Year: 1874

dent for another term as the national


stendard-bearerO Ofthis new organization.


The President also submitted that the


executive patronage would prove an ele-


ment Of considerable weight in this new


party undertaking, and that, with all


the forces to back it which he had indi-


Gated, defeat would be impossible and
success certain. Furthermore, we are in


formed that when these high contracting


parties separated il was promised on the
Onepart that the liberal lrepublicans,s so far


as directly represented in the conference,


will move in behalf of General Grant
for third term, and with promise ON


his part that to strengthen this move


ment the President will veto the civil


rights bill if passed at this coming ses-
sion of congress; will insist upon civil
service reform, notwithstanding the OBJ
jections OF this congress; will urge a uni


versal amnesty in his next annual mes
sage, and to the extent of his power and
resources will clear out the carpetbag-
gers and prove himself a true friend Of
the south and of southern rights under
the constitution. We have this infor-
nation, we repeat, from an intelligent


man, who says that these things are
true, and who believes that under the
programme we have outlined General
Grant can, and probably will, be elected
for third presidential term as the can
didate of the combined opposition forces
against the party in power. We learn
further that the leading Republicans of
the country-and of New York most
prominenIly-aren not only distressed but
indignant at this continued and mysteTi-
GUS silence of General Grant in refer
ence to third term; that they suspect
there is mischief in it, and that they
are prepared to adopt and play the Lib
eral Republicans against him in our Mo-
vember State election. At all events
the Liberal Republicans are now in the
position of the men who hold the gap,
and Mr.. ConkiiDg may well doubt
whether he or Senator Fenton is now


THE NEW YORK FAvoRITE


OF the administration. An active party
politician, who pleads the plea that his
mouth is sealed, says: "Only see how
we are tied up. II the President would
only gracefully retire from the presiden-
tial course, we could, under the banner
of Senator Conkling as our first choice,
sweep New York in November. But
what can we do now? Nothing, be-
cause we don't know where we stand;
and Mr.. Murphy is all wrong, if Whist
the Herald says are his opinions IS true
The President ought to know that ii
keeping silence on this momentous
question of third term he is playing
the part of an armed neutral, armed
sgainst US; and he ought TO know that
the example of Washington in fixing
the presidential limitation at two terms I
has become as strong as the cJnsiitu-
tion." Without any party predictions |
or motives or designs in these matters, /
and with a respect for the great public |
services and personal character Of Gem |
eral Grant, which cannot easily be /
shaken, your correspondent neyerthe- |
less gives you the information embodied |
in this report, under a strong impression /
that it is essentially true, and Of the |
highest Importance to the Republican /
party, to the opposition elements and to
the country at large.