The Grant Cards

The Grant movement is gaining strength in all parts of the country Republicana everywhere see that he i not only the strongest individual can didate they can put forward, but tha he is the only candidate who can unit the varióos antagonistic factions Blaine and Conkling destroy each oth er, and both of them would unite to crush John Sherman, who would joii with them in defeating Washburne But all of them can unite on Grant whose nomination would give each o the others four years longer to develo] political popularity in. Grant is the favorite candidate of all his old cronie and associates and hangers-on ; all the contractors and jobbers and adventur ers who made money out of the coun try when he was President before ; the subsidy people all go for him ; he is the idol of the District Ring.the Indian Ring, the Army Ring, and the Whisky Ring; and he is the flrst choice of ev ery Republican Vho believes that the chief function of the President is to reward his personal supporters witl public plunder. Kut the chief mana gers of the movement rely on three carda for his election : 1. The condition of the South re quires a military President.The Repub lican managers are doing all in theii power to provke and irrítate and out rage the white people of the South to the point of committing acts whicl can be used to lire the Northern heari and revive all the balef ui passions o the war. The Republicana have nev er buried the bloody shirt, and nevei will bury it so long as it can be usec to keep alive the spirit of revenge aiu retaliation, and enable them to ge votes. Southern outrages, the peril o: the negroes, the solid white party, anc every other possible bugaboo, is to be pressed into service to make Northen people feel that the rebellión must be fought over again, and that Grant is the only man who can meet the emergency. 2. The unsettled and uncertain condition of the country, in view of the discontent among the laboring classes the strikes of workingmen, and the possible outbreaks like that of 1877 makes it necessary to have a stiong government with a powerful bead Grant is the representative of centralization. He embodies the ideas of personal rule. His inethods are military. He naa an iron will and adespotio grip on men and things. And if the people will not make disturbances.if the WOrkingmen rel'use to get up riots, something must be done to provoke disturbances, so that the country shall led that the public order requires a President who will both govern and rule, and clamor for Grant. 3. The tinancial safety of the country is the third card the Republicana propose to play for Grant. Capital is proverbially conservative and sensitiva The capital ists and the whole business class of the country have sulfered so much during the last half-dozen years that they are peculiarly apprehensive of possible dangers. The leaders of the Grant movement are already doing their utmost to i ;n on the Democratie party all the wild financia] schemes, uil the theo etic crazes, all the idiotie projects of men who do not represent the party, ven if they ever belonged to it. They itterly ignore and repudíate the fact ;hat Republicana were the original nllationists, and inllated the etirrenoy ïeedlessly under Grant's administraion; that they demonetized silver, and that Grant signed the bill degraing the money of the country tor ighty years into merehandise ; that liny were responsible for the finanial panic of 1873 which they did ïothing whatever to relieve; that the ierrible depression which has paralyzed ommeree and business and industry 'or live years was caused by there mismanagement and extravagance and coruption. They now set up the prennnc that they are the special guarlians of the national credit, aud that Grant in particular is the candidato of capitalists and financiers, who regard him as eminently and entirely safe, and are willing te spend millions, f need be, to secure his election. They are the three tramp canto in the land of the Grant party. It is obviousy important that the people should tnow beforehand just what cards hese unscrupvilous and astute Repubican managers have in their hands and ropose to play. Everybody can see ïow exactly the pretenso on which rant's nomination is to be urged and ïow his campaigrt is to be carried on.