The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-08-21
Democrats Playing Into the
Hands of Grant.

Under this caption tile New 1Ofk
Herald has a leader, composed largely
of opposition to third term, but pre-
senting in clear light the absolutely
impregnable position President Grant
will occupy if the Democrats continue
the policy they have begun with. The
tone Of the article may be we'll judged
by its concluding words. After dep
recating the choice about to be forced
on the people between initiation and
u third term it says:
"TAe Herald will not relax its
strenuous opposition to the third term
as fraught with the greater danger.
Financial distress and the wreck Of
business can not reasonably be put
into the scale against the subversion
of our popular institutions"
The people will probably think diff
ferently, and consider commercial
prosperity with the privilege of elect
ing the man they wish as many times
as they like perfectly compatible with
| the free institutions of which they
are as proud and hold to as tenacious
ly as the Herald could wish. 1t would
be rather subversive of popular insti-
buttons if the American people were
| to be restricted, in the absence of any
! law, in their choice on negative
precedent that it had never been done
before.
After detailing the blunders of the
Democratic party in 1864, 1868 and
1872, war and protection candidates
OH peace and free trade platforms !;
the fact that negro antipathy, though
outgrown by enlightened Southern
leaders, still prevents liberal senti-
ments from influencing the masses :;
the splits whether the Democratic
party shall be the white mans or not,
or controlled by Morrissey or Kelly !;
and the fact that no Democrat in Ohio
has denounced the platform, it asserts
that Morton, Logan and Ferry will
avoid the blunders of Pendleton, Ew-
ing and Allen, that binder set of
political idiots never existed, and
that they are doing their utmost to
create the public necessity to which
the President said he might be in
duced to yield. If the party carries
the Ohio election there will be no
limit to the aggressive boldness Of its
imitation wing.
On this point President Grant has
fully committed himself, and as the
Herald says:
81 His veto of the initiation bill, the
most important of all his civil acts,
rescued the country from the self
same danger which is again threatened
by the Ohio Democrats, and if the in
flation battle is to be fought over in
a new field it will be claimed by
Grants friends that he is the tittest
leader. Nobody doubts that OH that
issue he can be relied upon. He is
committed to sound views, not only
by his settled convictions, but by
that part of his official record which
Won him more confidence and APP
plause than all the other acts OF his
administration. 1t Is not in his char
acter to deviate from that applaudel
veto, when pride, policy, Unborn stub
bolnness, as we'll us his sense OF the
public interest and experience of pub
lie appreciation, bind him to stubborn
ness and consistency. On that great
issue the public feels it safe to trust
him, and Of all possible blunders his
opponents could have committed none
SO egregious as to bring this issue
again into politics. If the Democrats
had given him carte blanche to select
the issue, he could not have hit upon
one so damaging to them or so full
Of promise to him. Besides being a
question of the first magnitude, it is
the one question upon which he is
strongly intrenched in the public con-
tidence."
With such Il candidate as this, so
praised by his bitterest opponent, the
people will not be likely to consider
they have lost any Of their freedom in
casting their votes for Il third term,
and against the Financial distress and
wreck Of business which the Herald
preters.-N. o. Republican.
Certain statements having reached
the public through St. Louis news
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