The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-15

the mouse OF representatives of the For
ty-fourth congress voted, 233 yeas, Is
nays. on the following resolution, Of
fered by William NJ Springer. then a
member from the state of Illinois:
Resolved, That in the opinion of the
mouse, the precedent established by
Washington and other presidents Of the
United States in retiring from the pres
idential Office after their second term
has become, by universal concurrence
a part of our republican system of gov
eminent. and that any departure from
the time-hOnored custom would be I'M
wise, unpauiOtic and fraught with peril
TO our institutions"
No Democrat is recorded in the ne
gatiVe. Garfield. Hoar. Hale. Kasson
and Kelley voted in the aff1rmati tive.
Blaine and Cannon did not vote at all
The most distinguished names recorded
In the negative were Jay Hubbell and
Page of California, REINFORCED by the
colored members from the southern
states, yet under the bayonet.
General Grant was then president
but his administra ton was not success
full or popular. Scandal attended its
every step and corruption lurked in
every department. 1t was the day of
Credit Mobilier, OF Sanborn, of Leet
and Stocking of the whisky ring. of the
[ulligan letters, of the Belknap i'm
parchment. The active candidates for
the succession were Blaine. Morton.
Conkling and Bristow Hayes was a
receptive candidate. 1t was Blaine
against the field, with COnkling the IA
Vorite Of the administration, which
would have been more than content
with Morton. In some quarters it was
feared that Blaine would get the nom
nation despite all opposition, and then
it was that a third-teTm movement was
set on foot. But fate ordered it other
wise. The MuIligan letters were ex-
plotted a few weeks before the conven-
ton. and Blaine had sunstroke after the
convention assembled and before the
balloting The opposition gathered
around Hayes and he got the nOmina-
ton.
alden was elected and deprived of
the office by means of perjury, forgery.
bribery and theft. General Grant
went abroad, circumnavigated the
Globe and was accorded honors by
Christian and pagan people alike. such
IS no other American ever received.
Though about the best administration
IF our history, the Hayes regime was
not only unpopular, but odious, due to
the fraud and corruption of which it
was the spawn. 1t took the bayonet
out of the south. and what of carpet
baggeTy that escaped the penitentiary
fed from justice. Specie payments
were resumed, and about that time the
G.. o. p. proclaimed the blasphemy that
it was in partnership with Almighty
God, and the American farmer who
would have a good crop must vote the
Republican ticket.
Not one intelligent man of a hundred.
whatever his politics. supposed the Re
publican party had the slightest chance
Of electing their ticket in 1890 This be-
lief was based on the expectation that
the Democratic party had little speck
Of sense left and would nominate Til
den and Hendricks. Then, in a fit of
desperation the elite. the Old Guard,
the Tenth Legion of the Republican
party. turned to General Grant and set
on foot third term movement that
was apparently irresistible. ConkIing
Cameron, Logan and Carpenter were
the leaders of it. New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Illinois said that many of
the southern Democratic leaders con-
templated joining in the movement.
1t failed by the narTOwest of accidents
Grant got back from abroad two months
too soon. The Republican convention
drove a coach and four through the
unit rule Matt Carpenter was on his
Grant There was treason in the New
York and Pennsylvania delegations
Hoar, chairman of the convention, was
for anybody to beat Grant, for Grant's
election meant Ben Buffers bOss-ship in
Massachusetts. It was the greatest OF
our political conventions, with the pos
sible exception of that at Charleston
in 1860. Conkling could have had the
nomination at any stage, and he would
have been the nominee had he been
made of the clay of which Garfield was
made. Sherman would have been the
nominee If Blaine had not realized that
Sherman was his own master. If Dor
Cameron, chairman of the national
committee, had practiced half the car
ism Tom Reed visited on the Fifty first
congress, Grant would have been NOM
mated, and there was gossip for II that
if Cameron had complimented Window
on the earlier ballots, with score OF
votes from the ranks of the 800, Grant
would have been nominated.
But Blaine nominated Garfield, and
Conkling elected him-the Democrats
having accomplished the impossible anC
perpetrated the unspeakable in respect
ing the old ticket. No sooner was the
election over that Blaine kidnapped Gar
field, and kept him in Oriental ward
The political destruction of Conkling
was plotted and achieved. To do this
the administration presented little Ma
homes head to Ben Hill on a charger
The administration was going straight
to destruction when the assasSin's bull
let did It's awful work.
When the Republican national con-
vention of 1890 adjourned 1t was sup
posed that this country would not agair
be agitaked by the third term spectel
for a century; but in 1907 the most pop
ular suggestion in American politics IS
third term for Theodore Roosevelt
and If the Sixtieth congress should vote
on the Springer resolution next Deem
Der. il will be beaten Overwhelmingly.
AS in 1876 and 1880, there are nu-
merous candidates for the Republican
nomination in 1908-Taft, Knox, Can
non, Fairbanks, all active candidates
The receptive include Foraker, Hughes
La Toilette, Shaw. Cortelyou, Cum
minis. Root and perhaps others; but il
Roosevelt should give the wink, al