Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-17

1ngtOn ana long Tor his return. They have
had but scanty pickings from the public
crib, and are hungry for the spoils of Office.
Every man who, during the eight years of
Grants incumbency of the Presidential
office has had his arms in the public treasury,
is found among the advocates of third
term, and these will leave no stone unturned
to accomplish success.
There are few sober, sensible men in the
Republican ranks, however, who look with
alarm upon the movement referred to.
They see that it is fraught with great dan
ger to the perpetuity of the government,
and that it is confession that there is but
one man in the Republican party capable of
filling the Presidential Office in cases of
emergency. Among this number is found
Murat Halstead, editor of the Cincinnati
Commercial. In a recent interview that
gentleman gave expression to his views on
Grant as candidate in this language:
The Grant enthusiasm does we'll as a matter
of personal compliment to a great soldier re.
turning from abroad, where be has been highly
honored; but when the Republicans get down
date they will hesitate about Offering the coun.
try no other escape from confederate rule than
third term of Grant, with the promise of a
fourth, and so on down the broad road the Re-
publicans have travelled. To nominate Grant
would be to take the ridicule off the Democrat
lc charge of threatened change in our form
of government and make it momentous mat
ter. The second sober thought will come in
good time and the thing that now seems GER
tain will be found impossible. The common
sense of the country will be found against the
third term, with all it implies. The Republi-
can leaders cannot afford to abdicate now and
forever In favor of Grant. Not one of them,
with possibly the exception of Conkling
would have the dignity of a ward politician if
he should again be President. They would be
submerged, and never emerge from the flood,
and Blaine would not be bigger and better than
fly on a bulls horn, ana he is man of great
stature as he stands. The Republican party
would be ripped up by a third-term nomiua.
ton. 1t is the one way to do the party to
death.
There is much of truth in these words
There can be no doubt but the aim of those
who are SO urgently advocating third term
for Grant is the subversion of the
government from its original form.
If elected and inaugurated once
more, Grant would never quit the
White House until he was carried forth on bis
| bier. He would be in fact, though perhaps
not in name, the emperor of the United
States, and personal liberty and the freedom
of elections would be but empty theories, Of
no binding effect. This would then be in
| deed nation-a despotism-with all thai
| the term implies.
We do not believe that the country needs
or wants Grant. The people honor him fol
what be has done, and they have rewarded
him with munifcence unprecedented i1
the history of the world. But they do no
| think it is necessary that he should be the
perpetual ruler of the country. There are {
few men in the Republican and many il
the Democratic party who are better
| qualified than he to pilot the shil
OF state through any storm thai
| ls at present threatened. Grants candidacy
will be regarded by all thinking men as ar
attack upon republican institutions, and hif
election and Inauguration would sound the
death-knell of free government on this side
of the Atlantic. It is o dangerous precedent
to establish, though the greatest danger is
hidden from view. We must maintain q
representative government in this country al
| all hazards, but with Grant in the executive
chair such thing would be an impossibility
The overthrow of the republic is the ain
| and object of the Grant "boom.''