Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-09-13
WISE WORDS OF COUNSEL.


A Plain and Frank speech by Governor
Bullock to lhe Masaaohusetts kepubh-
can Convention.
We make the following extract from
the opening speech of Governor Bullock,
before the Massachusetts State COnven-
ton on Wednesday. They are frank,
manly words which we hope may prove
useful and profitable reading to some we
know of who need them. After thanking
the convention for the honor Of being It's
chairman he said; You have assembled,
the chosen representatives of the Repuo-
licans Of the State, when discussions and
events which may be observed IN the
country admonish wisdom and circuin-
spection here. 1t is In the year succeed
ing an election OF President that men feel
the strings Of party loOsening from their
limbs, exercise more freely their
own choice and judgment, and organize
within their own minds ideas
ms to persons and policies and ad-
ministralions. What shall happen at the
next quadronuial election depends much
upon what is promulgated, and more upon
what is done in the interval by author
izrd and official public agents. While
this is In degree true Immediately after
any inauguration of the President, it Is
especially and Significantly true at this
time. The Republican party came out Of
the last canvass with very large majOri-
.ies--phrtly because of the absence Of Il
united and homogeneous opposing party,
in 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 exer-
csed by every administration sinca that
Of John Quincy Adams, In part because
practical and commercial people nrt
slow TO change their government In
period of material prosperity, and above
all, / apprehend, because Of the conf
dcnce which the country had IN the plain,
modest, robust character of the President.
The expiration Of the present term will
complete a period Of sixteen years of what
! may call II continuous administration,
which has not once been exceeded, and
ouly once has been equallgd by n cOntln-
ulty OF administration in all the
political contests since the days of
Washington. II would almost be strange
and not according TO human nature
under the conditions of American politics,
after such lapse OF time and under a sys-
tenn of government which extends its
patronage. opportunities and temptations
over territory of imperial limits, and
among classes that learn only too quickly
the ways OF official thrift, IL scandHluu~
Irregularities and immOmlities had not
sprung up IN the public service, at first
denied, next conuived at, and afterwards
coudOncd under tie pressure Of impcnd-
ing elections II speak Of that which
nigh occur, ] speak rs well Of that
which in common belief has occurred.
Aud these things have gone rs far rs the
good name Of any party or the public
sense can bear. The fears of the early
founders were spent in the wrong dircc-
tiCn the peril to the purify of the Gov
eminent lies not In high ambitions, but in
low dishonesties, 1t cOHies not from mcn
who" think of doing great things for
glory, hut from men who think of doing
mean things for profit" Our parry,
then, which is strong IN its recent mai uri-
ties, strong in the memories of the heroic
time 80 lately passed, strong in many
senator aud Representative who bears
about him no odur of suspicion, and
strong in lis President who stands the
hard test remarkably we'll, has the weak.
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