Bradford opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1874-1881, 1876-03-25
A PRECIOUS AoRsEL. The Dem,

A PRECIOUS AoRsEL. The Dem
ocratic leaders are happy! A ma
TONS disgrace Ia q precious morse
to them, over which they gloat and
rejoice. One would be led to think
that the Southern Confederacy had
come back to life, or that JEFF. Da'
Wis had received the war portfolio
so happy are the Bourbon leaders
over the shortcomings of Belknap
Judas betrayed his Saviour, but he
did not kill Christianity, and De
mocracy will soon temper its un'
seemly joy by the discovery that
the Belknap betrayal has not injur
ed the cause OF Republicanism
Men may fail, but just principles
will live forever.
In an article on the "Man for the
Times" the Boston Globe advocates
the nomination Of Secretary Bris
tow at the Republican Convention
1t says:
1t seems to us that we have one
public man to whom more than any
other the eyes of the people are turn
ed at this time as prominently ut.
ted to serve them and lead them.
That man is Benjamin IL. Bristow
now Secretary of the Treasury. lie
more than any other possesses the
qualifications of Il popular candidate
for the Presidency. The people
want reform in the administration oil
the Government. They want men
in Office who will not use the pow
ers and responsibilities entrusted to
them for their own purposes or for
tue advancement of their friends,
but for the promotion of the high.
est interests of the country and all
it's people. They want men of tri-
ed capacity and rigid uprightness,
who will not for a moment tolerate
incOmpetency, or extravaganza, or
fraud and corruption, however much
it might appear for their selfish per-
sonal interests to do so. Such a
man is Bristow, and he would gath
er about him men of the same stamp.
The people want a man who has
studied carefully the questions OF
currency and revenue reform and
has reached definite conclusions up.
on them, and would be able to de-
fine a wise and consistent policy but
would act with the utmost prudence
in carrying it out. Such a man is
Bristow, and he would bring to his
aid the best talent and the best char
acter of the country to strengthen
his hands and to labor zealously for
the nations well-being. The peo-
pie want man who would know no
North, no South, no East, no West,
as a section having rights or inter-
terests different from those of any
other section, but would compre-
bend the whole country in his sym
pathies and his thoughts, and &C.
cord to all it's people, so far as lay
in his power, equal consideration
and equal treatment. Such a man
is Bristow, and his advisors would
be men with the same liberal sonti
ments and the same broad views of
the relations of the Government to
the people, and the people of one
part of the country to those OF an
other.
Let the Republican party select
Mr.. Bristow as the representative
of its policy and its purposes in the
future, and it will win to itself the
elements of strength which are now
waiting for the signal Of the party
of true reform. 1t would lose few
of those who are to be scarcely
counted within the lines to-day, and
it would draw thousands of the wa
yering and the doubtful who stand
aloof or who have hitherto acted
with the Democratic party. 1t is
but two months before the National
Convention meets, and it is we'll
that in the meantime the wishes of
the people should be studied and
their demands made known. We
trust that the delegates will be Sc
lected with a view to representing
the people, and that they will be
brought to see that the true inter.
ests of the party are conferred in
Bristow and reform.