The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-12-21
From the Wheeling Registerl'
The One Term Principle.

to the article which VIC copy elsewhere
from Wilkes Spirit gfMe Times. in rela.
ton to tho course Of action TO BE- pursued
by those Republicans who are convinced
that the reelection ofGeneal Grant would
be a national calamity. Mr. Wilkes. it
must be remembered. is 40 earnest he.
oublicap al active worker aud one OF
Grants earliest and mos prominent friends
lie WA. largely instrumental in Grants
4 nonlpation. aud had perhaps, more m
aneace with he President than any other
man IL ujc country until Ulysses iuccm.
peteocy for The place aud b bid lntrignes
for further power became painfully appar.
eut aud drove from his support all who
love their country more than the personal
fortunes Of any individual Wilkes Is 40
energetic and jealous man i" whatever be
undertakes and IN the present movement
be evidently "meaus business Should
be succeed 10 inspiring other Republicans
with similar patriotic fervOr and with co'lr'
age to openly warn the country of the
dangers that may follow the extension Of
Grants power, there may yet be hope OF
successfully avcrting the mischief that is
threatened.
/ Mr.. Wilkes and the Republicans who
act with him plant themselves upon the
zone term principle" as the most co'npre'
hensive ground upon which the opponents
of Grants recollection can unite The
position is we'll chosen, for besides being
right itself. the doctrine that no President
shall be eligible to a second term Of office
Immediately succeeding the first, is 80
popular as to command tho ascent ofnll
! who are not Immediately interested in re-
tanning the spoils and emouments Of office
The danger aud disadvantage Of permit
ting a President to waste the public mon,
ey and corrupt the public service in ef'
forts to secure bis own re election. are so
obvious as to need no demonstration =
Now il the sentiment of the country IN
favor Of the one term principle can find
some early and authoritative mode Of ex-
preston, it is possible that General Grant
may be "headed off" and the politicians ia
his pay my be made see the futility Of his
denomination Aud this. We take in, is
the object of the move proposed by Mr.
! Wilkes, with the implied understanding
that, even il General Grant receives q
formal nomination from an ofice.holder's
convention packed 10 his interest, as the
Republican National Convention is likely
to b. il greanbacks and Gatllng guns can
accomplish that result, these independent
Republicans will not 10 my event favor
bis reelection.
( Whether this movement in favor Of the
zone term principle" results simply in
the nomination Of some other Republican,
General Grant being dropped. or whether
/ it results in the election Of Democrat in
opposition to the present unworthy and
ambitious soldier. a substantial and impor.
tant good will be accomplished. I'VE
await with interest the further develop.
meut Of the plans Of the "ma'contcnts'
After great deal of tribulation and
worrimeut, the lntelIigencer has conclud.
cd to support Grant aud Bore'nau" as its
ticket for President aud Vice-President Of
the United States in case these worthless
should be nominated by the Republican
party, The dose is. doubtless, a nausea
ting and unpalahble one to our ucighbor,
who loves one Of the candidates about as
well as the other. and he has received 10
the past aud expects in the future about as
mauy favors from one as from the other,
but be has concluded to swallow the po.
ton il it kills him. Here eudeth the first
lesson and the lntelligencer's spurts Of
independent journalism : Wheeling
Register,