The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1875-06-11
~ar.nt-Drirs Of. Public Opinion.

larant-Drift Of Public Opinion.
Tho Republican party has no small obsta-
Gle to overcome in the proposal to run Gen.
Grant a third time for President. Grant
has MANY warm friends and an immense
patronage. Nearly all the Southern Re-
publicans will support him, and the Fede-
raj appointees everywhere will "Ieg" for
the father OF their fortunes. But the Re
pnblicans of Ohio and Pennsylvania have
spoken against tho third term, although
commencing the President in terms too
strong not to vote for him should he be re-
nominated. The President does not appear
willing to leave the field without giving his
friends a chance to confer upon him the
distinction of third nomination. The
question is one which is likely to stir up
the bile in the Republican party, if it does
not demoralize that party completely. AS
the fight is progressing, our readers will be
interested in the opinions of lending men
and journals. This is what tho st. Louis
Republican, a Conservative paper, has to
saw of the Presidents letter to the Pennsy1-
vania Republicans:
And now when the people who have done
SO much for him and endured much
from him are formal y declaring that IL
precedent which Washington did not VEN
Iure to establish shall not lie established
nv Grant, .he writes Il letter which neither
faithful friend or honorable foe can read
without a blush Of shame. He talks us
speedily remedied; a. if he had given
everything and received nothing; as though
three or dozen Presidential terms could
not balance the debt still due him; us
though he ought never to be allowed to
come down to the level of ordinary human
ity and resume the private life and untitled
Mount Vernon. We look in vain through
this letter for a single glimpse OF becoming
f"de, Single sound of graceful recognition
hns ever enjoyed: Such an exhibition OF
complaining seitishneSs in such Il persou-
age is no subject for niIth or sarcastic wit !;
hut it is a subject calculated to create the
deepest modification and the prof"undest
regret.
What leading Republican OF New Eng
land has to say OF the thirt: :erln--and &,
man who thinks for powerful element
and leads it-may DO gathered from the
following:
Wendell Phillips has been interviewed
by New York Herald correspondent. He
is still unreconstructed, and is so rank
against the South that he may be said to he
stin Gin the gall Of bitterness and bonds Of
coneiiiation.' He laments the failure OF
the Force bill, and hlames Congress for not
passing it. .He says the only alternative
left is ITO take for President Il man who is
himself a force bill-that is, Grant, 81
nm certain" says he, ''that under no other
IMAM c:nl lhe AIeDuDllcal party nope IOc sue
cess. Grant is emrhttically the man
for the next Presilcnt." III regard to Il
second choice, he said: .'If New England
We're privileged to furnish the President, nc
friend of the negro raco and OLA promp,
national publication would drean of sui
costing amy other name than that of Gen
Is. Il. Butler" OF Blaine and Morton, In
said, "they are strong men. but they can
not carry tho nation. If Grant does no
give the use of his name, in my opinion
the Democrats will elect their President"
In what particular tho running of Gran
for IL third term will trouble the Republi
cans of this State, is It matter of individual
hopes and chances with tho Rcpublica,
leaders. The negroes will willingly talk
Grant rs their candidate, but Heretofore
they have had but little to do with thci
party conventions. Perhaps, tho tina
decision will depend upon tho eXistin,
struggle between the carpet-baggers ant
the scalnwags for the supremacy i'll til,
party, and will be governed 20 some extern
by the nomination for Kellogg's successor
The Republicans of this State, albeit, are
struggling with regular fix. Meanwhile
the Democrats are awaiting very patiently
the reorganization of their party and
the announcement OF party platform,
i'll open hostility to corruption and all
manner of bargains with their political
enemies and plundercrs.