The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-09-16
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Qheanf Il lllqeltfer.
THE FUTURE OF THE lREPUB-
LICAN PARTY.
The Dangers That Beset It..-The
Straight and Narrow Road to
Safety. y Z. IN

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The following address delivered by ex-
Governor BULLOCK, on taking the chair
Of therecent Republican State Conven-
ton Of Massachusetts,, isa calm, careful,
suggestive statement Of the situation as It
affects the Republican party, that merits
the perussl Of all thoughtful Republicans:
NV words shall be few. You have as
sembled, the chosen representatives OF the
Republicans OF the State, when discus
sions and events which may be observed
10 the country admonish wisdom and cir
cumspection here. 1t Is In the year sue
ceeding an election Of President that men
feel the strings Of party loosened from
their limbs, exercise more freely their
choice and Judgment, and organize with
in their own minds ideas as to persons and
policies and administrations. What shall
happen at the next quadrennial election
depends much upon what Is promulgated
and more upon what is done In the inter.
val by authorized and oflicial. public
agents. While this Is in q degree true
Immediately after eny Inauguration Of the
President, Il Is especially and Significant
" true at this time. The Republican par
" came out oflthe last canyass with very
large majorities, partly because OF the alb
sence Of . united and omogenious. OPP
posing party, IL part because, OF more
general belief Of their promises Of reform
than OF the same promises made by their
opponents, partly because Of the power OF
public patronage which has, been unduly
exercised by every administration since
that or john Quincy Adams, in
part because o. practical and CON-
mercial people NE slow ~ change
their government I'm q Period o.
material prosperity and Iabov6 all, ]
apprehend, BECAUSE Aot the confidenee
which the countryIh had In the plain, mod
est, robust character Of The President.
The expiration Of the present term Will
complete period D: sixteen years Of
what I may call continuous, administra7
lion, whicliIhasuot, once been exceeded,
and only once has been eaualled bya con!
,inui,y OF administration In all the politi.
cal contests since the days,of Washing
ion, II would almost be strange and not
according to human nature under the con.
di,ions OF American politics, alter such
lapse Of time and under system 81, gov
ernment which extends It's patronage, opf.
por,unilies and temptations o terri
Tory Of imperial limits, and among classes
that learn only too quickly the ways oil
official thrift, II scandelous irregularities
and immoralities had not sprung up In The
public service, at first denied, next con-
nIyed at, and afterwards condoned under
The pressure oil impending elections. 1tl
speak Of that which might occur, ! speak
as well OF that which In common belief
has occurred. And these things have
gone as far as tho good name OF any
party, or the;public sense can bear, The
Iears Of the early founders were spent In
The wrong direction; the peril TO the
purity Of the government lies not In high
ambitions, but In low dishonesties; II
comes not from men who think OF doing
great things for glory, but from men who
think Of doing mean things Tor prohtPi
Our party, then, which 10 strong In ~
re,icent majorlties, strong In the memo
rles Of the heroic time so lately passed
strong In many o Senator and Representa-
tive who bears about him no odor OF susi
pcion, and stropgi in It's President who
stands the hard test remarkably well, has
the weakness which comes from It's pro-
lOnged years, from many Of It's former 10
sues now receding, from vices first nursed
uawiltngly, and then tolerated unwill
ipgly from the possibilities Of diversions II
sSeaeral curiosity for new agitations ent
new departuresiffon the suspicious cher
ished BY q stern and Just people, tina
where there Is 90 much smoke o. invests
CATION there must be some fire oil! truth
And now 10 the hour, nor one hour To-
soon, to arrest the tendencies, and correc
the abuses wherever they may DO tount
Let US not be ionnd In the same order Q
time with the great Cardinal, who, atte
the discovery d his decep,ions upon hl
sovereign and bis misuse Of the publ
moneys, and after bis. own downfall, bit
terly exclaimed that corruption win
more than honesty"
And now, fellow cilizsus aud ,Republi
cans, arc there no signs Of the'tlmes iror
California, from now names and new oi
CARNATIONS In the West, IRON the report
which come 10 rs, from our own instinct
aud Institutions rs 10 what is going on
distant fields Of canvassing there n
signs visible to the Republicans Of III
State and oil all the States, that II W