The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-08-18
ssIHIS WORKS.

1.-THE punished criminal may again be-
''come a valued and respectable member
"of society, but people like to see, by his
works, that he is reformed before they
"trust their jewels in his keeping" So
says the Rutland HluM in response to our
editorial, to the effect, that those liberal
republicans who supported Mr. Greeley, in
preference to General Grant, did not in.
tend, with here and there an exception, to
form new party, or to leave the republi-
can party, and did not, thereby, cease to
he republicans. Who do 'people" sup
pose is the editor of the H1WN? If they
will turn back to the files of that sheet,
and examine the proceedings of the first
"liberal republican mass meeting, held in
Rutland, to ritify Greelcy's nomination,
they will find that the editor aforesaid
made speech strongly in favor of Mr.
Greeley, and bitterly in opposition to Gen
eral Grant and the administration. We
suppose "his works" which the ''people
like to STE" in order to convince them THAT
he is reformed consists in endeavoring to
show how wicked Charles Sumner and
others, were, in refusing to support Gen
eral Grant for reelection. ''His work"
also. consists, we take it, in attempting to
ostracise every man who does have an
opinion of his own, scratches his ticket or
bolts nomination which, in the exercise of
his own judgment, he thought better not
have been made. ''His work" consists in
endeavoring to make the people of Rut-
land believe that David +. Nicholson, Geo.
w. Chaplin, and a host of other good men
and true, are thoroughly dishonest as poll
ticnns, not to be trusted by the ''people"
and aie not republicans in fact. Contn-
uing in Ibis work, of this kind, thorough
~ and Systematically, we are bound to
presume that the WtraM is the .'iewel"
which is trusted lin his keeping" after the
people ''see, by his works, that lie is re-
formed Truly THAT editor is doing n
noble service for punished criminal"
but new brooms always sweep clean.
"Twould be pleasant reading indeed, if that
speech, for Greeley in particular and liber-
al republicanism in general could he pub
lished in parallel columns with some of
his works" AS editorials, showing how
wicked and idiotic these men were. and
generally inslnuating to them that their
room in the republican party is better than
their company, and that their votes are not
wanted.
AS for ourself, we have always been
republican, and have endeavored 10 be a
consistent one. We have supported the
administration, we advocated the renomi-
nation of President Grant and did our ut
most to secure his reelection, but, unlike
some others, We did not think, and do not
now believe, that everyone who disagreed
with us was necessarily dishonest But
says this punished criminal" as he calls
himself, 1--WE hope the party will receive
them with open arms, but they must not
expect to at once be trusted as implicitly
las though they had always been true to
"their allegiance If these are his hon
est sentiments, and we ardbound to believe
that they are, how can he expect that the |
republicans of Rutland, of Rutland county, |
or OF Vermont, can "trust implicitly" to
his words of wisdom (O and advice?