Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1887 — “From Sire to Son.” [ARTICLE]

“From Sire to Son.”

The nom nation of a son of Gen. Grant for an important office by the Republican State convention in New York must be regarded as an exceedingly injudicious and utterly indefensible act. The nominee is not known to possess a single special qualification for the place; it may be fairly assumed that he knows nothing of its duties, aud there is a lamentable lack of assurance that he is capable of acquiring the’ equipment he now lacks. He has been put in nomination simply in the hope that, standing under the shadow of his father’s mighty name, he may win the suffrages of men who esteemed the father. Such a motive for the selection of a candidate is simply atrocious. As an attempt to introduce hereditary office-holding in America, this nomination would be justly considered an outrage if it were not for the ridiculous presumption upon which it is predicted that the American people are so deeply sunk in the folly of hero-worship that their devotion can be transferred at the will of a party machine from deserving sire to desertless son. The plan of the machine managers in this instance is understood to be to try the public pulse in New York with the son of Gen. Grant. If the experiment does not kill its subject there, the engineers will go further and attempt to elevate the son of Lincoln to the Presidency. Upon every ground of sound public policy and public morals it is to be hoped the scheme will meet from the people, to whose intelligence and common sense it is a flagrant insult, the reprobation and defeat it merits.— Chicago Times.