Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-06-17
A Distinguished Honor.


Nothing more complimentary to Pres
ident Grant and his administration has
ever been said than has come from his
enemies through the famous cry of
third term If proof were lacking
that his administration had been a sue
cess in all important respects, his enc
mics would have supplied the evidence
in their reiterated notes of alarm on
this subject. There have been but two
or three Presidents before Grant OF
whom it would have been possible to
imagine such thing as third term. y
Think of it in connection with Andrew
Johnson If Grants administration
had taken no firmer hold on the cOun-
try than Johnson's, no one would have
had any fears of third term, and if
any one had been bold enough to sug-
geSt it, he would have been laughed
out of court at once. 1t is the success
of his administration, and his popular
strength that have given an air of
plausibility to the third term" alarm,
made it possible to be considered with a
degree of seriousness, and duped some
Republicans, such as the callow youths
who conduct the indianapolis Journal,
into the belief that it is threatening
reality. If the administration of Pres
ident Grant were as unpopular as we
are sometimes assured that it is, if he
were the imbecile, and yet the powerful
and dangerous man that his enemies
would have us believe he is, the most
stupid political writer would see that
to suggest a third term, would be SIM
ply to insult the people. The folly of
raising cry of alarm over a baseless
dream would be seen at glance, and
no time or thought would be given to
such an absurdity. No man would
dare, by it's discussion, to put at hazard
his reputation for political sagacity.
In fact the conception of the idea would
never have occurred.
But the alarmists doubtless imagine
there is danger. They know Grants
wonderful strength among the people !;
they know his administration will Oc-
cupy high place in history; they know
that Grants praises will be on all their
own lips as soon as he has retired to
private life, as Lincoln dead has be-
come saint, though while living he
was a monster of iniquity; they know
and dread Grants unasSuming great
ness; and they honestly fear that if
I,n oh no I..fA
must bid farewell, a long farewell to all
their hopes of victory. In all this, they
pay the highest possible tribute to the
worth, and strength and greatness of
Grant as man and executive magistrate
They show in it, that they know him
outwardly; and not knowing his inner
nature, his simple and unselfish truth
fulness, and his fealty to the highest
good of the nation, it is not strange
that this great alarm has come upon
them.
We cannot avoid feeling of gratifi-
cation that Grants enemies yield him
these high tributes to his great and
successful career i'm war and peace. 1t
reflects high credit on the Republican
party that they should twice have elect
ed to the Presidency almost the only
man of our line of Presidents of whom
the suggestion of third term could
have been conceived and seriously con-
sidered as a probable event. That
party will find another man us its can
didate next time, and most fortunate
will it be if it can find a man who shall
be deemed worthy of a reelection, and
who shall reach the further honor of
exciting another third term alarm.