Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-04
me Las. Dodge Of Gurdoerism.


State. is doomed, and that the renewal of its
lease of life, granted by the Republicans,
through the intereession of Messrs. Banks and
Wilson, at the last State Convention of She
party, is the very last that the people of Mas
sachusetss under any circumstances, are Will
ing to give it. Next year, as there are none
but State officers to elect, Of course there will
be fewer inducements for trading politicians
to dicker, and there viii be no occasion for the
chameleon candidates for Congress, who take
their political hue from as many platforms as
thew can contrive to stand upon, to enter into
mutual insurance arrangement with His Ex-
cellency, for the purpose of keeping their pia-
ces and their salaries, to the detrlment CT the
public service, and to the displacement OF such
men in the halls Of Congress, as Massachusetts,
can furnish, and the Importance of the crisis
demands. The people have come to feel that
they have made sacrifices enough to the de-
mands of an effete organization, which seems
to have been formed with the special object of
placing small men i'll the highest places OF
political preferment and power; and the glo-
rious example set BY the Republicans of the
ninth and the eleventh districts in resisting the
outside dictation of Gardnerism, and crushing
it under their feet, has awakened, at last, the
Republicans of the State TO knowledge of
their power, and inspired them with deter
mination to use it at the first convenient OPP
portunity.
The handwriting upon the wall was not
more clearly discernable by the Assyrian king,
than are the prophetic warnings to the Amer
ican party, from those districts and counties
where Republicanism and Gardnerism Crap
election. The Governor is too sagacious a
politician not to see to use homely, but ex-
pressive, phrase-that has zig is up" and
fom him, down to the smallest satellites of
his party, such as Pangborn and Joseph Hiss,
there is lamentation and waling, and there
comes the dolorous cry OF, I" Where am to
gos"
1t is of very little consequence to the peo-
pie how the small fry of the party, like therep-
resentative men, that we have named, bestow
themselves but it is of some Importance that
the people should understand the course and
direction of the big fish. Into what Shiny re-
treats Of mud and sea-weeG the sculpins and
ee's bestow themselves the captain or the
crew, bent on successful voyage, little care,
but for the heading and course of "leviathan"
himself; there must be bright look out at
the mast head, or disappointment and disas-
ter must ensue.
Gov. Gardner set his heart long ago upon
the glitteTing prize Of the senatorship, as the
object of his political ambition. How base
were the means he employed to attain it, and
how ignominiously he has failed thus far in ell
his efforts to Gust Mr.. Sumner, and usurp his
place by political coup d etat that none but
himself could have conceived of, all our read
ers are aware. But he is not the man to de-
sert long cherished purpose with the failure
Of the first or the second attempt. Unlike the
fox in the fable. he has no inclination to cry
"sour grapes" because the tempting clusters
hang fer beyond the reach of his first or his
second jump-and his game still is to keep
trying, and never to relinquish for a moment
this darling object of his ambition, until the
last hope is gone.
Constituted as the Legislature now is, Mr..
Gardner has no chance of an election to the
United States Senate for the next term of six
years-and he knows it, but he ardently
hopes and sincerely expects that, in case the
state of Mr.. Summers health prevents him
from taking his seat for the remainder of his
present term, he may yet come in for the brief
period of the unexpired session that will inter-
vene between the assemblage of our State
Legislature and the fourth of March next, and
that, too, by the help of Republican votes.-
Already the plans pretty fully developed,
and the master spirits of chicanery, in both
the American and Republican parties, who
played so successful game of hoodwinking
and wool pulling at the State Conventions in
Worcester, last fall are familiarizing them
selves with their respective parts in this new
and desperat game to disgrace Massachusetts,,
aud still more to tarnish her honor by placing
such man in such position, under circum
stances like the present.
We know whereof we affirm, and thus early
we warn our Republican friends of the Legis-
lature, that they may be prepared to resist this
fresh scheme of corruption and intrigue. The
plan of operations to accomplish the results de.
sired, are somewhat as follows As soon "a
possible, after the assemblage Of the Legisla-
ture, Mr.. Sumner is to be re elected as Uni
ted States Senator for six years--tbat, as a
matter Of course, for it does not lie in tie
Governors power to prevent that. Then the
next move is to induce Mr.. Sumner to resign
for the remainder of the present term Ia ter.
rible hue and cry is to be raised concerning
his health, his need Of retirement and Of rest
and also Of the need there is that Massachu-
sets should have tiOo voices and tioo votes in
the Senate during the remnant Of the session;
and what, with the help Of Mr.. Summers real
friends, acting from humane and friendly mo-
tivea, and that of his bitterest enemies, actua-
ted by their partizan zeal for Gov. Gardeners
advancement, they expect to pave the way for
his succession, by the revival of all those dirty
tricks OF deception and chicanery, that have
been so successfully practiced in his behalf,
heretofore, upon well-meaning Republicans,
by the funkeys Of His Excelleney, for the las
two years.