National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-09-29
THE ADAMS PARTY.

Mr.. George William Curtis has written q
letter to Massachusetts, urging the nomina.
ton of the venerable Charles Francis
Adams blythe Republicans of that State as
their candidate for Governor. The reasons
he gives for such a nomination lack the
virtue of novelty, to say the least. They
are the same which influenced the nomina-
ton of Greeley by the Democrats, in 1872,
and which, according to Mr.. Curtis, have
resulted in placing Mr.. Bgelow, whom Mr.
Curtis denominates as a Republican. at the
head OF the Democratic ticket in opposition
to F. W. Seward in the State of New York
He says:
Massachusetts, is the mother Republican
| State, aud we are all looking anxiously and
hopefully to her for guidance and inspiration.
At this moment, when the honest character
| and the patriotic purpose Of the party are re-
| covering the ascendency, when Republican
Ohio is waging so brave and noble q war with
| the mad demagogery of Democratic imitation
lists, when Republican New York has spoken
so clearly and strongly, there must be no dis
couragement from Massachusetts,. Don't set
us back. As Judge Hoar said in Maine, Send
the bummers to the rear Let your response
to us be such that the whole country may see
the party Of Lincoln and Andrew in tie Re-
publicsns of Massachusetts and New York"
Who but the traitors in the Republican
camp, yclept Liberals" have learned that
the ''honest character and patriotic pur-
poses" Of the Republican party have been
on the wsne3 Who but your AdamSes
Trumbulls, Seizures, Curtises and Bigelows
staE, who claim to monopolize the charac-
ter and responsibility and honor of the
party, have ever plead guilty to the Demo-
cratic charges of corruption and recreancy
to principles? Again Mr.. Curtis says:
tin New England and New York there is
substantially no difference in the platforms OF
the parties, and each must therefore give IN
mistakable proof that it is fully alive to the
hour"
How? By going outside of the active
organization of the party and nominating
candidate who is never pronounced as to
his principles except when he is a candI-
date? Because New York Democrats take
lukewarm or renegade Republican, who
is willing TO become the instrument for the
defeat of such an unflinching Republican
as Fred. W. Seward, then, forsooth, Ma,sa-
chusstts Republicans must take up man
whose politics have been unknown for sew
eral years back? But this is the way in
which Mr.. Curtis puts it:
'EYou, Massachusetts Republicans, must not
be satisfied with q regulation and routine
party candidate. The New York Democrats,
understanding the situation, have placed q Re.
publican at the head of their ticket BY accla-
nation. If you would awaken the Old Repub-
lican enthusiasm of Massachusetts, nominate
for Governor a man whose name means to the
whole country what 1t wants. You have such
a man, one of the founders of the Republican
party, one Of the most thoroughly trained and
experienced of public men, and a most de-
voted and efficient servant at the most difficult
post and in the darkest hour of the war, He
is not and cannot be q strict partisan. So
much the better, for he is and always must be
spotlessly honest and sincerely patriotic, and |
the Republicans of Massachusetts must show
that they seek not q partisan, but q patriotic |
success. The man in your convention who |
will lift II to the nomination of Charles Fran
els Adams will name the next Governor of |
Massachusetts, of whom every good citizen in
the country, as well as in the State, will be
proud, whose nomination would send back to
us in New York the joyful assurance of a
spirit in the party which will make 1t re-
neWed union of the conscience and intelli- |
natlon and national dishonor.' The action of |
your convention may seem to you to be q
purely local consideration, but 1t is of the |
very greatest significance and Importance to |
the whole country and to the result of next |
year."
What does fhissmean but bold propo-.
sition to ''sell OUT the. Republican organi-
zation in Massachusetts, to those marplots
who failed to nominate Adams at Cincin.
natl in 1872, and killed poor Greeley and |
Sumper insteadf
Charles Francis Adams has been will |
ing, standing third party candidate and Ad- |
ans man ever since he accepted the Free Soil |
nomination for the Vice Presidency in 1S4S.
He is Charles Francis Adams man every
day in the week, and every week in the