The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-08-02
Political Notes.

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GENERAL GRANTS THIRD TERM-The
New York Herald is at work considering
the probability Of third term for General
Grant, denouncing il as inconsistent with
true Republicanisin, and predicting the dis
astrous consequences which would follow
II. Whether the warning il gives in its
elaborate articles Is sincere, or whether
these are bat preludes to win attention and
support to such a scheme as another term
for General Grant, to be followed by the
empire, yet remains to be seen, but that
the danger Of such result really confronts
the American people is fully shown. There
are Of course many ambitious men whose
hopes of self-aggrandizement might induce
them to support such treacherous course.
The increase Of luxury and wealth in the
hands Of bogus aristocracy begets de-
sire for distinction and gewgaws which a
titled nobility, it is presumed, might in
dulge, and thus is found another element
favorable to such a change. But the most
powerful and most numerous element, and
from whom most danger might be appre-
hended, is the timid and fearful moneyed
class, the mercantile and commercial men,
who dread changes and elections far more
than they do the eternal future which
awaits them the men who feared that the
success of MIR. Greeley would result in f.
nancial chaos and destruction; the men
who have no patriotism outside of sordid
materialism which has wrecked every pre-
vious attempt Of selfgovernment, and Who
would vote for anything or any set of men
who would guarantee the repose Of peace and
the maintenance Of the value of govern
ment bonds. Here are the elements, plas-
tic and powerful, which present them
selves as the instruments whereby an am.
bilious, selfish nature like Grants under
the only pcrsuasions of men like Conkling
and others who iawn around him, could
be induced TO believe itself called like
Caesar, Napoleon or Cromwell, to elevate
itself to throne under the specious plea
that the country needs his services. I"
When any one man becomes indispensable
to this country its incapacity for self-gov-
ernment is at once admitted, and we should
tear down the flag which waves over it,
for then it becomes indeed a "haunting
lie. Abingdon Fryinian, July IS.
REPUBLICAN, STATE CONVENTION
The State Central Committee have issued
a call for n Republican State Convention,
to meet at Frederick city on the 18th of
September, to nominate candidates for the
offices of Comptroller of the Treasury and
Clerk of the Court of Appeals. The cleo
ton Of delegates to the Convention from
the several counties is directed to take place
on or before the 9th of September, in the
city of Baltimore the 9th day of Septem-
Der is named for the election of delegates
to City Convention which is to choose
delegates to the State Convention. The
counties and the city are also to choose, at
the times designated, delegates to new
State Central Committee, whose names
are to be reported to the State Convention
on its assemblage at Frederick.
The coming Virginia election, is, says
the Richmond Wing, "a contest in which
Federal politics are not involved it is a
struggle upon the part of the carpet-bag-
gers and negroes to obtain the control of
the Executive, Legislative and Judicial
departments of our State government.
The result is, therefore, far more import
ant to us than the election of President,
or the triumph ofthe National Democracy,
for our very salvation is at stake"
A meeting OF the Massachusetts, Repub-
licans opposed to the nomination of General
Butler for Governor, was held in Boston
on Friday last; among those present being
Henry l.. Dawes, Il. r. Hoar, George F.
Hoar, II. II. Coolidge aud Odin Thayer
Coolidge presided. An Executive Com
mittee was appointed to carry out the
views Of those present, and it was voted to
issue an address to the people of the
State.
A leading Republican newspaper in
lndiana-the home organ of Senator
Morton-most irreverently refers to that
great and good man, General Benjamin F.
Butler, as the "cock-eyed man of destiny.
The Democratic papers of Ohio, under
the lead of the Cincinnati Enquirer, are
almost unanimous for revival of their
own party, pure and simple, and for straight
Democratic nominations.
The Albany Argus states great truth
in very few words thus How to make
money-how to become personally rich
is the main study of the Administration