New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-15
HOW THE DEMOCRATS ARE PLAYING
INTO The HANDS OF GRANT.

| Under this caption the New Yorl
Herald has leader, composed largely o
opposition to third term, but presen tins
in clear light the absolutely impregna
bic position President Grant will oc
cupy If the Democrats continue the poll
cy they have begun with. The tone O
the article may be well judged by its con
Guiding words. After deprecating The
choice about to be forced on the people
between imitation and third term il
says:
The Herald will not relax it's strenuous
! opposition to the third term as fraught with
| the greater danger. Financial distress and
| the wreck OF business can not reasonably be
put into the scale against the subversion Of
our popular institutions.
The people will probably think diff.
ferently, and consider commercial pros
perity with the privilege Of electing the
man they wish as many times as they like
| perfectly compatible with the free insti-
tutions Of which they are as proud and
| hold to as tenaciously as the Herald could
wish. It would be rather subversive of
popular institutions if the American peo-
pie were to be restricted, in the absence
OF any law, in their choice on negative
precedent that it had never been done
before.
After detailing the blunders Of the DEM
ocratic party in 1864, 1868 and 1872, war
and protection candidates on peace and
free trade platforms; the fact that negro
antipathy, though outgrown by enlight-
ened Southern leaders, still prevents lib
eral sentiments from influencing the
masses; the splits whether the Democratic
party shall be white mans or not,
or controlled by Morrissey or Kelly;
and the fact that no Democrat in
Ohio has denounced the platform.
it asserts that Morton, Logan and
Ferry will avoid the blunders of Pen.
dleton, Ewing and Allen, that binder
set of political idiots never existed, and
that they are doing their utmost to create
the public necessity to which the President
said he might be induced to yield. If the
party carries the Ohio election there will
be no limit to the aggressive boldness of
its imitation wing.
On this point President Grant has fully
committed himself, and as the Herald
saws:
His veto of the initiation bill, the most
important of all his civil acts, rescued the
country from the eelf same danger which
is again threatened by the Ohio Democrats,
and if the initiation battle is to be fought
over in q new field it will be claimed by
Grants friends that he is the fittest leader.
Nobody doubts that on that issue he can
De relied upon. He is committed to sound |
views. not only by his settled convictions,
but by that part Of his official record which |
won him more confidence and applause |
than all the other acts Of his administra. |
ton. Ii is not in his character to deviate |
from that applauded veto, when pride, pol. |
icy, Unborn stubboruness, as we'll an his |
sense OF the public Interest and experience |
Of public approbat ton. bind him to stub.
great issue the public feels it safe
to trust him, and of all possible
blunders his opponents could have COM
mltted none SO egregiOus as to bring this |
issue again into politics. If the Democrats
had given him carte blanche to select the
ssue, he could not have hit upon one 50
damaging to them or so full of promise to
him. Besides being a question Of the first
magnitude it is the one question upon
which he 10 strongly intrenched in the pub
ic confidence.
With such candidate as this, so
praised by his bitterest opponent, the
people will not be likely to consi der they
lave lost any Of their freedom in casting
heir votes for a third term, and against
he financial distress and wreck of bust
less" which the Herald prefers.