The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-09-17

the Fovty-fsarh cauxr~s. voted 80
yeas Is nays an TIE tsas~tnw rr@-
luton. offered by William u spsan-
ger. saea 3 menoe grsrn the STATE .
Illinois
Resolved. -hst ~ ;he opinion et
this House. tne precedent e@tAhIlsr~4
~ Washington and other Presidents
af the United states ia reur3rg froTn
the Presidential ofac- after second
term. has become by universal con-
curreuce. 3 part OF sur republican
system - government ard THAT any
departure from this time noraryd
custom would he INV ac. srratrtotc
and fraught with peri! - oar iustl-
tutI0ns
No Democrat i recorded In the
negative. GARFIELD. Hear Hale. kAs-
son. and Kelley voted p The ayarna-
tive Blaine and Cannon GId not vote
AZ ali The most distinguished names
recorded IN the negative We're jay
Hubbell and Page. of California r.
enforced ~ the cclorcI membe@
from the southern States SCR under
y bayoneJ
Gen Grant was then President. but
his administration was not successful
or popular scandal attended It's every
step and corruption 'urked IN every
department IL was the day or credit
In0blE1ET. OF SaHtNfA. OF LFt anu
Stocking. OF the Wh!skey ring. OF the
Nulhean letters. OF the Belknap i'm
parchment. The actiN- candidates
for the succession were Blaine. Nor
ton. Conkline. and Bristow Hayes was
. receptive candidate II was Blaine
against the field. with Conkltng the
fayorite OF the administration. which
would have been more han content
with Morton IN some quarters 1t
was feared that Blaine would get the
nomination despite all opposition. and
then il was thai Il third-term move
ment was set on foot. Bat fate or
dered il otherwise. Tn- Mulligan ret
tiers We're exploited a few weeks be-
fore the convention. md Blaine had
sunstroke after the convention as
sembled and before the balloting. The
opposition gathered rOuud Hayes and
he got the nomination.
Tilden was elected and deprived OF
the office by means OF perjury. for
gerry. bribery. and theft Gen. Grant
went abroad, circumnavigated the
globe, and was accorded honors. by
Christian and pagan peoples alike.
such as no other American ever re-
ceived. Though about the best adj
ministration OF our history, the Hayes
regime was not only unpopular. but
odious. due to the fraud and corrup-
zion of which 1t was ;he spawn. It
took the bayonet out Of the South.
and what of carpet-baggery that es-
capped the p~enitentiary fled from JUS
tice. Specie payments were resumed.
and about that time the G. O. +. pro-
claimed 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 or a hun
dred. whatever his politics, supposed
the Republican party had the slight
est chance of electing their tickle in
1880. h belief was based on the ex-
~pectation that the Democratic party
had a little speck of sense left and
would renominate Tilden and Hen
bricks. Then, in a fit of desperation
the elite, The Old Guard, the Tenth
Legion Of the Republican party.
turned to Gen. Grant and set on foot
a third term movement that was APP
parently irresistible. Conkling, Came
ron. Logan and Carpenter were the
leaders of it. New York, Pennsylva-
MIA and Illinois were behind them.
Gossip said that many of the South
ern Democratic leaders contemplated
joining in the movement.
1t failed by the narrowest acct
dents. Grant got back from abroad
two months too soon. The RepubH-
can convention drove q coach and
four through the unit rule. Matt Chr
penter was on his deathDed. Elihu
Washburn deserted Grant. There was
treason in the New York and Penn
sylvania delegations Hoar, chair
mar of the convention, vas for any
body to beat Grant, for Grant cleo
ton meant Ben Buffers boss-ship in
Massachusetts. It was the greatest OF
our political conventions, with the
possible exception of that at Charles
ton in 1860. Conkling could have
had the nomination at any stage, and
he would nave been the nominee had
he been made of the clay of which
Garfield was made Sherman would
have been the nominee If Blaine hao
not realized that sherman was hi:
own master. If Don Cameron, chair
man of the national committee, haC
practiced half the czarism Tom Reed
visited on the Fifty-frSt Congress
Grant would have been nominated
and there was gossip for it hat i
Cameron had cOmplimented WindOn
on the earlier ballots, with a scor.
of votes from the ranks Of the 300
Grant would have been nominated.
But Blaine nominated Garfield. and
Conkling elected him-the Demo
Gratis having accomplished the impos-
siDle and perpetrated the unSpeakable
in rejecting the old ticket. No sooner
was the election over than Blaine Kid
mapped Garfield. and kept him in thf
Oriental ward. The political dcstruc-
ton of Conkling was plotted anC
achieved. To do this the administra
ton presented little Mahone's head II
Ben Hill on a charger. The admins
sration was going straight to destruc-
ton when the assassin's bullet did it
awful work.
When the Republican Nationa
yention of 1850 adjourned it was sup.
posed that this country would no
again be agitated by the third tern
specter for 2 century; but in 1907 tn
most popular suggestion in American
polite is a third term for TheodoT'
Roosevelt. and if the Sixtieth Congress
should vote on the Springer resolU
ton next December. it will be heater
oyerWn clmingly.
As in 1876 and 1880, there are nU
merous candidates for the Republican
nomination in 19OS-Taft, Knox. Can
non, Fairbanks all active candidates
The receptives include Foraker
Hughes. LaFoIIette. Shaw. Cortelyou
CuInmins, Root, and perhaps others.
but if Roosevelt should give the wink
all competition would vanish Hi
would be the only name presented