The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-03-15
SON OF GRANT
BEING DOOMED
By Eastern Democrats for the
Presidential Nomination.
TIMBER OF FIRST-CLASS
Leaders of Party Believe Youngest Son
of Great Union Commander Would
Stand Good Chance to Win.

The Atlanta Constitution publishes
the following:
That well-organized boom is being
launched for the purpose of securing
the democratic nomination for the
presidency for Jesse R. Grant, the
youngest son of former President
Ulysses S. Grant, the great union
commander, was the interesting intel
lisence brought to Atlanta yesterday
by Hon. G. V. Gress of Heartsease,
Ga, who has just returned from New
York, where he was in close touch
with the democratic leaders.
Colonel Gress, who will always be
remembered in Atlanta as the donor
Of the Grant Park Zoo, andw no is
quite a figure in Georgia politics, hay
ing represented Wilcox county in the
legislature at different times has fire.
auent business in New York in con
nection with his extensive lumber in
terests, and during his trips to the
metropolis has become intimately &C
Quainted with the strongest men in
the democratic organization.
Colonel GTess declares that there
is no doubt as to the determination
Of the Grant Park Zoo, and who is
name before the democratic conven-
ton, and he believes that by the
time the convention meets Mr.. Grant
will have large number Of delegates
pledged to mis- support.
"A better man to head the ticket
would be hard to find" declares Colo
mel Gress. "a lifelong democrat and
a man whose life has been spotlessly
clean, the New York leaders believe
that he is the, best man available to
oppose Roosevelt, for they are certain
that Roosevelt will again head the
republican ticket.
"Mr Grant, though forty-eight years
of age and for twenty years a power
in the democratic councils of New
York, has never held public office. He
could have had any place he desired
in the city government, but he refus-
ed all offers, as he did the foreign
mission which was rendered him by
President Cleveland. Mr.. Grant has
kept himself in the background wait.
ing for the proper opportunity, and
he and his friends think this has now
come. All along he has done yeo-
man service for the party, and can
say with the greatest certainty that
he now has the enthusiastic backing
of nearly all the democratic leaders
OF New York whose influence counts
for anything.
New York and New Jersey and
some OF the other eastern states are
already enthusiastically for him, and
prominent democrats declare that,
should he be nominated, he will have
no trouble in swinging those states
into line. The question Of Mr.. Grants
candidacy is now being put before
tho democratic leaders Of other states,
and the most favorable expressions
have been heard. A number of south
ern states are counted on to come into
the Grant column.
THE eastern leaders with whom !
have talked feel that they can get the
support of the south for Mr.. Grant,
despite the sentiment which has be-
come widespread in the south that it
is time for a southern man to lead
the democratic hosts. They think that
iust now no southern man could make
anything like the showing which they
are sure Mr.. Grant could make. They
speak of wishing some prominent
southern man named for vice presi-
dent. but as to just who he shall be
nothing definite has been said, of
course. Mr.. Grants friends feel that
the south will come into its own in
due time, and it is with this idea
that they are going to go out for
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