The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-11
REFORM IN CONNECTICUT.
ADDRESS OF THE LIBERAL REPUBLICAN
STATE COMMITTEE.

ADDRESS OF THE LIBERAL REPUBLICAN
STATE COMMITTEE.
Mr.. Isaac Ii. Bromley, formerly editor
OF the Hartford Post, and now chairman
of the liberal republican state committee,
has published an address to the liberal re-
publicans of Connecticut, which he be-
gins with q statement Of the fact that they
helped TO elect General Grant and, though
grieved at his bad appointments, corrupt
surroundings, and shameful associations,
continued TO support him SO long as there
was any hope OF reform that having at
tested their devotion to party In all ways
only until the last Experiment for reform
had failed, and the "last hope for the sal
walton Of the party except at the sacrihce
of the interests Of morality, honesty and
purity, was gone" did they give their al.
hesion TO the liberal movement. lie hl-
ludes TO the liberal republican organiza-
,ion recently effected at Hartford, and con-
graduates them upon the certainty oil
Connecticut giving an overwhelming ma
iority for the liberal ticket. Continuing
he says;
As republicans we have arrsigned the
administration of President Grant for ais
loyalty to the record of the party for we
had the right to expect that the party oil
freedom should be u party Of reform
that the party Of philanthropic ideas
should be the party Of amnesty and rec.
onciliation; that the party, OF
moral ideas should not debauch
the people in perpetuating its own
rule that the party Of progress should
make haste TO govern the country and put
an end to discord and strife that the
party who saved the union and the consl-
tuition should cease to regard the one as
fiction and the other a "A farce. we nave
arraigned the administration in that II
has given US personal government in lieu
of wise and honest rule; that 1t has I'M
dertaken unwise experiments and innova-
tions, and by the prostitution OF ofhcisi
patronage and power attempted 10 DE,
bauch the party to its own low standard
of political morality; that it has fas-
tened disgraceful appointments upon
the people, and refused, upon clearest
proofs Of incompetency and dishonesty, to
correct the error or respond to the indlg-
nant demand of the people for change
that it has sustained fraud in places high
and low; that il has encouraged rascality
by exceptional and marked certih-
Gated commentator of known
rougues; that it has fostered
crime and nursed corruption by dismissing
faithful officers who pursued criminals and
obstructed fraud that hsrrassed place
and power for selfish ends in personal
quarrels, in exchange for gratuities,
for family aggrandizement, for
self-perpetuation, and for greed-that it
has divided the party and the states it
should have held together-that it has
given us prolonged war instead OF prom
ised peace, and for its own purposes TO-
mented dscords when 1t should have pro-
NOTED union--that IL has turned over one
section of the country to the tender mer-
ces OF the carpet-bagger, and the other
to the debauchery of mercenary rings OF
ad yenturers that it has walked amid sur
roundings and in an atmosphere OF cor
ruption-that it mas lent willing ear to
the counsels of the worst men in the party,
while its back has been turned upon
the wisest and best-that it has been false
to the professions Of the party, to its own
promises and to the record of the past