Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-10-15
LOCAL NEWS
DenOcratic Caucus.


The Democrats OF this city had meeting at
Warren Hall on Saturday evening last, for the
choice of delegates to represent them in their
County and District Conventions, to be holden
in this city tomorrow Colonel James Esta-
brooks was chosen Chairman, AMI Levi Baker,
Secretary. committee, consisting of George
W. Bentley, John B Pratt, George W. Gill,
Frederick Warren, and E. S. Matthewson, was
appointed, to retire and report list of twenty
two delegates. While the committee were out,
Hon, Isaac Davis. being present, was called upon
FOR speech.
Colonel Davis, in response, said the present
campaign had furnished the singular spectacle of
gentlemen of certain other parties being elected
and serving alternately delegates to conventions
of different political parties. He objected 10 the
idea of trying to organize a party upon a single
plank. The old Democratic platform which our
fathers stood upon had stood the test OF time and
needed no change, because it was founded upon
the eternal principles Of justice and truth He de-
nounced the last Legislature of Massachusetts, as
the most disgraceful one on record, and the most
extrayagant, /" to say nothing about Mrs. Patter-
SON. Commencing their business with a prom
Use of retrenchment in expenditures and short
session, its members had raised their own per
diem, and sat till after planting, a longer period
than any previous Legislature but one They had
enacted four different laws on divorce-four diff,
ferent modes of enabling men to get rid of tn ell
wives. He alluded to the repeal Of the law
against extra ju icial oaths, as a wise movement
on their part to escape self conviction. He was
dawn +bo
trayagance, and IFS exclusion of all but members
of their own purity from the jury box.
Colonel Davis said ne should be happy to take
up some evening IN reviewing the proceedings of
that Legislature, which he censured as pressing
most severely on the rights of the masses, par.
ticularly the liquor law, which had enabled one.
man i'll Boston, the general agent for the
State, to make two hundred thousand dollars by
the chance for monopoly and shaving thereby af-
forded. Why did they not appoint an Assayer,
TO protect the people against abuses of the law?
The nomini ting committee then made their re
port which was accepted, constituting the follow.
ing gentlemen delegates to both Conventions:
lisa &c Davis, John S. G. Knowlton, George W.
Bentley, George W Gill Calvin e. Pratt, Henry
w. Conkln, E. S. Matthewson, John B. Pratt,
James S. Woodwork, Frederick Warren, Charles
S, Chids, Jona Munyan. Theo H. Bartlett,
Henry Keith Emory Banister, John Augustin,
O. c. Dexter, Philip Lothrop, Charles Belcher,
Jason Temple, Thomas Magennis, Thomas Law.
Ter.
Calvin E. Pratt, Esq, was now called out He
said the repeal of all the acts of the last Legsla-
turo, which he compared in their infamy to the
recon Is of Sodom and Gomorrah should be made
thc issue in the coming election, instead Of Kan.
zas affairs. Political REFORM like charity should
begin at home The last Legislature had pro.
posed to disfranchisc a large class Of our people,
Our efforts should be to sweep away all their do.
ings, with one breath of indignation, instead of
going off to Kanzas, Nebraska, OR elsewhere, for
issues Our City Government was equally culpa-
BILE, in its revision of the jury box, and allowing
only one sentiment to be represented in it. We
should not allow one raving fanatic to select
jury for the tiial of criminals. There was no
safety t. the masses, without the right of trial by
an impartial jury.
Passing to areiutation OF the spurious doctrines
of N4tiyism, MIR. Pratt said all classes of men
have equal rights, independent of knowledge
birth, money, or other accidents We presume,
of course, he meant to include coJor also The
recent election riots in ONE Of our large cities had
resulted from a violation of this principle At
the close of his remarks the meeting adjourned.