National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1880-04-06
THE THIRD TERN.
he People Care Nothing tor distractions.

The People Care Nothing tor distractions.
To he Editor Of The National Republican:
SIR We read nowadays great deal about
the third term. IL is stated that the election
of any man to the Presidency for the third
time has in IL great danger to the Republic.
just where tho danger comes in / am unable
to see. Why should q third term be any more
dangerous than u socoud torm2 Aud II there's
danger in man being eloc cd three times as
President, Is there not greater danger in elect
| ing man to be Senator for three tcrmsp In
| the one place the officer executes the law, in
| the other he makes the law. No matter how
bad or good a mail may be ms President, he is
| confined within limits, and those limits arc,
| in great part, fixcd by the Senate. IL is poor
rule that won't work both ways, aud IL strikes
II plain mattcr.offict kind Of u man like my
self, who makes no claim whatever to politi-
cal sagacty II believe that's what IL is called,
that if II Is n bad plan to elect u worthy man
three times to one Office, 1t Is at least equally
bad to elect an unworthy but smart man
tllreo times to any other office.
| II, for instance, Grant, who was n fair man,
II good President, and n friend to the working
man, is barred out by political schemors not
withstanding tho fact chat the people want him,
then, say l for one, lot there be rulo 10 pro.
vent railroad and telegraph and grain and
stock rings from soLding their men to the
Senate and House for more than two terms
am not politician, but am In favor of the
man during whose Administrations poor mans
family could live in comparative com fort II
Is all very well for stock ;jobbcrs and others to
prato about the financial problem, to talk OF
| the depression aud revival Of business of our
exports and imports and status abroad and so
on, but tho hct is that in our country
| for tho past three years workin2lnen, me.
chancs aud others have been starving,
while brokers' bankers aud people Of that class
have grown rich.
During Grants administration things wero
different. know that there are many who
stand ready to go into elaborate explanations
about our return TO specie payments, ETC., but
for all thoy may say they can't explain away
tho fact that tho rich have bccu growing
richer and the poor poorer since Grant went
out Of Office. Some say tho flult is with tho
Democratic Congress, others that 1t is the
work of n Republican administration run In
tho interest of stock corporations. My own
lopinion is (and believe l speak tho scnti.
meuts of n minority of our pcoplc), that both
are to blame; and, if you will pardon my pro
family, would like to say d-n both parties
for between them we who have families to
support, who arc willing to work. but arc moi
allowed to, are on the verge of starvation
while the manipulators of the prices of living
necessaiics, the presidents of railroads and
banks, the owners of both ends of The Avenue
are debating the action OF Congress (many o.
the members OF which body have been sent
here by their owners for more than three
torms) and of the Administration.
/ believe | but echo the sentiment of the in
telligent mass of the working people of thi,
country, whether their labor is with brain OF
hand. and without regard to party lines, When
l say that of all mon yet named on eithci
side there is no ono more worthy of til,
Presidency than u. 5. Grant, nor is there on,
who would do more, If rs much, for the mo
chanic, tho clerk the laborer, the farmer. w,
have tried him ana know his worth. Th,
others may turn out well and they may not
This is no tiino, however, to take chances, ant
the records of nearly all the Presidential aspi
! rants on both sides show them to be in som
way connected with ono corporation or other
The South, rs we'll as North. welcomes Grant
} The men who fought against him in the fel,
/. respect him, for he proved himself mai
after tho war US we'll as during it. If there
nothing more to be said against Grant thai
that the superstition about the third term fol
bids it, then lot US have Grant for our mex
President. III.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 5, 1880.