Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-05-29 | Page 4 | Local News

Gen Fred Grant In describing his campaigns cam-paigns In ho Philippines HUll among other things I stopped uotlvo operations opera-tions after tho nomination of BriKin und tried only to protect my own min This Is ftn unfortunate not to any n foolish I confession I Gen Ulysses S Grant the father of the present General had stopped operations in Virginia nrtor the Democratic nomination for President In ISO and Juu waited for n Republican victory to have n moral effect on the war what would hoc became of the cnmnnlgn for tho Union I would hao been lost beyond recovery Gen Fred might Icarn wisdom from tho history of nla futhtir Chicago Chronicle The situation was somewhat different differ-ent In the Philippines The rebellion was on Its last legs when the platform of the Democracy In 18GI was put out in a desperate effort to give It new life and It possible to cause its triumph j o tri-umph In the Philippines It was good policy to save the lives of American soldiers until the result of the election elec-tion should show the Insurgents there that they were leaning on a broken reed The dcscendant of the men I who were prominent in the Chicago convention of 1SG1 are the men who do not like the younger Grant any moro than their fathers did the elder one