The daily gazette., 1880-06-01
TUESDAY. JUNE 1. 1850.

kOkuk W bC ho AO'NTANe~ss w
this week, says Republican contem-
porary, 'sbut a conflict between the
clans such as has not been seen for
many year" We have no doubt of
it for we know many gentlemen in
the ranks of the Republican party
who express themselves as being great
admirers of Gen. Grant, but who have
declared they will not vote for third
term candidate. This feeling prevails
only to an inconsiderable extent in
Delaware. But in many of the larger
States where the Republican party has
the majority it is widespread, and SO
formidable as to make even Mr.. Blaine
with his stay-at-home war record, and
the charges of Mulligan unexplained,
dangerous competitor with the ex-
General and ex- President for the hon
ors of Chicago. But our esteemed
Republican contemporary does not
stop with the ominous words we have
quoted. 1t seems to have lost all hope
for Republican success, and we there
fore urge all good citizens to seize the
present time, and resolve to vote with
the Democrats to make the majority
of the only national party as decisive
as possible. 1t is well TO have IA
change in the government occasionally.
The Republicans have now held it for
about twenty years, and abused their
trust by creating swarms of Offices to
eat out our substance and burden us
with taxes. We urge every candid
Republican to come over to the Demo
cratic side and help us to reform
abuses in the government and make it
cheaper and more republican in fact.
But to return to the struggle at Chi
cago, we quote again from our Repub-
hcan cotemporary. 1t says:
"The present preliminary struggle
is unprecedented for the bitterness
and ill-feeling it has engendered, and
it cannot be believed that if the inven-
tors of the third-term scheme had anti
cipated the dissensions and divisions it
has already created in the ranks of
the organization, they would have been
mad enough to attempt to force its
success.
so great is the rancor felt and the
indignation harbored against The brute
force and fraud which have thus far
been employed to secure a victory for
the ex-President that many of the
most Jealous Republicans men whose
services cannot be dispensed with il
a closely contested campaign, have ex-
pressed the NiSh that General Grant
might be nominated, in order that he
shameful practices employed by his
political agents might be Indignantly
rebuked at the polls together with his
attempt to set aside the time-honored
precedents against ihird-term. Tie
New York Herald has been sometimes
called. because of its valableDess Of
opinion, a weathercock. The name
was not inappropriate as none given
by popular sentiment ever is and the
HeTald' editorial page is more apt
than not to show how the winds of
public opinion and feeling are blowing.
Least Of any Of the great newspapers
of the country does it attempt 10
make or lead public opinion it has
always been content to follow and it
is, therefore, invaluable as showing
precisely in what quarter popular
sentiment sets. On Sunday, for in
stance, it said
"His lGrants nomination is desira-
BILE. He is the iirst man who has ever
sought TO be President for third time
and II he were not nominated now he
would come again four years later. and
50 ON indefinitely. But If he is nomi-
mated now and beaten in the election. AS
he must be, two great and excellent re.
suits will be accomplished-the third
term will be put out OF the way for gen
erations, and the Republican party will
be swept away with the rubbish of tha,
great pretense. If party can be used
TO accomplish mere intrigue agains
the sense of the nation-it the wire
pullers can make mere puppets of al
Republican voters-il is time there wer,
no more such voters"
There could be no greater mistak,
committed than that of supposing tina
that paragraph represents merely tn
opinion of the Herald. They who an
wise will perceive that il represent
the opinion Of an imposingly larry
class of Republican voters who ar
tired of this third-term brsines,
and of the arbitrary and uurepublca
methods which the syndicate hay
employed in carrying it on. The He
d'T, expression OF j: merely show
that the wind is setting strong agains
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