The Grant Movement Frosted

Beaides sholving I51uino as a candi, date for President, driving littleEugene Halo to the shades of private life, waking up saetea! Hamlin from a Eip Van Winkle sleep, ind demoralizing the Re: publican party mi the WS f the fall eleetions. the rësuft in Main e has had ariöther effect, ■which has not been taken info account. It lias blasted the Graat movemeht with an early frost, from , which recovery is hardly probable. Mr. i BÍaihe reeently cteclared for it, as refjectfn'g the sentiment of a present ma jority of tllë Hepublican party, and other i men of prominentie have been heljiing , it with all their influence in the most , itïi;etive way. I Tliat a regulan eauipaign for a third ! term was organized and directed with skill cm tlieir side, seeonded by G milt 's : eftbrts in Europe, no leniger adinits of i tlie least doubt. If the schenie was not i planned be,fore he went abroad, it has oertainly faken sluipe and been indusfcriously worted up in the last eight or f 4-ii months, with the irtful appliances i known to shrewd politicians. (irant 1 himself is ounning, and did not require ! mueh instmetion after the general plan was marked out. A part of the programme was that he shonld come home : by way of California, and be grootod with a genios of preconcevted reoeptions, : on the largest possible scale, from San ! Francisco to New York. Though quite willing to take any or! dinary chances promising success, (ïrant has an innate dreadof defcat, and has no inclination to be the scapegoat of others, or to lead a forlorn hope. He I will not need to bc told that with the ! foundation of the Kepublican party in Xew England undermined by a defection that cannot be rèpaired in time for 1880, if ever, lie would be beaten as no candidati' lias ever been, if nominated two yeaïs henee. The popular icpugnance to a third term, and the eorruption, ring rule, and robberies of (nintism, would have ernshed him in any event, had he possessed far more j strength tlian liis friends liave ever ! claimed. But tliis upheaval in Maine, which is the first blaat of an angry storm that will carry all before it in other States, is an admonition which no man like (riant is likely to disregard. He will be told that the capitalists of the country, the national banks, and the railroad j ooÁoratioiIs will all nnite npon him, 1 and that their unión niemis an election at any price. His instincts and his j)ersojial associations and his tastes being all in this direction, he will accept this 1 assuranee as in the main true, the wish being father to the thonght. Teni])ting as the suggestion is, it has drawbacks. A coinbination of wealth and feorpörate power wonld lead nlmost mcessarily to a unión oí popular elements, against whicli they could not stand, and might provoke acondition oi things which all good men would deplore in any political contest. Capital is naturally conservativo, and would depart from safe moorings if it ever consented to engage in a struggle likc that ropo8ed. National banks depend upon Congress for their charters, and on the people for their support, Railroad eorjioratioiis have no strength to sacriiice in politics, and are in no condiüon to invite lisks. When Oen. (irant comes to wefleet on the siuToundings of tho next Republicali ca.ididate. he v.ill be very apt to eoncliide that discretion is the better part bf valor, and refuse to be put up iiinvly lo 1' knorked down like a niuepin. Klmuld he, trom any weakiii-ss. yield tn tlie tcinptation. and allow himself to be oonqtiered by the politi'ians. his career will probábly close in clonds, liki' those whieh darkened it before the gl'eal opporf uiiity canie that rescued him from ruin. and worse. The next Etepublioan carjididate will be the laSi the existing orgailiation. An hverwhelmrng defeat will lead to a now fonnation. out of which niay grow a great party in the future, when their o))jioiicuts sliall have hui in the beaten track o 1' success and proven their piicity to bear it. ■--