The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1875-06-12
NOTES AND EXTRACTS.

Last week we published the Presidents
"third term letter" in full, aud below we
give extracts from the comments of q
number Of our leading journals on this
letter:
Although somewhat Delphic in its
phraseology, this letter will probably be
regarded as finally Withdrawing Gen.
Grants name from the list of candidates
for the next piesidency.-M Y. Tribune.
This deliberate utterance was doubt
less intended by President Grant to pro-
mote harmony, and to set at TEST distrac-
ting discussion. That it will be so &C
cepted by the country is a matter for
hope rather than assurance.-Phi,adet-
phia Inquirer.
The author of the third term letter has
no intention of running again for the
Presidency. The Republicans do not
intend to place him in nomination.
What more eiectual disposal of Presi-
Dental candidate can be obtained than
that? 1t leaves nothing to be desired in
the way of completeness.-EOsfoa Tran
script.
The Presidents 'third term letter
comes better late than never. 1t is open
to verbal criticism. But The common
sense of the people will construe the
lette", and rightly, as IN unequiv0cal dis
avowal by a man who is not q dissembler
of all purposes or desire of denomination
to the Presidency.-M Y Evening" Pot.
Honesty analyzed, the letter of Pres
ident GRAFT is bold vindication of his
third term ambition; a holder bid for its
advancement, and sill holder defiance
of the unwritten law of sacred usage
and he may now be considered as fairly
in the field for 1876. Office holders to
the front conventions to the rear! Let
the band play.-Philadelphia Times.
In this letter, announcing his fealty
to the unwritten law of the land, Gen.
Grant but says what his friends have
said for him all along. 1t was therefore
nothing new. 1t is proof, however, of
Gen. Grants strong devotion to the Re-
publican party, when, to do it service,
he is willing to thus sink his personal
feelings and undertake the distasteful
task to gentleman of denying a silly
slander.-Philadelphia Press.
"He put it BY" said honest Casca,
making his report of the scene in the |
market place, "but, to my thinking, he
was very loath to lay his fingers off it."
That is what is the matter with Presi-
dent Grant. He is very loath to lay his
fingers off it-so loath, indeed, that even
the suggestive rap across the knuckles
by the Pennsylvania Re-
publican Convention doesn't work con-
Viction. 1t is evident enough that he is
rery angry that the convention should
AXE such liberty.-Sprinafra Repaoli-
an.
Nobody can fail to read in the letter
which warning from his own supporters
las at last drawn out from Mr.. Grant,
he extreme reluctance with which he
makes even preiense of resigning his
.hance for a reelection. It is true that
hat chance has grown very slender since
asst autumn, and it appears that even
he President, who is by no means quick
ithcr to feel or follow the drift of pub.
ic opinion, has at last been made to see
t and to make pretense of following it.
The one chance he has depends upon the
public belief that he has not solicited or
for denomination. His letter
which purports to be resignation of his
is not 50 in fact.-M Y
World.