The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-07-04
THE JACOB DISGUISE.
Real Meaning Of the Republfcan
Possum PoIicy-Speech Of Senator
Morton, OF Indiana.

fOSsu" tOi1cy-SReecn OIL senator
Morton, OF Indiana.
We clip from the IntelLgenccr Of yes
terdsy, where it was conspicuously
copied, the following extract from q
speech delivered by Senator MORTON at
Indianapolis, on Saturday. June 90.
Ii was originally intended by the
Senator to warn Republicans against
support Of GREELEY, upon the ground
that the latter, if elected by Democratic
votes, would be under Democratic con-
troll. His, however, quite as applicable
to the so-caiied "JAcoB Democrats" in
West Virginia as to the GREELEY Re-
publicans," for whose beneftit it was de-
llvered, and for whose warning it was
copied by the IntelEgeHcer. We have,
therefore, merely trausposed the names
Of the parties where they occurred, and
submit the speech in the shape in
which the IntelHgsneer doubtless SUD.
posed the JACOB men would uaierstand
it, though we are at the same tim.
compelled to remark that our neighbor,
as an organ" is not success.
my friend, Mr.. Stevenson, said in
his speech in the Convention here {:
We have this day turned our backs
upon the past. We now stand in the
present, and we look forward to the
great future. The past has gone |
ask you very briefly, have they turned
their backs upon the past, and can
they do it? Is it 10 the possibilities of
parties? Is it in the possibilities of
human nature? Why. the Republican
party has an education running back
ior a quarter OF a century or more. It
has an experience. They have de-
cared their principles from time to
time. They have reasserted them
within three months. They are old
doctrines. Have they changed their
minds? What the Republicans be-
lieved six, twelve, twenty.four months
ago they believe now. They cannot
help it. Men can change their actions,
but they cannot change their convic-
tions. God alone can make q change
in the hearts and conscience of men,
but q Republican Convention cant do
that. Great laughter and applause
They may profess new convictions, but
they do not, they cannot entertain them
They can no more lay aside their con.
victions than they can their experience.
Take the Republicans Of the South.
Do you believe they have fallen in line
with Democratic principles2 They
may agree 10 support Governor Jacob
and to take the principles of the Park
ersburg Convention, but they have not
changed their minds. We know the
body of the Republicans Of West Vir-
ginia have not changed their minds. /
care uo, -hat they say. There are
some things we do know. We GER
tainly know that where large bodies OF
men have been educated for a quarter
OF century, many of them all their
lifetime, in a particular way, they
cannot lay aside their convictions and
take new ones. They may change their
actions and declarations, but their con-
victions remain precisely the same.
Now that brings me to the point. II the
Republican party shall come into power,
under whatever name or standard,
when once they have received the reins
they will carry out the old Republican
doctrines. ["That's true" Applause !
Does any intelligent man doubt this
Tor one moment? ["No! no|] Do
we not know that this thing has been
done merely for the purpose OF gaining
secure secessions from tn e
Democratic party, which, added TO the
Republicans. will give them the ma
jorily s.nd enable them to seize control
OF this Government? Starting upon
the hypothesis that this is their pur-
pose, consider for q few moments what
they would do should they come into
power. Ny friends, l would just as
soon the Republican party would elect
Arthur |. Boreman or William E.
Stevenson Governor as 10 eleect John
J. Jacob or any man who has ever been
a Democrat, but who will lend himself
to them for their votes and for pow
er. Applause. ! can give you an
Before the war, Yankees
from New England. or even from Indi-
ana, would sometimes 90 dowl South
and purchase slaves and become part
of the slsveholding aristocracy, and in
nineteen cases out Of twenty they be-
come the very worst owners. Why?
Because, in order to establish their
newly assumed character in the South
they had TO become more cruel TO the
slaves than those who had been brought
up in their midst and 90 il the Repub-
licans elect 8 renegade Democrat Gov
eruor, he will make q worse Republican
when he is elected, than 9 man who
has always been Republican. Zap.
plause; That's true" Do you sup.
pose that this small body who cali
themselves Jacob Democrats mere
handful-csn leaven the whole Repub--
licsn party? Not q bit Of it. They
will be dissolved like flies in vinegar.
Instead OF the Republicans coming to
them, they will GO to the Republicans
A renegade Democrat elected by Repub-
lican votes, knowing that he owes his
election TO them, surrounded by Repub.
licsns in his Office, and socially and
politically in his daily goings iu and
out care not what may have been
his original purpose-human nature is
malleable, and that man would inevits-
blv come under Republican influence
and become one OF them. Therefore,
as before remarked, would in fact
prefer that they should take q man Of
their own party, consistent Republican
Of high character, rather than Q rene
gaie Democrat who ia s;hirst for Office,
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