The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-17

COiie CoIlNihStu 'udb us pohihutiOh WoS
impossible, not because he was not anxious |
therefor and that his desire for such re-
nomination and his determination to ac'
cept of it, if rendered, was clearly enough
expressed when he declared that he 'would
" not accept nomination IL 1t were ten
" dered, unless IL should come under suoh
" circumstances as to make 1t an Imperative
"d,ay." Some of our contemporaries
could only see, or so pretended, in this let
ter the wise, unselfsh, patriotic utterances
of great statesman, a devoted public SER
vant-but time has shown that our judg-
ment of the man and his letter was better
than theirs. With the result of the Ohio
election come renewed hopes to the repub.
lican party, and with 1t came that affront
to the Countrywide appointment OF Zach
ariah Chandler as secretary cf the interior.
Chandler has always been sufficiently I'M
bued with "Grantisn" and is known to be
third termer"-and unless appearances
are very deceitful he is arranging his de-
partment with view TO the reelection of
Ulysses s. Grant as well as of Zacharah
Chandler, and the seed is bearing its ex-
pected fruit.
This appointment was simply "feeler,"
and as it did not result disastrously to the
republican party, the president took cour-
age and is now Enthusiastically in the field
again. The elections, save alone that of
Mississippi. were favorable to the contin-
ued ascendency OF the republican party,
| and what do we see? The president an
nounces that there are assurances that the
| republicans will control the government for
four years longer, and when told that the
result ''points Enthusiastically" to his renom-
nation, smiingly responds eve can't
"tell what will happen" And then the
Washington Sunday Chronicle, edited by a
brother of John w. Forney, comes out flat
footed for the third term, saying that the
republican party care now looking to
" Grant as confidently as they ever regard
" ed him :" while the National InteNgencer
has been purchased, it il understood by
Chandler, and as Justify blows the third
term trumpet and the National Republican,
the kitchen organ of the president, has al
ways favored his reelection. 1t is mpos-
sble to resist the conclusion that Ulysses
s. Grant is again in the field, that he is
taking advantage of the loop hole left in
his Pennsylvania letter, and that the duty
of combating his pretensions is once more
forced upon the republican party.
Notwithstanding this throwing off the
mask and the determination with which. il
is evident, President Grant is to be forced
for denomination. we have no fears thai
, his ambition will he grattied, either with {
nomination or election The fear of sucl
contingency worked the disastrous defea
: of the party in 1874 the belief tat al
J danger of a third tenn was passed secured
success this year, and the party will no
take the risk again. What we do fear il
that his ambition may so demoralize thu
possible, but probable. We can rely upol
the intelligence and patriotism of the Am
ercan people to defeat his aspirations ant
as, fortunately, the state elections, nex
year, will not occur until after the meet
ing of the nominating convention
his utter and inevitable defeat il
securing a denomination may pre-
vent even this danger OF decentralization
There is another phase of this unmaskin
which will, we apprehend, lie regarde
with a considerable degree of complacenc
by the country. The horde of government
officials will be expected to favor Grant
pretensons, and, if they do not, the fate o
the Mississippi postmasters warns Their
what will, also, be their doom. But tn
u officials must take care of their own baco
the country will take care OF the thir
1 term.