| Show A 3 ON ant GRANT GIANT speaking of presidential batic candidate didat q and aspirants mr johnson asked m me me if I 1 had any idea what was the nature of general grants test testimony emony before Judiciary the committee I 1 told him I 1 only know knew of the rumor that had about washington attribute to mr eldrerge Eldred Eldre age gc a 1 democratic Democrat id mem berof the ibe judiciary Judi cary eary committee to JO the effect that grants testimony lony made him a good candi candidate aate forthe democracy but thata that 1 cadalso bad had also heard that ille ne radical the committee asserted the very reverse of this and claimed the tv testimony sti mony as fitting grant for a radical the president replied e that ho as fan indorse his policy all along you will remember 11 said he that the message I 1 for which 1 waff first denounced in tho the senate as whitewashing 0 the candi condition of affairs in the south was based partly upon information furnished b by general grant in his report which accompanied that message f haye never spoken very much to general grant on oil the subject of polities but I 1 should be surprised to find out at ac this time that he opposed to what I 1 have been attempting to do for tile the restoration of the southern states these were the words of the president on this point as nearly as I 1 can call remember them they express the idea at all any rate wash cor cincinnati commercial |
