Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1880-03-06

continued in power if the politicians
will not override by the CUNT rule"
and other devices the clearly express
ed will of the people in the nomina-
ton of a candidate for the presidency.
That the unwritten rule, ,ssnctitied
by the practice of the fathers of our
country aud the usage of hundred
years, to limit the occupation of the
office of president to two terms, is a
safeguard for the constitution. If
this wise policy is adhered to, the
nation will surely be safe against the
Vaccinations of criminal or reckless
ambition. Violated once, an um-
answerably dangerous precedent is
made for the future. sa
That there is no excuse or justifica-
ton for initiating so dangerous an
experiment as forcing on any citizen
at the coming election third presl.
dental nomination, unless the repub-
iican party is willing to confess be-
fore the world that it has but one
man within its ranks who is either
fit to be president or whom the peo-
pie would trust with that office. We
protest against such a confession and
we are satisfied that there are many
statesmen i'll the republican party,
against whom the objections of the
third term could not be urged, who
can be elected, aud who, if elected,
will discharge the duties of that high
office with credit aud distinctions.
That they who declare that no eau
didate but their favorite can, if elect
ed, be inaugurated, insult the intelli-
gence and patriotism of the Ameri-
n I 10 "A
and device to frighten the timid i'll
to supporting the third term.
That it is manifest that there are
thousands of republicans sincerely
and honestly opposed on conviction
aud principle TO the third term, and
we warn our political leaders not to
endanger the success of the republi-
can party at the next pl esidentiai
election by forcing nomination
which would be obnoxious to so
many influential members of the
party !; not to assume that because
they have been always loyal to the
DEGREES and nominations of the re-
publican convention, there never will
be limit to their allegiance.
That the movement for third
term does not emamate from the peo-
pie, but is the work of a few mel,
who, having fastened their hold oil
the republican organizations, expect
through the election of the third
term candidate to maintain them.
selves in power. position, and infiu-
ence to the injury of the people aud
the sacrifice OF their best interests.
Mr.. Sigismund Kaufman, was the
last speaker. Il spoke of the cry in
the republican party for strong
man i'll order that he might be pow
erful TO insure his Inauguration.
When, the speaker asked, had we had
the necessity of a strong man at the
head of party which had elected
him? Given that Grant was nomi-
mated i'll Chicago, the German repuL-
llcans of America would not vote for
him. Let them, in that emergency,
be given clean and patriotic man,
and eyeu with the handicap of be-
longing to the democratic party up
on his shoulders they would put him
first in the race. Then they would
he called idealists, and they could
stand it.
Among those who occupied seats
on the platform last evening were {:
Philip Bissinger. DR.. A. Jacoby,
Herman Clausen, Julius Hallgarten,
Prof. Felix Adler, Fritz Berringer,
Louis Goebel, Alexander Blumen-
steii, Albert Kia,nroth, Emmanuel
Averbach, Frederick Killian, Phil
Frankenheimer, j. c. f. Beyland,
Daniel Wallanstein. William Meyer,
Joseph kheinboldt, NJ. ThaImessen-
ger, DR.. Henry Goldman, G. A. Cas-
sebier, John B. Dingeldein, Sheridan
Shook, ID. d. L. Marshall, George W.
Palmer, Collector Merritt, Stephen
N. Simonson, Benjamin Lehmarer
and Gen. Charles Graham.