The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-04-16
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FRIDAY. APRIL 16, 1875.
THE THIRD PARTY.

Inc SD-Cdlltd independent OuTudl,
have received new encouragement OF
late, whie labor ng for the ~organiza-
tion of a third party. The result OF
tho elections in New Hampshire and
Connecticut is seized upon as an argu-
ment in favor OF tAsir pet scheme.
They claim it is not Democracy that
has triumphed in those states, but
that the Independents have carried
the day. This assertion is Il rather
weak one, however, when we con-
slider that in ~Copnegticut Senator
Eaton's speech declaring in favor of
State Sovereignty bold, consistent
proclamation of the foundation prin-
ciplelof the Democratic party-was
made the keynote of the campaign,
and that in New Hampshire the
Republican platform declared in
favor Of Federal Supremacy.
We predict that the next Presiden-
tial campaign will be fought on this
issue, Federal supremacy VS.. State
sovereignty, and we look upon the
recent fights in New Hampshire and
Connecticut rs preliminary skirm-
ishes, in which the two great parties
of this Republic have taken their
proper positions, and in which the
outposts Of both parties have been
driven in for the time being.
The Third Partyites, who dream
that they may be able to squeeze in
between these two divisions, forget
the eager regard of either party for
its especial theory. That regard is So
eager, in fact, that it will permit of
no compromise, and although the
Third Party schemers may tender 10
the Democracy some consolation in
the way of arguments to prove that
Ethe States should be left to manage
all their affairs, and to the Republic
cans that the integrity of the results
6f the war should be preserved, their
offers will ne rejected. On other
issues, regarding which this political
division does not eXist-suCh as the
Cheap Transportation question, In
ternal improvements and other mea-
sures, Including the tariff, which
directly appeal to personal interests,
they will find that the progressive
spirit of the Republican party is apace
with the demands of the people, and
is sufficiently comprehensive to
satisfy those demands. What, then,
can these s~oreheaded hybrids do? If
they attempt to ride both horses,
they will fall between and bite the
dust, for the paths to be pursued are
widely divergent. Between the two
horns of this dilemma there is no rest
ing place for them, and they will be
compelled either to join one of the
substantial organizations or the other,
or make asses of themselves-a work
OF supererogation, by the way-by
filling the air with their empty no.
thingness.
But the real object of this Third
Party movement is to wrest the pre-
sent administration from the leader
ship-or, more properly, from the
affections-of the overwhelming ma
jority ofthe Republican voters of the
country. The 'IndependeIt" press
leads the movement, and, in its an
Itipathy to President Grant, it has
unwittingly travelled so far away
in the path that leads into the Demo-
cratic camp that it will be unable
ever to retrace its steps. Take the
New York Tribune for example. BY
degrees that journal has managed to
forget, abandon, and finally to deride
the sacred principles for the main
tenance of which it was originally
founded. ltcan never be recognized
again as a Republican organ, with
out repeating its unblushing incon-
slstency, and thereby dOubly destroy
ing its public influence. And what.
Is true of the Tribune, is also true of
the sorry band who have followed it
mthe devious ways of its ~splenetic
w~anderings. Meanwhile, President
Grants Administration has remained
true to its trust, and maintained its
title to the respect and affection of
every honest Republican in the land.
Ehe Third Term question has no.
thing to do with this fact. President
Grant could go out of office to-mor-
row and carry with him the earnest
regard Of his loyal countrymen. So
true is this, that, whether he becomes
a candidate for reelection or not, the
party which he has so often led to