The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-09-15
WELL D0NE-.-BUT NOT ENOUGH.

We all looked to the Massachusetts state
republican convention to strike the key
note for reformed and purified politics.
To them all eyes were anxiously turned in
waiting expentency, that their course and
declarations would afford the grand start
Ing point from which the party might
DO purified, strengthened and saved. The re-
publican party, we knew, was capable of
immense good, or of Unreasonable evil 1t
was and is composed of some of the best
and purest names in modern American
civil, political and military history. Its
achievements were more than historic :;
their record was grand, noble, inspiring (:
around it clustered the greatest deeds which
man had ever accomplished for man ii
had freed and enfran chised millions of
human beings, heretofore, held as slaves it
had made the truth that the freedman was
"a man and brother " a living and breath
ing reality; more than this-by its meas
ures aud policy, aided by all good men, it
had saved the nation 4" with this noble.
grand, inspiring record, it had a compact
perfect organization. With proper and
emphatic declaration of principles, as well
as by proper nominations, it was capable
and prepared for an indefinite future. and
1t was left for the republicans of Massa-
chusetts to sound the bugle for a charge of
the armies of reform and of an honest and
economical administration, against the CO.
horts of dishonesty, corruption and mis-
government. To them, and to them alone,
was given the golden opportunity, and how
have they answered our anxious expecta-
tons, our almost despairing cry to save the
republican party from itself.
Let us stop moment and let Governor
Bullock. republican of the straightest
sort, man whose private character is
above reproach, a statesman against whom
the first breath of calumny or suspicion
was never breathed, and politician who
has honored and ennobled every public
station he has consented to occupy. state
the present position of the republican
party. ''Our party, then, said he, (Which
is strong in its recent majorities, strong in
the memories of the heroic time so lately
passed, strong in many Senator and Rep
resentative who bears about him no odor of
suspicion, and strong in its President who
stands the hard test remarkably well, has
the weakness which comes from its pro-
longed years, from many of its former is
sues now receding, from wees first nursed
unwittingly, and then tolerated unwilling
ly, from the possibilities of diversions in a
general curiosity for new agitations and
departures, from the suspicious cherished
by stern and just people that where there
is 80 much smoke of investigation there
must be some fire of truth. And now il
the hour, nor one hour too soon, to arrest
the tendencies and correct the abuses
wherever they may be found Let us not
he found in the same order of time with
the great cardinal, who, after the discovery
of his receptions upon his sovereign and
his misuse of the public moneys, and after
his own downfall, bitterly exclaimed that
corruption wins not more than honesty"
How, We again ask, have they met the de-
mand Of every true republican, of every
honest citizen and of their own presiding
officer and cherished leader !? So far as
they have gone, they have done well |