The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-05-28


p. Morton When he wishes to express
his views otherwise than by word OF
mouth or over his own signature, the In
dianapols journal is his mouth piece.
Figuratively speaking, he may be said to
carry that paper sin his brooches pocket.
When the Journal speaks politically, 1t
speaks er cathedrd and says what oliver T.
Morton thinks and desires to have said. IL
tells us that there eristS not Mddo'o q |
=" doubt that Gen. Grsnt does desre "'r"
" term" that he knows very little oil the
popular sentiment on the subject, because
he comes very little in contact with the
people, and because "those who surround
-" HIM are mostly courtiers"; and that
" having been twice elected by large ma
" iorities, he probably thinks it not only
" possible but easy to be elected a third
" time, and so long as he entertains this
" feeling, and is encouraged in it by the
" courtiers who surround him, he is not at
- all likely to make public remuneration
90 in Difference to sentiment whose
g strength he entirely undertakes, and
" which, in all probability, is studiously
" misreprcsented by those who have his
car"
1t strikes us that the view of Senator
Morton is measurably correct, and, taken
with the modification suggested by eX-
| Postmaster General Dennison, affords an
| Lie ,,tharuiaa inpxnlinpblp
silence. Granted that the Journal speaks
as of one having authority. as we believe,
when it says that the president "does de-
sire 4 third term," what is more natural
than Dennison's assertion that the discus
sion of the question 'annoys him." He
"desres" reelection and opposition there
to "annoys and vexes" him, and he, there
fore, keeps silence. He is too much san
noyed and vexed" to 'make public re-
nunciation," and such remuneration would,
also, be counter to his "desires" and he is,
therefore silent, as silent as death. How
ever easy it may be to reconcile the opin-
ions of these two ex-govcrnors, their ad-
vice as to the course to be pursued under
the circumstances is as divergent as the
poles as different as white is from black.
Dennison says, in effect, keep still lay
low and keep dark if republicans speak
their honest convictions it will be "a need
less affnont" to the president; General
Grant will feel bad. Morton, on the Other
hand, believes and says that the time for
plain speaking is at hand. He, speaking
through the Journal, says: 1t is thf
- duty of the party, through its conven
&" tions aud other means, to express itself
" deliberately, decidedly, and strongly
against third term. This should bt
{" done for the ike of the party regardless
"of General Grants plans or purposes.
Its effect would be TO place "the republi
90 can party right on the record, assure thu
"people of its honest purpose, and prepare
1T TO enter the next presidential cam
"paign untrammeled by the ghost of thi'
pernicious doctrine"
The preliminary skirmish of the cam
paign was opened, Wednesday, by thu
Pennsylvania republicans in state conven
tion assembled. They had one of thre'
courses to pursue. They could, with thu
courliers," swallow the president " thirt
term" and all they could do as Dennisol
advised, keep still or they could "expres
themselves deliberately, decidedly, an
= strongly against third term With tn
: present administration, the courtiers
= will pass away Governor Dennison is
relic of the past and Morton represent
, an active influence in politics and the con
= vention wisely followed his lead in thi
$ matter. The declaration was explicit, an,
reads as follows: eve declare our un
' "qualficd adherence to the unwritten Law
, "of the republic, which wisely and unde
the sanction of the most venerable of eS
i. "amples, limits the presidential service {
+ "any citizen to two terms; and we, tn
f republicans of Pennsylvania, in recogn
- "tion of the law, are unalterably oppose
!, "to the election to the presidency of an
"person for third term" The declari
=, ton, though sugar-cOated, is decided, G,
i plct. 1t places the republicans of Penr
:, sylvana on the record rs unalterably or
:, posed to third term. 1t settles the pres
II dents "hash." In the campaign, no
:. opening, it places the republican party O
the vantage ground. The example thu
y set will, we believe, be followed elsewher,
:, The republicans of Ohio will repudiat
:. Dcnnison, and keep step with their brett
:. rem of Pennsylvania. The third-terl
dogma is politically dead, and with it lii
the presidential aspirations of the presel
incumbent. Vale f." third term" Va
y Grant.