Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-15
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MONDAY, JANUARY Is, 1855.
Senatorial Nomination.

surprise and disappointment at the nominal
ton of General Wilson. 1t says, also, that it
is reported that "a majority of the Senators
are pledged to each other to oppose Gen. Will
sons election to the last and adds, eve
hope it may prove SOL All, brother Bowles,
that is delusive hope. Sam is an obstinate,
stiff.necked fellow, and will have his own
way. He has made up his mind to have
Gen. Wilson for Senator, and we may as well
submit to it with good grace as to make wry
faces about it. We will venture plum that
the Senators are under no such pledges as that
spoken of by the Republican, but, on the con-
trary, that decided majority of them are in
favor OF Gen. Wilson without any caucassing.
Indeed, the knowledge of this fact, as we I'M
derstand it, is the reason why the Senators
did not see fit to go into caucus on the sub
ject.
We have viewed the nomination and cleo.
ton of Gen. Wilson as sort of foregone con-
clusion--as one of those things, which, in the
nature of things, is sort of necessity-some-
thing that can't be helped. and therefore, al
made up our minds to take it as easily as pos
sible. The new party owed its rapid growth
and sudden success in this State, to the fact,
that it was, every where and always, repre-
sented to be party of progress, of reform,
and of freedom, and, under such representa-
tons, it brought together the reformatory and
progressive clemens of the two old parties,
and combined them with large portion of
the Free Democrats, with whom they had
long sympathized in feeling and had been
kept separate from, them only by the strin-
gency Of party organizations. To these, were
added, afterwards mass of political adven-
turers, such as always watch the tide, and
manage to ride on the crest of the wave
These however constituted but a small por-
ton of the party, the essence of the fogyism
and hunkerism of the State being left in the
remains of the two old political parties. To
the mass of the new organization, the nomi-
nation Of Gov. Gardner, looking to his ante
cedents, was sufficiently distasteful, and would
have made an open and fatal rupture, but for
the assurance, given by his friends and con-
firmed by his letter to Judge Allen, that
whatever he had been heretofore, in future he
would follow the,progressive and liberal spirit
of the age.
Under these circumstances, the mass of the
party was in no temper to have fogy forced
upon them for the important Office of United
tates Senator or to be satisfied with anything
short of their ablest man We are assured,
that, in the House caucus, if the contest had
been narrowed down to Gen. Wilson and any
one Of the opposing candidates, Gen. Wilson's
vote would have run up nearly to three han
dred. And why should it not be so i: Of the
opposing candidates, with the exception of
Julius Rockwell and Colonel Bulloch, there
is not one Of whom the proposition to make
him United States Senator, would not, two
years since, have been received with dersion.
Rockwell, though voted for by some in the
caucus, could not become the candidate
OF the party, because he does not belong TO it,
Col. Bullock, though of the party, is-we were
about to say an eiegenM hour man, but he is
even later than that; and his position on the
Slavery question has been too underlined and
variable to satisfythat great phalanx in the par
ty, who claim that their views are the views of
Massachusetts,, and, as such, demand that
they should be represented.
Under this view of the matter, we have no
faith in the charge of bargaining and corrup-
ton, brought by the Springfield Republican,
against Gen. Wilson. We disbelieve it, be-
cause we can see no occasion for it, and we
do not believe Gen. Wilson so foolish as to re-
sort to improper means to secure that, of which,
man Of far less sagacity than he, might see that
he was certain of without. We do not believe
it, because, with Gen. Wilson's almost entire
want of secretiyeness, if it wereso, every body
would know all about it, and there would be
no occasion for vague charges and indefinite
imputations
We have already said that Gen. Wilson
ould not have been our choice, yet we feel
no sympathy with the alarm and trepldation
with which the Republican and some other
papers received the nomination, and, on the
whole, are rejoiced that the force of circum-
stances did not permit the new party to make
a worse selection.