Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-26

on Monday night it is said there was oul.
one drawback There could he no hal
found in the city large enough to hold th'
immense crowd of reformers. The BLAISI
organs may sheer at the movement and
speak fthe leaders as Dudes" but sneer
and epithets fail harmless when applied h
men Of such standing and reputation a.
those who constituted Monday evening
meeting.
Those present included Profs. Ladd anC
Fisher, Of Yale theological seminary; Profs
Edward s; Dana, James K. Thatcher, Hen
~ W. Farnam, Arthur I. Hadley, DAME
c. Eaton, w. G. Sumner, Tracey Peck
Leonard Waldo, +. B. Dexter, Alfred T.
Ripley, James ID. Dana, Oscar Hasger, A.
Van Name, William Beebe, w. l.. Kinsley
Arthur W. Wright. Henry P. Wright, Z L.
Richards, VIM. d Whitney, and F. B. Tar
bell. Of Yale university; Tutor Ambrose
Tghe, Prof. Simeon, E. Baldwin, Of the
Yale law school; DR.. Francis Bacon, OF the
Yale medical school; Prof John Weir, OF
the art school; Gen. w. II. Russell, John
b. Sargent Henry B. Sargent Dawyer Ear.
liss, p. Aryine DR.. William W. Rodmau,
Dr. w. II. Carmolt, the Rev. Thomas K.
Bacon, the Rev. Dr. Edwin HARDWOOD, Law
ySr John w. Alhng, Eli Whitney Jr., Chss.
I. Hamilton, Thomas Hooker, James f.
Colby the Rev Stewart Means, l.. II. Freed
man, S. G. PeaSe, Charles L. Ullman. A.
Hoffman, George d. Miller, William T.
Bristol, William Northrop and hundreds of
others equally well known as Republicans.
Simeon Baldwin was elected President
and on taking the chair, he said
| esteem it an honor 10 preside over u
meeting OF Repnbhcans who are not ashamed
to stand up and say that they believe in
principles and not IN names. And yet 1t is
with feeling of sadness for we have a
right to feel sad and indignant to see the
name Republican lent to a despicsble plat
form and diShOnored candidate. In my
earlier days the name Of Republican meant
something. The name then meant to pro-
mote human freedom and equal rights. OF
its earlier, higher purposes some have been
fulfilled, and Others we hoped would be.
But the leaders of the Republican party are
no longer Lincolns and Buckinghans. ]
blame no man for making the presidency
the ambition of his life, but let that man
keep his name and life above reproach.
Can the meanest party hack say that James
G. Blaine has q character above reproach:
You and |, gentlemen, have read those tell
tale letters in which he told how he had
prostituted the speakership in al
things to Subordinate public to
private ends. His influence has been
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see our old party talter and break when
great and new questions come up before 1t,
but it would be sadder still if there were
none to stand against this tendency We
belong to the Republican party, but not as
camp-followers. No partys life is worth
anything unless that party has some ide
The Republican party was organized
bring the moral idea into American politics.
1t has had glorious past 1t may have
glorious future, but it will only be when
writes on its banner "Retrenehmeut, puri:
and reform" | can call the Repubh a
platform nothing but platform of dem
gogues and fit only for demagogues tt
stand on. say it is right for us here, me-
as We are IN the light before the public eye
to utter our protest against that nomlna
ton. | regard it as an assault on the be;
ter aims Of the party. say it as one who
come what may, will cast no vote fol
James G. Blaine. UprOariOus applause. II
the Democrats put up Butler we are told to
choose the lesser evil and vote for Blaine
but | would be glad to form a new national
American party With North and South. ]
do not say this time has arrived. Be tina
as 1t may, let the future take care Of itself,
We do not do our duty tonight unless We
openly declare that no man shall receive
our vote who Is not clear and pure; vine
does value his character as more than his
life Let us not be frightened by the old
cry that the country is in danger if the OLD
Republican party is not in power In dan
ger from whom? am not afraid to leave
my country ia the hands of the American
people. If there be danger it comes from
those who are willing to surrender their
conSciences to their party. Individual re
sponSibihty has brought us here, and tina
makes il our duty to act for ourselves.
In presenting the resolutions, Mr. Tyler
said:
II offer these a a cryStalization of ou'
sentiments There are three things-hOu
esty, justice and hberality-which the Re
publican party has hitherto kept clearly il,
view We labor now under false currenc,
till We have come TO another commercial
panic But the Republican party, for tn
sake Of State, stands up and strsidles
question for the first time in its history
The Republican party has invariably look
ed to an ideal of purity in public office
The trouble is the men who enforce it arr
not good enough. The Republican part,
numinates two of the most vigorous OppOs
ers OF Civil Service Reform in the country
while it puts lying resolutions in its plat
form. TOthe American public are present.
ed the names of James g. Blaine, the ideal
politician, and of John A. Logan. who is
never found with his back to the public
crib. Shrewdness, sharpness, smartness
are Blaines attributes. He takes
every opportunity in his reach to
raise James G. Blaine. Can any
body point out policy of any true value
that James G. Blaine ever supported. We
refuse to support Gen. Logan because he is
death to pure administration Now, what
to DO Thank God, the Republican party
throughout the United States did not assem-
bic at Chicago The storm has been NUT
tering; there is lightning and it has struck
The storm is growing. / believe, sir, there
exists-quiet y in some place, everywhere
through the country-a deep solid cOuvic-
ton among Republican voters, that they are
asked to do what they they cannot do. |
am not so certain of the unanimity of Blaine
sentiment in the West, as the hOwlers at the
convention would make us believe. We
cannot say what we will do. We can only
say what we won't do. Whether the De
mOcracy are struck by kind Providence.
and do what they should do, every man OF
US must be responsible for his individual
vote, and | don't see how any man. under
any circumstances, can vote for Blaine and
Logan.
Gen. W. II. Russell
said Il am bolter, and | always have
been bOlter, and never had an atom of
shame in doing what have done. Why,
SIR, boiling is the very safety of the union.
This caucus system Of ours is despotism
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