Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-11-18
TFrOm the Worcester Transcript of Thursdsy.l
TO THE
Voters Of Worcester County.
A Trutl. full Statement of Facts.

OOuuIy committee was yesterday PupllSHSU III
the Spy, Egis aud Palladium purporting to
give an account of the conference held between |
the Republican and american County Com
mittees on Saturday last. We insert it entire
this morning in order that we may review it |
as it deserves, and that no man may have any |
cause to complain, that we do not give the
public all the facts and statements on both |
sides, course which would have been far
more honorable on the part of the Republican
County Committee. We ask every voter in |
the County to read their statement and ours,
and we will cheerfully abide the verdict of
candid and intelligent public. 1t is matter
of great surprise to us to find the names of
Geo. F. Hoar, w. W. Rice, Thos. II. Durham,
iona. D. Wheeler, J. F. Hitchcock, ]. D.
Coggswell Sylvester Dresser and some of the
others appended to that most extraordinary
electioneering document,and we beg leave here
to say, that if truth and justice require US to
speak plainly and to say some things of some
of these gentlemen which we would much
rather net have said, the fault is theirs and
not ours They have seen fit, in der to hol-
ster up a lettering ticket and to help party
which they have themselUes frequently within
the few days past condemned and denounced
unsparingly, to violate the confidence Of pri
waite conversation and to make an incorrect
and partial statement of matters which they
requested should be kept confidential; we are
therefore by their act left free to tell the 0hoe
story--and we shall relate it we shall make
no statement but such AZ we can prove by
good witnesses.
The facts of the American and Republican
Conventions of the 18th inst are well known
to the public. The American Convention sent
a courteous invitation to the Republican Con
yention to meet in a Committee of Conference
and arrange union ticket satisfactory to all
the Fremont men of the County; this prOpos-
vi was after long debate rejected by the Re
public In Convention to the great surprise and
chagrin of large majority of the Republicans
OF the County, and no men were louder or
more free in their condemnation of the course
pursued by their own party than were Messrs
Rice, Durham, Coggswell, Hitchcock and some
others whose names are noW appended to this
electioneering vindication of the Spy party
and it's ungenerous course.
Mr.. Geo. F. Hoar has stated more than once
that his party acted foolishly and unfairly.
These gentlemen have made no secret at all of
their condemnation of the Spy; they have
disowned it and said repeatedly that it did
not represent their party and they did not de-
sire its approval or assistance The people of
the County very generally sympathized with
these gentlemen in their feelings and opin
ions they condemn and will not support the
Spy party or its candidates. AS soon as it
became evident to the Republican County
Committee, that their ticket 1gould certainly be
defeated, and of this there was no doubt and
they themselves admitted it, they began to cast
about to save themselves in some way from
deserved defeat But mark now, that these
gentlemen who now are so ardent for union,
and charge illiberality on the Fremont Amer
leans, made no moUe at all towards Il union un-
til ten days atter their Convention had adj
journed nor until after Mr.. Chapia had dectia
ed and Mr. Knowlton also had thrice declined
pieces The Republican County Committee
submitted in their Convention to the control OF
the Spy clique, submitted to it for ten days, en-
dorsed so far as any official action Of theirs
was concerned all the vile abuse and ISLANDERS
of the Spy, consented to stand committed be-
fore the public to party and ticket which
they privately condemned and said they would
not support, manifested no desire and took no
steps to secure union until defeat was writ
ten all over their ticket and, as is evident
now, ReU.r would have made move had they
not been driven to it. And when compelled
by their own fears what did these gentlemen,
these vrtuous Fremont Republicans do? Why
they set themselves to work to make lille po'
litical capital out of the only union Fremont
party in the County. And how did they do
it? The Republican County Committee met
here on Wednesday the 22d inst, and after
comparing notes came to the conclusion, tlcea-
tVto t,oo that their ticket would certainly be
defeated, unless they could contrive to do some
thing new, to save themselves that such was
the opinion and expression of this Republican
County Committee we learned from three gen
tlemen of that Committee, and we presume
THY will not deny it; if they do we have wit
nesses to prove it. The public will at once see
what the real and only motive of the Republl-
can County Committee was in making any
move at all to extricate themselves from the
dilemma into which Drew, Stone and Foster
had brought them they we're not actuated by
any desire for a union nor did they mean to
haze any, but intended to play double game
of thimble rigging in politics in order if pos
sible to shift the odium from themselves to
some other party or parties. We desire here
to expose the disingenuousness of the Repub
lican Committee and will convict them out Of
their own mouths. The very first sentence in
their Spy manifesto of yesterday is this;
"The Republican County Committed have learn
cd since the late County Convention that strong
desire has existed IN the minds OF many true Re
pubIeans, for a union with the American party on
County ticket in the coming election
Ali Do Messrs. Rice, Hoar, Hitchcock and
others, pretend to say that they shave learn
ed since the late County Convention" OF the
desire for union? Why, these gentlemen
before the Convention and on the day OF the
Convention openly and warmly urged union
dhey were for it then) on the very ground
that the true Republicans of the County de-