The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-15
IL HE THIRD TERM
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On the tiftccntli, day OF December
| tho Torty-fourtIlt Congress voted, 90;
yeas, Is nays, on tho following reso.
4 luton, offered by William NJ. Springer
!. thon q member from tho State OF I'LL.
,Enola:
j Resolved. THAT In tho opinion OF this
House tho precedent established by
Washington and other Presidents Of
presidential Office after their second
4 torn, has become BY universal con-
currencc, part OF our srepublican Hys.
TEN of government, and that any de-
parture from this ttime-honorcd custom
would BIO ,inwiso. unphtriotlc, and
fraught with peril to our institutions.
No Democrat is recorded in the ncga-
\ tive. Garfield, Hoar, Hale. Kasson and
|Ilel1cy voted in tho affirmative. Blaine
and Cannon did not vote ut all. The
most distinguished names recorded In
the negative wcro jay. Hubbell and
4 Page, OF California, reinforced by tho
.colored members from tho Southern
States yet under tho bayonet.
4 General Grant was then President
4 but Observation-Disclosures WAS not SUCCESS
1 full or popular. Scandal attended Its
every step and corruption lurked in
every department. 1t was the day OF
credit mobilier. OF sanborn. OF Lcct
and Stocking, OF tho whissey ring, OF
tho Mulltgan letters, OF the Belknap
impeachment. rho active candidates
for the succession were Blaine. Morton,
conkling and Bristow. Hayes was n
receptive candidate. 1t was Blaine
against the field. with Conkling the
favorite OF the administration, which
would have been moro than content
with Morton. In some quarters 1t was
feared that Blaine would get the nomi-
nation despite all opposition. and then
1t was that n third term movement was
set on foot. But fate ordered 1t other
Wise. Tho Mulligan letters were ex-
plotted a few weeks before the conven-
tton. and Blaine had sunstroke after
tho convention assembled and before
tho balloting. Tho opposition gath
cred around Hayes. and lie got tho
nomination..
Tilden was elected and deprived of
the oflice by means Of perjury, for
gerry, bribery. and theft General
Grant went abroad. circumnavlgated
the globe. and was accorded honors by
Christian and pagan peoples alike, such
as no other American ever received.
Though about the best admlnistra-
ton OF our history. the Hayes regime
was not only unpopular, but odious,
ldue to tho fraud and corruption OF
which 1t was the spawn. 1t took the
bayonet out OF the South, and what
OF carpet-baggery that escaped the
penitentfary fled from justice. Specie
payments were resumed, and about
that time the G. .. r. proclaimed tho
blasphemy that 1t was In partnership
with Almighty God, and the American
FARMER who would have good crop
must vote the Republican ticket.
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dred. whatever his politics. supposed
the Republican party had the slightest
chance OF e!ecting their ticket In 1880.
rms belief was based on the expecta-
ton that the Democratic party had a
little speck OF sense left and would
renominate Tiiden and Hendricks.
Then, In a ut OF desperation the elite.
the Old Guard, the Tenth Legion Of
tho Republican party, turned to Gen.
eral Grant and set on foot a third
term movement that was apparently
irresistible. Conkling. Cameron, Logan
and Carpenter Were the leaders of It,
New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois
We're behind them. Gossip said that
many OF the Southern Democratic
leaders contemplated Joining in the
movement
1T failed by the .narrowest acct
dents. Grant got back from abroadsrwo
months too soon. The Republican con-
svention drove coach and four
through the unit rule. Matt CARPENTER
deserted Grant. There was treason In
the New York and Pennsylvania dele
cations. Hoar,s chairman OF the con-
vention. was for anybody to beat
Grant. for Grants election meant Ben
Buffers bOss-ship in Massachusetts.
1t was the greatest OF our political
conventions. with the possible excep-
ton or that at Charleston In 1860.
Conkiing could have had the nomi-
nation 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
II Blaine had not realized that Sherman
was his own master IL Don Cameron,
chairman of the national committee had
practiced half the czarism Tom Reed
visited on the lSlfty-irst Congress.
Grant would have been nominated and
there was gossip for 1t that IL Cam
eron had complimented WINDOW on the
earlier ballots, with a score OF votes
from the ranks of the 366. Grant would
have been nominated.
AS In 1876 and 1880, there are nu-
merous candidates for the Republican,
nomination in 190s-Taft, Knox. Cam
non. Fairbanks-all active candidates.
The ACCOMPLISHMENTS Foraker, Hughes. |
La Toilette, Shaw. Cortclyou, Cum
Minis, Root, and perhaps others: but IL i
Roosevelt should give the wink. all
competition would vanish. His would
be the only name presented. and his
nomination would be by reclamation.
Tho chief concern of the convention |
would be to find out his wishes as to |
second place. That is the expected that |
is likely to happen.
1t is not happy family, this G. o. |
p, notwithstanding its long string OF
successive Victories.
American politics is reduced to two
men--one Out-Bryans Bryan and the
other out-Roosevelts Roosevelt, and
both succeed capitally. Each says "AIe
too" to the other. Roosevelt is slight
" the more versatile; Bryan Is pos
'siioiy set "a little digginer." ROOSEVELT
would put tho octopus in Jail: Bryan
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