Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1875-06-11

COMMENTS OF the PRESS ON
HIS LETTER.
Views OF Democratic and Inde.
pendent Journals.

No doubt the President IS surround
ed by set OF sycophantic advisers
| WAC have endeavored to make him be
heve that the he holds the Republican
party by the tail, and that he alone
can save the country. Such vermiI
are sure to infest the White House.
But they are powerless unless the par
| ty is with them, and we can think OF
| nothing more ridiculous than a great
party running into panic because the
man 1t has chosen twice to the highest
office does not make haste to say that
/ he is not candidate for third nom.
I EuatiOn before he is .ked to be.-Bos
ton Hcarld Gnd.)
We believe that the President would
| like to hold the Office if he could. He
feels that, having lost life position
when he left that of General of the
! Army, to go up higher in response to
/ the peoples demand, he ought to hold
on to what he has so long as he can. -
Now he finds that he must go he is
resigned TO fate-Boston Globe 0nd
There could not have been a better
opportunity than that presented by
the South Carolina Convention for the
| President to make known his position,
and 1t would have been more graceful
and dignifed, if dignity is to be the
supreme rule, to decline that which is
offered than that which is refused
Baltimore Sttfa Ind.)
No one who intelligently reads this
letter can say that it meets the case, or
deny that, according to the lnterpreta-
tiOn of common sense, It was coDcoct-
ed for any other purpose than to con-
fuse it and leave the field as open as
before. Boston Post (Dem.)
1t is plain that Grant has not the
least scruple as to the number of
terms-that he plants himself upon
the Constitution as it is, and warns us
that one may need more than two
terms, and have imperative reasons
for making the sacrifice a third
time-that he looks to third term as
he did to a secod term, and that the
time has come when his party must go
for him or against him on the question
of the succession.-Cin Cincinnati Conn.,
mercjal, Gnd.)
The President could not have writ
ten letter more palpably bid for
EcuCulIIidllOu
this morning. Now, an issue is GER
tainly raised in the Republican party
Of Ohio. It must insolently confront
the Administration and its power in
money and patronage, or it must COM
nit itself to third term.-Cincina0tt
Enquirer, CDem.)
The sphynx of the White House has
opened his mouth and spoken, but
such an utterance! If any before
doubted that the President was look
ing for another reelection, the letter
addressed to the presiding officer of
the late Pennsylvania Republican
State Convention must have dispelled
all shadow of doubt.
Courier, Oem.)
Who can tell precisely what may be
regarded by MIR. Grant as "such cir
cumstances as to make it an impera-
tive duty" for him to accept A re-
nomination by the Republican conven-
tion may be, according to his idea,
e'such circumstances. " Chicago Times,
Und.)
The chances seem to increase that
the President viii have his way and
run again. and that next Summer and
Fall the third term polity will be the
live topic of the country. Grant has
nothing whatever to lose by running
three times, except 1mmolation with
all the rest OF them. In Pennsylvania
they indorse his Administration, while
repudiating his ambition. Therefore,
they leave the third term question de-
tached, a proposition for entertaining
which Grant, otherwise praised, is
merely criminal idealist. 1t is not
our fight-St. Louis Times, CDem.)
VIEWS OF THE REPUBLICAN PkEss.
Stripped OF all verbiage, this re
markable eleventh hour document can
only be construed as a politicians bid
for third term. He would not ac-
cept a nomination if it were rendered,
unless it should come under such cir
cumstauces as to make it an lmpera-
tive duty circumstances that are not
likely to arise" tt is now the duty of
the rcpu bIcans of Ohio to follow in
the lead of their brethren of the Key
stone State and remove from the shout
ders of the President any such So i'm
perativc duty by resolution" a
method he seems to despise. The
Journal only regrets that the repubh-
cans of Indiana are not on the eve of
assembling in State Convention in or
der that they also, might set the seal
of their condemnation upon the third
term prof ect.-Indianapolis Journal
(Rep.)
If the Republicans of the country
| were of the opinion expressed by Pre-
sident Grant. that the idea that a
" President could renominate himself
Is proposterous," it is easy to perceive
that there would have been no trouble
over this third term proposition. The
President should not overlook the fact
that large majority of the members
of all the Republican State Central
Committees are at the present time Of
ice-holders. Baltimore AnaericGsl
(Rep.)
For ourselves, while we admire Pre-
sident Grant, and consider his admin
istration successful and honorable, we
| have never been in favor of electing
him third time, and doubtless the
| great majority of the Republican party
! prefer a "new deal next year.-New
Haven Comm Journal and Courier
(Rep.)
The President has taken a course
| which, whether mistaken or not, has
been dignifed and now there is nc
reason to think that his announcement
| of his views is anything else than {
| candid one Providence Jou17aa
! Rep.)
The Republicans of Pennsylvania
! an4 Ohio have the sense of the situa
| ton which leading Republicans in
! New York had las Fall-that it will
be impossible to retain power in those
States SO long as there is any doubt
in regard to a third term.-Bostor
| Adcertiser' (Rep.)
The Republican party of the several
States will go on with the declarations
made already by New Hampshire an6
Pennsylvania, if they shall still judge
them expedient. But the delusion il
fact is already ended, beyond the pos
sibilitv of resurrection, and the
country will honor President Gran
for the judicious and laudable manner
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