Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1854-10-23
WASHINGTON NEWS avn GossIp

WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
|. Crushing Out THE following article
from the Springfield Republican, . prominent
Wing newspaper in Massachusetts,, looks very
much like crushing OUT of the ''Fl 90 Soil
ers,' notwithstanding the false pretext Of their
assumed success in Pennsylvania, ohio, and
Indiana:
FUNERAL OF THE FREE SOIL PARTY.-The
ls'e free Soil party of Massachusetts, wen,
| through the farce of funeral at Hampder
Hall, In this city, ON Taesasy.-Is was yery
private affair. Amasa Walker, James Nj
Stone, ". Bird, d. W. Alvord and ohm Nd
Earle attended as chief mourners The resi-
o. the family and friends were busy looking
after the Know Nothings. John ?. Hale of.
hciated as chaplain, but the procsedi ngs we're
not very solemn. 80
| 1.-The meeting was called as State Conven
| ton, but there were not more than fifty dele
gates present, all told All the rest In attend
ance were Springfield people q Senator Sum
ner was not here. Most of the actors were
| the same that bore leading part in the es
adjustment of the new Republican party
and this gathering was to make q formal
party" ono. % -, IS ,.m - -
In the above article, it is suggested that the
Free Sellers having got Crushed OUT as q
distinct party, their members are looking afte,
the hnew Nothings, What success they had
IN their attempted speculation in Know Moth
ngism, In Massachusetts,, appears from the re.
port which We ge,from the New York Tyibuu.
OF Thursday of the result Of the proceed ngs o,
the late know Nothing Convention at Worces.
tor. In that Convention, Mr.. Wilson, hereto
fore the leader 81 the Free Sellers IN Massa
chusetts IN both talent end character. made
Ills appearance as a candidate for the Office OF
Gcvarnor at the hands of the Know Nothinss.
Dir. Wilson received sixty votes. The BODY of
the Convention was divided between two emf
nent webster Union Whigs''-Mr. M P.
Wilder and Il. j. Gardiner. Mr. Wilder was
ruled out, because he mad only joined the
Order within a month, and MIR. Gardiner, re-
celVlng SIX hundred and twenty three votes,
was declared the candidate of the Convention
for the Office of Governor. ..-.,..
What the Know Nothipgs Of Massaohuset is
think of the Free Sellers, is spoken out pretty
freely by the Know Nothing newspaper organ
in Boston 1t says: .r. .... .....
That class of needy adventures, which b as
for some years past attempted to scramble into
once and ~ impose upon the people by the
jafSe 2,rstFnce OF Free SOtt, and the TETON OF
-anta-.of0cery, has, by cunning napeuyripg
and adroit management succeeded in hood
winking and hamboozling the good honest
Native Americans of this State iu SUCH man
ner as 10 Tide themselves into power or posi
ZION, without any regard to the ultimate result
OF their seihsh trickery and management, upon
the welfare OF the cause they pretend to sd
vocate.'' f.'.
Again, says the Know Nothing organ:
" The people are in danger of being regu-
larry trapped by the log-roliing efforts Of
set OF poll icai loafers who, without any regn-
ar business, seem TO have nothing to do but
to pull wires, and eajole the crowd If these
reports with regard to the nominations be
true, Native American conventions have
proved to be nothing but Free Soil caucuses.
log rolled and managed by the dexterous cum
n'ng OF soIne OF the old Free Soil leaders The
1onest hearted American people have been
hood winked and deceived by the most plausi
Die caJoleTy and the most cunning articles.
until the whole American movement has de
generated into paltry endorsement of Free
SOsftSD1, and nothing else" go
Again it says:
"dood men and true have been kept out of
me American ranks to make room and pIace
Tor a set of political jackaIs, who have be-
trayed their trust, and betrayed those that
trusted to their good faith. We have cried
Out against demagogues and old party hacks
I'LL We have fallen into the hands of hacks o.
the worst kind. We have studiously kept from
our ooo:s educated and intelligent minds, by
senseless outcry against professional men
and politicians, until we have fallen into the
hands OF parcel Of polttseat stock iob6ers
ana c"r6-stone 6yokers, and have well nigh
lost our dignity and self-respect The amount
OF Wlre-pulling and log rolling that has been
carried on within few weeks past In ell parts
OF the State IS absolutely alarming, and it has
been done by those who have cried out the
loudest against it, and have covered ND their
own Vllla1ny by an incessant elamor agains,
others. The peculiar organization of tie
American party has afforded extraordinary
facilities for the exercise of undue Influences
The secret track OF the snake cannot be read
lily exposed, nor can the antidOte to his Dol op
be applied IN season to arrest its deadly eli.
fects.' -......, -.
these remarks OF the organ Of the Know
Nothings manifest the indignant revulsion CT
that party at Fl lding that the Free Sellers had
mounted upon them, and were trying to ride
into Congress on their necka; and the effect Of
that revulsion, is indie ated in the above de.
scribed action of the Know Nothing eonyeu
tion, In giving sixty votes only to the Free
Soiler Wilson, and six hundred to tbs Webster
Wing, Gardiner,
these movements in Massachusetts, seem t.
be IN perfect accordance with those Of the
hnow Nothlngs ~ NsW YORK who have nom
inateH- as their candidate for Governor. DAME
Uilman, heretofore chiefly known a. promi
nent Union Silver Gray Wing and what the
sentiments and purposes of the Kaow Moth
ings are in making this nomination, may be
seon by spicy column in the New York
Evening Mirror of Friday, defending the
Know Nothings, in reply to the New York
Tribune. Our clever friend Fuller begins
his article as follows
:" Under this head, Know Nothingism, the
Tribune, OF yesterday, made fierce onslaught
on the spirit and intent of the new political
element now sweeping away old part les, old
platforms, aud old demayoyic Mot ting time