Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-10-11
LOCAL NEWS
A Gardner Cuucus.

I
Hall was well filed. Gen. Day, City Marshal of
Worcester, called the meeting to order. and at
tempted brie speech, but was not so successful
as usual, and concluded by introducing Hon. Mr.
Maine, of Boston, one of the Senators from Suf
folk in the last Legislature MIR. Maine is very
| good looking gentleman, but nature never intend
| ed him for ali orator. He said he used to be
| little cotton bug, and as he has now grown to a
goodly size, he probably wished the audience to
believe that he is big cotton bug. At the
outset of his speech, Mr.. Maine launched forth
upon the dangers Of foreign emigration, and went
through with considerable palayer about Amer
lean principles and the Know Nothings being their
only supporters. He traced ther rise and progress
| OF that party in Massachusetts down to the pres
ent time and gave still different version of the
| plans of Governor Gardner and his friends in re-
gard to the fusion Convention, than any which
has yet appeared in print.
Mr.. Maine stated that he went into the fusion
convention in good faith, determined to abide by
its nominations, if fairly and honorably made,
| but he had never dreamed that that convention
had purpose to form new party, and what was
his establishment at the close of the proceedings,
to learn that new party had been formed, from
the lips of Stephen C. Phillips, who, he said got
| upon the platform and announced the fact.
We inferred from Mr.. Names remarks, that he
had never read the call for the convention, and
that he absent in the earlier part of the day,
when the resolutions were read, by one of which
the convention adopted the Republican name
! Mr.. Maine then went on to say that Mr.. Gard
ner was defeated by fraud, and that tickets were
! put into the ballot-box for Rockwell, with mems
names upon them who had left for home
He mentioned two instances of that kind, but
forbore to make any remarks as to the propriety
| of the votes thrown for Mr.. Gardner from nine
to'ons in the State, where in addition to the reg
ular delegations of those towns, an equal number
of delegates elected by K. N. Councils and all
| pledged to vote for Gardner. were permitted to
! put their votes into the ballot box.
Mr. Maine charged Col. Ivers Phillips, of
Fitchburg, with having voted against Nj. Gardner,
who was not delegate, and had no business in
the Convention. Finally, to cap the climax of
his charges, and as the last apology for boiling
the nomination, Mr. Maine charged that Jesuit
iSm was at work in that Convention. So it appears
| from Mr. Names story, that it was the Pope, and
not Gen. Wilson or Mr. Dana that did the man
aging on that day, and secured the nomination to
Mr.. Rockwell. Well, we hope we shall get at
the rights of the matter one of these days.
Another objection that Mr. Maine had to the
nomination was, that the Convention did not in
corporate a Native American plank in its plat
form. He seemed to forget that it was called as
an Anti-Slayery Convention, and that no party
was expected to insist upon the recognition of
its peculiar party views and principles Mr.
Names reasons for boiling did not appear to
us or to the audience to be very well founded, but
we suppose the reason lies in the fact that they
are new with him Mr.. Maine has not been
friendly to the election of Mr.. Gardner until
within few days, and if what we hear is true in
regard to a recent executive appointment from
Governor Gardner, the milk of kindness in his
cocoa nut is satisfactorily explained.
Mr. Maine then proceeded to criticise some of
the statements in General Wilson's speech and
letter characterizing them as tissue of false
| hoods He denied that Mr. o~~dner was where
| GENERAL wilson SAID ne was, in Mr.. Nelson's office
on the day the Convention was held and said
that no telegraphie dispatches were sent but he
did not seem to convince the audience that Mr..
Gardner had acted fairly in the matter of the
Republican movement.
Mr. Maine closed his address with an appeal to
the working men to support the Gardner ticket at
the polls Mr. Maine sat down amid much ap.
| plause, and Hon. g. c. Baker, of Medford took
the stand.
He said that three weeks ago he left Worcester
| with sad heart, on account Of the doings of the
| Republican Convention. He said the Republican
| party was organized because the American
party was too Anti-Slavery for the Flu
sionists who wanted moderate and diluted or
ganzation, to take in all the free States
He then went on to show the anti-slayery acts Of
the American party of Massachusetts, and deliv-
cred a very good anti slavery speech, which was
| loudly cheered at intervals.
He then went into discussion of the Gamer
lean principles" and urged his hearers, in elo-
quent terms, to stand by the Bible and resist the
Vaccinations Of the Jesuits to remove it from
the schools. Mr.. Baker was very eloquent upon
this point, and his remarks seemed to make
strong impression upon the audience.
Mr.. Baker next paidhis respects to Richard H.
Dana, Jr., whom he characterized as puseyite. and
connected with religious organization but one
step removed from the Church of Rome who had
stood as godfather to the Republican movement,
! and drafted its platform He also alluded to Mr..
| Robert Carter, of the Telegraph, as one of the
order of Jesuits--a tool Of the Papal power, and
a leader in the fusion movement. He then read
part of communication in the New York
Tribune, signed Oliver in which Oliver stated
that Gov. Gardner had falen, and Know Nothing
ism had gone down in Massachusetts, beyond the
hope of resurrection.
He said the whole motive of the getters,u of
the Republican movement was to kill off the
American party. 1--WE believe that Mr.. Gardner's
friends claim that he originated the movement)
He then went into a defence of the acts of the
last Legislature, and read from Mr.. Websters
speech of 1874, some expressions, in which the
God-like endorsed the principles of the Know
Nothing party. He eulogized Mr.. Webster as
the greatest statesman the world had ever known
and proceeded to argue in favor of the Spring
field platform.
He then read from General Wilson's speech
that threat of his in which he declared, If he had
power, he would shiver the American party to
atoms if it was necessary to do IL TOR the preser-
Uation Of the cause of Freedom.
This sentiment of General Wilson was greeted
| with msot tumultuous cheers.
Mr.. Baker next attempted to show that Gov
ernor Gardner was in favor Of an american Re-
| publican movement. and then argued al length