Show TW faw n ANTI TERM MOVEMENT A few dy ag our telegraphic column were turgid with the transactions and revolutions of the anti thaid term contention of st louis although their declamation nd declarations had a high and loud ring it appears to us on bober afterthought that the sonoro yi sla aiming f the dinner gong will prove to baye been the most part of the meal the participants in that convention and the adherents of the anti third term in general are working against grant not only in order to keep him out but mainly to get the man ot their own choice in there might be nothing extra ordinary about this as there exists no better to defeat the aacen daack of one candidate than by rallying round and supporting another the misers at the st louis operation however was that the manipulators are in favor of candidates who bare neither willingness willing nor ability to steer the helm of state out of the turbulent whirlpool of and the slough of despond into which the republican party has driven it and then again t is more than that most of the men who are now so loud in denouncing grant will eat crow after his nomination at chicago and belp to pramot his election in order secure the governmental crumbs which might fall from the table of for the officious curs and obsequious their very T in asseverating their loyalty to the republican party will condemn and compel them to bow in before either king stork or king log the cooling effect which the anti third term movement might have on the Uran order is weakened by the simple fact of the lack of union of feeling and concert of lion among the anti third staled above they can only fight davil with Behe bub but have not united nor will they unite in one candidate in who e support they would unanimously oppose and probably defeat the man on horseback there are blain ests Sherm anians Wash burners and any imaginable shade and nuance of partisans amongst their ranks and all they agree on is in not allowing grant to be they well know that if he is nominated no other republican will be put up in the field aside of him the combat in the political arena will be between hector an achilles they have also secret apprehensions that grants nomination might result in his non election and in the tion of the republican party to that privacy and odium cum which it ought to have adorned for a long while back although ye do by no means be licce that a democratic presidency in 1881 would usher in the beatitudes of the millennium where the iamb would lie down with the lion etc wf are confident that the country b spared a great dea of the official corruption and live with which it has bo n for the luef and a half oen grant in in would mian no s doii to iha r tamn ai anili h ni n i n hudson 01 lew would e spent it silly and ly but surely and benir izing the whole federal aai ministration extending all the ramifications of the governmental cobweb over the union with the voracious spider quietly watching until he liberty of the people were perfectly entangled in the fatal meshes A of parly in the government would in itself be to the country for no party can sustain the possession of supreme power jong ridout being thoroughly impregnated not to cloaked in corruption rotation in office may have its drawbacks but by no means as dangerous as in office any single one of the adduced or hinted in the foregoing lines would be sufficient to assure the victory ef democracy combined they will be certain to accomplish his downfall of the republican party and the extinction of imperialism in its cradle cost good deal of money we may ty no more than american elections do only it is spent in little dip erent way meetings must be ald agents employed bills printed placards posted voters taken to the polls and for 11 these political needs candidates re obliged of poura to pay hand bomely the adoption of the ballot in that country h largely increased the number of polling places polling clerks nd the like and ike wise the outlay of the candidate sharp rivalry raises the cost items far beyond what they would be if provided fo from a fund occasionally expenses are partially defrayed by party organizations zat ions though they generally form too serious ft charge for any except rich men to bear the cost is how ve not M apat u reported above lord wolverton alone a sid to haye spent during the late election contest at a late election in north durham four candidates it Is gaid spent in southeast four pent in south deiham three ident and others in like proportion ohp averige cost of a candidate in A county fora contested election i and even be return of ft member of parliament without opposition will cost some hundreds of pounds the elections of the counties of england alone excluding wale cost candi dales near |