Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-10-21
&" You Pays Your Money, ana You
TAkea YOar Choice,

TAKES Your Choice.''
The Indianapolis JoHrndLSenator Morton q
reputed orgsn-ssys, in reviewing the republ-
can campaign In Indiana;
Almost at the beginning Of the agitation OF
the third term question the Journal took strong
ground against 1t, and deprecated the introduc-
ton OF the question into our politics. IL has
been introduced, however, and persistently
sgitated- The silence Of the President has en-
couraged his Misguided friends 70 press the
matter until II has become perniciOus element
OF current discussion, and 8 very damaging
weapon sgatnst the republican party. The
President could have stopped the discussion
long ago BY single word, and, in our opinion,
ne should have spoken IL. He owed 1t to him
sell and 70 the republican party, which has
done 80 much for him, to put q speedy end to
an agitation which was doing so much to iniure
both His silence has injured him, because the
people have construed IL into approval on
his part of the third term suggestion; and 1t has
injured the republican party, because in the
popular mind that party IL held responsible for
me agitation. President Grant is the keeper
OF his own reputation, snd may iDjure IL in
speaking or keeping silent, a. he chooses; but b
has no right TO allow the republican party to be
stabbed over his shoulder, when he can arrest
the process by the uttersnce of a single word.
He has either miSinter preted the popular
feeling on this subject, OF has not thought it
matter OF any Importance, and has not cared
10 save the republican party from the great
damage which was being Inflicted on IL In
either Gaze lie has made gTea- mistake. and
the time las now come for the republic An party
ITSELF so far AZ possible, to rectify that mistake
by washing its hapds of the third term h1sinass
AS the President has not seen fit To jsavsw it,
Inc republican party should do so, aud, as a
falthful exponent Of republi IAN opinion, the
Journal here and now declares the third term
suggestion 70 be impOlitic, anti-republican and
OnenslVe 10 the popular mind. IL Is i'm possible
Tor President Grant 20 be re elected. The par
" that dominates him will be ignOmniOusIv
defeated IL Is not only imp )ssib bic for him to
oe re-elected, but not desirable IL II were pos
slble. his re- election wOUli not cODduce to the
elevauOn OF American politics or to the inau-
guraoOn OF such an era or reform As can alone
dence.
"There is but one way to meet this question.
II Presleent Grant does not speak out before
the meeting OF Congress in December, the re-
publlcans in Congress must express the sense of
the party against the third term business If
they had done this last winter, the republican
party would have been in much better shape
TODAY. This is one OF the things that must be
done"
On the other hard the New York GrapLfc pob-
poh's the Idea that third-termisn has had any,
thing to do with the republican losses, and SAYS:
"The truth IL, this third-term business AT no
more 10 GO with the republican defeats in Ohio
and Indiana than the purchase OF Alaska with
me low temperature OF last summer or the
comet with the breaking of the Mill River dam
1T Was scarcely discussed in political meetings
and when alluded to was simply laughed ar
The idea does net belong to the present can
VAss- 1t cannot possibly take practical shape
ana become a vital issue in our politics under
two years, and no one knows what will hanpan
meanE bile. Not one voter in ten has ever given
the schJecta sober second though, and not one
IN huDCrtd imagines that General Grant fsin
any way responsible for the discussion about it.
or sanCt ons it in any way, unless it he by a dis.
Greet AMI dlgnined silence. To attribute the
results OF these western elections 10 suspicion
that the republicans propose to renOminate
General Grant. is to imyesch the Intelligence
OF the voters on the one hand, and show a
lsmebtable Ignorance or the real condition
OF things. Everybody who knows any
ming about the state of the country
knOWs that times are hard, business is
depressed, money in great interior states
Is hard &c get, and the people naturally hold the
party IN power responsible for the pinch they
All feel IL has always been So 1885, defeated
Van Buren and elected Harrison; 1851 elected
Lincoln. Pockets have more to do with politics
than principles. Other things entered into the
cOntest-the temperance question, the Granger
movement, ana the Southern troubles particu-
iarlyj but back or all and more than all was this
matter OF finance. 1t is a significant fact that
IN ONO ana Indiana the democrats adOuted
platforms fayOring inhstiOn and looking to-
wards reputation. This shows the drift OF pub
nc feehng out on the prairie in these great
debtor states. The people want mora money.
and Will catch at printed rags il they cannot
nave gold. Had Congress done its duty in De-
cembeT last, when the panic Was upon u.s. by
taxing wise and bold step towards resumDtiOn
Wnen II could have done 80 to public advautaps
We shoCld have had no western gale blowing a
terrible rebuke 10 its remissness through these
autumn elections. Why not face the facts "a
they are. instead OF chasing buoahOosoy,