Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-10-03

sucked so many good but tinld men uo"ll' anu
thrown so many base bad men up, upon tibet top
wave and here and there some good friend has
suggested that we were unnecessary alarmed
But in the warnings given, we have spoken by
the book" we have known whereof we have al
frmed, we have seen the treacherous and IN
principled schemers FORMULATING the country
humbugging the people with their ridiculous talk
about ''union and harmony" and attempting the
same game that they have praeticed in other coun-
ties, of packing the Republican Convention with
their own partizans, or with men weak enough
to lend themselves or sellthemselves to their low.
dirty schemes of intrigue and corruption, SO as
TO control two conventions instead of one, and we
could not be silent H. after all, the party shall
find itself betrayed, sold out, chucked into the
hold Of the ship-bound hand and foot as mere
ballast, while the thimble Triggers of Gov Gard
ner, take the helm and trim the sails, we do not
wish it to be laid to charge, thatwe hesitated
to warn our Republican friende of the dangers to
which they were exposed.
In previous article we expressed our belief
that the Gardner Americans did not intend to
deal fairly by the Republicans and we cited facts
as illustrations and proofs of our position
Since then, other facts have been revealed which
confirm every word of the charges we then made,
and leave us no reason to doubt, that when one of
the newly nominated American senators of Mid
dlesex county-nominated upon coalition ticket
declared few days since, to friend of ours,
whom he thought as corrupt as himself, that ''we
(meaning the Gardner Amerieans,) will get all
the influential county officers, and thus and
] aa1I4 A. ,N,,bl
cans to go to the DEVIL" he spoke by authority
of the powers that be, and after he had 6 advised
at home"
We have not space in this days paper to expose
a tythe of the plots and counter plots of the mis-
cradle faction that rules and disgraces Massachu.
sets but we will, before closing this article, in
vite the attention Of our readers who are still will
ing to put their trust IN Know Nothing promises
and rretensions, to the manner in which the wool
was pulled over Republican eyes at tie County
Convention in Hampshire county. last week, by
the artful dodgers of the American party There
the American party even acted more meanly than
we charged them with intending to, when upon
this topic, few days since and, having packed
the Republican Convention with their own men,
passed vote to admit members without creden-
tials, they actually controlled the Republican
Convention, nominated their own candidates, and
adjourned, after having pushed through with all
due formalities their ratification in the Gardner
American Convention.
We copy the following account of the way it
was done, from the Northampton Courier of
Tuesday last =
"THE COUNTY CONVENTION. We made
some remarks, last week, in a liberal spiit,
advising that the Republicans of Hampshire
county, who were, and now are, in a large
majority, (about one thousand should be
generous with the Know Nothings i'll the dis
tribution of the county officers, to the end
that the utmost harmony might be obtained
in relation to other and much moIe import
ant matters. We assumed that the Republi-
cans would have the contiol of their own
Convention. and that whatever was melted
out to the Know Nothings would be emphati.
cally gift, as their numbers entitled them to
no county office whatever. In the exuberance
of our liberal feelings, we were hattering our
selves that we were displaying goodly quail
ity-one highly honorable, yet very foreign, to
party men.
We had assumed, we say, that the Conven-
vention of last Friday would be a Republican
Convention. But imagine our surprise, and
the surprise of many others, when the dele
gates assembled, upon beholding the grim Wis
iges of a swarm Of pure, unadulterated Gard
ner Know Nothings, as they gathered in coun-
Gil to parcel out the offices of a people totally
apppssd to vtbem BAIspRjtjjG55t tnsr sr9sng
and from motives of policy, permitted Messrs.
Warner and Breckenridge to be re- nominated.
Having secured the Sheriff and Register of
| Productive officers which the mass of the
Republicans were willing to gjGe to the Know
| Nothings-they "let OUT on the Clerk of
Courts and County Commissioner. For the
first of these offices, Mr. Wells, the old in
cumbent-a gentleman eminently fitted for
the office, perfectly conversant with its duties,
and against whom as a clerk no man in the
country can raise a word of valid objection
was unceremoniously turued out. Among
the Republicans Of the country, MIR. Wells is
universally popular, and in a Republican con-
vention he would have been nominated by a
large majority. Cut the Know Nothngs and
ax-grinders wanted his place, and he was de-
feated. For Commissioner, Mr.. Brewster was
the unanimous choice Of the Republicans. As
a man a citizen, he is universally esteemed. As
an oficer,-a faithful, honest, industrious,
and Efficient Commissioner, he stands pre-. emf
nent, and it may with truth be said, that the
County never had better Commissioner than
Elisha IL. Brewster. He has been i'll the Of
flee but single tern, aud had but well learn
ed the duties of the stuation vet, in viola
ton of all previous custom, aud in outrage of
the wishes of majority of the people, he was
turned out
Such is the game that has been played out by
these political stock jobbers in Hampshire coun-
ty, where they had not, alone, the strength to
claim as a right single county officer. Not sat
sfed with the half of ticket, generously offered
them they practically seized upon the ohole; such
is the desperate game that these same harpies and
wire pullers are attempting to play off in Worces-
ter county the l3th to thwart the wishes of the
people, and still farther to degrade, debase, and
disorganize the Republican party.
To be forewarned is to be forearmed, and
once more we caution our Republican friends
throughout the county to look to their delegates
and see that no wolves in sleeps clothing are
among the number.
PENNsYLvANIA.-The Pottsyille Journal an
nounces, with great confidence, to lis readers,
that Union Electoral Ticket will be formed in
this State in the course of a short time, which