. Grant
| was not enough to spoil the flavor of
that fine old traditional friendship be-
| tween Russia and America, of which we
have heard SO much"
Abuse of Logan.
John A. Logan also became a target
| for Reid'S abuse. Mr.. Reid impugned
Gen. Logan's motives in defending Gen.
| Grant by comparing him to the conspic-
uous gambler of that time, John Norris
sey. He wrote:
unexpected champions have arisen
to defend the president from the terri
bic arraignmeDt of Senator Sumner
The first was Flanagan, of Texas. n
The second champion was Gen. John
! A. Logan. His speech deserves no no.