Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-08-15
THE THIRD TERN.

4th inst, again refers seriously to the
danger of a third term being sought by
the present incumbent Of the Presidency.
The Herald reminds its readers of the
prophecy of Genera Blair and the Louis
vile Courier-Jourpal, that il Grant was
once suffered TO enter the White House,
be never would be taken out except feet
foremost on stretcher. The Herald,
by the aid Of Long Branch correspond
ent, sets forth the means by which
Grant expects to secure new lease of
power. He calculates to throw the Re-
publican party overheard. and rely for
his election upon the Liberia! Republic
cans and Democrats and the Southern
whites. The latter being drawn to his
support from sheer desperation, because
any change must DO better than the
atrocious system Of robbery and persecu-
ton countenanced by the present Con.
gressional majority, There is perhaps
just enough fact and probability mixed
in with this scheme TO give Conference
and plausibility to the otherwise contra
jictory elements Of the theory. For our
own part. though we believe Grant would
say and do anything, no matter what, to
retain his position, yet We greatly donbt
whether the forces that the Heard
speaks of could be marshaled in his be-
half. II Grant were fitted for the
great Office be holds, he would long
since have stopped the discussion
by an explicit aud authoritative
denial Of any intention of being a
candidate for another term. From
man of his character and instincts, such
a course was hardly to be expected, it
required too much maenanimity and
proper appre citation OF the duties, actual
and implied. appertaining to his position.
Conceding this, however, admits the
converse of the proposition, that he will
accept a nomination from any source
that he thinks is sufficiently powerful to
carry its purposes through. Who and
what those sources are, or will be, it is
indeed difficult task to tell. The de-
mocracy, as party, dare not do it. 1t
tried such an experiment once and the
wounds il received in the contest have
scarcely yet healed. As to the Southern
whites, as mass, that is equally unlike
ly, for though a few disappointed poor
spirited weaklings like Herbert, of Louisi-
ana, may support him, the great body OF
them will never forget, that through his
relentless rule since the passage of the
reconstruction acts, they have been
made the prey of the spoiler and the
sport of the vicious and ignorant. They
bear no enmity to, nay, admire him as
the gallant victorious soldier, whose
stubborn pertinacity snatched the flower
Of victory from the nettle danger by
defeating them. They bear no hard
feelings on that account, but they dc
for the outrageous system of pitt
less persecution and robbery which
he supported, defended and inforced
From them Grant would not get vote
in hundred. If, then, these deduction
be true, there would only be the cohor
OF Liberal Republicans left for his sup
port, and how can they be expected to d
so, when they so vehemently denounce'
second term in the former campaign
From these elements we draw thes
conclusions: that Grant would like tn
nomination for third term, as he woul,
take anything, from a chapeau from
Regent street halter to doubling his sal
airy; be would take the nomination, bu
il he gets it at all, he must and will tax
it from the Republican party, pure an
simple, without, indeed, he may indulg
a fancy to take it nolens volens, like Ma
poleon III. did, though. little as W
think of him. we doubt whether he
fool enough to make the attempt.