Show S TUB iNDKiKSDKST republican executive I t ex-ecutive committee of New York held a meeting on May 84 and resolved 5 S that in the event of the nomination of Grant by the Chicago convention they would withhold their votes k S from and labor by every honorable i means in their power to defeat him S I and the third term in the forthcoming I S forthcom-ing nation elections They resolved re-solved that they would bolt his is nomination The independent ret re-t publicans arc generally spoken of asS 1 as-S 1 Watchers because at the election S 5 in New York hut year they scratched S Ii i f 19686 votes on Cornell the republi S can candidate for governor In a I otrcuter issued i from their hecdqutu 4 I > ters they insist that New York cannot can-not be carried for n 1 republican candidate S candi-date against 40000 independent and German votes and say 3500 republicans LL At4 11 S repub-licans in New York City alone have r already signed a pledge to vote against S j Grant A paragraph of the circular I J reads Delegates who want to eee a r I i republican president elected must j l S itand firm against General 1 Grant These scratches willS will-S proBably have no more occasion I tj I Z to rend their garments or waste their S S 1 t S energies over Grant as it doesnt 1 S seem lit all likely that the expred I S dent will figure in the politics of this t I country after to day provided the S Chicago convention gets to ballotting I for a candidate Hereafter GenGrant S will be a very small private citizen I f commanding only a small degree of S the popular love and respect that he I 1 i S heW two months ago His ambition i hm led him to commit tho great blunder S J blun-der of hia life When he had the f i opportunity to retire with nIl the S J J i i honor and glory that it is pojsibla for a modern American to command lie declined aad tho remit is the imnii S S feting defeat now preparing for him i j in OhioaffO Grant was great bat big I S gralnesa has been turned to little S I a 0 jf ness 1 f i cS f J iS i |