The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-02
GRANTS BID FOR A REn0M :
NATION.
He REBuKEs PENNSYLVANIA
REpUE1IcANISM.
he says he "Dont Want a Third
Term any more than he did
the First"


will Run for q Third Term.
1t is to the last degree vexatious and
humiliating to the Republicans to be com
PEELED to choke Grant off by passing reso-
lutions in their conventions against third
term. At this time last year it was evil
dent that the party was going to be hard
pressed by this issue, and that the Democ-
racy would make the most of it In the
then approaching elections. As the au-
tumn drew near sagacious Republicans
saw the gathering tempest, and some OF
them had the courage to urge Grant to
openly pledge himself not to run a third
time, while several Republican newspapers
which did not live on rations from the pub
lie crib ventured to express the same SEN
timent. II Grant had had any political
foresight and had not been supremacy sell
fish and logged. he would have yielded to
these solicitations, and done SO much at
least to avert the destruction of the party
But Grant smoked his cigar and held
his tongue, and left the party to shift for
itself in the fall elections, while he trusted
to luck and his officeholders to secure him
a denomination in 1876. Well, the storm
burst in November, and the heavily weigh
ted Republican cause was wrecked and
ruined; and Grant and his creatures laid
the blame upon those leaders who had en-
deavored to tighten the poor old ship by
throwing the third term overheard!
The Republicans are going to make a
strenuous effort to redeem their fortunes
in the elections of this year. Again the
wisest of them are urging Grant to relieve
the party by promising positively that he
will not again be q candidate; .and they
have lately adopted strong resolution
against the third term. in Pennsylvania,
coupled with other resolutions extrayagant-
ly eulogistic of the wisdom, justice, and
spotless purity of Grants administration.
The ambitious gentlemen who are engi-
neering the anti-third term campaign in
this peculiar style should understand that
their tactics are too thin to please either
Grant and his supporters or those who
are opposed to third term because they
want no more of Grantism. Even Grant
himself doesn't like to be kicked down
stairs and he will surely pay these men of
by throwing all the weight of his patron.
age In the nominating convention next
year against their candidate, Mr., James
G. Blaine.
However, the result will be all the same
to Grant The adoption of these resolu
tons by several Republican State Conven
tons this year. destroys the chances fo
denomination in 1876. But the real pro
blem to be solved is whether, inspired BY
his small, sour soul, and with his vas
patronage, Grant will not take vengeance
on the Republican candidate, whoever b,
may be, by helping to smash him at TIL
polls.
In the Pennsylvania convention the.
passed the following:
ResOlUed, That we declare firm, unqualife
adherence to the unwritten law of the repub IL
which wisely and under the sanction of the mo.
venerable OF examples limits the presidential ser
VICE oil any CltlZen 10 TWO terms. ana we, the hC
publicans of Pennsylvania, in recognition of thi
law are unalterably opposed to the election to tn
presidency Of any person for third term
The New York Times (admlnistratio
papcr) in its report Of the reading of tn
platform, says:
Until the third term resolution wa
reached there was no exhibition of an
sort Of feeling but loith this clause came
burst Of applause so general. so loud, S
long continued, that the reading todS 'ohoU
interrupted. When order was at last re
stored the re-reading of the whole resolU
ton was demanded by numerous voices
and Mr.. Mcpherson began again, only t
be once more. interrupted By another out
burst Of applause"
But this pointed snub Of Grant was t.
be made still more emphatic The abov
resolution was followed by one eulogizin
the ability, purity, etc., of Grants admin
istration, and the same report says:
when the next resolution, eulogizin
the administration, was read, dead silenc
greeteda After this there could be d
question as to the feeling of the Pennsyl
vania Republicans"
After this Mr. Grant was compelled t
say something, and the following is wha
he said:
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, d. C., May 80, 1873.
DEAB SIR A short time subsequent t
the Presidential election of 1872, the press
portion of it hostile to the Republica
party, and particularly SO to the administl
alton, started the cry of 'Cesarism" an
the third term" calling Justify for me t
define my position on the latter subject
believed it to be beneath the dignity of tn
Office which have been twice called upo
to fill to answer such question before tn
subject should be presented by competer
authority to make a nomination, or by
body of such dignity and authority as DC