The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-03-03
GRANTS SOUTHERN POLICY.
A BOLD PUSH FOR THE THIRD
TERM
Correspondence New York Tribune

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.-One has
not to be long in Washington to dis
cover that all this Southern business
means a third term. Gen. Grant
means it, and the whole host Of ad.
venturers whose personal fortunes
are bound up in his continuance in
office mean it also. It is q new po-
litical feature in our history, but not
more strange or striking than many
of the events of the last dozen years,
The incredulity about it is still con-
siderable, because people do not
readily believe in wholly new things,
1t is not unlikely the plan is going
to succeed. Gen. Grant has this
great advantage. BY making him.
self the agent of violence and re
preston of the South he secures the
undivided support of the blacks and
the carpet-baggers in the choice of
delegates to the nominating Conven-
ton. Here is large funded capital
to begin with. With the delegates
of all the old Slave States in mis-
hands at the outset, it will be seen
that he enters the contest with an
immense advantage over every other
candidate. 1t must also be remem-
bered that this is blind force, sway
ed by personal and partisan consid-
erations merely. It will be the dead
weight of the convention, not amen
able to high public considerations.
1t is difficult to see how it can be
overcome.
The dividing line is already being
silently drawn here among the Re-
publicans on this question, and it is
not difficult TO trace its windings and |
its boundaries. The stiff and sure
Republican States are at bottom an
ti-Grant, anti-third term. They wish
to try no rash experiments. They
desire to save themselves, if they
cannot save the Presidential election.
They therefore oppose themselves to
all political audacities of whatever
and strive to cohciliate
the moral and conservative forces
which uuderlie all second republi-
canism. But it will be recognized
that the number of such States is
comparatively small, and that they
IRE no match in representative force
for the body Of Southern States.
The Northern States which are to
furnish recruits for the Grant stand
lrd are States quite differently stu
lted. They are States already lost
% the Republicans, such as New
York, New Jersey. Indiana, and 9TH
,rs. Grant delegates from these |
States can be furnished in any guam '
ity, and the rivalries of competing t
ivilian candidates will swell their O
lumber. 1t is not with them ques- t
ion of success now, but of future s
perations. They would rather throw t
way their votes on Grant than any
ody else, since his probabilities of a
uccess would be worth more to r
hem than anything else within their p
each. Then the class Of doubtful
rorthern States, of which Pennsyl-
ania and Ohio may be taken as sam s,
les, while they cannot be SO certain N
counted on, will nevertheless turn f
1T a good deal of driftwood that al
i'll follow the strongest current. So Of
lat, all things considered, looking 10
the States alone, Grant'sChances 8:
iem to be altogether better for
,mination than those of anybody ~
Sc In the Republican ranks. Ell
This view receives confirmation in th
very striking manner, by the retio- pl
ICE of leading Republicans. Very
W openly eay A1J ohAN OF
ird term. In fact nobody except a.
eh as are ready to break with the
ADMINISTRATION. Everybody is afraid ID
fbat. 1t affects them in their par "a
relations, and brings down partl- nj
n hostility, which few have the in bu
.pidity to defy. 1t is an abase- -,
lid that All politicians suffer, rath- .e'
tlan endanger their places. It IS w