National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-23
4 SCARED ANTI THIRD TERN
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The New York TribURo, which two years
ago led the strangest and most unnatural
political coalition this country ever saw, in
the hope of beating Gen. Grant for a sec
ond term, has become frightened out of its
wits at the probability or possibility that he
may be nominated third time as the can
didate of the Republican party. The idea
seems TO have taken possession of it about
three weeks ago, when it Immediately
opened its batteries from one end of the
line to the other. Leading off with some
five or six columns of editorial from THE
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, together with ex-
tracts from fifty other journals, it endeav-
Ored to show that the immediate friends of
the President are attempting to secure re-
nomination, and that the question has there
fore become vital issue in our politics
This anti-third-term overture was followed
by grand transformation scene, in which
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, and others were all intro
duced, in appropriate costume, warning the
country of the danger to republican gov
eminent from q third term, &c. Monday
last our patriotic cotemporary, which had
the interests Of the nation so much at heart
in 1872 that it exerted all its influence to
place in pow er the men who have Just in
augurated a reign of riot and lawlessnes
in Louisiana. appeals in another article to
the Republican conventions to be held in
the near future to follow the example of
Pennsylvania and one of the Western States
in opposition TO what it believes to be the
purpose of the Administration.
The Tribune becomes fairly crazy when
ever the name of Grant is mentioned, so
that in its present course it is only consis-
tent with itself. 1t has tried very hard to
find single expression of opinion upon the
subject on the lips of any one of the public
men who are supposed to represent the
views of the President and to be devoted to
his fortunes. 1t has endeavored to discover
in any newspaper which has close relations
with tie President a single sentence which
could be tortured into an avowal that he
wanted or intended to run for third term.
To that end it placed, as we said, THE Ma
TIONAL REPUBLICAN upon the stand, and
taking its utterances from week to week,
and month to month, failed to find in them
the horrible spectre for which it was so
sedUlOUsly seeking. Notwithstanding the
fact that the Administration itself gives no
sign of its intentions, that its friends are rs
silent as statues upon the subject, that the
New York Herald treats it as a joke and a
sensation, that the opposition is cold and
apathetiC, that the Republican party out
side of small coterie of politicians hereand
there cannot be induced to give the matter
the slightest attention, the Tribune beats
the air in a wild sort of way and insists
upon the existence of a grand and all-pow-
erful conspiracy, having for its object the
overthrow of the Government and the es-
adjustment Of an empire or monarchy.
1t is really strange and almost incompre-
hensible that journal which is usually so
sedate and sober'and solemn in other mat
tiers, which always insists upon the proof of
whatever is asserted as a condition prece-
dent to its belief, should. in this third-term
business, see in every trife light as air
confirmation strong as proof of Holy Writ
But the fact is that the present editor of
the Tribune, Mr. Reid, has conceived a
violent, unreasoning hatred Of President
Grant, and has never allowed an 2ppOrtu
nifty to assail him pass unimproved. His
hostility dates back to the beginning Of the