Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1880 — GRANT TO ELECT HIMSELF. [ARTICLE]

GRANT TO ELECT HIMSELF.

He Will See That He Get* Hi» Place--It Means Revolution. [From 4he Nation, It 'publiean.J Now, what Gen. Grant’s supporters propose is, in fact, that in case he—one of the candidates—should ret be satisfied with the decision of Congress, he should count the votes himself, admitting such as he thought entitled to admission and rejecting all others, and that if the result thus reached satisfied him he was elected, he should take possession of the White House with an armed force and should set the majority in both houses of Congress at defiance and begin the discharge of executive functions. There are probably not many of them who like to see the plan set down in this way in black and white beforehand, but there is no denying the correctness of this description of it. This is what is meant, and the only thing that can be meant, by choosing a military man for the Presidency, because, if elected (in his own opinion), “he will see that he gets the place.” In plain English it means revolution, It means the introduction into the Government of the praotioe of having each candidate pats on his oWn claims to tho Presidency,

and then fight in order to assert them. It means that we have reached a stage in our politics in which strategic *1 skill and military courage are the best qualifications for our chief officer, as they were for the Kings of the Huns, Visigoths and Lombards.