The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-15


ernor OF New York---tried alternate threats
and promises they offered rank, office
and station they threatened arrest, i'm
prisonment and conhscation, to win over
the leaders of the rcople-but they failed,
because the people were stronger than the
leaders, because, in fact, the people were
the leaders. The aim was the establishing
of good government, and the securing of
the blessings of liberty to themselves and
their posterity and they succeeded be-
cause the people were true to themselves,
acted for themselves and entrusted power
only to the most tried and true of their
number.
Our aim is the same this year We seek
the best good of the country, and we be-
lieve it can best be attained by the success
of the republican party, and by the election
of president thoroughly in accord with
the principles of that party as enunciated
in the call of the national convention and
for our state convention. The times are
very sensitive tho result Of the election
depends to large degree upon the per-
sonnet of the candidate, md the methods
by which his nomination is secured. The
more recent elections have demonstrated
the tact that there ia large body of
voters upon whom party allegiance rests
lightly to whom the cry of regular nom-
" inaliOns' has no charms; and with whom
the threat of party discipline has no ter.
rors. They will give or withhold iheiy
votes as a sense Of duty may dictate. This
class of voters may, probably will, deter.
mine the election they should aid in de
| terminng the nomination They arc re
publicans in sentiment and by conviction
and they should act with the party. The,
will SO act if the people are true to them
selves, take the mater into their owl
hands, and, themselves, select the dele.
gates who are to make the nomination.
| Party nominations will be made in any
event There seems to be no other mod
by which they csn be made. Politician
may decry and derlde these "independen
"voters" as they are called, but, after all
it is well tor the country and the republi
can party tina, they exist, aud oxist in larg
numbers. 7 hey make their influence felt
and compel the nomination of good men
and woe to that candidate or party VIII
heeds not the warning and attempts to bar
ter the offices of the people in exchang
| for partiean sprvipn
The mass of the republican party hav
the same ann ~ these 'ndepender
"voters," and while they seek its attainmer
by different modes, they, as it seems to u
each neglect to seize hold of the MOI
obvious means for securing it, They nee
lect to attend the primaries. Instead {
controlling these meetings and maxim
them assembIages of the people, they al
sent themselves therefrom, leave them
be "run' by professional politician
and self-seekers, and then confer
themselves with grumbling at tt
result and 'bolting" the nomination
made by the very delegates selected b
their own supineness and neglect. Unit
the people take the matter in their ow
hands, they must expect improper nomin,
lions, and neither grumbing nor boltin
will cure the evil.
A word as to the delegates both to II
state and national conventions. That the
should be representative Inen---represent
tives of the. intelligence, virtue, opinion
and policy of the people-all will agree
but it seems to us that this year OF q
years, federal ofliceholders should not
elevated to these positions. We are NJ
among those who believe that an Off
: holder is any the less republican, any t:
less worthy of confidence and support, al
the less representative man, because he
an office holder. Far from it. On Il
: other hand, we believe that, with some e
7 ceptions, they are good men and true, nj,
| who honor themselves and the country
! but it would be worse than useless to d
- guise the fact that there is a wide-spre
G distrlst of the influence of federal Off
: holders in politics. State convention aft
7 state convention of republicans have pr
e tested against this influence, and have q
i mandcd the removal of Office holders WI
G seek to influence political conventions.
i widespread is this dstrust, that the me
a well grounded suspicion of such influenc
e or the active presence of such men in mol
mating conventions is well nigh disastroi
We have no fear that such men will
I selected TO represent Vermont in the I
Il tional convention. Our traditional poll
L is against it, All OF our precedents s
II against it. with one exception-and Il
y exception was made by, as it were, a fore
: concession to large and respectable {
e ment OF the convention, and then only by
y single vote. We have men enough, rep
= sentative men, in the party to represent
q at Cincinnati and it is duty we owe
e the country TO see to it that we are rep
D scented by such men, and that we give
re occasion for saying that federal intluel
e has dictated the action of Vermont,
r through Vermont has attempted to dict,
e the action of the convention.
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