Show I NOT IN THAT WAY I State Senator Arkell of New York is in favor ot honoring the memory of General Gen-eral Grant and in the desire to do honor all will concur but when it comes to Senator Arkells method people will i pause before they plunge The Senator may truly be said to desire to erect a living monument to the memory of General Gen-eral Grant It is not to be done by subscription I sub-scription but by votes This is his plan I cc His notion was that a resolution of regard for the memory of General Grant should be introduced into the New York Republican i Republi-can State Convention closing with a declaration of Colonel Grants unanimous nomination as a fitting evidence of the i respect in which General Grant was held in the State In this connection it is well to inquire if this is the kind of ovi t dance to bo introduced to show that Now York State held General Grant respect whether it is to be cumulative I Senator Arkell says the idea is not from the politicians which speaks well for the politicians but from an old farmer who came into his office The Senator soya I they grow ideas over the plough handles these old fellows The question ques-tion naturally suggests itself whether they I I i grow anything under the plough i I handles these old fellows If the crops r i of the soil which these old fellows I 1 raise are no better than the crops I I of ideas which they raise then they will not take the prizes i i at the county fairs Burns grew some poetic ideas over the plough handles but he was a genius and had the good sense to quit the plough handles when he found that his ideas were worth anything But such ideas as Burns are not the common characteristic of these old fellows of I whom Senator Arkell speaks Colonel Fred Grant has shown no special ability in any direction of which > < if r < tf 4 < r t 1 we have ever heqrd and whatever his ability may be it is more likely to be in the military than the civil direction If I helms inherited any of his fathers ability I it is of a military nature no doubt and his education is a militaryone Today he is Colonel by favor andnot by merit and had it not been that General Sheridan Sheri-dan placed him on his staff he would have been n first lieutenant of infantry and nothing more The talk about nominating nom-inating him for Lieutenant Governor by acclamation is a part of that hurrah method of doing all things that is so characteristic of the Republican party It was hurrah that nominated Blaino the Brilliant it was hurrah that marked tho campaign for him and it was hurrah that sent him to his political grave The idea of placing Colonel Grant in nomination by acclamation for LieutenantGovernor of New York as a means of expressing the regard of that State for the memory of General Grant may have originated with some farmer but we doubt it very much and are inclined to think it is one of those tricks to catch the farmer vote that are so familiar to Republican politicians poli-ticians who are the true friends of the laboring man The nomination will hardly be made hut if made will not win |