Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-01-13
THE REPUBLICS PERIL.
WHO WANT THIRD TERM.
Plain Talk From Senator Sharon" Grape
and Canister''-Rivers OF Blood Shed.

Iltuc Ouc Vi LuOSc fabulous IOFlliicS tuaG |
dazzle the owners and the world besides. |
He lives in San Francisco. where he owns |
the water monopoly, two grand hotels, |
RaistOn's great palace of Belmont, and
what else remains of that splendid estate.
He is not a resident of Nevada, but he be-
came the purchaser from the Legislature
of that state of IA seat in the United States
Senate, which he still owns, but seldom
condescends to occupy. OF course he is
for Grant and the third term al such
men are. But he expresses his views with
a frankness which few of them will imi-
tate, and which certainly ought to startle
the people of the country from their pleas
ant dreams of security with regard to the
safety of the republic.
Travelling in state through his barony of
Nevada. he was encountered by repre-
sentative of the ANinnemucca Silrer Stafe
which he graciously permits to be printed
in those parts, and being asked who would
be the Republican candidate for president,
he replied as follows:
General Grant will be without doubt,
if he will accept it. We need a stronger
central gOvernment-thc wealth of the
country demands it {; without capital and
capitalists our government would not be
worth fig, the capital OF the country de-
mands protection, Its rights are as sacred
as the rights of the paupers who are con-
tinually pratinS about the encroachments
of capital and against Capitalization. We
have tried Grant and know him to be the
man above all others for the place. lie has
nerve. AS president he would be COM
mander in chief of the army and navy, and
when the communistic tramps OF the
| country raised mobs to tear up railroad
tracks and to sack cities on the sham cry
of bread or blood, he would not hesitate
| to turn loose upon them canister and
grape. The wealth of the country has to
| pay the burdens of government, and it
should control it. The people are becom-
| ing educated up to this theory, and the
sooner this theory is recognized in the con-
stitution and laws the better it will be for
| the people,
Here we have the principle upon which
the third term is to be secured and the
empire erected, laid down i'll plain terms.
The wealth of the country must control it
to the exclusion of the people, and this
| proposition must be embodied in the con-
stitution and laws. When Mr.. Sharon and
his friends get the power, they will sub
vert our present government by the people
and substitute the 6 strong government"
of the soldier, backed by large standing
army, and propped up by a vulgar aristo-
cracy of money. The central government
will be the fountain of honOrs, and all
other dignities will be purchased as
easily for cash as Mr. Sharon pur-
chased his senatorship. When the
people become disconted, the aris-
tocracy will, in Mr.. Sharon's exultin 6
language, ''turn loose upon them grape
and canister" Workmcn will not dare to
60 out on strike, for strikers will be
taken as mobs, aud mobs as instructions.
There will he no waiting for the call of
state authorities before sending in the
federal army for the suppression Of ''do-
mestic insurrcction." for it is one of the
prime objects of the movement to wipe out
Estates rights with all their reserva-
|
that Col. Scott elaborated in a paper pub
lished in the North american Rerier short
ly after the railway riots of 1917. He
wished the federal government to be
armed with power to meet ''disorlers'
whenever and wherever they might occur,
without preliminaries of any sort OH the
part of the states, in which cases railway
strikes might be met at once by the bayo-
nets of "a strong government and the
men driven back to their work on the
terms of their masters. Mr.. Scott will no
doubt be gratified to learn that Mr.. Sharon
not only agrees with him, but announces
authoritatively that such is the purpose Of
the third-term conspiracy.
| Being reminded that the people might
see fit not to trust the Republican party
with the administration for another term,
but to replace the existing fraud with a
Democratic president honestly elected, Mr..
Sharon continued with equal candor:
ssWithout bloodshed-and rivers of it
| there will be no change of administration !;
the moneyed interests of the country, for
self-preservation, must sustain the Repub-
lican party The railroads, the manufac-
turers, the heavy importers and all classes
of business in which millions are invested,
will maintain the supremacy of the Repub-
lican party. Democratic success would be
bankruptcy to them. To avert bloodshed,
strong central government should be es-
tablished as soon as possible"
This is a fair notice that the political
power wrested from the people by the
fraud of 1876 is never to be peacefully re-
turned to them. The "moneyed interest"
will stand with the political conspirators,
powerful corporations, and corrupt rings,
resisting change to the point of revolution
and bloodshed. Mr.. Sharon admits very
freely that the present republic is not
what they want, or intend to tolerate
hereafter, when he says " a strong central
government should be established as soon
as possible"
Mr.. Sharon said in 1876 that he would
willingly lay down million of dollars out
Of his own purse to secure third term of
Grant He and all his kind are even more
eager now. He is not only very rich and
therefore very powerful, but he is United
States senator, and on very intimate terms
with Grant and his managers. He knows
what he is talking about, aud is not afraid
| Of dafaatinr his nurnOSe nv exnaSinr If he