The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-10-02
r ,,,sr,1isn in Massachusetts.


Very curious things happened at the kc'
,,ph,icau Convention in Massachusetts. MI.
q F. HoAR moved that the president oil the
Copven,,on-who was Vice-President WILL
sos-sbouid have the appointment OF hall OF
the State Executive Committee. In's was
opposct. very earnestly, but prevailed !"
connection with this motion Mr.. hoAh
moved, tta, an essay written by the ice
President should be resd to the mee'''s.
This essay was upon ga new oei'at'o'e.
g Becsy,se its advice was s''snfeo' sa'o
Mr. Uo,R, "tbc party STANDS "nsre
a. aoes to-day ise further sa'u':
uThe marty Is in crisis, and mist have a oe'"
do,,r,,,ren That paper vas not read. TIE
urtra Radicals bad no desire 70 near u, "Ru
thev shut i, cff. It WITS 10 WILSON'S Temot
Cancellation for u,sion and sectional bafmOsy,
o,d WA understood to show NO faith in
cp.sr. MIR. Wilson has been recently
showing his want Of confidence IN GIANT,
and in his address on being chosen president
Of the Convention he said: "TfEs; not.
.. gentlemen, to party discipline, FOR 1t has
failed yoe; trust not 10 eaichH patron
Gage. for it bus weighed you down in the
Is race" No. com plmcntary to the manner
in which the President has dispensed fsf
patronage in Massachusetts.
While HokR got for WHso& the appsFaEs-
ment of half the State Committee, he fa7'Wt
IN ce,tinp permission to read the 4" neT tie
parture=;; aud further, the ticket Shows
that the moderate men-WEzsoN, He1s ,'snd
their colleagues beaten. The Aau*n-
istration organ ut Washington shows iss de-
light at Iris by trumphiuS ever WasscF in
the following delightfully."- malicious manner
aBerry Wilson's downfall in Messachu.
setts is sad indeed. driven by sheer Jsal.
ousy. aroused by'President Grants supposed
chances for q third term, 10 oppose toe south
ern p5:icy of the Administration, ne was
guilty .of the blacklist ingratnuHc 10 the
Southern Republicans who nominated him
at PirhIeIpbia, andsfnslly was Ice Olindly
nv Sara. lBow,es, Whitelaw Reid, end other
political miscreapts, into open warfare
with all of the true amt stauncn
men OF his party. These same schemers
succeeded in putting him IN the GUAR
as president Of the Republican State
Convention, and Induced him TO talk fol
Charles Francis Adams. 1t wasn't d,fhcul
to induce him to talk, but ib'Was 10 lnouc(
him 10 talk for any one bat himself. The
result was that be acted as spokesman for an
inefEcient minority of recrennt Republicans
in his own State, and now ssends in The attl
tude of defeated and dissraccd leader
There is an obvious moral iG all this which
NAV be briefly Summed upby way of advice
TO other men placed in similar position 10
avoid inerattude, Inconsistency, and the
friendship of political or partisan traitors
The sarcasm touching the difficulty Of get.
ting WILSON to talk about anybody but him
self is not bad. But the "Eew departure /"
plainly aggrayatts the organ.
On the other band, the New York Tribune
complains of the friends of the "hew de-
parture" for lacking "puck" and frank
ness" That paper tbHs talks about MaSsa.
chusetts, at the same time giving sharp re.
proof to the Liberals:
"Ata time when, as is app1rent to the most
casual observer. old things have passed away,
old issues have been swept out into the lm0o,
and parties in other States, leaving oil the
uODSeUSe vi UOiuttuS W toSc WIN pa >
have shaken themselves and risen up to look
the present and the future in the face. Massa
chusettS calmly rolls on in her rut. While
other States are building new, she goes
back with scarcely single tluttcr OF doubt
to her last years BIRDS nest. The leaders
are timd and lagging. Such men Us VIII
son, Dawes, aud .Hosr ale carried, when
they should lead. They: whisper, when they
should speak out. GA the field where d
great battle is sess they 60 tip-toeiDg about
like nurses in a,slaE room. The long years
of the Ben. Bntl,r~n gbsmare seem 10 nave
left them llmp and neIyeless. And the reso-
lu.ions, too, are wordy, ard very little 10
the purpose. They smumble, AID humble,
and humble, and'iu all of them there is not
a word that has the weight Of tack hammer
or the force Of q pellet from popeun. And
so the massachusetts, Republicans have done
again wha! they have been so much IN the
habit of doing since Mr.: Butler began TO
scare them-Dominated their respectable
little ticket, adopted their pretty little le>o'
buttons, drawn a long breath, and gone
home thanking GOD thut They have been d..
liyered-this time iroE!.Dr. Loling."
The action in the Convention pl,iniy
showed division in Massachusetts that will
end,in defeat Of the Republicans and \ vic.
toEy for the Democrats.