Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1875-11-25
The Third.Term Talk.

We are at loss to know what the Demo-
cratic party hope to accomplish by reviving
and pushing the third-term talk. No impor-
tant elections are to occur between this time
and the assembling of the National Republican
Convention, and that Convention will settle
the third-term business definitely, as it is al
ready settled virtually, for if there ever was a
question settled definitely in advance by Re-
publicaus it is the one now so much talked
about by those whose chief object is to en-
courage disaffection in the Republican party.
Every Republican State Convention held
within the past year declared emphatically
against a third term, and it is our belief that
in the Ohio Convention there was not a single
third-term delegate. The anti third-term res
oiution was adopted unanimously, and the on
ly objection to it was that its declarations
were not sufficiently emphatic. But, not
withstanding the letter of President Grant,
which was treated as a settlement of the
question, failure to adopt such resolution
would have defeated the party at the late cleo
ton. In other Republican States more deci-
sive language was used than in Ohio, and ev-
erywhere the platforms clearly and unmista-
kably represented the sentiments of the par
ty-sentiments which time cannot change.
The declarations were made in good faith, and
they will stand.
An article in the Washington Sunday
Chronicle, paper hardly known outside Of
the District of Columbia, in favor of a third
term, is attributed to Secretary Chambers in
fluence, and from this the conclusion is drawn
that Mr.. Chandler was appointed for the pur-
pose of creating third-term sentiment. By
way of giving color to this assertion, we are
told that Mr.. Chandler is making changes in
the department to further his alleged mission.
Upon this point we have to remark that had
President Grant wanted third-term Secreta-
ry, he could not have secured more faithful
or bidable agent than Secretary Delano; but
he was removed, and nov Chandler is reno
wing Delanos favorites. His course is virtu-
ally reflection upon Mr.. Delano's admins
tration of the Interior Department.
Mr. Chambers course, as we understand it,
will bear an entirely different construction.
He proposes to make reputation for himself
by reforming the abuses of the Interior De-
partment, and this can only be done by Wig
orous policy of removals The changes, there
fore, that have been made, together with the
declared policy of the Secretary, have been
received with favor, not only by the personal
friends of Mr.. Chandler, but by those who
did not approve of his appointment. This,
Mr.. Chandler, we have reason to believe, re-
CARDS as his mission, as it is his ambition to
make reputation that will stand, and of
which he will not have occasion to be asham-
ed. In carrying out this programme he will
find his abilities heavily taxed, and he will
have no time or strength to spare upon third
term experiments. Besides, Secretary Chandler
does not occupy a position, at present, to give
him any great influence in the country in man.
ufacturing public sentiment, and he certainly
cannot expect to improve his condition by at
taching the ring organs and the ring masters
at Washington to him, or attaching himself tc
them. That noted Washington influence i:
as odious to the people of the country to-day
as the Western whisky ring, and in only one
respect has it any power whatever, and that
isto destroy those who may connect them
selves with it. Chandler is too shrewd man
in our opinion, to become tail to Boss Shep
herds kite. He might as well, so far as his
political future is concerned, become the de
fender of the notorious and justly odiou'
whisky ring.
! But, aside from all this, the Rupublican'