St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-08
OUTLAW REDS RECORD
Harrison's Running Mate as al
daligner of Prominent
Republicans. -
He Pursued Grant, Sherm an,
Blaine, Dix and Others With
Vituperation.

Whitelaw Reid has pursued with the
venom of his pen nearly every Repub-
lican of prominence the past twenty
years. This is what he wrote after the
convention at Philadelphia in June,-
1872, which renominated Gen. Grant:
"Grant has proven himself incOmpe-
tent as civil administrator. He has
developed shameless disregard of
constitutional restraints and an alarm
ing fOndness for personal government.
He has surrounded himself with cor
rupt favOriteS and demoraliZed the pub
lie service by improper appointments.
He has fomented discord in the party
and the antics of his henchmen in con-
gress have degraded the legislative
branch to the lowest point it has ever
reached in our history"
Gen. Sherman was once quoted as say
ing of HWhitelaw Reid, the war CORE
spondent: 1.-The coward ran away from
the battle of Shiloh. and never stopped
running till he reached Cincinnati"
When Whitelaw Reid became the Trib-
une's editor "Old Tecumseh" was travel
lug 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'S
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 ailuSion to Gen .Sherman'S notable
trip appeared:
Gen. Sherman's march through Rus
STA is male to appear sufficiently an
ovation to show that the Russian gov
eminent is magnanimoAS enough to for
give the CatacaZy unpleaSantneSS. Even
the presence of young Mr.. Grant was
not enough to spoil the flavor of that
fine old traditional friendship between
Russia and America, of which we nave
heard so much"
Whitelaw Reid said of Gen. John A.
Dix:
"A major general for four years with
out being once under fire. he never yet
deserted party while it had control of
the treasury"
Of James &. Blaine he wrote in Au-
gust. 1872:
MIR. Blaine is amazed that Senator
Sumner can forget the injuries he re-
ceived from Democrats in former years
so far as to join with them in electing
an Independent Republican to the
presidency. According to Mr.. Blaine
there should be eumity to the death
bitter, blind, unreasOning hate. Such
is the policy of the Grant party, and
Mr.. Grant adopts it with as much zeal
as it he wanted a postoffice. We shall
not quarrel with his temper; if he
chooses TO be angry and revengeful, by
all means let him nurse his wrath in
peace and comfort. If Speaker Blaine
is not fairly extinguished by Senator
Summers rejoinder we despair of ever
seeing this pertinacious young man put
down. 1t was simple assurance which
led him into the controversy. e
The country will agree with Mr.. Sum-
ner, to the great establishment of the
superserviceable henchman who has
presumed to rush into this discussion
Susan b. Anthony was called gro,
tesque" and Harriet Beecher Stowe Ia
shrewish woman" OF Frederick A
Douglass, Whitelaw Reid wrote:
douglass makes no more pretense of
justice or right in his platform than the
simple difference between black skin
and white skin"
Gen. Grant was the target for the
greater part of Mr.. Reid's mud-slinging
in 1879. On Aug. 6 he wrote:
Various are the 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 VINO, with
eloquent simplicity. dub him Doctor.
But Western newspaper, not inaptly,
names him the Seaside Lounger, which
is pretty and neat and classical and sim
gularly appropriate for gentleman
bearing the marine name of Ulysses"
From this time on until election day
WhltelaW Reid wrote about the presi-
dent as "Dr. Grant" Grand Army men
have not forgotten it,