The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-04-08
THE vICE-PREsIDENrs VIEWS.


Washington Correspondence Piftsbufg Dispatch
At this point it occurred 70 me 10 put
out leading question.
"Mr. Wilson, win the Republican party
elect the next Presideut,"
The Vice-President paused and said;
at depends entirely on their behsvi or
They can if they will. But they cannot do
it BY terrori.ing individual opinion and ex-
preston. and applying patronage to the cure
acknowledgement. This country is stub
born. The Republican party in ir is the
intelligent patriotism and free spirit of the
country. Republicans will not break up
the traditions they took with their mothers
milk and help any one man, however hon.
orabls, to a perpetual succession. The
danger with us is the pervsrsion Of the party
to individual ambition. We would HAYS
smooth sailing if this tbird-term delusion
was out ofthe wsy. In tbs last thirty days
it has made more haste towards its doom
than 10 the whole year previous. 1t il con-
trary to our conscience and traditions, and
there is no sense in it. Yet The existence
OF the Republican party may be bound up
in this personal vaeary. 1 saw the third
term cropping out . good while ago. I,
first assumed the form of Conservative
candidature. Bob Toombs. Stephens, and
others were to start it on behalf of the South.
Mosby boosted that he was to play Yauk &c
trick on the Yankses,-anney the President
and bis patronage, and make Conservative
Candidate Of him. We left the Civil Rights
bill over one session because IL was plainly
intimassd that the President, In his under.
standing with tis Confederate friends, mean.
to vote it. Nothing has happened, that
know Of, to make the President chang
position On Arkansas and the Force bill but
a conviction that he could not b. re- elected
BY such coalition as was originally out.
lined"
"You we're against these measures, Mr.
Vice PRESIDENT
81 was. Although a Massachusetts and
a New England man, and . party man in
every sense Of fidelity to my public .s.oci
stes, and the general policy We begin te
introduce, am positive in the behalf thai
vs. must get white men, bern or bred IN sb.
South, to rule it, and that State Govern
ments Of negroes and handful Of whit.
men who absorb the patronage, and ar,
Republicans for the rake Of it, win no
stand up. Therefore 1 oppose force bills
If their objects are suspected Of being pofi
teal and trifFing with State Government,
according rs they stand in the path of &
certain ambition On OFT Of it,"
".Ir. Vice President" said /, 'does III,
President speak TO you with his former
cordially since you patlhbed yo.1r letter o.
January last7"
Eyes. have no comphins to make.
respect the President, bat am not mucf
consulted by him, and do not belong to thu
'u'iindto CiTCfc VI tdo W Vic 1IOUSo.
have been told that he said was moi at
tending to my own busines,,or rsther va
forward in expressing myself aboat the sue
cession. Nevertheless ! am too old il
affairs to 60 blind. The paci6cation Of the
country is the first task of The prssens time
Every good emotion should 10 that way
We want the Union back in it's spirit, ant
the cooperation Of the white intelligence o
objects in going South, to instruct ID,
mind"
at would have been better for the Pres
i'1ent," said, ito have also visited tn,
South as its conquerer and magistrate.
The Fice-President did not reply, so ask
ed him to explain to me the cause of Grant,
change of front in Arkansas.
81 think the third term has good dea
to do with it. Besides, am told that tbcr,
are railroad interests out there to the amount
of $4,000, 900 or$6, DOC, 900 at stake on the
possession of the State Government. II
the Arkansas vote had been taken fir.t, and
the Force bill had been voted on afterward.
the Force bill would not have passed Con.
gress."
"Look," said Mr.. Wilson, cat the want
of shame in those Arkansas men. There
can be no doubt that Clayton and party
cheated Brooks out Of his election. Whom
they found the other man, Ba 1tsr, would 0,
work as they wanted, they turned abe ut
and exposed their own dishonesty. think
Poland dealt with that question in the
spirit Of justice. Justice is often CON
promise"
"Then you approve o. the louisiana
compromised"
The Vice. President answered this oucs
ton by saying: Both sides down there
are wrong; wrong in fact, wrong in spirit.
There's another thing delicate to speak of,
but I'll say it to you; Casey's appointment
there has been very unfortunate. War
moth told me that Casey made the frst
break in the party
"Are his aspirations for the Senate ia.
vored at the White Housed"
81 think it., understood that the obiscs
of good deal of the differences there is
Casey's desire for the Senate"
II tell you," continued Mr.. Wilson,
political parties are now sskew. Party
lines run 10 one direction and the real
difference between men in another. There
are fully one-half of the Democrats who
ought to be in our party and . proportion
of our own that We could very we'll dispense
with. People with good intentions toward
the whole country, and willing to see justice
done according to the decrses of the con.
Aict just passed, and anxious to see the
Government respectable; that should be
the true coalition. Now our party and the
Democratic party are both the prey of rival
personal ambitions and resentiments. This
third term idea has done mighty sighs Of
mischief" .
1.-The President, learn, or his coser,e,
are very severe on Blaine and Dawes for