Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-30
DANGER AHEAD!

ernment pa Not Of Warning Whic'
Americans Would Do wellito Heed.
From the New York sun.
At the last Republican National Con
ventiou, Gen. Ulysses s. Grant Was
openly a candidate ior third term.
aud the effort To- put him in nomination
was so vigorous and persistent as to pro
long the session OF the convention for
DAYS.
These facts are historical, notorious,
and indisputable.
1t is equally notorious that the pur-
pose OF Gen. Grant and his friends was
that he should be elected, not to third
term only, but. if the form of govern
ment should be continued unchanged.
that he should be elected for an indefi-
nits number Of terms.
We believe, however, that General
Grant
Designed to Change this Form Of Govern
ment
and TO change our free, Democratic in
stitutions into an Empire, with himself,
OF course, at the head Of it. Oi this de-
sign on his part there is, to our mind,
evidence that is convincing and conclu-
sive.
l. Many OF his more youthful follow
ers unhesi'atingly avowed that this was
the meaning oi the thirl term project.
III. His older ami chief supporters are
men who have shown an overweening
anxiety for position in English society;
who have paid an unmanly homage to
class distinctions, and have shown a
lack of sympathy with the masses Of the
American people.
III. Gen. Grant is the first OF the
American Presidents who ever
Attempted to Obtain Third Term.
and i'm doing that he showed as much
disregard for American traditions OF
government as he would show if, after
being elected for q third term, he should
seek to make himself Emperor.
w. Finally, UiM erery mducement 10
disclaim his purpose OF making hims.lf En-
peror. he has remained as dumb as the grave
on this question of fOrersha2Owing importance.
We have already called attention TO
the extraordinary activity OF Gen. Grant
IN the current political canvass. In
season and out of season, here, there
and everywhere, he makes his appear
ance rs Il speaker or show. lie has
manifested the most intense interest in
the result, and has exhibited an activity
i'm the campaign never seen before, In
the whole history OF the country, on the
part OF any man who had once held the
office Of President.
He Has Been Travelling Presiding
officer.
and has been conspicuous at three
political meetings in single day.
All this is something new with Gen.
Grant. At Utica, on Oct. %, he stated
this himself, in the following words:
II came here to preside at a political
meeting. 10 is q neIr business Tor me :
and il il were not for the earnestness l
feel for the cause which agitates the
public mind at this time, | should con.
tinue a custom rhich / hare JolIo~ed jo'
more than .ftiy years-that is IN not taking
part in political meetings
How happens it that Gen. Grant de-
parted from the whole course OF his
previous life, and after not taking part
IN political meetings for fifty years, be.
gan To travel over the country and to
act wherever he was asked as presld-
ing officer at such meetings?
He saws it is on account OF the ear
nestness he feels for the cause.
He felt no such earnestness immedl-
ately after the nomination OF Garfield.
On the 2lst OF September Gen. Grant
wrote the
Following Significant Letter
to the Chairman of the Republican Ma
tional COMMITTEES:
GMESA, ILL, September 81, 1880.
To the Hon. Marshall Je'rP, Chairman
RspubiicdH National Committee:
While shall do all in my power TO aid
the Republican cause, l cannot nor en-
gage 10 attend any R,pttJiican meeting. l
Will be in New York about the 10Th of
October. and after visiting Boston ex.
pect To- be there through the fall. Cntll
about the Goth Of October my time is
new all engaged. l. :. GRANT.
L, is notorious that Mr.. Coukling, the
leader Of the Third Term Grant forces at
Chicago, also sulked for some time after
the nomination OF Garfield.
Suddenly Conkling recovered from his
dumbness; his tongue was unloosed;
and Grant, who, on September 81, could
not engage to attend any Republican
meeting, not only could engage to attend
such meeting, but did attend Repub-
lican meeting and preside over It, at
which Senator Conkling spoke, at War.
rem. Ohio, September %.
ONLY Ona Waak Altar thu Above Letter
was Written.
Since then both Grant and Conkling
have been untlasging in their exertions
to elect Garfield.
What is the natural inference2 Is it
not irresistible to those who know the
selfish nature Of those two men, and
the boundlessness Of their ambition,