The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-07-16
TEE THIRD TER
" hR1 Senator Gordon, OF GeOrS la,
Says.

4 representative Of the Atlanta Herald
on the 1st inst, interviewed Senator Cor
don, who had reached home from Wash
ington, and as a part of the interview
relates to the Presidents aspirations for a
reelection we make some extracts. In
response to the query whether he believed
"a tuird election was desired by the Pres
ident General Gordon is reported as say
Ing: IT
il certainly do. think that President
Grant Is exceedingly anxious to run again
and IS very apt to do 50. L am very in
innate with him as much SO as almost
any one, and he is always very cordial
with me. l think he certainly intends to
run again
When asked whether he would receive
the republican nomination the Senator
said -
Il don't think General Grant desires
party nomination at their hands. His
ambition is to run as the peoples candi-
date: not as a democrat or Il republican
candidate, but as candidate of the peo-
ple Of the United States-as a candidate
Of a great Grant party, if you please.
Evidences Of this ambition are SRinced
daily. His absolute independence of all
republican leaders the Indifference with
which he incurs the enmity of Morton,
Logan and Butler, and, above all, the
evident pains he takes to show the South
that he is not her enemy. A man can
not be with Grant any length of time be-
fore he catches his kindly drift in favor of
the Southern people. His idea seems to
be to show our people that he Is President,
not of one section, but of the Republic,
and that he shall deal to them just such
judgments as to these who followed the
stars and stripes. Still, if Grant wants
the nomination of the republican party,
he will get it. Not that they prefer him
to any other candidate. Not at all.
For with the tradition of the Republic,
and the spirit Of our institutions SO deci-
dedly against such course, they will be
timid about offering a third term candi-
date. They will nominate him, though,
because they will be afraid not to do 1t.
For TWO reasons First, they believe he
is the only man who can hold the repub-
lcan party to victory And (they are
right in thisl that he is much stronger
than his party Second, they fear That
ii they leave him out he viii be picked
up by some middle party or even by the
democratic party and run against them.
Hence, if he wants the nomination, IN
my opinion, he will get it without any
trouble.
e'In the event of Grant not running the
Senator believes that Elihu B. Wash
burne would be the prominent republi-
can candidate. The Senator, however,
thinks that the democracy will have
a certain victory for the following rea-
sons -
-Grantcannot be elected on his
financial platform. The great mass OF
the people are opposed to the speedy re-
turn to specie payments that he advocates,
because they believe it will bring panlcs
ten times worse than the one we are just
recovering from, and ruin the country
They all believe in hard money as fact,
and love to talk of it as boast, but they
don't believe in wading through ruin and
bankruptcy to resumption. Grant, on
his veto platform or his policy set forth
in his memorandum to Senator Jones,
can't, in my opinion, carry single Yves
tern or Southern State, and don't think
he can carry Pennsylvania.
..Second-It would be almost impossible
for any man to enter the White House
for third term. The whole spirit OF the
Republic is against it. 1t would be es-
teemed an audacious grasp at the dlcta-
torship. The people who revere the he
public and its traditions will rise to put
il down. And yet with this terrific lnfu-
ence against him, Grant is the strongest
man his party can run. Morton and Lo-
gan are both aspirants, bus neither can
bring the same spirit and influence ana
enthusiasm to the canvass that Grant can.
So that | think, if the party runs Grant,
the alarm Of the people at the approach
of absolutism viii entail defeat. Ii II
throws Grant overheard there is no other
man in its ranks that is strong enough to
lead the party through another victorious
campaign"