Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-11-19
From the Bost3a Aaas.


The Crewnfn2 Act Of Political Perfdv,
In the late canvass the browning act of po-
litieal treaehery end prostitution emanated
from the Wing Committee of Worcester
County.
In the discharge OF the nportaut trust COM
mitted to them, as usual, Of furnishing and
distributing the votes 10 each town. in accord
ance nth the " Wing nomination. for State
and County officers, they betrayed the trust,
and cheated the honest and transporting vot-
ers into voting for the Pierce administration
candidates, by forming q coalition with that
party in mixed ticket, falsely headed .sWhig
nominations having S. IL. Valley tor Gov
ernor, the other State officers divided, With
three Democratic. and only tco Wing Sena-
tors, while on Inc otEer side the Democratic
ticket was headed by {. D. Beach for Cover
nor. with mixed State officers, and the same
Senators three Democrats and two Wings.
This trick Of iraud upon the voters, with
Unprecedented daring in the BETRAYAL Of trust,
was cousumrnated by secret understanding
with the Beacl, party, BY having two Of their
candidates decline, and to keep the arrange
ment from the public until the last day before
election, when the ballots were to be distrib-
uted, and by taking the voters by surprise, the
frand, in the confusion Of the day, would not
be discovered, or if discovered in the absence
of the real = nomination" ticket. it would be
too late for any remedy. This scheme had the
desired effect, aud Wings were swindled into
the reyolting fact OF having voted Tor the
Pierce administration candidates.
Thus some of the members Of the Wing
Worcester County Committee, formerly the
most bitter in denonncing coalition, as here.
tofore existing in the political parties, haye,in
the dark, not openly before the world. as was
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sacred duty in trust, stealthilv and surreuti-
tiously betrayed the Wing party into coali-
ton with their most obnoxious opponents and
palmed off their ballots under the heading of
" Wing nominations"
There are others, without the pale of the
Committee. who were accessory to the fraud,
who are also known and marked-whose DO
htical course heretofore has been equivocal.
but who, with all the zeal Of new light,
have renewed their allegiance with profess
sions, Judas ike. only to betray the party IN.
to the hands OF the administration.
This transaction did not transpirs even in
the city Of Worcester, where it was concoct-
ed, until the evening preceding the day of
election. II was met with deserved indigna-
ton by the high minded Wings of that city,
and on the morning OF election, by means of
press at hand, which other towns had not,
i " ny TICKET Was STRUCK on; ana the fraud
there, III measure defeated.
Fusion has now become the pass. word for
every political debaucheIy Fusion and Goa
lition, as applied. to political parties, are as
opposite in this case as honesty Of purpose
openly avowed IS from tTiekery tTeacherouslv
concealed and executed.
a union of all parties for a great common
political end, openly devised and by mutual
consultation adopted, without any compro-
mise whatever of principles, but for the es.
Enlistment OF great and paramount object,
compromise only of feeling as to the com
pany we may find ourselves associated with,
in standing upoE simple national platform
on which all, individually and collectively.
have heretofore stood. eschewing all side-is-
sues, and ''isms" for the sake of the Union
this is Fusion.
combination of two parties of opposite
political principles and ends of government
each party distrusting the other. with no af-
fnity Of feeling or views Of public policy, but
for the sole purpose Of power and emolument,
uniting 10 rnle or ruin-tAis IS coalition. Add
to this the element Of treachery. and you have
the coalition Of the Wing Committee Of Wor-
cester County. PRINCIPLES.