New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-24
This is good time for weak-kneed anti-third-
termers to flop.

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termers to flop.
The GRANTEES are in pitiful state Of trepidation
lest some of the delegates from the South whom
they have instructed aud tied up with unit rule
and put under lock and key may slip away from
them. They have raised the cry of bribery and
teegraphed their adheTents to beware OF the
enemy. Their grOundeSs fears show upon what
slender basis that much Wanted spontaneous DOOM
rests.
If the Democrats expect to gain any advantage
from the earnestness with which the Republicans
have carried on the canvass for the Chicago nomi-
nation thev are counting without their host The
Republicans have worked for good ticket, expect
to get it, and then fall in and elect 1t.
Mr. Washburne is doubtless thankful that he
won't have to write any letters of declnation
II Voorhees, set out to stop the exodus by nvesti-
eating it he made a amentable failure. The ac-
counts agree that large numbers of cOlored people
from the South are still passing through st. Louis
bound for Kansas and other States. The returning
tide which the Southern bulldozers predlcteu woulu
soon set III has as yet failed to begin.
The unusual number of Republican aspirants for
Congressional honOrs is o healthy sign of the
partys prospects.
Let the antithird-termers face the facts squarely
Nothing can be gained by Misrepresentation Grant
has the solid vote of Illinois and Alabama to add to
his column. While this does not secure his nomina-
ton it gives him long lift toward 1t. Now, there
fore is the time when the opponents of third term
should stand solidly together OF the delegates
elected 10 Chicago an unQuestiOned majority Is on
their side. An earnest, unselfish effort should be
made to unite this opposition into solid pbalanX'
No mans ambition or personal preference should be
allowed to stand in the way, WITH united actlon
aud good generalship victory Of the Republican
party over the thrd-torm conspiracy IS certain at
Chicago.
The Democrats arc willing. yes eager, to exchange
the fraud Issue for tho thirdterm issue. VIII the
Republicans accommodate themf
There IS no installing the joy of tho Democratic
press over the result of the Illinois Convention 1t
hasn't been so happy for many day as now
Mr. Watterson is q philosopher. He has stood by
Mr.. Tilden through good and evil report and advo-
Gated his claims with persistency worthy OF bet
ter cause. And now when the Cincinnati COnven-
ton Is only few weeks off he reviews the situation
in his paper, explains his own course and adds:
"Our fight is over We have done all we could for
our belief and for our man.. The people must do
tho rest. We hope and we think they are with us.
But, il they are not we shall make no wTy faces;
but. picking ourselves up and rubbing that partic-
ular place which may have received the sOrest
bump. and rejecting that everybody gets licked now
and then, we shall hope for better luck next time
The only trouble with Mr.. Watterson is he lavishes
his philosophy on the wrong party.
The action of the Illinois Convention has raised
storm of ind gnatlon which the third termers will
hardly dare to face. There is practical unanimity
among the Republican papers in conforming 1t.
AS it looks now the way in which the machine rode
roughshod the expressed will of the voters ut
Springfield is the last thing that necessary to
end the patience of the people. The next ten days
are likely to witness the lOudest protest heard
since the Republican party has existed