The Republican journal., 1884-07-03
The so-called Massachusetts Republicans


ARE DISSECTED BY A COLORADO EDITOR.
The so-called Massachusetts Republicans who
will not support Mr. Blaine. and who dcnounce
the Republican platform because it SAYS that
this is Il Nation, and not mere confederation
of States. say that they will gladly vote for
Bayard if he shall be nominated by the Demo-
Gratis. Shades of sumner, Phillips and Wheel
er! And is this in Massachusetts, the very
hot-bed of Nationalism and Republicani>m?
Aye, it is in Massachusetts. but it is not said by
Republicans. This denunciaton and this dee
laration are made by men who have no right in
the Republican ranks. They have been mas
queradng, and if they have not taken them
selves out Of the lines forever they should be
kicked out. BY the expression of their will
ingness to vote for Bayard, they logically, if
silently, declare that the war was failure; ior
this Is what the man whom they would sup
port said when loyal men We're lighting to kill
the curse of slavery and to preserve the
Union:
Il believe solemnly that the war inaugurated
by Abraham Lincoln and his Cabinet is worse
than fruitIess-that it will prove more disas-
trous to the North than to the South, and
never will accomplish its professPd objects.
Already it has driven out of our Nation four
States, while others stand in doubt. When
l take up the public papers and see the mar
kets of the world disordered and depressed
by the mere apprehension of this war, when
| turn to our own business circles and see
men of wealth reduced to poverty, our mer-
ing men threatened with absolute starvation,
| would fain hide my face in grief. But
confronting this wide scene of human distress.
| sadly seek to find relief from it.. If war, or
the mere prospect of it, has in three short
months worked all this distress, what an in
crease of trouble are we to anticipate should it
proceed in all its detail of oppressive taxation,
destruction decentralization and sorrow. HUI
man governments We're ordained for the happi-
ness and protection of society. If peace will re-
store and secure these blessings to the people
of the United States, even though a number of
their former associates have gone of under
new and independent organization, the name
of heaven let us raise our voice for it. Shall
this earnest cry for peace be stitled at the bid
ding of a host of fanaical and cowardly edi-
tors, aided by an army of greedy contractors
and public leecheS, stimulating an ignorant
mob to depounce and attack us AS traitors and
secessionists! We know it shall not, and this
day we do proclaim our duty to our country
and our intention to perform it,
If there is man in Massachusetts who could
vote to make Bayard the President of the Unit
ed States, then we say that that man has no
right to call himself Republican. The simple
announcement which a few so-caled Republ-
cans have made oftheir desire to vote for Bayard
should raise such a storm in the Old Bay State
as would arouse every true Republican to Il full
sense of the meaning of this bolt from Blaine;
make them realize that these men are more
than bolterS-traitors to the cause which Mas
sachusetts held and still holds dear. Denver,
Col. Republican.