The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-05-20

feel the rea, movement of the public mind
and the character of much Of the counsel
which he follows, all forbid the expecta-
ton that he will take the lead III doing
what must be done. Waiting for him is
mere drifting, and drifting on lee shore.
Thus, when we learn that although the
shrewdest Republican politicians IN Wash.
jngton have no doubt that the PRESIDENT
hopes for third nomination, and would
unhesitatingly accept it, yet that nc thinks
it time enoug h to decline an office when 1T
is offered to him, we are obliged to feel
that the fate of the Republican
party. with all that it involves,
ought not to be left to the whim Of one
man. however splendid his services may
have been, and however honest ami pat
riotic we may believe his purposes to be.
If his patriotism does not command HIM
to speak when word is deed as impor-
tant as victorious battle in the war, We
must accept his silence as summons to
action. If he thinks it his duty not to
say that he would not stand for third
term until the convention asks him to DO
so, he thinks it his duty to keep the Re:
publican party in perilous suspense until
the convention meets. That is some.
thing which the Republican party must
not permit, and for two conclusive rea-
sons. The first is that such course
would more and more distract and divide
the party until the convention and the
second is that the contest in the conven'
ton would make success at the election
almost impossible. If any ore says that
is borrowing trouble to suppose such
| contest, the answer is that the contest is
already begun, and that one word from
the President would end 1T.
The Importance of the Ohio and Penn
sylvania conventions thus becomes very
evident. For if they declare unequivo-
cally and unanimously against the third
term project, and speak in no uncertain
t,ne upon other tendencies and events
if, in one word, they show that the con-
trolling Republican sentiment in those
States is not dull partisan fidelity, but
a hearty determination upon political pu'
rifcation and progress, and If they make
their appeal to the people by the nomina
ton Of men who are popularity known tt
represent that policy, they will not only
secure victory at home, but they viii
organize it elsewhere, for they viii
compel other States to do likewise. Th'
convention Of New York will meet in Sep
TENDER, and if Ohio and Pennsylvania
have spoken the words which all gooe
citizens of the Republican faith long t.
hear, New York can not falter. And tina
it may be sure not to fa!ter, every Re
publican in the State should at once be
gin to interest himself in the selection G
men as delegates who will not wait, no
doubt, nor equivocate, but who will insis
that the real sentiment Of the party sha
! be expressed in the simplest and most VI
mistakable manner.
! When once the party has every whel
= declared that it will not tolerate thlr'
: term candidacy, and has pronounced Il
= : the reform which is desired, nothing wi
= remain for 1875 but to consider what ms
- of Republican sympathies and trainir
:; !; most satisfactorily represents the NOV
-. 20 ment. Meanwhile no Republican shou
- assume that the office.holding OF me
e personal interest must necessarily contr
- the organization. Let him do what
~ can to prevent it, not by vaporing al
:. lamenting, but by making the conditi'
y of his vote for the Republican condida
well understood. Let him not forg
10 that the party is his servant, not
is master. When his effort has clesr
TX failed, if in Ohio or Pennsylvania Il
Us Convention should be dumb, or mumt
IT, only the glories Of the past. or appla
AL present faults and follies because tn
re- are not greater. then the Republican m
"a M we'll ask himself Webster's famous gu
~ ton, .'Where am to go!' But no m
IN, who loves liberty and America will a
OF wer. ITO the Democratic party"
PIE that is the one thing which every int
u.s. gent man in this country knows throu
Ia and through, and through and through