The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-23

CURRENT VERMONT POLITICS.
After Cincinnati Montnelier.


The national republican convention just
held at Cincinnati has taken heed to the
voice of warning, raised by the people
throughout the land, and has given us can
didates upon whom no faint of corruption
rests and who are not conspicuously the
product of machine politics II is true
that the convention has not lifted the party
up to that high plane Of political seton
which the nomination Of Bristow would
have indicated, but it has certainly taken q
step in that direction. l. has gone as far that
way as any one had anv right 10 expect it
would go. The party is not reform
party by any means; no party is as yet; nor
would a reform party be sustained by any
very large proportion Of the voters. But
al that mas been eaRPRau I2iStttP StardiRg
subject of civil service reform, to consent
to take the appointing power away from
congress which has usurped it, and give it
to the executive where the constitution
places it,and make appointees Independent
of politics. But until this radical reform
is effected, until we have thus returned to
the beliefs and practices of the founders OF
the government in this respect, we cannot
be said to have made thorough work in
the reformation of abuses. Still
The party has set its face in the right
direction. 1t has called u halt on the lead
ers who have so mismanaged the affairs of
the country as to have thrown the power
in the lower house of the national legisla-
ture into the hands of its opponents. Their
incompetence is 60 manifest that the coun-
try turns again to the old republican party,
but demands new leaders. This the con-
vention gives them in Hayes and Wheeler,
and thus answer The demand. The
country is so evenly divided politically,
he democrats having lost all they gained
in 1874 by their proved incapaclty, that the
party which comes the nearest towards
clean politics will win the day in Novem-
her. The partial break down of machine
politics in the nomination Of Hayes and
Wheeler is indicative OF a better state OF
things generally. Even if there should be
a similar failure of the democratic machine
ar st. Louis, and some attempt at reform
be made, of which there is little prospect,
the prestige of success is with the republi-
cans for the lack of ability in the past
of the democrats is too conspicuous for the
people to trust them. They will brook
knavery in their officials rather than folly !;
they will tolerate want of integrity coupled
with consummate ability, rather than hon
est ignorance and well meaning dullness.
1t is the Ignorance and dulness of the dem
| acratic party that has killed it, though it is
| neither honest nor well meaning.
This brings us TO the point of consider
ing whether the coming convention at
Montpelier will act as wisely as the one at
Cincinnati, and, we want no incompetent
man in the executive chair at Montpelier,
no matter how honest and well meaning he
may be, nor no matter how well he may
have performed his part in some other
sphere. If the Weldon of the convention
is not apparent in this particular, the peo-
pie will rebuke them at the polls, just as
they would have rebuked Cincinnati had
their demands not been acceded to. The
demand is just as clearly made all over the
state on Montpelier as it was all over the
country on Cincinnati. Let the convention
heed 1t let it show to certain men who
have been traversing the state day and
night for months past, for the purpose of
fixing things" that, in the words of Gui-
got, sit is a gross delusion to believe in the
sovereign power of political machinery"
g. NJ. b.
Bennington, VT, June 90, 1875.