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Show GRANT AND THE PRESIDENCY. The talk about General GrAnt nB the republican candid tit e for the prewi- j dency in l&SO has cFfised to bo a jt-st. Ike idea is no louenr ridiculed. White rjr.t r. fiw leading if publican journals Opemy advocate the Galena sindier lor anntiier term in the whitR hou?r, democralk: editors arc h-ginum to think there i6 oaiethinKin it. From idlo p.iriif-'raphiDg on the subject the proposition baa grown to such importance im-portance aa to call forth able and thoughtful discussion. Of course it 13 too early to speak with any degree of exactness. AH the talk at this time is little more than a puess. However, as strawa indicate the direction direc-tion of the current, so can we tell tb6 course of tho political stream. No party has ever been more hjsriily sick of its president, than are the republicans difpusted with Mr. Hayes. Just what Mr. Hayes is is precisely tho reverse of what they want. The party was bjrn. and re.ired under different teaching, nod opposite in-fluencea in-fluencea than tr,o-e wiii.Mi surround the president, lis greatest success was achieved under a banner entirely unlike that uow uid. It is a party of radical principles and actions, and dpsnerate firmness. These arethincs unknot n to Hayes, who is as mild and gentle as the cooiug dove. What Hayes is, Grant is not, but the direct opposite. The party has long since fully realized this f.-.ct, and at Ihe same time it sees that without a man at tho head more in b?.rrnooy with the character and principles of the parly the organization must soon go to pieces." As they were great and ..o itnAo fJrftnr thev nAtur l"WO.'-'i " " ' -- ally look to him again in time of peril. He represents in his organization organiza-tion what bas become a pcre ueces flity to the party a force of cnnraol- r and a certain determination ot pur pose. It. ia realized that only bj the aid of Buch a man can the republicans republi-cans regain what they have lost. It is not admitted that eveo under Grant could the party be reunited and led to victory; but in view of the past and the present, and the future outlook, it seems that he would be a3 likely to restore the party to union as any man that could be found. There ia do longer any doubt that Gen. Grant is in training for the campaign. He s ambitious to ouce more have the narty call upon bim. His protracted 6tay abroad is .the very beat thing he could do to further his aspirations and to increase his chances of success. suc-cess. His Btrikera in this country are keeping bim prominently before the public, pointing to bim as the more than probable savior n? the prrty, and at the proper time, eithpr this fall or next spring, be will return horns to be met by a hearty welcome ani to receive a grand ovation, just in reason to be tnken in the popular arma and carried into tb- republican convention of 1SSJ. This is ubout hiw the matter looks at this diotuuee. would make, we believe he would prove a great improvemeut upon himself. We have little idea th t be CftT be elected, for the democrat?, unless un-less they foolishly beat out their own own brains, are pretty certain to carry through their candi date of 'SO. But in the event of democratic hari-kari, and the election of General Grant. We believe he would agreeably disappoint all parties, even uis enemies, in bis administration of the aflaira of government. gov-ernment. He is ons of those men who learn from exp-rieuee. He is not a born statesman, but has learned what he knows of statesmanship in ih-2 school of experience and practice. He knows better to-day, what is needed thin ever before. On the w!iLe, hin noTiinaM in and election lire eiceedingiy problematical, but ehould he be successful iu this further gratification of his ambition, we Mieve he would mike a very fair and by no means unpopular president. |