The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-07-16
President Grant and the Third Term.

President Grant and the Third Term.
A representative of the Atlanta Herald on the
1st inst. interviewed Senator Gordon, who had
reached home from Washington, and as part
of the interview relates to the Presidents aspl-
rations for are-election we make some EXTRACTS
In response to the query whether he believed
third election was desired by the President,
General Gordon is reported as saying:-
| I certainly do. think that President Grant
is exceedingly anxious to run again and is very
ant to do so. I am very intimate with him;
| as n1nch so as almost any one, and he is always
very cordial with me. think ne certainty IN
| tends to run again.
When asked whether he would receive the
republican nomination, the Senator said:-
| I don't think General Grant desires a party
| nomination at their hands. His ambition is to
run as the peoples candidate; not as demo-
cratic or a republican candidate put as can
didate of the people of the United States-as a
candidate of great Grant party, If you please
Evidences of this ambition are evlnced daily.
His absolute independence OF an republican
| leaders the Indifference with which ne lncurs
the enmity of Morton, Logan or Butler, ana,
above all, the evident pains he takes to show
the South that he is not her enemy. man
cannot be with Grant any length OF tlme DeloTe
he catches his kindly drift in favor OF the South
ern people, His idea seems to be be to snow
our people that he is President, not OF one sec,
ton, but of the Republic, and that he shall deal
to them just such judgments as to those VINO
followed the Stars and Stripes Still, II Grant
| wants the nomination of the republican party
he will get it. Not that they prefer MN u TO any
other candidate. Not at all. For with the ira
dition of the Republic, and the spirit OF our IN
stitutions so decidedly against such a course,
they will be timid about offering third term
candidate. They will nominate him, though,
i ,n% fD do "A
two reasons First, they believe he is the only
man who can hold the republican party to vic
tory. And (they are right in this) that he is
much stronger than his party. Second, they
fear that if they leave him out he will be picked
up by some middle party or even by the demo-
cratic party and run against them. Hence, II
he wants the nomination, in my opinion, he
will get it without any trouble.
In the event of Grant not running the Sena-
tor believes that Elihu B. Washburne would be
the prominent republican canidate. The Sena-
tor, however, thinks that the democracy will
have certain victory for the following rea-
sons -
First-Grant cannot be elected on his finan-
cial platform. The great mass of the people are
opposed to the speedy return to specie pay
ments that he advocates, because they belleVe
it will bring panics ten times worse than the
we are III lust @ irom dna rum as sne
v,
| 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 memo
randum to Senator Jones, can't, in my oplnlon
carry single Western or Southern State, ana
| T don't think he can carry Pennsylvania.
sSecond-It would be almost impossible for
any man to enter the White House for third
| term. The whole spirit of tho Republic is
against it. It would be esteemed an audaclous
grasp at dictatorship The people who revere e,rt
| the Republic and it's traditions will rise to put
| it down. And yet with this terrific influence
against him Grant is the strongest man his par
| ty can run. Morton and Logan are both aspl-
rants, but neither can bring the same spirit and
| influence and enthusiasm to the canvas that
Grant can. So that think, if the party runs
Grant, the alarm of the people at the approach
| of absolutism will entail defeat. If it throws
| Grant overheard there is no other man in its
ranks that is strong enough to lead the party
through another victorious campaign.
Another strong reason why the Senator ar
rives at these conclusions is the corruption and
rottenness of the republican party. lie re-
marks:-
1t cannot stagger along much longer under
it's load of inanieS. The Sanborn contracts,
the Credit Mobilier,.. the moiety systom the Dis
trict of Colt toa JOBS, and above all the carpet
bag scoundrelisms in the Southern States; all
| these arrayed against the party will Kill It,
| Why, sir, the accumulated villainics perpetra-
ted upon the State Of louisiana, or of South
Carolina alone, by the radical party, will damn
it in the eyes of the people. Moses and Durell !!
With these two names only the democracy
might 20 before the country and demand the
expulsion from power of the party that had ell
evated or even tolerated them.
It is natural for the people in the time OF
panic and stringency to put the cause Of the
trouble at the door of the party in power, espec-
ially in a country where the currency is so alb
solutely controlled by the government as in
ours Add to this tendency the fact that the
ruling party time and again, have been detect
ed in thieving and jobbery, and L THINK you
have pretty strong case.
.Of the prominent democratic candidates the
Senator remarked -
Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio, is at present by
far tue most prominent candidate. His splen-
did campaign in Ohio last year, carrying 1T for
the democracy, for the first time in many,
many years. gives him splendid start. You
see Ohio at one polled ~ ,O0o radlcal MAJOR
ried the State is no small victory. Pendleton
is leading candidate, on his currency platform,
and General G. w. Morgan, OF Ohlo IS also
spoken ably of by his friends. Thus you see,
Ohio offers three candidates:
Next to Thurman should place Hendrlcks,
of Indiana, and Hancock, Of pennsylvania
Of these two think Hendricks is probably the
strongest, from the fact that the WeSt mus Iur-
nish the candidate. think that either OF these
candidates, with good platform, could carry
New Hampshire, Connecticut, of the New En-
gland States, New York, New Jersey, Delaware,
and probably Pennsylvania, of the Middle I,
States. all of the Southern States except South
Carolina, Mississippi and louisiana, and Ohio,
Indiana, California, Oregon, Nevada, OF the
Western States.
AN INoUIs1TIvEC CUsToMER.-Amiable shop
keepers deserve to bo cannonized. Here is an
illustration of the trials to which they are con-
stantly subjected. One midsummer day, when
| Eolus slept. and the thermometer stood IN the