The weekly Arizona miner., 1880-03-12
Anything to Beat Grant .

Tbe rant sf the Democratic press against vhat it ple4ses to cali the Third Term principle is very silly ind Iced and its illus tr.tions drawn from the usurpation of Ma poieou, the third singularly inappropriate Ia their application to General Grants can didscy. The fact that General Grant has been q private citizea for the past three years is kept we'll out of sight for the good reason that it completely destroys the so- phiuical agument that the career of Gen er.l Grant is a violation of the Third Term principle or presents any parallel to that of the French President.
 In order to be subversive of pubic lib srty it is self evident truth that the Third Term should be immediately subsequent to its predecessors. The relinquishment of the reins of government for the briefest period Is fatal to the prestige which the public pstronage creates and which is the only in- strumsat that can be cprruptly used by any incumbent of the Presidential chair to se- cure an indefinite lease of power. The ad. vocstes of strong government never foasd time in tine history of the country ss prepisious for the inauguration of their system as at the close of General Grants last administration when the decision of the people was seemingly uncertain as to which of the two candidates offered had been chosen. IL was the nearest approach which ;he country ever made or will prob ably ever make in the future to that chaotic political condition where amid the struggles of rival partisans and civil combat the strong man rises into supremacy at the bid ding of the people, who prefer peace And imperialism to civil war. X corrupt ruler could, with the whole machinery of the government at his command, have probably fomcnted the political complications ef that period into q condition of anarchy that would have made his perpetuation in power An everything political necessity. The truth IS that General Grant sought to ascer- tain the simple wishes of the majority, and his cool and temperate counsel will be re. inembered as having contributed largely to the peaceful solution of the difficulties en- csuntered.
 Soman who reads history sright can fail b discern that no successful usurpation of power has ever been or ever will be possi- tts in the United States such as has been witnessed abroad. The elements of such a tsvolution as NJ. Veto. Hugo so strongly eortrays in his History of Crime" are and ever will be wanting, unless we make a fearfully retrograde march in the far future
 The presence of large standing army capable af overawing 5000, 900 of people
 
 soe nor is 1t likely that we shall ever wit aess such an exhibition of public apathy as that which NJ. Hugo depicts, where the French people stood listless, insttentive or scofiing when their representatives har- angued them to arms against the usurper.
 Ii speaks III for the intelligence of the people. to whom threats of Cesari.m arc directed, (with ali the conditions which make Cassrism possible wanting) that they should be seriously considered, but it shows shst in Grant the Democratic party finds an iasurmountable obstacle 10 victory.
 Without Grants candidacy there is small ghmmer of hope across the darkness of Its political night, with him as the leades of the Republican hosts, there Is only bit terress, chagrin and defeat in the Demo cratic future. Grants election, or the cleo ton of any Republican to the Presidency, means the disintegration of the Democratic party in the South, already, as it does, hold ing Slack allegiance to tine Northern organi- ration and cherishing in secret m animosity begottcn of what it will always consider thedefection of its northern ally during the war The only bond of union between tho two sections is the prospect of public loot which would follow the capture of the Capital, and if this hope bc deferred four years longer tho vigil will prove too pro ,rscted for the famishing sppetites of both, and death from inanItiou will terminate the career of the Democratic party.