The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-09
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What crime has Massachusetts comm;t-
ted against the Union that she shorld
have a Collector Casey and Marshal Pack
ard set over her to see that certain wing
OF the administration party triumphs? AZ
ready our caueuses are crowded with Dem
ocrats to defeat the administration Of onr
will are we to have uatling guns on guard
at the door of the convention hall? How
does it happen, gentlemen Office holders
that of the servants of the people of the
United States, holding their places BY ynnr
grace, the only ones who think it unbecom-
ing for an officer of the National Govern
ment to Interfere in State politics are
those who do not favor the pretensions Of
your master? Farmers and mechanics Of
Massachusetts, here is a ring which is as
much more dangerous than any that can
be formed at the State House. as their
tenure of Office is more removed from your
discretion, ring the like Of which in base
ness Of metal and greed Of power has new
er afflicted Massachusetts policies. Not
content with the immense advantage Of the
Federal patronage, it aims to grasp also
the State patronage, so that Massachusetts
may be to Butler what Pennsylvania is to
Cameron, his captive bound hand and foot
his possession and footstool.
How does it happen that this ring has
been formed? President Grant is not guilt
less in the matter, but the weakness for
peace of the Massachusetts delegation in
Congress is chiefly responsible Rather than
quarrel with this brawling member thew
have yielded to his demands and permit
ted him to have his way with appointments
1t was the Indifference of Mr. Hooper and
Mr.. Twichell and the faithlessness of Gen.
Banks which enabled Butler to substitute
his man for the capable and honorable
General Andrews They were warned and
they suffered it. Because they were weak
when they ought to have been strong
the fight that they ought to have made
has to be made by the people against odds.
We are experiencing in this State what
other states have experienced where the at
tempt has been made to control State pol
itics in Washington. The people have en-
dured it long because of their patriotic de-
sire not to embarrass the settlement of is
sues having vital relation to the nation s
welfare, but they will not endure it forever.
The national authority, through its hun
dreds of thousands of officials, is a tremen-
dous power, but it is not omnipotent. The
Bay State from end to end is thoroughly
in sympathy with the fundamental princi
pies Of the Republican party it a opreci-
ates and is thoroughly in sympathy with
the great leading measures Of the admins
tration, and will not willingly break from
its personal allegiance, but it will not sub
NIT to the management of its local affairs
by national officials. Nothing is more per
ilous to the liberty of the citizen, nothing
more certain to undermine the structure OF
our institutions. The State will not hest
tate to cry hands off, to the administra-
ton that insists on interfering, no matter
what its laurels or its prestige. Of the
Republican party it will say, THE past is
secure ); but when the party begins living
for itself alone, making its chief care to
provide its Buckinghams with sinecures,
the people of this State will abandon it
with no excessive regret and seek new in
struments for the expression of their pur-
pose in public affairs The party is yet ca
pable of noble uses, hut those who should
be proud to lead it in honorable gavs an
pear blind to their duty and intent only on
the biazonry of their shields