Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-11-18

lbs UNION CHURCH CAUCUs.-'Ibe light shed
by our yesterdays notice upon he proceedings
Of the dark lantern caucus, held Saturday
vening, at the vestry of the Uni9u Church, has
caused not little futtering among the political
bats and horn bugs. The honest men who weA
there with an honest purpose, and who found ou'
he game that was playing are heartily glad of our
expose of the whole affair. while the chief con
spirators express their disppproval ~ the most
sewage and uncaled for attacks upon us, person
aly-impugning our motives, disappearing
our position, and distortng facts, in order boil
ster up their secret and i'll advised efforts to
break down the Repab lean party through citia
ticket, priuateiy got up, in conjunction with
the Pangborn tribe of Office seekers, at caucus
in which only certain members of the Republi-
can party we're invited.
The game did not work as we'll as was antic
pated. The plan of nominating Mayor did
not succeed according to programme, and some
men who went there expecting to see the tri
umphant Republican party, throw itself into the
embrace of Gardner Aniericanism wolully
disappointed. This result was brought about by
reason of the fact, that most of the Re publicans
present were honest in their intentions, and did
not consider that the nomination of Know
Nothing candidate or Mayor, just at that time,
was the entertainment to which they had been
invited.
To carry out the game which was in hand, any
quantity of false reports had been circulated. 1t
was said that there had been held at the Lincoln
House, a secret caucus of Republicans, at which
a certain prominent member OF that party had
been nominated for the purpose Of stealing
march upon Temperance men Of the Republican
party, and securing the support Of certain other
parties not favorable to the enforcement of the
Maine Law to ticket which was to have Re-
publican name, but which really was to be rep
resentative of the most ultra disregard Of the
laws OF the State and of the laws of common
morality. It was argued that the Republican
party bad been sold out to the Rum interest, aud
that the only thing which could avail anything
in saving the party from being submerged under
an alcoholic name, was little sort of back ERE
from the region of the Union Church yestry.
We need not say to our readers that all these
stories ridiculous and absurd in the extreme,
and that they were set in motion by certain in
teresiea persons, both Americans and hshy ne
nlhlicans, who had axes to grind, or old grudges
TO grit fy.
cain I9eIe had been republican caucus at the LIN
made by that party, and so far as we can
learn there had been no desire on the part of any
individual individuals to forestal the action of
the party in regard to nominations for municipal
officers at its regularly appointed meetings. We
hal heard the subject of the city election alluded
TO several times, but as it is not to come off for
three weeks 10 come, there seemed to be a very
general desire to let the whole subject rest for
season, as the people are pretty much tired of
politics. after the excitemenis of a state andpres-
edenlial election, and would be glad of little
term OF quietude and rest, and in this feeling we
heartily concurred. There has been tremen-
d1us cutlery of "wolf, wolf,' when there was no
wolf and we have done our duty in exposing it.
This evening as will be seen by notice in an
other column, there is to he cit zens meeting at
the City Hall. ThecaA is for sail, irrespective
OF party, who are in favor of municipal Govern
ment that will uphold the morals, the in.
tereats, and the honor of our city, It is a
broad call, and believe an honest call Il
does not appear,upon the face of it to be secret
dark lantern affair for the accomplishment of sin
isEer purposes. And we do not recognize among
the names appended but few of the honest and
disntefssted politicians of the Gardner party who
figured so eonspieuously at the veStry on Satur-
cay evening, and who succeeded in putting
through with such surprzing ctl4rity, motion
to nominate Mayor on the spot, without any
further light upon the subject, than could be shed
by their dark lantern,an so we have no fault to
had and will conclude with the expression of our
hope, that all honest efforts to uphold the morals,
interest, and honor of the city will succeed, and
also OF our belief, that all attempts to sacrifice
the men of the Republican party or the party it
sell, to crafty personal hatred. aud to patch up
the difjointed. disorganized, broken down rem
nants Of Gardner Know, NOthingsm will prove
abortiye.