The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-05-14


observation. II j. .ioi necessary to sup
pose flat the t. dent IS "A moral mon
ster, or a black heated cOnspirator
against public liberty. or less patriotic
than the rest Of lii. because of acts Which
show a misconceptions of official duty.
bat -dcl acts are none the less politically
fatal ia the minds Of thoughtful men.
The President, who. as we say, could
DO 50 much to restore To the Republican
party its old prestige, and its hold upon
large numbers of old Republicans, who
are now alienated, will evidently do moth
ing His apparent disregard of the ~
preston Of public opinion "a ''clamor.
his readiness To- believe. charge against
any public officer to be mere hostile spite,
his failure. to feel the real movement Of
the public mind, and the character of
much of the counsel which he follows, all
forbid the expectation that he will take
the lead in doing what must be done.
Waiting for him j. mere drifting, and
learn that although the Shrewdest Repub
licam politicians in Washington have no
doubt that the resident hopes for "a
third nomination. and would, uuhesita
tingly accept il, yet that he thinks IL time
enough to decline an Office when it is Of
fered to him, we are obliged to feel that
the fate of the Republican party, with
all that il involves ought not to be left
To the wiIin of one man, however splen-
did his services may have been, and how
ever honest and patriotic we may believe
his purposes to be- If his patriotism does
not command him to speak when a word
is "a deed as important as a victorious
battle in war, We must accept his silence
as a summons to action. If he thinks it
his duty not to say that he would not
stand for u third term until the Conven
ton asks him to do so, he thinks it his
duty to keep the Republican party is
perilous suspense until the Convention
meets This is something which the Re
two conclusive reasons. The first is that
such a course would more and more dis
tract and divide the party until the Con-
vention; and the second is that the con
test in the Convention would make sue
cess at the election almost impossible. If
any one says that it is borrowing trouble
70. eli IL
that the contest has already begun, and
that one word from the President would
end it,
The Importance of the Ohio and Penn
syIvania Convention thus becomes very
evident. For if they declare unequivo-
caIly and unanimously against the third
term project, and speak in uncertain
tones upon other tendencies and events
If, in one worl, they show tl.at tie coniroll
ing Republican sentiment in those States
is not dull partisan fidelity, but hearty
determination upon political publication
and progress, and if they make their ap
peal to the people by the nomination of
sent that policy, they will not only secure
victory at home, bat they will organize
it elsewhere, for they will compel other
States Ia do likewise. The Convention
of New York will meet III September, and
| if Ohio aud Pennsylvania have spoken
/ the. words which all good citizens of the
! Republican faith long 10 hear, New York
cannot faitsr. And that 1t may he sue
not tp falir., every Republican la the
State should at once hrgin to interest
| himself la tlis- s..t-'ctinn of men as dele
| gates who will not wait, nor doubt, nor
equivocatr, but who will insist that the
real sentiment of the psity snal be eX-
pressed iu ti,e SIMPLEST aud most ummis-
taxable manner.
| When once the party has every where
declared that i viii NOT tolerate " third
tern, candidacy, and has pronounced for
the, reform which isd.,sired, nothing Will
remain for 1876 but 10 consider what man
of Republican sympatlirs and training
most satisfactorily represents the move
ment. Meanwhile no Republican Sh1Uld
assuigf i.,st il.s OIiicc-hoidlEg or mere
| personal interest must necessarily control
| thu. organization. LIT him do what le
can TO prevent it, not by vapOriDg and
Iamenting, but by maEia ile condition
of his vote ior the Republican candidate
well understood. Let him not forget
that the party is his servant, not his lpas-
ter. When his elioIt has clearly failed,
if in Ohio or in Pennsylvania the Con
ventiou should b+ dumb, or humble on
Iy tie giuIies Of the past, or applaud pres
ent faults aud folIies because they are
not greater, then the Republican may
we'll ask himself Wel.st-r's famous cues
ton, "Wh-r,. AM to gos' But no man
who loves liberty and America will an
swer, To the Democratic party" FOr
that is the one thing which every iRFelil
gent man in this iouAtry knows through
and through, and through and through
it is hostile to freedom. m.-HdrpeT'S Week
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GERMAN AARHlCANs.-The most iii
telligent German citizens of America are
,rgin,r upon their German friends the