American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-01-15
THT THIRD TERN.
Bishop Haven on the Political Situation
Grants Political Cunning.

From the Omaha Bee, Dec. p.
During Bishop Hayeu's stay in Omaha, a
representative of the Bee sought and obtain
ed an interview with him. We found him
IA gentleman OF remarkable intelligence and
quiclkness of perception, and witiial as affa-
BILE and pleasant gentleman as We ever
had the good fortune to meet. In regard
to the '.third term,'' he said that anybody
that knew him certainly could not have be-
lieycd but that he hal more sense than to
undertake to make IA Presidential no:nina
ton in a little preachers meeting; taat he
did ask them to ''pray for Grants nominal
tiun" and that he had a perfect right to
pray for it himself and to get many 9th
err preachers as he could to do the same
thing /; that nine out of every ten Republi
cans in the United States believe that
Grant woul d make the brst President of
any man in the party, but hey had given
away to this sentiinei against third
term. 1t was only II sentiment, bare
prejudice, for which not one of them could
live a semblauce o; IA reason. jim Blaine,
he said, would xii himself before this ses-
sion was over He was altogether too anx-
ious. He hadn't learned that if man
wanted anything in this country he must
at least seem not to want it. He was only
an imtator of Grant anyhow. Blaine had
come out for Hard Money, but it was not
until long after Grant had made his Hard
his Dcs MoiHes speech, and the next thing
comes Blaine trotiing along with his con-
stitutional amendment in the wake of
Grants leadership. Grant WAS always sur
prising the country with some new move.
His Drs Moines speech wac us great 1 sur
prise tn his cneiIiics ~ his movement to the
rear of Wick sburg was to the rebels. The
next thing WIS the New England dinner,
and all the word WAS agos- ~ hear what he
would say, but Grant sat there with scaled
lips, and he put UP Sherman to make Il more
Radical speech than Grant has ever made
in mis- life. Now the outcome OF this thing
will be that Blaine will kill himself. and
then they will have to take Sherman and his
Catholicism, or Grant and his free schools
and taxation OF church property. Did You
see Harper's Weekly on the third term
Now, am going to make IA prea'i:tion-
George William Curtis is going to get out of
there, Notwithstanding his elegant English
aud fine writing. You see that Mast has
never touched the third term, and lie
wouldn't do it, AMI Mast makes that paper
and not George William Curtis. 1t wont
do to have the pictorial and editorial clash
Mast has got noe political foresight than
all the rest of them put together anyhow,
and the Harpers don't care as long as they
they can make money, Notwithstanding
they are Methodists. l am going to pray
for Grants denomination, he said, because
he is sound i'll the schools, on the currency,
and can hold The South. What would Jim
Blaine do if he was President, and the
South should kick up an Instruction I
Why, he would have to run to the tele-
graph office and send message to Grant to
come and stop it. But then if they nomi-
nate Sherman | will pray for him, and get
just many other preachers as l can to
help me. The sentiment i'll this country is
too strong for free education for the Catho-
lies to overthrow it, and Sherman is the
next man to Grant to maNe the South toe
the mark.
Just here the bell of the locomotive rang,
and the Bishop stretched out his head say
ing, "Good-bye; yoa will have to get off.
Pray for Grant and the good government
of this public