The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-05-13

in st. Louis last week of the Repub-
lican National Anti Third Term
Convention, representing highly
respectable element of the party and
consisting or delegates of marked
ability and influence from all parts
of the Union. E. c. Hubbard, of
Kentucky, delegate to the Chicago
convention, was made temporary
chairman, and in acknowledging
the compliment paid him he said:
The man who to-day is canvass
ton was the least fitted by natuI e
and education for the office which
he seeks. Two terms of his admin
istration, which had failed to sup
press or diminish dishonesty in the
nations affairs, had convinced the
country of this fact, and had left it
for a time a debated question
whether dishonesty was not inner
ent in the party which supported
that administration. The student
in history finds no parallel in his
tory for the courage and determine
ton Of this undertaking here to day.
! For him self he was a stalwart re
| publican, but he believed the day
the republican party commits itself
to third term that day it signs it's
own death warrant. He believed
the Chicago convention would place
in nomination a man above re
proacb, who would lead the party
to victory and bring safety to the
nation. 1t was the hope of every
man here that a third-term idea
would to day receive a blow which
would kill it forever"
Gen. John B. Henderson, of Mis-
souri,, who, it will be remembered,
was so active in his prosecution of
the famous Whisky Ring that Grant
deprived him of the Office of U. S.
District Attorney, was elected per-
manent president. On taking the
chair, among other things, he said:
The nomination of Grant would
not only be- an endorsement of his
administration, but it would place
upon the republican party the orer
Gus burden of the scandals and dis
honor which were part of that ad-
ministratiOn. He quoted Gen.
Grants speeches at Bloomington
and Little Rock, to disprove that
there was need of a strong Govern
ment; he sketched the method EN-
ployed for forcing upon an unwill-
ing party an unwelcome nOmina
ton, and asserted that of the states
which have declared for Gen. Grant,
| Pennsylvania a.ohc Tou.d be able
to give him single electoral vote.
Even Illinois Was doubtful in its
choice, and almost certain to oppose
the election of Gen. Grant, in case
of his nomination. Ii the Chicago
convention would force him on the
party, it might become necessary to
declare an eternal dissolution of all
connection with them, and to affirm
the right to call conventions and
act independently. Cheers.
At the conclusion Of Mr.. Hender-
sons speech, three cheers were Civ
en- for him by the convention.
Mr.. Whiteridge, in behalf OF the
Executive committee of the indie
pendent Republican party of the
state of New York, presented the
following message:
The Executive Committee of the
Independent Republicans of New
York State offers the convention at
st. Louis hearty sympathy and CO.
operation in their opposition to the
denomination of Gen. Grant for a
third term. We believe that Gen.
Grant ought not to be nominated at
Chicago, because his nomination
would array against the republican |
party overwhelming opposition to a
violation of the unwritten law
against a third term; because the
records of his previous administra-
ton condemn his candidacy, and be-
cause under such management as is
expected with his name the Repub-
lican party would be defeated at the
polls as it would there deserve to be
defeated. We believe that in the
event of his candidacy a Republi
can anti third-term candidate should
be put in the field, unless the Dem
ocratic candidate should be one so
commanding the confidence of the
country as to make this course
questionable, and we shall heartily
co operate in well considered plans
to this end.
kilograms and letters from all
parts of the country expressing
sympathy with the purposes of the
convention were read. Among the
number were messages of Geo. W.
Curtis and Secretary Schurz already
sent, and others from Henry Ran
dali Waite, Wilmington, DEL; from
a committee of prominent citizens
of Wisconsin, at Madison; Ben. !
ButterwOrth, member of Congress,
from Cincinnati; from a committee |
of the German-American League of !
Philadelphia; Rev. r. Ii. Milton, of
New York; Rev. James Freeman |
Clarke, of Boston, Gov. Pierrepont,
of West Virginia; from large mum
bel of Ohio republicans; Thurlow |
Weed, of New York; Rev. Henry |
w. Bellows, of New York; Gov. |
John G. Long, of Massachusetts; T. |
w. Higginson, of New York; j. d.
Cox, OF Ohio; VIM. Everett; Presi-
dent Chadburne, of Williams Col
lege; Matthew Hale, of Albany. New
York; w. p. Candy, OF Wilmington,
North Carolina; Gen. G. II. Wilson,
of Massachusetts,; f. w. Bagby, of
Paducah, KY; o. H. Browning, of
Quincy, ILL.,; a numerously signed
paper from the republican voters of
the state of Iowa, residing chiefly
in Davenport and MuscatiDe, in
Guiding many prominent names, in
which protest against the nomina-
ton Of Gen. Grant was recorded
and the belief expressed that such a
nomination would imperil and de.
feat the election of the republican
candidates for Congress in the first,
second and third districts of the
heretofore immovably republican