The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-03-14
A BOOM FOR GRANT
As Democratic Candidate for
President Launched.
MOVE WELL UNDER WAY
Party Leaders Think Youngest Son Of
Great Union General Good Timber
and Campaign is Being
Pushed.

The Atlanta Constitution publishes
the following:
That a well-organized boom is being
launched for the purpose of securing
tbs 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
hgerce brought to Atlanta yesterday
by Hon. G. V. Gress of Heartsease,
Ca, 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, haV-
ing represented Wilcox county i'll the
legislature at different times, has fre-
uuent business in New York in con,
nectioa with his extensive lumber in
terests, and during his trips to the
metropolis has become intimately &C.
auainted with the strongest men in
the democratic organization.
Colonel Gress sdeclares 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 Mc. Grant
will have large number of delegates
nledged to mis- support.
"A better man to head the ticket
would be hard to find" declares Coo
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
onpose Roosevelt, for they arc 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, mas 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
como. All along he has done yeo
man service for the party, and l 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
I,rominent 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
the democratic leaders of other states,
and the most favorable expressions
have been heard. A number of south
ern states are counted opeto come into
the Grant column.
1.-The eastern leaders with whom l
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 1t
is time for southern man to lead
the democratic hosts. They think that
Just 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 coDle into its OWL in
due time, and it is with this idea
that they are going to go out for
southern delegates.