Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-07-16
THE THIRD TERN.
Senator Gsraon's Views about Grants De-
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A representative of the Atlanta
Herald or the first instant interviewed
Senator Gordon, who had reached home
from Washington, aud as part of the
interview relates to the Presidents as
pirations for reelection, 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:
certainly do, think that President
Grant is exceedingly anxious to run
again, and is very apt to do So I am
very intimate with him as much as
almost any one-and he is always very
cordial with me- think he certainly
intends to run again.
When asked whether he would re.
ceive the Republican domination, the
Senator said:
I don't think General Grant desires
party nomination at their hands. His
ambition is to run as the peoples
candidate; not as d Democratic or
Republican candidate, but as candi
date of the people Of the United States
as candidate of a Grant party-if
you please. Evidences of this ambi-
ton are evinced daily His absolute
independence Of all Republican leaders;
the Indifference with which he incurs
the cnmity of Morton, Logan, or But
Ter, and above all, the evident pains
he takes to show the South that he is
not her enemy. A man cannot be
with Grant any length of time before
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 judgement as to
those who follow 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 the tradi
ton of the Republic, and the spirit of
our institution are SO decidedly against
such course, they will be timid about
offering a third>term candidate. They
will nominate him, though, because
they will be afraid not to do it. For
two reasons: First, they believe he is
the only man who can hold the Re-
publican party TO victory. And Obey
are right in this) that he is much stron-
ger 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 Democratic party and run
against them. Hence, if he wants the
nomination, in my opinion, he will get
it without any trouble.
In the event of Grant not running
the Senator believes that Elihu B.
Washburne would be the prominent
Republican candidate The Senator,
however, thinks that the Democracy
will have certain victory for the fol
lowing reasons:
FIrst-Grant cannot be elected on
his financial platform. The great mass
of the people are opposed to the speedy
return to specie payments that he ad
vocated, because they believe it Will
bring panics 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 Rading through ruin and bankruptcy
to resumption. Grant, on his veto
platform or his policy, set fourth in his
memorandum to Senator Jones, can't,
in my opinion, carry single Western
or Southern State, and l don't think he
can carry Pennsylvania.
.Seco,sd-It would be almost impossi-
BILE for any man to enter the White
House for third term. The whole
spirit of the republic is against it. 1t
would be esteemed an audacious grasp
at a dictatorship. The people who
revere 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 party can run.
Morton and Logan are both aspirants,
but neither can bring the same spirit
and influence and enthusiasm to the
canvass that Grant can. So, that l
think, if the party runs Grant. the alarm
of the people at the approach of abso
lutism 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 victor
ious campaign.
Another strong reason why the Sena
tor arrives at these conclusions is, the
corruption and rottenness IF the Re-
publican party. He remarks:
1t cannot stagger along much longer
under it's load of infamies. The Saborn
contracts, the Credit Mobilier, the
moiety system, the District of Colum-
bia 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
villanies perpetrated upon the State
of Louisiana CT 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 go before the
country and demand the expulsion from
power Of the party that had elevated or
even tolerated them.
1t is natural for the people in this
time of panic and stringtncy to put
the cause of the trouble at the door OF
the party in power, especially in
country where the currency is so aoso-
lutely controlled by the Government as
ours. Add to this tendencies the fact