The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1831-10-12
Il Town records, 1854.
FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS, SPY.

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.
At Convention of the National Republicans oil
Worcester County, held at Worcester on Thurs.
day, Oct 6, 1881, to nominate list of Senators for
said County, Col. JOSEPH DAVIS was chosen Chair
man, and GEO A. TUFTs, Secretary
Voted, To raise committee of one from each
town IN the County, repre- at this meeting.
to nominate a list of candidates to represent said
County the ensuing year in the Senate of this Com
monwealth, and make report thereof to the Conven.
ton, and thereupon such committee was chosen.
The committee aforesaid then reported the fol-
lowing list of candidates for the Senate
JOHN w. LINCOLN,
DAVID WILDER,
VIM. S. HASTINGS,
RUFUS BULLOCK,
JAMES DRAPER.
Voted, TO adopt said list
Voted, To choose committee of three tn nre.
pare an Address to the people of this Co UNITY rec
ommendIng the above nomination.
The following Resolutions were then adopted
ResolUed, That the political course of His Ex-
cellency, LEVI LINCOLN. as Chief Magistrate of
this Commonwealth, has been uniformly such as to
meet the decided appreciation. and to deserve the
entire confidence of this meeting; therefore
Resolued, That we will use all honorable and
proper means to secure his reelection as Govern
or of this Commonwealth.
Resolred, That we have full confidence in the
honorable character, intelligence, and political
THROP, and that we will support him as candidate
for ee ction to the office Of Lieut. Governor of
this Commonwealth.
Resolued, That we will support the above re-
ported list of candidates to represent this County
the ensuing year in the Senate of this Common
wealth.
Reso'red. That the proceedings OF this meeting
be signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and Of
tered for publication in the newspapers OF this
County JOSEPH DAVIS, Chairman.
GEORGE A. TUFTS, Secretary.
ADDRESS.
Fellotc Citizens-ln announcing to you the above
list of candidates for State Officers at the approach
ing election, we beg leave to address to YOU some
considerations. which, at this time peculiarly de
mand that you should extend to them your firm and
united support. 1t is unnecessary here to comment
upon the qualifications of the present Chief Magis-
trate of this Commonwealth I; his official conduct
has long been subject to the scrutiny of the people,
and has never been found other than that which be-
comes an intelligent, independent and patriotic
statesman. Equally unnecessary is it to bestow
commentator upon the other gentlemen recon-
mended for your suffrages. We know that they are
all intelligent, honest and honorable men, and DOS
sessed of those political principles acceptable to
the great majority of the people of this County.
The great mass of the population of this Com
monwealth deem the principles of the National Re-
publican party, to be essential to the permane nj
would be inexcusable here to enumerate those
principles. They have been so often promulgated
that the least informed arc not ignorant of them,
and their effect is every where so apparent in the
unprecedented prosperity of the country, that the
most skeptcal acknowledge the success of their op-
Grafton The great object of the National Repub
licans is to secure the permanency of principles
which have produced such happy results When
attacked, therefore, whether openly or secretly it
is their duty to rally around them, in unbroken
strength, and to defend them with determination
and vigor equal to their importance.
That party in this Commonwealth, which by an
unfortunate misnomer is self-styled Republican,
but which is in reality other than the Jackson
party, governed by Jackson principles and jackson
men, has from its first feeble BIRTH to its present
impotent manhood arrayed itself in opposition TO
those principles and labored with unremittinp as.
siduty for their overthrow. Notwithstanding the
professions Of some individuals to the contrary
Notwithstanding the vacllotng opinions of the
Chief Magistrate Of the nation, so varously ex.
pressed at various times, and with such admirable
uncertainty at others, tho general course Of the
policy of the Jackson party, and the avowed prin.
cpleO of its most efficient supporters leave no room
for doubt Of their hostility to the great American
System. In this Commonwealth, however, that
party knowing the unpopularity of their political
creed, have endeayored to disguise it, and to in.
duce abelef that their leading motive is a reform