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double their efforts, and the cam
| paign for him has progressed marvel
ously on the Pacific coast and in
the middle west during the last few
days
In 1880 Grant returned from his
| triumphal trip around the world, as
Theodore the Great returned from
his pleasure trip Of slaughter, and
his fetes with kings. Ambition over.
reached prudence, and Grant under
took to break the precedent of near
| ly century and seize upon the third
term. The great war here went to
| that convention in Chicago on the
seventh day of June with larger
support than Roosevelt can possible
command today in view Of the Presi-
dents hold upon the patronage of his
party. Even in defiance of the third
term prejudice, through every ballot
Vt that convention Grant was a
clear leader over his rival party hero,
James G. Blaine; and from the first
ballot he showed more than three
times the strength of that other par
ty hero, General Sherman of Ohio
Yet in the almost unprecedented
struggle of thirty-six ballots, the
great Grant was unable to over
throw the prejudice against the third
.erm which Washington had so firm
y established in the hearts and
minds of his countrymen Thirty
one ballots We're taken in that mem
orable contest before the name of
General Garfield of Ohio was even
mentioned, and then there was but
one in that whole convention who
mentioned him,-but one who voted
'or him. For three succeeding bal
lots he had but the one vote, but on
the thirty-sixth ballot, in spite of
The fact that Grant was two votes
stronger than when he started the
tide of the opposition united upon
Garfield, and in that thirty-sixth bal
lot he was made the nominee; and
again the third term proposition was
fixed by the American people to be
an established principle and not a
mere bugaboo.
eral Sherman of Ohio led in the Re-
publican convention, while General
Harrison was fifth in the list. And
on the eighth ballot Harrison had
gone fifth place to first and secured
the nomination
Taft is as likely to fail on the nom-
ination, in spite of all his federal pa
tronage, as was Blaine in 1876. And
Roosevelt is as sure to fail in his
quest for the third term as was Grant
through all his thirty-six ballots in
the convention of 1880.
What then? These are progressive
times. The people demand a cour-
ageous and a progressive man. Many
honest an earnest men, fettered
with the chains of partisan prejudice,
will hold to the course of party pre-
cedent in defiance of the spirit of
Progress and the eternal truth that
new occasions teach new duties
some dishonest and cowardly men,
drawn by the lure of federal patron
age, or shrinking from the last of
the party machine, will do the bid
ding of their master.
But in the crisis of the day there
stands ready, as always, in times of
stress in this American republic, a
man to lead in the battle for newer,
wiser, better things. That man is
he who is steadfast to the cause of
democracy, to a peoples government,
has for twenty years been unafraid
to defy both precedent and machine
rule, believing that the government Of
the people could not be taken from
the people, and that the government
which belongs to the people must
and shall remain with the people.
His chances today are better than
were Hayes in 1876; better than
Garfield's S in 1880. And he has, as
they had not, real issue, great
issue, an eternal issue,-the peoples
issue His position before the con-
vention is not unlike Lincoln's in
1860. Fight on, La Toilette, Fight
on.