Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-08-22
To Republicans who support
Greeley.

ed, and no candid mind should be so far
thrown out of balance by the heat of
the campaign as to totally ignore exist
ing facts. 1t is now patent to everybody
that from the inception of the Liberal
Republican movement that all its hopes
of success, has been centered in the votes
and organized management of the Dem
ocratic party. Since the Baltimore con-
vention Mr.. Greeley has been the Demo-
cratic nominee, ands that powerful Or
ganization has been and is now at work
with their whole party machinery for
his election as the candidate Of their
party. To you, leading managers of that
party have held out the olive branch,
asked you to forget and forgive all their
past career where it has been offensive,
and upon their profession of faith to &C.
cept them into full communion at your
political feast. You are asked to re-
joice over the repentance of three milli-
Ons of sinners, who have been led from
darkness to light through the presump-
ton and incapacity of the government,
and they profess to be actuated only by
a desire to reform the government and
secure a better administration. Now it
is desirable that you should give this
profession just the consideration it de-
serves. You ought not to be too sl1ep-
teal, neither should you be too credu-
lous, but should use your reason and
common sense to apprehend your situa-
ton. History sheds no uncertain light
upon this scene, you can look back for
years upon the party that holds out its
hands to you in such confiding innocence
and find it continually engaged in politi-
cal frauds and disreputable maneFuers
to obtain and keep power. They have
been your hereditary enemies and as
such you know them to be malignant
and unreliable, and you are cautioned by
all your past experience against putting
yourselves in their power.
But disregarding the warning of eX-
perience and history, you have
another test of the sincerity of the old
enemy. There has that transpired in
your own State in the last two months
to open you eyes to the closest scrutiny
of fair pretenses. You were told by
your new allies that they came to you
through no selfish greed for power or
office, but for reform, and that you
should take the initiative and place in
nomination your best and most unexcep-
tionable Republicans and they would
forget party animosities to help elect
them. This was acted upon by your
State committee who, perhaps through
inexperience, were so unwise as to put
trust in their confessions of faith and
fair promises, and they called their
State convention to nominate State Off
GERS and electors. And there was not
one of you but what felt Inundated by
the shuffiings, bargainings andpostpone-
ments that the committee went through
before the new converts would allow
the meeting to 90 on. You could not
help seeing that the Democratic State
committee, were too shrewd for the of
fetal gentlemen who represented you,
and that what they intended was not to
help you elect able and unobjectionable
Republicans but was to secure for their
own party friends the best places on all
the tickets, and even they had the au-
dacity to put Mr.. Horribin forward for
Governor, and you did not Feven then
protest with the vigOr, that was expect
ed by unbiased observers. But at last
you held your conventional at Burlington,
and in every move you were out gener-
aled The Democrats true to their ira
! ditional instincts, managed both gather
ings to their liking, they insisted upon
and procured two places out Of three on
the State ticket, they insisted upon and
you conceded three members out of five
in the electoral college, and this too in
Vermont where your allies are in hope
less minority, profess to have no desire
for place or power, but are only anxious
to elect good Republicans, to reform the
government. No, gentlemen, if actions
speak louder than words, you have gone
over to the Democracy, with all its hid
eous wickedness and greed of place, in
stead of accepting them as humble peni
tents, who desire to come in to a party
of progress and reform.
But bring it nearer home. Rutland
county has held its nominating cOnven
TONS You have sat down here at {
marriage supper, and have held a con
ference with an organized detachment
of the same army that laid down its
arms in surrender at Baltimore, and as {
result John Cain, the man of all Others
who processes a desire for peace, and tt
vote for none but Republicans this year
is upon your senatorial ticket and, yor
are expected to vote the ticket without
scratching, und honest Republicans art
called upon to put John Cain in the Yer
mont Senate, on his giving the single
pledge that he will vote for Greeley tC
beat Grant. Was you not out generated
again
Now which will you put faith in, the
words of repentance made by the Dem
ocracy, or their actions in the canvass
Can't you see that these pretences arc
false and only made as party measure
to cheat you of your votes. They viii
vote for your nominee for President, anc
EVENT. they cannot control his administra
ton, they lose nothing, for they could not
elect a man of their Own and they gair
every subordinate place your votes Sc
cure for them. They can with your
help hope to revolutionize Congress, the
State governments, and on the prestige
of this success, come to the next cam.
paign full of that life and vigor which
even partial success gives to a democrat.
lied army, and where are you then,
! simple very insignificant members of the