New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-16
IF Grants "enemies can't force him out of the
field" his friends ought 10.

IF Grants "enemles can't fOrce him out of the
field" his friends ought TO-
No one man is an axis Oh which revOlve the desi-
MES of the Republic. She has many worthy sons,
distinguished in civil life of eminent fitness for
President. To doubt the selection Of some one OF
Them would be to impcach the wisdom or those
whose duty 1t will be to make the nomination ut
Chicago.
Ben IIu looms as the ono Democratic statesman
who is so bad that his party is not bad enough TO
follow his lead. O5ScurIty yawns for benjamin
In one Of his several moro recent announcements
that he is not o candidate for the Presidency, Mr..
Washburnc SAID he preferred to DO mending his
fences on the shores of K,nlllps Pond, in blaine,
rather than to be mixed UP in the turmoil and RI
VARY which exist in Chicago" This would seem
to indicate that he went to Maine to escape some
thing or other but he says he had idea that such
o disturbance would be kicked up when he left the
State days ago, and he Is entitled 10 full credit
for his statement. tie seems to have been surprised
hy LOgans capacity for breaking things. 50 have
several other people.
The Field boom has como to tho surface in Vir-
gina. and there sufficient symptoms of Its reap
pearanco in other parts Of the country presently. to
warrant the DISCHARGE of fresh shower of mud from
the Cipher-Allcy batteries mt the Judge. The last
shot didn't do any damage
Arc the Democrats trying TO save Grant Dy Degln-
ming 10 abuse himi That IS about the size of Ea.
toms diplomacy.
The third-term boilers from the Cook County
Convention are very meek now. The day after
tho bolt, their organ, The Inter Ocean, declared
that the full delegation appointed by the boilers
would be admitted Mt Springfield, and added
Mark the prediction" Twenty-fOur hours later
the same organ put tombstone on its own pre-.
diction, and marked" 1t with this inscription
"1ho Grant men 90 to tho State Convention with
a full delegation, to be sure but asking only their
fair share of delegates from this city in proportion
TO the vote cast II any extremists 90 further than
this and claim the whole delegation. The Inter
Ocean does not agree with them, and does not ask
the State Convention to recognize such q claim"
As newspaper The Inter OCEAN Is tiuHy and uncer-
tain but as "1opper" it is without flaw.
The chief reason advanced for third term now
seems to be because the majority of the Republican
party does not want it.
Twenty-One counties have elected delegates to
the Minnesota Republican Convention, and the, is
not "A Grant man among them. Blaine leads, fol-
lowed by Window and Washburne The Window
movement seems 10 he largely artificial. and TO be
confined almost exclusively TO the newspapers.
The Grant advocates are particularly impatient Of
what they coll tho " senscless prejudice against
n third term" Opinions may differ about the char
acter of the prejudice. but there be only ono
oriniOn concerning its existence. IL is extensive
enough to split the Republican party in advance of
the nomination. What ii might accomplish after
fine nomination will never DO known. because the
party is too wise 20 make the experiment.