Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-10-07
Shareholders and DOughfaees in Mnssa


IL, Franklin Ripley of Greenfield.
Shareholders and DOughfaees in Massa-
chusetIs.
This country has been ruled for great many
years by class of shareholders, whose numbers
have never been over three hundred and fifty
thousand. These men have governed with abso-
Lutte sway the five and twenty millions of othel
people There is prospect this year that the
people are going to throw off the yoke. For the
last eight years it has been supposed that the
county of Worcester contained majority of peo
pie who thoroughly understood the rule of this
class Of persons. Doughfaces have been in
minority here since 1875 at least, until quite re
Gently. 1t remains to be seen whether the PEG
PIE will now yield to the impudent demand of a
lass Of State politicians, who are hardly strong.
er, in numerical proportion, than the slave
holders, compared with the people of the coun-
try, and whose tactics are identical with the tao
tics of the class whose overthrow the people have
now determined upon.
Our attention has been called to the very latest
edict of the slaveholding power of this State. 1t
is contained in the Boston Bee of Friday last, and
is understood very generally to be from the pen
of His Excellency the Governor. At any rate it
bears the characteristics of His ExcelleDcy, viz I;
falsehood and effrontery. 1t commences by IN
Sinaating couple of falsehoods, as follows =
1--WE do not now speak of our nominating
Fremont with the positive pledge that Day
ton should withdraw in favor of Johnston
qchieh pledge soaS violated We do not refer
either to the adoption of the report of the con-
ference committees of the two Worcester Con.
ventions by the Americans a0hich report aoas
repadiated by the Republicans
Both of the statements here insnuated are hes.
No pledge that Dayton should be withdrawn was
gwen by the Republican Convention, or could
have been given by any other persons, for no 9th.
ers were authorized to give pledges. That some
person or persons, belonging to the Republican
party NAV have told snranhndv other. at New
York, that Dayton would be withdrawn, is posi-.
bic enough, though the fact that such poliieiar,s
as stephen NJ. AIen say so, is rather strong EVIL
dence against it, but no person was authorized
to give any such pledges. If Dayton had seen fit
to withdraw, Johnston would not have been nom
mated in his place, for it of the principal
objects of the Philadelphia Convention to keep
the Republican party flee from the faint of Know
Nothingism. If the Republican leaders of this
State had followed their example, the prospect of
Fremont would have been much improved, and at
that same time the Republican party of Massa-
chu'etts would have been party indeed, and not
he disgraced aud bedaubed appendage to a
clique of Gardnerite office holders
The second lie is, THAT the Republicans at Wor-
cester repudiated report which the Americans
had agreed to. The only report which the Re.
publc,ns repudiated,w was that which recommend
ed the adoption of tho Gardner State ticket
THIS toaS regarded at the time as perfectly salts
faetJry By the Gardnerites land the Bee, for week
afterwards contained jubilant articles over the
result But having some new demands to make,
it before long commenced grumbling, and at last
has mustered up courage enough to repudiate its
own expressions of satisfaction, and to accuse the
Republicans of bad faith, for the sole purpose of
eyadng the obligation its Convention solemnly
took, TOT cooperate with the Republicans in the
Senators and County Officers. This conduct on
the part of the Bee is characteristic of the whole
party. In the I'd, 9th and llth Congressional
Districts, it called its Conventions without con-
sultation with the Republicans, but in Worcester
county, where they know themselves to be pow
erless, they tagging about at the heels of the
Republicans. and beggngfor the cooperation which
they have refused them elsewhere. There is fair
specimen of the concessions of the Gardner
lite party.
The Bee proceeds to talk of its party's "conced-
ed overwhelming strength" and its power to car
ry nearly every Congressional District and every
county except Franklin and Hampshire. We
suppose this gasconade imposes upon many per
b,,s L., 4 II.
found to be frightened by it, but that men can
have 'cbeek" enough to publish it lhere is one
fact which a conclusive answer to all this blus.
ter If Governor Gardner had believed himsel.
sure to be elected without the Republican votes
would he have demanded the Republican nomina.
tion or the withdrawal of the Republican ticket
Would he have consented to a division of sena-
tors and County officers, at the risk of losing the
supremacy in the Senate, and SO of relinquishing
in any degree his cherished plot, to cheat the
people out of the re election of Mr.. Sumner
Not bit oft, We dismiss this gaseonade Of the
Bee, as unworthy Of further notice 1t is pure
unmixed humbug, and il too many of the Republi.
cans Of Massachusetts were not doughfaees, Of
the school described by John Randolph, il would
be regarded by them with contempt.
The Bee proceeds to enter sundry complaints
against the Republicans. The first Is, that the
Republicans in the 9Th and lth diatrcts are talk
ing about running candidates against Mr.. Davis
and Mr. Trafton. We do not know what the Re.
puoheans in those districts are doing. II is none
Of our business, nor is It any business Of the Bee.
A. curious instance Of the centralizng power of
oatonerism, that not only the executive and leg
lauVe power Of the state but the business of elect
lus members to Congress, is entirely taken under
the supervision Of the power Of the State House.
ine pee u''ers its ukase, and not only arc Amer
ieans expected to obey, but Republicans Of ,bo
most distant part Of the state must tromble And
what is the boston Bee. that II should dic,o,a -
the Fremontmen ofEsscx and Berksirc whom ,hov
shall elect TO congressf A paper which within