Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-04-27
Will 1912
REPEAT THE
STORY OF 1880?
GRANT And T. ROOSEVELT
Is Teddy's Personality as
the Formers?
augusta Chronicle.)

augusta Chronicle.)
Writing under the caption "The First
Assault and Repulse of Third Term
ISM The Louisville Courier journal
draws sharp and striking comparison
between the incidents of the presen;
time and that memorable play of po-
litical pyrotechnics when Grant and
his defeated 1906" sought to over
ride the constitutional purposes of the
government and lay foundation for
preparation of life-tenure in the
white house
The Courier-Journal holds that
AS it was in 1880 shall it be in 1912.
The moorings of liberty and law may
be somewhat loosened in the CONNER
cialized understanding of generation
of money grubbers. Corrupt political
methods may have disturbed the faith
lions. Fraud, greed and force every
where, the proclamation of war against
bosses and bossism appeals to uni
versal sentiment. But deep down in
the heart of men there are still the
embers of liberty SO long taken as q
matter of course that they may need
to be blown into life-vital still-the
blood of the fathers yet flowing in the
veins of the sons, the ideas of the
founders in the minds of their descen-
dants.
The similarity of events is found in
the fact that when Grant went out of
the white house he made spectacular
Journey around the world. Every
where in Europe he was well received.
When he came home he was all but
glorified, and the nucleus of a third
term organization which had formed
In New York, Pennsylvania and Illi-
nois, which had not the temerity 20
show its hand in the convention OF
1876, in the face of an overwhelming
hostile sentiment, began to assert it.
self.
Grants personality was strong one,
his popularity indisputable. Masses
of people began to rise to him. AS
the Louisville paper describes the
trend of two events, "all that is being
said now in favor of Roosevelt was
then said with greater FEASIBILITY and
better effect of Grant. For a while
the prospect was radiant for the third
termers." But congress by we'll
nigh unanimous vote, had previously
passed a resolution declaring against
a third term.
At the time "Conklin who looked and
loomed kind of war-god, made an in
spring leader and cut superb fig
ure His speech nominating Gran.
in the national republican convention
of 1880 was an event. His colleagues.
Cameron and Logan were captains Of
political industry and past grand mas
tiers in the art of machine-made public
opinion. But the republican party
still true to republican principles and
nstitutions-would not have it. The
third termers made melo-drama where
they are now making a circus, but
they went down to defeat as the 1906 "
that being the highest vote they were
able to cast in favor of the 'Man-on-
Horseback" and the exchange of con-
s,itutional government for dictator
sfi and life tenure in the presidential
s.Aice."
Throughout the entire period OF
that time the comparison shows such
striking familiarity to the events of
Today as to make the situation more
than ordinarily impressive, and has
lad the Courier-Journal to conclude
its measure against measure of Grant
ISM and Rooseveltism, as follows:
Graft may not be exterminated by
cant A multitude of bosses. cannot
tie driven out by consolidating bossism
into the keeping of a single boss. 1t
is something worse than imprudent
charltanry to propose it. 49,
They who do propose it are shallow
takers, self-seeking politicians, in fact
and traitors at heart. If their leader
be of unsound mind, he should be TAX
en- to an asylum; if he be of sound
mind, he should be whipped with scor-
pions from one end of the land to the
other. That which was denied Grant
| will never be granted to Roosevelt
| The proceeding is as transparent as il
is ignoble. 1t is, indeed, as clumsy
and as obvious as the old thimble-
ringing game OF now-you-see-it ant
now you-don't, which in the days O
the Mississippi steamboat era, used t.
catch few greenhorns upon the pack
cts plying between vicksburg and New
Orleans. Yet, nevertheless, it too,
| time and effort to drive the tin-horr
gamblers off the river, as it will talk
time and effort to drive these tin-horr
reformers off the nations reservation
of liberty and law.