Arizona republican., 1912-04-28
SHERMAN PAYS WARM TRIBUTE ID PRESIDENT Speech of Vice President Before Americus Club Was a Great
 Effort TALKS ABOUT
 THIRD TERM Says American People Will Never Break Down
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TALKS ABOUT
 THIRD TERM
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 PITTSBURG, Pa, April 27.-At the
 Grant dinner given by the American club here tonight Vice President James $. Sherman was the principal speaker. His address was as follows: Grant lived in and adorned an he rOic era of our country. He acted upon an august stage in a, conflict of unsurpassed significance to man. kind. He rose to the requirements of every and varied tests and shed bril- Eliance on events and results. The foes whom he conquered have become his glowing eulogists. The decades have silenced his bitterest critics. Supreme as he was as a cOnquerOr, as a peace maker he was no less eminent, and i'll the combined merits parallels are rare in the records of human glory. Minute analysis of his mind, his deeds, his achievements does not benefit this
 occasion and would wear away the hours. Beyond compare in the annals Of men, General Grants attitude at AppOmattox is the perfect flower of mercy, generosity and magnanimity. l. was this white dove of peace. com bined with the eagles of war, which lad the presidency at his feet.
 Deplorable was the existing condi- ton. Differences between President Johnson and congress added to the
 confusion and the peril. No human power could have avoided mistakes or escaped their dire effect in the pc
 riod during or following reconstruc-
 tiOn
 Yet, because the decade task
 was not accomplished in two years,
 in 1872 criticism grew rampant. As
 in 1864, some within as without the party sought to deny Lincoln d we'll learned and deserved renOminatiOn, so
 in 1872 a movement, designated the Liberal movement with a zeal credit fable to a better cause, sought to
 overthrow the president and under
 the nominal leadership of Horace Greeley and the slogan. Anybody to
 beat Grant" made rapid progress to sure and merited defeat. American common sense, then as always, was too vital and controlling to yield to
 reckless agitators or jealous aspi-
 rants The American electors then
 held firm as they ever will to the
 magistrate who has served them Faithfully and well.
 , The Chicago convention of 1880 set
 forth clearly how strongly the Amer ican people cling to the wise tradi-
 tions of the fathers. General Grant Twas content with the popular favor accorded him and had no further political ambition Certain party lead CTS. however. dragoOned him into al : lowing the use of his name as a can lIEsI ;rl i.al Seemingly he was lured into the grievous blunder Of his life. The mi nority of 3O6 on the convention roll by no means included all the admir- CTS of the warrior statesman. The safeguard against permanence in eX-
 ecutive authority was deemed vital lOverrOde personal regard and esteem
 and forbade compliance with indi vidual desire. Devotion to the re- lpublican principle prevailed and the
 famous hero went to defeat in the
 home of his friends.
 The opponents of a third term for
 Grant never charged that he strained
 or tried to add to the power of the , executive. Congress and the judiciary l suffered no assault from him. His loyalty to the constitution and the f laws was absolute: too aDSOlute ever | to be questioned. He did not deem , himself the sole reliance of the re- I public The spirit of a Caesar or a , Cromwell was not within him. Nc greed for despotiSm led him aStray | He raised no irreverent hand against [ the altar of the national sanctuary f it's constitution and it's courts. He , aroused no mad confusion or chaos
 Inordnate desire for power did not l smother in him the high attributes
 of consistency, constancy and fairness
 He was an architect of concord, not
 discord. He was quiet and content
 not boisterous and discordant. Yet F seven for him, the precept and exam jple of Washington could not be
 spurned by the American people.
 Among illustrious Americans whose
 lives are ended, three shine out 1T D the Armament of history like the 1 brightest stars of heaven. The school . boy and the sage, the laborer and the : prince of finance, with accord. name 2 Washington, Lincoln and Grant. The 2 Union is safe and will endure S 1 long as the citizens follow in theil
 footsteps and take inspiration iron
 their characters and teachings.
 Shall we for a moment or two
 give thought to what all this signi-
 fies in the affairs of today? Tht ! danger of any approach to perma p hence in executive authority was en- 3 phasized by Washington, and Jeffer-