The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1880-05-26


publican party to nominate its candi-
date for the the next Presidential con-
test. / only assert what everybody be-
lieves when / say that it Is possible for
the Republican party To nominate the
next President Of the United States.
Bravo" and applause.
At moment when it would seem
morally impossible that we should be
mistaken I'm the line of our duty, ut a
moment when the path to success
seems so plain and inviting, We are
threatened with great and impending
danger. In violation of long line OF
experience, in violation Of tradition
more sacred than law itself, against
common reason and common sense and
respectable prudence, it is proposed to
nominate and elect man to be Presi-
dent who has twice before held the
same Office. ......l ....
To prevent the Republican party
from committing itself To this line Of
policy, and if possible, to avert the inn
pending danger, is the mission OF this
mass convention, which represents
more people than was ever before rep
resented BY single convention in our
political history. ff
In the brief time allotted me / can
not do more than summarize the OBJ
lection to third term. Applause.
I. Ii violates a conservative tradition
which Is essential to the permanency
of Republican institutions. lSlight APP
plause.
2 A third term transmits, with added
and increasing offensiveness and dam
ger, that which in our history seems to
us most fraught with peril to free gov
ernment-the spoils-of-offiee system.
3. A third term is a step i'm the diree-
ton of constitutional monarchy,
which no republican governments can
afford to make. Immense cheering
and prolonged applause.
4. IL will commit the Republican par
ty 10 a false issue, an issue upon which
the Republican party will and ought to
be defeated. ff
These objections i'm brief, and thou
sand Others enforced by argument and
illustration, potent, powerful and con-
elusive, appealing ut once to the sober
sense and liberty-loving instincts of the
masses, furnish to thinking observer
sufficient reason why We meet here to
warn the Republican party against
committing itself to the third-term issue.
We do not meet to advance the inter-
ests of any one man or set Of men.
We do not meet to express private
views or redress private grievances
We have no axes to grind, neither do
we intend to turn the stone.
We voice the best sentiment upon
this question of our party and Of the
people who, with an opportunity to hon
estly express themselves, uninffuenced
and not controlled by the machinery OF
party politics, would with common
instinct say at once and for all that no
man should be elected a third term
President.
We protest against third term be-
cause the man who Is campaigning
through the country for that position Is
of all men in it by birth, by education
and by experience the least fitted for
the Office.
Two years of a second term demon
strated his absolute incapacity to sur
round himself with men who could adj
minister the affairs of the Government
without stealing. There was a time in
our history when the heart of every Re
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