St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-11
OUTLAW REDS RECORD
Candidate Roasted Grant
Shamefully.
A Possible Reason Why Mr.
Blaine Is Not on the
Stump.

Whitelaw Reid accused Gen. Grant of
nearly every crime on the calendar.
His friends were denominated the
''robber ring" and his relatives, no
matter how young or obscure, were
sought out and attacked in the bitterest
way. Mr.. Reid wrote in the Tribune OF
July 81, 1872:
1.-The case of the colored cadet at
West Point, which made so much talk
some time ago, has never yet been told
in full. We present this morning a
curious contribution to history in the
form of letter from the Hon. David
Clark, of Hartford, who may be remem-
bered as the patron of the boy Smith, to
the Hon. Sayles j. Bowen, eX-mayor of
Washington. 1t appears from this let
ter that the real prosecutors of the col
ored cadet were not mere parcel of
school boys and SnobbiSh, young mill
tary officers, but Master Frederick Dent
Grant and his excellent father.
In the Carolinas it is literal fact
that any man, white or colOred, can vote
for Grant without let or hindrance, and
without any fear of personal violence or
abuse from any quarter. But in very
many places, where there is a large
negro population under INSCRIPTIONS
for Greeley without sneers and insults.
and no colored man can do so without
danger to life and limb. The bayonet
backs up the Seni-Sayage mob who ter
rorlZe the whole community, and, if
man, especially colored man, is not
willing TO vote for Grant. he must either
stay away from the polls or take the
consequences. And all the elections
are managed and returned by tools of
the robber ring"
And on Aug. 10 Mr.. Reid wrote of
Gen. Grant, under the heading Bribery
or Nepotism:''
I'VE have not yet published or re-
ferred to the serious statement made in
recent number of the Chicago Tribune
IN regard to an alleged transfer of a 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 1t. We receive every day circum-
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"
Whitelaw Reid wrote OF James G.
Blaine ON Sept. 2S, 1872:
mir. Blaine's record in railroad mat
ters grows darker as ii is examined. 1t
may be nobody's business how he has
become millionaire on acongressman's
pay; but it is the business OF his con-
stituents and the country to know how
the speaker of the house of representa-
tives came into this rich railway specu-
latiOn."
The Republican candidate for vice
president in 1892, after he had attacked
Gen. Grant in every other possible way,
wrote this extraordinary statemen on
Oct. %, 1872:
Gen. Grant never was Republican.
He had no sympathy with the aims of
the Republican party during the war
and he has shown no sympathy with
them since"