The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-14
C E S A r l S M.
The Third Term Proposed for
General Grant.
Views Of the American Press on the Scheme
to Overthrow the Liberties Of
tho Republic.

tho Republic.
From the Lockport IN a. y Union tdemocratic,'
- The HERALD makes no mistake tn direct
| ing attention to the issue whicn must overtop all
others until 1t is finally and irrevocably settled
Mr. Grants usurpation In Louisiana equals, In de-
fance OF law, any single act OF Caesar In his pro-
gressive overthrow Of the Roman Republic. To
evsde the fate Of that Empire Mr.. Grant must not
be allowed to enter upon his third term. 1t may
have been noticed by the observing that those re-
publicans who last FAN denounced. In advance
any project looking to Mr.. Grants continuance IN
once beyond his present term are now reticont
upon the subject, or venture the assertion that
third term In likely to become q necessity "But
to say" remarks the HERALD. that this Ia not Q
living issue Is to say what Ii not true" No paper
has equalled the HERALD in shrewdly pointing out
vital questions in political canvass. 1t is vain to
talk OF tarifYs or mon0poes while this question il
pending.
From the Augusta toa) Chronicle (democratic).
July o.
THR COMING ISSUE.
The NEW YORK HERALD OF the 6th, In an
editorial article written with great ability
and force, reviews the past epochs OF our
country's politics, ana forecasts the nature
OF the coming issue. While prolessedly friendly
to General Grant; while giving him credit
for saving the Republic In time OF war and for gov
ernlng 1t wisely and honestly tGod save the mark y
in time Of peace; while implying that second
term of the Presidency was just reward Of dis.
ttnguished public services, the HERALD fears that
the personal ambition of the President will make
Cessrism-the assumption of continuous power
the issue which the people must determine In
1915. The writer thinks that the presents
ton OF such issue viii be Q suicidal
act. Grant, though the leader Of his party
Is completely It's master as was ever JEFF
ferson Jackson-cannot hope for success
o third time. "Great as General Grant has
shown himself to be, and powerful as his party
doubtedly is, the suggestion of third term, seri
ously accepted on his part, would be virtually to
leap from the Tarpeian Rock and leave q name In
history to be remembered with the names OF Burr
and Arnold" The metaphor is q little mixed, per-
haps, but the language Is certainly strong and en-
phatic enough. Every important act OF
the Presidents since his second inaugural seems
to indicate that he Is preparing for third term
that C1sarism Is to be the issue; Cesarism, with
all its tyranny and corruption, its vicousness and
depravity, without the prosperity, the glory and
the grandeur which made its despotism endurablc.
To this complexion must 1t come at last unless the
people remain true to themselves and true to
the Republic. But while the HERALD has
discovered the fact, 1t is not the first
to discover the truth. Sagacious statesmen FORE
saw and depicted the evil more than year ago
Charles Sumner, whose republcanism Is as IN
doubted as his talents, told Congress and the
country of C2sarism from his seat in the Senate
more than q twelvemonth since. Horace Greeley,
the great journalist, the man able, honest and
sincere, whose untirng exertions. whose perse-
made him the founder Of the republican party and
contributed in no small measure to its subsequent
victories and long continued success, saw the
danger and sounded o warning in the columns OF
the tribune Other republicans saw 1t and sought
to save the party from the suicidal nomination
at Philadelphia. When they became convinced
that further exertons within party lines would be
useless. they renounced their allegiance. They
determined to act for themselves and the
Cincinnati platform and the nomination Of Horace
Greeley was the first formal protest against the
one-man power. The democracy, losing sight OF
lesser evils In the OF great and immediate
danger, coalesced with the reformers and fought
with them shoulder to shoulder, the battle OF '72.
But the strategy OF the enemy caused the true
grounds Of quarrel to be ignored and forgotten.
The conflict was waged upon false issues, and the
Cincinnati movement encountered o crushing de-
feat. Now the campaign must be recommended,
and though the last light was lost and the enemy
has the prestige Of success the prospects for VIC
tory will be better than they ever were before.
Caesarism which formerly lay in ambush, now rears
high its brazen 'front.' and there is mistaking the
character Of the foe. Unless the masses have be-
come accustomed to misgovernment-unless the
democracy have lost their ancient courage and for
saken their ancient faith-victory must come to us
In '7s.
From the Springfield Mass, Journal republican
and anti-administration), July 10.l
THE THIRD TERN, AND WHY NoTS
1t is an interesting and suggestive-though, per-
haps, not necessarily alarming-symptom OF the
abnormal pathological condition in which the body
polite finds itself, that, In the first half year
Of an American Presidents second term. 80 many
politicians and political journals should be found
discussing the chances of his securing third.
Thus, washington correspondent informs the
Boston Post that conference of of1ce-hoders was
held last week at Long Branch to ARRANGE the
preliminaries,r and that 1t is mot deniedn the
President knew OF 1t. Further, that the prime
movers count, first. upon the patronage second
upon the influence Of the moneyed interests-the
railroads, national banks, protected manufactures
and great capitalists that supported General
Grant SO effectively last year; third, upon
the inability OF any other one candidate to
rally around him q majority Of the party; fourth
upon the inability OF the opposition to concentrate
and act In unison. The mention OF the moneyed
interests here recalls the somewhat famous argu-
ment Of the Boston Journal and other republican
organs last year, that any change OF administra-
ton would be necessarily Injurious II not calami-
tons, to capital and business, since it would sub
stitute uncertainty for certainty. We said at the
time that this argument, If solid, would hold as
true In 1876 In 1872 and in 1880 as In 1885, that 1t
was, logically and practically, an argument for the
empire We say so now.
Thus, too the NEW YORK. HERALD has treated its
readers this week to several editorial articles. In
the genuine aiarmist vein, on the ad-
vent Of 'Casarism" In this free and
happy country. The tone and drift of