Show If THE CHICAGO convention demonstrated I f demon-strated clearly two things First Pi there cannot be a thirdterm president 10 Afi presi-dent and second the country is i eiek and tired of what is called ctil If wart republicanism Had the Blaine delegates been as determined 1 in their support of him as Grants r IR were of their candidate we believe F Ii no nomination could 1m been made 5 The thirdterm element of the country i I coun-try was fully represented and by its J ablest champions It was all there and was iu a hopeless minority It V V was determined in its purpose but V could gum no eympat 4 y or support from the opposition The objection V V was not to General Grant personally V ii He w I a staunch republican in tbat roepect no member of the party can V 1 claim firmer adherence to its prin > V V V oipl 0rb1a eight years odtniniatra J tion was distinguished for its rank V V 1 republicanism The party had nor V II no-r ht to find fault with it or him There was no reason to believe he V V V I V woukl change hia course were be I again placed at the hoad of the na V tion A3 to his ability to fill the office sathfactorily republicans can net call that in question Holding V the personal respect of the party his V V executive and administrative ability I beingknown and satisfactory and Q V tho desire for a olrong man being V V general among republicans there was V no reason why General Grant should I V not have been again nominated ez V cept the great reason that the party dared not ovrrida the unwritten law V I L which limits man to two terms in Vi i tbe presidential chair It is well V V that the thirdterm idea baa been CrtMbad out in s party convention It c V V ia better thus than that it bould got I go-t tbo people for ita life or death j V 3ad the convention endowed it we believe the people would have re I pudiated H this time but the danger i wouJd not have been banished fort 1 It for-t I V ever Generally speaking the masses I I V are ignorant as to questions of this Vir V character They are in the hands it t iI I and under tho control of the politicians politi-cians of Euch men as t h oeD who t > V V I oompoeed the Chicago convention IV V i and those wkowill meet in Cincinnati V i t J on the 223 Had the convention V t V V nominated Grant the party would V 1 I J have stood committed to tho third 1V J V i V V term and a defeat nat fall would not V J have deterred it from trying it on V 2 i at another time knowing bow easily V 1 V V V the people are led by the politicians V j Now the republican party is arrayed 1 t again a thirdthird term as squarely as tbe democrats arc and this great V V V I V danger to the republic has forever t I 1 paId It is of small oonseQuenco i that Grant ha been slaughtered in comparison viith the great achiever achieve-r I V V ment aainely the emphasis and g reiteration of the rule that having V been twice president a man sdh V V V qualified for reelsxstion Tbe Blaugh V V ttr of the gionta at Chicago was V V V V I V ttnifio OonfcHog Grant Cameron Lagan Elaine all went The con ventjon eaid bat these men had a V = = 1 grown too big and they must be re I reduced The blow was fearful It struck down stalwart republicanism machine politics bloodyshirts and all that was radical and violent in the party and elevated moderation dignity dig-nity and peace as those things are understood by republicane The party ia placed upon record as declaring de-claring against the imperiouaneas the radicalnesa the violent sectionalism section-alism upon which the repudiated gentleman have fed and grown great The mediocrea were in the majority and they have exerchcd their strength for good The country can be congratulated con-gratulated upon the healthy change in tM republican party for it is a departure de-parture from sentiments practices and customs tbat were destructive to peace and threatening to tho simplicity simpli-city and institutions of republican government V |