Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-14
The Third Term CORfTG-
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ed in discussing the probability
of the offce-holders putting Gen
eral Grant again in nomination
for the Presidency. That the
subject should have lain all this
while before gathering impor-
lance ia strange, seeing that it
was boldly proposed to give him
a third term, by men quite e
spectacle in the Republican par
~, Immediately after his last
election. Grant and his place
holding legions pull well togeth-
er, and the understanding be-
tween him and them in regard TO
their continued tenure in the event
of his third election is entirely
clear; hence, that they should
plot for his perpetual occupancy
of the office-disbursing chair, and
labor for the contamination Of
their selfish schemes is not mar
vellous. In any other age love
for their country would have e.
strained these men from engag.
ing in a project whose fruition
must inevitably destroy its repub-
lican government, but we have
hit upon a strata of timei in which
the element of public virtue is
stifed and killed by the noxious
growth of sordid greed and vile
ambition.
We cannot believe that the in
telligent and respectable portions
of the Republican party desire to
see Grant again elevated to the
position which he has shove
himself SO utterly unqualified to
fill, but, sadly enough, this class
lave very little control over his
nomination. The primaries are
usually managed by the brawling
pumps OF interested ofice-hold-
ers, who blowbeat and bully the
timid into voting for their tools,
which disgusts and nauseates de-
cent men to the extent of keep
ing them entirely away from the
meetings. 1t was as clear as day
that the mass of the PARTY did
not want General Grant for its
candidate last Fall, but as the
delegates were secured in a way
we have described, no way was
open for any other nomination,
and so slavishly partisan were
they that they voted for and elect
ed a man whom they d~istrusted
and despised. And he will be
again q nominee if the matter is
left to the ofice-holders and the
dawdling s~ycophants who are a
waiting. the Presidents favor.
That General Grant wants and
expects a third ter : there is not
any doubt; there is every reason
for believing it true. The man
has shown himself TO be not in
the least accord with the genius
of our Republican Institutions,
and utterly regardless of the
means and sacrifices which are
required to accomplish his own
selfish ends. 1t is questionable if
he can foresee the overthrow of
the republic which his third cleo
ton would make inevitable, but
entirely unquestionable that he
would care nothing about it even
if he could so see it. These are
not mere assertions; Gen. Grant
has exhibited his Indifference to
the fate of the republic, and his
contempt for the opinions of the
DcOP1S, Ou lOO b1duy ONSoSAoho
for the most casual observer to
misjudge him.
Some of our contemporaries ex-
press themselves as fearful that
Grant may succeed i'll this effort
to play the role of Caesar, accred-
iting him with a cast of intellect
higher than his predecessors, and
feeling this power would consid
err himself able to. carry out his
plans. They greatly mistake.
Grant, aside from his military
is not intellectually a
hove a mediocre citizen. That in
which he far excels his pre0eces-
is his pre-emineut vice of
unscrupulousness. This badbold-
is by some mistaken for in
tellect ual superiority, which s a