The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-08-11
The Third Term.
The President and the Re-
publican Party.
The Compact Fulfilled.
From the New York Herald.l

lever, puDllshed lhlr morning, mas created
profound sensation among the polite
ians here, without distinction Of party
Hard-sholl republicans say. "There Il
some Ere under this cloud of smoke, and
General Grant will now be compelled &c
show his hand. II he is not for US no il
| against us, and we must
KNOW WHERE HE STANDS"
5, f..shell democrats say, This thing
will Tylerize the republican party and tn
game is in our hands" In conyersati, n
with liberal republican this morning,
ho affirmed that "hsving fought only two
years ago under one motto of Anything
TO beat Grant, we canno. two years hence
ay the legend of Anything to cleo,
Grant. You may bring she horse 10 the
water, but If he has had enough you can.
not mako him drink"
"But," asks An indignant regular re.
publican, latter all tha. we have done for
General Grant can such things boz"
Why not? Is there in this new depar.
ture OF the President anything So worry
surprising, after ALP Are there not mum.
erous Presidential presidents 10 justify
the abandonment by General Grant Of the
party which lifted him from the wood.
mans cabin TO the White House? When
he found that he could not ge, a second
term from the democratic party did no,
Martin Van Buren, bolt 10 tho freesoiers
and become their Presidential candidatei
Did not John Tyler, on finding that be
was not at home in the whig camp, turn
with all his mercenaries, against the whig
party aud kill of Henry Clay Again
did not Fillmore in 1853, IS an indepen
dent opposition Presidential candidate
elect James Buchanan? and did not Pre-.
sident johnson turn against the republi.
/ cans and, with Chief Justice Chase, cas-
his fortunes with those OF the democratic
party in their Tammsny National Con.
vention Of 1868? And then let 1t not D.,
forgotten that General Grant was
A DEMOCRAT BEFORE THE WAR,
and ha. never been anything but & rcluc.
tant servant OF the republicans, notwith :
standing the villsnous abuse hesped upon
him by the democrats, from the highest Il
the lowest. Lastly, after taking W
Horace Greeley, as the embodiment OF
their party and their principles, in 1872
why should there be any difficulty with
the democrats in adopting General Grant
in 1876? After Greeley and Brown, is
PNeeiVio huo p" ulEll-
gig of our party politics?
We believe that the oracle has spoken,
and Tho, tho IDOL OF the republican party
is eating about for change or W.. :.
The great Duke of Marlborough always
took good care Of number ono. and Gen.
Grant is not the man 10 trouble himsel
about number two for the presidential
succession. He has
FULFILLED HIS COMPACT
with tho republicans, and hs holds that he
is tree man sgsin-tha. If they have nc
further us. for him hey have no longer
any claims spOn him. The tresty DO.
tween the high contracting parties bss
expired by its owl Limitation, and this
ia the end Of it. We Inan,ioned yesterday
that the orthodox reputlcans OF New
York were as hsrsssod and Indignant a,
the mysterious and
PERPLEXISG SILENCE OF GEN. GRANT
in reference to third term, and so dis.
trustful of mischief in the meal tub tha,
they were ready to play the liberal re.
publican against him. Upon this matter
We are informed that recently some lead
ing republicans OF n New York congres,
sional district, strongly republican, waited
upon an out-and-out liberal republical
and proposed to give him this fall the
nom nation for for congress in that dis.
trict If he would accept it. He submitted
as an objection to this nomination, which
they could not, perhaps, overcome-tha!
he was iniieri6ly opposed 10 another
presidential term TO Gen. Grant. "ThAt
is the worry reason" responded his
republican friends, "why we want you.
You can speak out on
THIS THIRD TERM ToSsTgosITY
aye our lips are not sealed by custom house
glue. We want Just such man 10 open
the fight on our eide against third term
to General Grant We cannot do
it. We cannot venture upon a
quarrel with the custom house. We will
take you as AN opponent to General Grant
for n third term, and mainly on that
ground We shall expect you to serve us in
our tall canvass" We believe that tlese
negotiations closed without n treaty, the
liberal republican on his part doubling
the backbone Of his republican friends
when brought to the pinch.
There have been to-day acme visitors
to the Presidents cottage, we arc told
who, touching this nswsdeparture Of the
| president wall spike tho enemy's guns
Surely, # the president is mott candidate
| for still another term, the half dozen
words that set him right caR be easily
spoken.