The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1872-04-25

a defender of usurpation and breaches Of
law. or a BaItewasher pf abuses and cor
rupt practices; but / DO say. that almost
every enemy of Amnesty ana Civil Service
Reform, every defender OF gsurpo.lo1 anu
breaches Of iaw, every wh.ta"asher OF
abuses and corrupt practices IN the Re
publican party i Il friend f the = .nini@-
trati,tn an / ::a /. lyocate Of General Grant :
reelection. Il is a natural process az gray
itation. And certainly the latter, being
the N 81 selashly Interested the most active,
the bol.ess. the most uuscropuluus, viii
naturally be tae leading spirits.
ARd noy | ask you, Republicans, who
mean TO 10 right, who abhor corruption
and al impure use Of power, who respect
the Constitution and the laws, and who
will not ab.iictte the right Of Independent
conviction, how long viii yol permit those
who live and thrive hy wcrhiag in the
opposite direction to lead you by yoar
noses. You cannot lead them: they will
Ieai YOU, not where YOU will, bat where
they VIII. How long viii You follow them,
as rsgretfdl victims, IN direction which
you would never have chosen?
You tell me that the integrity OF the
party must be maintained. 1t might have
been maintained had the party fulfilled the
great requirements Of the times. Bat IT
il has not,-if it has drlfted into these
errors aud abuses SO common 10 political
o.snuisstian otter Ii long enjoyment of
power, when with the mass of camp-fo3-
lowers the spirit Of selfish speculation in
vades then.-iS then the integrity, is the
drill and discipline of party the highest
object of veneratioa that shoul ill the
soul Of Il patriotic citizen? l. there moth
in. higher? Are there not times when to
do his whole duty to MS country, the citi-
zen must rise above the partisan?
PARTIsANsHIP BROKEN FOREVER.
Look around you, AMI YOU see bands Of
partisau>hip loosening on every side. In
spite of the yels and imprccations of the
whippers-in, there are everywhere the
sIgEs of breaking up, a. the Ice on yoar
rivers breakup in spring time. 1t Is SO,
not only in the Republican camp, bat,
whatever their organs may say, IN the
/ Democratic camp .iast a mach. And why
/ is this so Because neither of the two
parties, as at present constituted and ii
+ rcctel, satisfies the requirements of the
/ times. We are living in period of trans
/ ition. Great cgcuts lie behind Us whcl
/ have wrought great changes. Neither OF
! the oil or ;snizaCIons has risen up TO the
! height of the problems these changes have
/ brought with them. Both, it seems, are
/ incImberel too much with the baggage OF
/ the past \ transformation must come
. slower, perhaps, than some, but certainly
! quicker than others anticipate. If Won
anu | would use our best efforts to proven
it, it still would come. The popular IN
stinct feels it, and the old accustomc,
party whip will rule no longer.
Aud under such circumstances You
would still forget and sacrifice things o
importance 50 oyeT>.Iadowing that the CO
hreion of the party he saved, seeing that
if saved, it would now only be Il deusiy
shadow. You tell us that you depior
these discussions among Republicans whicI
we now behold. So 10 we. 1t Is no
pleasant to differ with old friends Ba
how were those Discussions developed t
Their present state? Yon. honest Rcput
leans, who on all material points think a
we do. You bear large share Of the re,
possibility.
= If You had not only thought as we di,
but bolil AMI openly spoken out Is we III,
I. \
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: nur,el into controlling power the influence
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