Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-23

see In England aud Germany Or
luuCrF asked No he added.
'Fwucc has been through g. History
never repeats a reign of terror
Mr.. Young says that this conversation
was carefully yJgcd 100 The time Grant
talked long and earnestly aud from his
speech 10 appears clear that ESQ far from
the trip around the world being q pulti.
cal program towards q third term, when
lac was lu Spain hc had abandoned an
idea of H." General Badcau Ia his
"tirWN IN Peace says that Grdut wrote
him from Rome iu reference Go the ac-
tiyily ui some of his friends iu the United
STATES, saying: "Ihcy have designs Tor me
which ! do not contemplate Tor myself a"
This was borne ont by what MIR. Young
reports of a conversation a year later In
Washington with Cpnlling, Grant then
b'ing boz California Cuudmg's first re-.
mark wa. ~ suppose thlt you can give
me- an assurance such ns | can receive
iu mo- other Way-thai General Grant is
alive lie said hp asked the question
because IL was un advantage, when press
ing the nomination of q friend for the
presidency TO know that thut friend was
alive lie declared HAT be- had had
rruly ur Indirectly, for years, and that
Dee was not aware that Grant knew what
his friends had been doug
Certainly If Grant talkrd or commui.
Gated with aVhody about third term Be-
would have been with Logan or Cameron
or with Roscoe tonklng, the master spirit
of the third term movement Frum fhp
best information obtDiuullc IL would seem
that Grant changed from an attitude or
uppusiuuI TO one of ucquicsrruCp after
Dee had returned 10 this country aud had
found REASONS for changing the views
expressed at Malaga q ycar before in
the Young conversation. Az any rate
"a
WaYu with more Nigur than ever aud
though he may have done little tO urge on
the moycmcu the mct of his not having
diWCtly or indirectly interdictrd the use
of his name could only he construed into
au unmistakable sign OF approval
This seems 90 have been Grants atti.
tude up 90 the metdug of the couNen-
ton, and, indeed, Senator Cameron az
thiVaun lust before the convention
opened, told how he had been, denounced
In a delegate for leading convention
hght without eyer having had a wori
said the delegate. "a dozen cabinet offices
pledged This morning for votes. HI amy
one ~ our hlyS should plrli.p post
Oiiicr IL would cost him the fricudship
of Gunt' Ana IOukling just before
this complained 10 Aoung not only Of
GWuts retiCcucc, but of The Indifference
of many of the men who owed much 90
their success 90 Grant And as for
Grants rich friends, meaning such men
as DreNpl and perhaps A. r. Stewart on
New York they had not given dollar.
though motley was needed t0 nay the
expenses of the poor delegates from The
South and elsewhere 90 whom conyen.
ton fare meant everything
DOUBTFUL FRIENDS.
The explanation of This appearing in
difference on the part of many OF Grants
closest friends was that they were M
Nided as tn the Qdyis3hility Of the third
torn proposal Men like John Russell
Yong. t'eorge W Childs and DrcKel
the Philadelphia banker were opposed
10 his ninning Doubtless they were 10
greU cNtcat governed hy the fear that
I Grant could not successfully eucouutpr
The widespread and deep-rooted prejudice
of The AmerVau people 90 che Third term
idea. Rut there were other reasons also.
AN the,ie reasons We're SCI before Grant
by Young ON the eve OF the convention.
when Young by invitation. was Grants
guest at Galena. Grant asked for