The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-06-08
THE THIRD TERM,
How tho New York Herald's Great Vyentl
erCock Pointed on Monday.

ercoek Pointed on Monday.
We speak of this third term business
as Il shocking impropric!y, and We
mean precisely what we say. Is it not
such an impropricty that the cX-Prcsi-
dent should be so ovcrmastcrcd bv am
bition as to permit his own son "Colo-
ncl' Fred Grant, to buster about Chi
cago hotels, telling people what "mv
father says" openly clcctionecring for
my father" hawking the Vicc-Presi-
dcncy around for "mv father" and
when it is rejected by Secretary Shcr-
mans friends, with amused contCmnt
replying. "Thcn he shall bayc moth
ing ,? Is it not such an impropricty
to pretend. as the third-tcrm Syndicate
does, that wore got in hopclcssly
Democratic States, and in hupclcssly
Democratic districts in Republican or
doubtful States. got even there by use
of the gag law. and the worst devices
Of political machinery, represents the
mind and wishes Of the Republican
party?
1t is poor compliment to pay to the
ltcpuhllcan leaders to suppose that
they can be cocrccd by the blustcr Of
what ''my iathcr says" and by the ma
mpulation Of delegates who represent
Democratic constituencies, in making
themselves the tools to carry ont dcs-
perate intrigue Of a few umscrupulous
men. But it must he confessed, it
cannot be denied, that the Republican
leaders have been shamciully wanting
in patriotism. The body is sound
enough, but the head seems added.
Where is the Republican leader who
has spoken out, man fashion, against
thc third term? Not one Of them has
dared TO give voice TO The indignation
ofthc voters. In corners, i'm parlors,
in private, they have been fierce
enough, but in public they have march
ed to what most Of them believe to be
their political deaths, with the slavish
words of the old Roman gIadiators ::
"-lre CTs0r, mOfitUrt tc SulutuD,us." -"
"llail, Caesar! We who go TO die sa-
lutte thee" DO they imagine that this
is also the slavish spirit Of the Amcri-
can people? Not much.
The way to Republican defeat is
easy. In all the vital States the party
is weak, and weak through the con-
tests and jealousics created by the very
men now at the head Of the third
term movement, and through the un-
fortunate and dcmOraliZing effects Of
General Grants previous administra-
tions. In New York it had last No
vcmbcr majority of just POO votes for
Lieutenant Governor against a single
opposing candidate in II total poll of
over million. In Ohio it pollcd only
fifty and quarter per cent. of the
vote, and change Of only onc-cighth
or one per cent. of the vote would de-
feat it. In Illinois and New Jersey it
has only q plurality, In Michigan a
change of onc-halfof one per cent. will
bring it defeat. In sixty-onc Congress
sional districts the ,Rcpublicans have
already less than a majority of the to-
tai vote, and they arc in minority in
the House TO begin with. The way to
defeat is easy. Let them place them
solves on the third term; that is all.
Let them throw responsibility: modcr-
alton, honesty and the example OF
Washington aside, and they will dis
cover in November what the Amcri-
can people think.
WHIPPED TO DEATH.-On Saturday