The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-10-01

The last scene of all that ends the
strange. eventful history of Grant was
the strangest . . . and most pathetic.
When cry Of Caesarism was raised
in Grants second term, there appear
ed little book, THE Coming Crown"
which amusingly portrayed "the i'm
perial family" Somehow the simple
soldier president did not fit we'll into
the picture as Emperor Ulysses p
But the Grown Prince Frederick"
Prince Jesse, and the other "Imper-
ial Highnesses" were better suited to
their absurd parts in this burlesque
court at the White House.
The only member of the presidential
family who won much popular favor
was Nellie Grant. Being spirited, un-
conventional girl, Nellie was sent
away from her throng of courtiers to
give her time to mature in Europe
And she came home engaged to Alger-
non Sartoris. an Englishman whom
she met on shipboard. The match was
not at all to the liking of her fond
father After he had given her away
in brilliant White House wedding, he
was found lying on his bed, his face
buried in pillow, prey to grief.
When Grant left the White House,
freed from public care for the first
time in Is years, his uppermost wish
was to visit his daughter in England,
where he was surprised by the public
welcome that greeted his arrival. He
was puzzled to find himself a per-
sonage," said James Russell Lowell
But his political friends were quick to
see in his triumphs abroad a chance
to restore their own prestige at home,
and they urged him on until he had
completed tour Of the world, which
remains, perhaps, unequalled in bril-
lance. AS he went his way from Lon
don to Toxic, emperors ard kings hon
ored him, marshals paraded their
troops before him, statesmen con-
suited him. But he bore himself amid
all the splendid pageantry as simply
as If he were an unlocking bystander.
Coming home after three years
absence, he weakly yielded to the poll
ticians who were using his name in a
desperate adventure to regain power
for the "Stalwart" faction Of the Re-
publican party. But the wise, unwrit-
ten law against third term was vim
Dictated in his defeat in the Republican
convention of 1880.
The simple truth is Grant was in
IeCu VI AllcI
over his money left after his long.
costly trip, he saw. as he wrote to a
friend, that he would have "to live in
Galena or on a farm" if not in
the White House.
Failing the White House, he was
tempted by a young Napoleon of
Finance" into the whirlpool Of New
York and to become partner in a
Wall street bank. Into that blind
venture he put what little money he
had and most of all his name.
The great but modest soldier had
always a weakness for mere rich men,
who had succeeded where he failed
Established in a big house in New
York, with the money rolling in upon
him under the conjuring tricks of his
partner, the hero of Appomattox act
ually felt flattered by the thought that
at last he was success" and could
meet millionaires on level.
After dwelling three years in that
fools paradise he was rudely awaken
ed from his dream of wealth by the
young Napoleon's" request that he go
borrowing from William H. Wander
bilt to save the bank from crashing.
He was lame from fall on an icy
street when the truth was broken to