Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-06-26

future, - they nave searched Ia VAIN II
the past, for any other On whom the ma
tlon leans with such confidence and trust
Standing on the highest elninence Of hu-
man distinction. and having 6lled all
lands with his renown-modest. firm.
simple and self possible has seen not
only tho titled but the poor and the lowly
in the utmost ends OF the world rise and
uncover before him DE has studied the
needs and defects Of many systems Of
government, and he comes back better
American than ever, with q wealth Of
knowledge aud experience added to the
hard common sense which 50 conspicu-
ously distinguished him in all the fierce
light that beat upon him throughout the
most eventful, trying and periloas six
teen years Of the nations history.
Never having had "a policy to enforce
against the will Of the people, he never
betrayed q cause or a friend, and the
people win never betrsy or desert him.
Vilified and reviled. truthlessly aspersed
by numberless presses, not in other
lands. bat in his own. tho assaults upon
him have strengthened and seasoned his
hold upon the public heart. The ammu-
milton Of calumny has all been exploded;
the powder has all been burned once,
its force is spent, and General Grants
name will glitter as bright and i'm
perishable star in the diadem Of the re-
public when those who have tried to
tarnish it win have moldered in forgot
ten graves and their memories and epi-
tsphs 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 Lees surrender foreshadowed
the wisest principles and prophecies Of
true reconstruction.
Victor in the greatest of modern wars,
he quickly signalized his aversion to war
and his love of peace by an arbitration
of International disputes which stands
as the wisest and most majestic example
of its kind III the worlds diplomacy.
When imitation. at the height of its popu-
larity and frenzy, had swept both houses
of congress, it was the veto of Grant
which. single and alone, overthrow ex-
pansion and cleared the way for specie
resumption. To him, immeasurably
more than to any other man, is due the
fact that every paper dollar is as good
as gold.
With him as our leader we shall have
no defensive campaign. no apologies or
explanations to make. The shafts and
arrows have all been aimed at him and
lie broken and harmless at his feet. Life,
liberty and property will find safeguard
in him. When he said Of the black man
in Florida, Wherever / am they may
come Also" he meant that. had he the
power to help it, the poor jewellers in the
cabins Of the south should not be driven
in terror from the homes Of their child
hood and the graves Of their murdered
dead. When he refused to receive Denis
Kearney he meant that lawlessness and
communism, although it should dictate
laws to whole city. would everywhere
meet a foe in him, and. popular or un-
popular. he will hew to the line of right,
let the chips fly where they may.
His integrity. his common sense, his
courage and his unequaled experience
are the qualities offered to his country.
The only argument against accepting
them would amaze Solomon. He thought
there could be nothing new under the
sun. Having tried Grant twice and
found him faithful, we are told we must
not, even after an interval of years,
trust him again.
What qualification does not such Q
fallacy involve! The American people
exclude Jefferson Davis from public
trust. Why? Because he was the arch
traitor and would be destroyer And
now the same people are asked to ostra-
CHE Grant and not trust him. Why!
Because he was the arch preserver Of his
country: because, not only in war, but
afterward, twice as q civic magistrate,
he gave his highest, noblest efforts to
the republic. Is such absurdity an
electioneering jugglery or Hypocrisy
masquerade?
There is no field Of human activity, re.
sponsibility or reason in which rational
beings object to Grant because he has
been weighed in the balance and not
found wanting, and because he has had
unequaled experience. making him ex-
ceptionslly competent and fit. From,
the man who shoes your horse to the
lawyer who pleads your case, the officers
who manage your railway, the doctor
into whose hands you give your life. OF
the minister who seeks to save your
souls. what now do you reject because
You have tried him and by his works
have known him? What makes the pres
idential Office an exception to all things
else in the common sense to be applied
to selecting its incumbent? Who dares
to put letters on the free choice and
judgment which IL the birthright of the
American peoplei
Can 1t be said that Grant has used Of
fetal power TO perpetuate his planl He
has no place. No Official power has
been used for him. Without patronage
or power. without telegraph wires run.
ming from his house to the convention,
without electioneeSing contrivances,
without effort on his part. his name ID
on his country's lips. and he IL struck AT
by the whole Democratic party because
his nomination viii BE- the dsathblow to
Democratic success. He 10 struck at by
others who find onense and disqualifca-
ton in the very service be has rendered
and in the very experience he has
gained Show mo better man. Name
one and an answered. But do net
point a. disqualification to the very
facts which make this man AZ beyond
AL others Let not experience disqualify
or excellence impesch him.
There IL No third term in the case. and