The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-12-02
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THIRD TERMLSM AND KNO OW-NOTH-
LNGISM.

the dominant leaders of the Republican
party in Minnesota,-viz: Ramsey, Win
dom and Bill King,-wil favor the nom-
ination of President Grant, and, per con-
that Mnnesota's delegation in
the national Republican convention will,
at the proper time, swing into line for
the great Ulysses. Ramsey will in con-
sideration thereof, probably receive
position In the cabinet of Grant, if he is
re elected; and this will take him out
of WINDOWS way for the United States
Senate; otherwise it is highly probable
that Window will find Alexander strug-
Cling with him for the senatorship next
winter; and the all-powerful coalition
being thus destroyed Dunne,l would
probably run away with the epoils.
But Minnesota has other relations to
the Third Term scheme. Our cid friend
DR.. Thomas Foster Of Duluth, now His
Photographer of the Indian Bureau at
Washington, has revived the ancient
National Intelligencer" of that city, as
the mcuth-piece of his superior Zack
Chandler, Secretary Of the Interior vice
the virtuous Delano resigned. And the
Doctor is an open and duoWed ADVOCATE,
and he wields a vigorous pen, of
Grants reelection TO third term. The
dcctor,-apart from his many good quail
tiles OF head and hearts, fair type Of
the kind of men who are drifting this
country toward an empire. He is an old
Wing. protectionist, a believer in a
centralized government, hcro-wor I
shipper, with spice of the old Know
Nothing element, in his composition !;
and he is instinctively a politician and
rides along with the popular current. /,
We find in the New York Tribune Of
Nov. 18th, the following:
THIRD TERM TALK.-Amid the present out
burst OF third-term talk from Washington, and
denunciatiOns of it from the Republican pa-.
pers, statement from the Chicago Times
possesses special interest 1t is to the effect that
Col. MOsby, the original third term man. is at
the head Of an organization in the south formed
for the secret purpose of advocating the Presi-
election, and that there is also secret
society, known a the Anti Catholic OrQaniza-
ton. pledged to the President, which is send
ing out seCtt circulars to the leading men
throughout the country. The Times gives the
circular as follows:
NATIONALITY NO BAR TO MRMBsRsmP. Coy
NDESTIAL. Sir: In view of the infoler-
ant, persistent, and aggressive efforts Of Roman-
lists in their avowed determination to subyert
the government of the United States. and to
destroy our civil apd religious liberty, desire
to submit to you the following questions:
/. Are you . Protestant from principle and
from choicci
2. Are you in favor of preserving constitu-
tional liberty aud maintaining the government
Of the United Statesf
3. Do you regard Ramanism as the enemy Of
civil and religious lbsrtyi
9. Is it not. in your opinion, unwise and un-
safe to appoint to civil, political, or military
TO the Pope Of Rome, and who have sworn to
obey hims
5. Are you in favor Of maintaining the prin-
ciples OF our general, unsectarian, free school
organization
5. Are you opposed to all attempts TO use the
pubic funds for any sectarian purpose what
evers
Z. Are you willing to be governed nv thesa
principles in your political actions
g. Are you willing to unite with others who
hold these principles and henceforth de vote
yourself, your fortune, end your sacred honor
10 the protection and perpetuation OF civil and
religious liberty and this great American
nionf
10. Can you, upon sacred honor, without
equivocation or mental reservation, answer all
these questions in the afir1nativef
IL. Can you furnish the names. ages. res;-
dences, and occupations Of men who are will
ing TO become organized under and be govern
ed BY the above principlesi
Ii you are desirous OF obtaining further in
formation on the subject referred To in the ones
tions and u, please communicate with the
person from whom you receive this circular.
Please consider this circular, its contents. and
its source strictly private and confidential.
Mosby. we see, has opened law Of
fee in Washington, and It is claimed
wields large influence at the White
House he too is an avowed Third.
Termist.
Tbs attempt thus being made, to re.
vive the old Know-Nothing party, will
fail as it failed twenty years ago. It il
impossible to build great political or
ganization on religious bi1otries. Eve
~ year since the 18th century has weak
ened the power Of religious preludices |:
and there has arisen in this country 4
large body Of intelligent people who be-
long to no church and who cannot m
derstand and will not sanction the intol
erance Of sects. The pretence now IL
that the Pope is tryingao- the
free schools Of America by dema1dine
. division Of tho school fund. But why
i not the same clamor made against the
Episcopalians and the Lutherans?
These denominations also urge that the
public schools are destructive to the
moral character Of their children and
that religious and intellectual training
should 60 hand in hand. They point to
the demoralizations and corruptions or
the age and claim that these have arisen
from educating the mental faculties Of
the people AT the expense Of their moral
natures; and that sooner or later this
one-sided education will sap the very
foundations Of private virtu. and public
liberty.
Now while we do not agree with these
good people in the remedy which they
propose We are ready 70 concede 70 them