The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-16
THETHIRD TERM sPOOK

4He 4ueSbLOu NneLAei 49, " nA-'-
would seek or even accept third term,
were it ofered MIN, has for some time
past been kept very quiet. This has
been brought about naturally. The
whole country has had Its attention d.
rected SO completely towards the late cleo
tions, and the new questions which were
then sprung, that Grantism in all its phases
was for the moment, forgotten. But now
that all has quieted down again, this old
issue is rising up to new, and
the first manifestation given OF
it comes in the appearance
of the third term cry. A special from
Washington states that the Sunday
Chronicle of that city has come out flat
footed for third term. 1t takes the
ground that GRANT will be as equally
necessary to save the Republican party
from defeat in 1876, as he was IN 1903
and 1872. That SHERMAN is ruled out
because he is Roman Catholici thai
SHERIDAN was born abroad Though
be too is Catholic and CHAR
tys FRANCIS ADAMS is dead
weight. And further, says the dispatch;
The Chronicle insists that "the masses OF
the Republican party, no longer alright
ed with the absurd cry of 'C@sarism,
are now looking to GRANT as confidently
as they ever regarded him. 1t also
SAWS that "Governor HAYES, after the
campaign was over IN OHIO, stated in the
Executive Mansion in Harrisburg, while
, guest of Governor HARTRANFT, that
the educational question had given the
Republicans the victory IN the Buckeye
State"
This last remark, coming from the
source it does, and being so prominently
dwelt on, is very significant, and obtains
its significance from various causes, 1t
shows that, since the school question prov 70
ed so potent in Ohio, it was to be attempt
ed to be forced before the people in the
national campaign, and il possible, made
the battle cry. And then, this being
done, the celebrated Des Mcines speech
of HIS Excellency, which fore
shadowed these plans, il to be
quoted as proving that His EXcellency had
taken the advance in this new departure
and therefore he would be the tittest man
to lead the way in it.
The cry of Cacsarism which the Cro"'-
cle alludes to rs absurd, has been found
alarming enough in the past to cause the
Republicans Of Ohio and Pennsylvania
10 declare against it. 1t has been
regarded OF sufficiently small
absurdity to make many Radicsl
papers cry out against it, and there are
many who have and do believe that 1t
has not been mere illusion, but that
GRANT has never yielded up the idea of
still occupying the presidential chair tor
four years from March II. And now
these remarks of this Washington pa
per, (which is benceforth, we see, to be
one of the regular organs of the kepub-
lican party "that GRANT is anecessity,'
added to Mr.. GRANTS own words that he
would not accept third term
unless circumstances should arise to
make it lmperatlvely necessary, looks
very much as ifthcre is something more
about the movement than mere talk.
Certain it is that the 10000 admins
tration office holders in the United States
will make an effort in this direction, and
there is no doubt but that if they do, and
succeed in securing him the nomina-
ton, His E1cellency will not hesitate
to adopt the belief that these coveted
circumstances have indeed arisen,