New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-30
NOT rnREATS. BUT FACTS.

NOT IIIREAIS But FALIS
An occasional third -temer, less secure in his
temper than of his paTtisanship, complains that
THE TRIBUNE threatens defeat at the polls II
Grant is nominated. This is a misuse of terms.
We simply read and record the signs OF the
times General Myer never threatens storms
He announces their coming. No black cloud
ever poItended thunder gust more maniicSdy
tban the coverings and mutterings in the streets
in the shops, on bench and farm polterd
grave detection from the Republican patty in
November if 'third-teTm candidate is forced
upon it, by Logan and Cameron tactics III
June.
We do not address ourselves to the Senatorial
Trinity which has assumed the government OF
the American people. These men are bent on
possessing the Administration, and they will
move heaven and earth to do it, reckless of
National consequences. They are against Shcr-
man or Blaine because they cannot own either.
They are for Grant because they have owned
him.
We address ourselves to the gentlemen with
whom the battle opens-the delegates about TO
assemble III National Convention. With you
it rests to say whether the Republican party
SHALL 90 into the National campaign under the
leadership of the man of its choice, united, en-
thusastic, irresistible, or whether it shall lie
sent from Chicago under the enforced aud
rejected leadership imposed upon it by MeSsrs.
Cameron, COnking, and Logan, Disguised,
angry, insubOrdiuatc, TO fail an easy prey e.
its Democratic foes.
We address ourselves especially to our
Southern delegates. The game OF bult and
brag is boldly played. The third termcrs, sur-
Dlised bv their unexpected defeats in the North,
chagrincd by their unexpected opposition in the
South turn to you with rcdOublcd yIgOr. They
have nothing more TO hope for here. They
have suppressed all that they can suppress and
they have not men enough. They have OVER
powcred all that they en- oycIpOwcr and yet
they have not men enough. Their numbers
will diminish as their tactics and thcir weak
ness develop. Aud as their numbers diminish
their sound and fury increase. They will come
to you with Chinese gongs, telling you they are
sure of victory,--but tner hearts are beating
with the dread of defeat II rests with YOu to
save the Republican party at this stage rather
than relegate its rcscuC to the future after four
or eight years Of disaster. Already the third
termcrs have set ailoat rumOrs that they are
sure of yOu-that they know how to fix yOu.
They picture yOu rs coming up 10 Chicago not
rs honest and patriotic men. hut with clutchng
hands, eager hearts, empty pockets, asking only
the way 10 the man whO>has the most money.
Open boasts are made of yOur value per head.
So low q tate rs 500 per man has been placed
upon YOU, and they add that none Of you need
be estimated mt more than $500 each. These
statements are made in contempt and bitter
scorn They forget that in 1876 the South
stood as firmly as the North--tht the blac,
men were as trustworthy MS thc white. But il
is part of the great game Of buif, the last
resource to OverpOwer the solid hostility of the
North, and the suspected hostility of the South,
by men who believe that money can do every
thing.
Be not deceived. The crisis is too grave for
trifing, for Disgusting, for mincing words. If
you aid in the nomination of General Grant you
imperi the success, and even the life, of the
Republican party.
The declaration of the third-termers that
they will defeat the election, if General Grant
IS not nominated, has no force, because there
is no principle behind it. There is no
unWrittcn law, no honOred custom, no
patriotic tradition, no menacing danger to
render imperative the extension Of the Presi-
QCncy DeyOnu TWO JcIInS. MOI q school district
can be found in the United States that will
throw it's vote for the Democracy rather than
Don Cameron should not carry Pennsylvania
IN his pocket. Mr.. ConklinG lost New York,
but Hayes came in. Mr.. Blaine or Mr. Sher-
man wOuld come in, bringing NewYOrlS with
him. We would not wager that either would
not bring with him Mr.. COnklng, too, sitting
clothed aud in his right nina. Pennsylvania
would come in with such a rush that Mr.. Came
ron would be taken of his feet and swept in,
and then he would step ashore dripping aud
smiling, and say he always meant to come tnat
way, indeed, started the freshet himself
Logan would throw of his feycr-craze, and
become again the fair man he was meant to
be, the brave man he cannot help being, and
strike out atAhis foes as vigorously as he has
struck out at bis friends in his deirium. NOmi-
nate the man whom the people wish to elect,
aud his election will take care Of itelf.
But the delirium is not yet over. The fever
of personal possession still RACES. The Scna-
torial Trinity, for tker poor grain Of sef-ag-
grandizement will laLtr and tug and strive.