Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-04-28
MASSACHUSETTS,.

Boston, April 26 -Nieht-In the
republican State convention to-day
John S. Sandford was made perma-
ant chairman. In his speech he said:
mo one who has watched the current
Of recent political events has fuiIed to
see wide ipread and: growing dis
satisfaction with the management of
the national affairs, and as u conse-
| querce there have been large aud
81 significant reflections from our ranks.
| We have seen the republican party
routed iuas it's stronghold and the
national House of Representatives &C.
cupied by our opponents. 1t .is idle
to disguise the fact that there have
been periods within the last few years
when a national election would have
brought imminent hazard Of q demo-
cratic re6tOr lion. Have You any
longer doubt Is to the CAUSES which
have wrought this Change III our for
time? Sur " we hl' 2 not nhjured
our erred. Our distinctive policy and
aims w"te never more c'earlv affirmed;
oar traditions and the names OF our
great l'aders never more rcvere1tly
held. NJ the protest Is not against the
record or creed but again the methods
of az mil liza Ion az Iiust tue dnmin mt
influences aud taudeuc es that have
dEbased the character and tone of the
public service, against IA leadership
that has welded power and patronage
for its own ends AMI Tot for the pubic
good, against partiz inship narrow,
intense and violent, that has usurped
the place of broad and enlightened
st 'tesmanship and repealed accesslons
OF recogn zed character and ability as
an element too repuguant to DE to!er-
ated, against 4 tide of financial moral
ity that has corrupted the standards
Of official honesty and turned places
Of public trust into opportunities of
private gain or public p!under. The
republican party will be recreant to
it's commanding duty, nay, invite
the penalty of deserved defeat,
if 1t does not place Itself with
unhesitating courage in front OF the
movement for reform and carry it for
ward with uncomprOmising zeal. The
duty and remedy is not to scuttlh the
good old ship but to pump ont the
bilge water, discharge the recreant and
summon to the command true and
worthy men. There is nothing in the
temper of the country, however, nor
in the recent elections to justify the
presumption on our part. We too
have much to be forgiven. The issue
of immediate and radical reform con-
fonts US. We can not evade it. We
can afford to make no mistakes"
The committee on resolutions re-
ported the following:
'RcS0IUed, That this committee
leave the delegates of Massachusetts
to the republican national convention
Ial, n1 4 OF cd in rpGnQck
to individual candidates for President
aud Vice President of the United
otates [applausel, but expects and re-
quires them, each and all, to work and
vote for those candidates and those
only whose character give unques-
tiona ,ie assurances 10 the whole
country that they will be faithful ard
Jealous to maintain the equal rights OF
III citizens under the constitution, to
bring about the resumption OF specie
r,ayment4 at date not later than that
,lready fixed by law and to effect
thorough aud ral.c reform OF the
civil service to the end that the adm n
Illustration of public affairs may be
characterized by efficiency, economy
aud purity" Carried unanimously.
Hon. L. r. Hoar, r. 81. Dana, }. IL.
Forbes and Paul A. Chadbonrn we're
elected delegates at large and the cons
genti IN adjourned.
Tie friends of Mr. Bristow consider
that they have secured a majority OF
the delegates, and it is stated that Mr.
Dana and President Chadbourn ar
out~p oxen IN his favor and that Forbes,
although previously mentioned on the
ticket, may be considered a
Bristow man. Mr.. Hoar is UNIV ,!liug to
pledge h'msrif, but is Understood to
favor Blaine for the first choice.