Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-07-14

Complaint pas been made, in certain quarters,
that, in the organization of the Fremont Club in
this city, membership was restricted to those who
sustain the Philadelphia platform and its nomi-
nees, Fremont and Dayton. 1t is proper, there
fore, to ask, why membership should not be so
restricted! Fremont and Dayton received the
NATIONAL nomination in a convention open to
ALL the opponents of the present Administra-
tod, and to ALL those in favor of making Kan
zas FREE STATE. In it ALL PARTIES,
Americans, Wings Democrats, and Republicans,
were fairly represented, and they unanimously
recommended these nominees. Electoral tickets
IN then favor will be nominated and supported
throughout the Free States and portion of the
Slave States, and the only chance of defeating
Buchanan and Slavery is by the support of those
Electors. Every electoral ticket for Fremont
and Johnston is just as much calculated to de-
feat Fremont and to give the State where it may
be run, over to Buchananers as if it was for Fill
more or any other nominee, and the leaders of
the Johnston men very well kno,O it, and k',oso
that they are playing into Buchanan's hands
Let US suppose case. New York gives
about 100000 votes. OF these, Buchanan may
get about 10000, and Fillmore 100000, leaving
225,OOO for Fremont, and giving him plurality
OF fifty thousand votes, provided there is no d.
vision among his professed friends. But, if there
is to be Fremont and Johnston electoral ticket,
In opposition to the regular Fremont ticket, and
if it should get $4,000 votes, it will reduce the
vote for the regular ticket to 5000, and give
the State to Buchanan, by plurality of $1,000
votes. This is the inevitable tendency of the
johnson ticket, in every State where one may
be nominated and supported, and it is the
only result, which it possibly effect, if sup.
ported to such an extent as to affect the election
at all,
| In view of these facts, no honest friend of the
election of Fremont, it seems to us, can continue
to sustain the nomination of Johnson because,
support of Johnson is virtually opposition to FIRE.
mont. If there was any question of principle at
issue, the case would be different, but there is
nome Dayton stands, politically, on precisely
the same ground johnson. The only differ
ence is in their position, the one as the nominee
of a convention representing the opponents ofthe
Administration, and the friends of Free Kanzas,
the other that ola convention from which great
portion of those on whom Fremont must rely
for his election were absolutely excluded. The
pressing of johnson is simply attempt to force
upon those thus excluded, candidate in whose
nomination they were permitted to have neither
part nor lot, and is antirepublican and dictato-
rial in its character.
The supporters of the nomination place them
selves precisely in the position in which the
Slave holders stand-claiming to have their sec
tion0l interest override all national interests
They are, practically, worse enemies to Fremont
and Kanzas than those who openly oppose them,
because, under the pretence of supporting them,
| they misead those who could not be influenced
| by open opponents. Should they then, be per-
mitted to belong to a Club whose object is, by
straightforward and manly support, to secure the
| election Of John G. Eremontl We think not