Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-01-15


porters affirmed. was to put stop to theatrical
entertainments. to relieve the city of the dis
grace OF having Frederick Warren for City Mar
shall" 1--WE quote their words-they are not ours,)
which was to have thorough going Maine Law
Polc to enforce the law, up to the hub, and to
promote the cause of temperance and morality
generally, is now iairly inaugurated and under
way.
We believed that another and a different ticket
would do as n ach and even more than this pos
sibiy could do to promote all the great interests,
moral, social, political, and pecuniary, of the
city and, feeling that we could vote for it with
out any sacrifice of our principles as Republicans,
or our selfrespect as men, we gave it our cordial
aud earnest support This ticket was headed,
for Mayor, with the name of gentleman born
and educated in or midst, Of fine talents. of
spotless reputation. and unbendng integrity, and
who had rendered good service to the Republican
cause It combined, in its composition, as much
of talent and moral worth, any ticket for the
same Offices that was ever offered to the citizens of
Worcester, and, for temperance, and for all the
requisites Tor good administration of the gov
eminent, it would compare fayorably with the
ticket to which it was opposed. 1t was, more
over, under no pledges, expressed or implied, to
any man or class of men, but was perfectly free
to administer the government, as their own
sense of right might dictate, to the individuals
respectively of whom it was composed. Yet, for
supporting this ticket, not only we. but all who
acted with us, were denounced as rummies and
uphol5ers of immortality We were abused, viii
G,d o~1 ed 80 he Ill told that
though our ticket might be a very good one, SO
far as the individuals on it were concerned, yet
the purpose and the effect of sustaining it would
be. to make Fred. Warren Marshal, with such
Deputy as would be opposed to the Maine Law.
Indeed, it seemed as if they thought that Warren
was fiend incarnate, with whom we had entered
into league for evil, and that they had special
mission assigned them, to defeat the ungodly
work.
We believed. on the other hand, that the whole
movement which brought this city government
In, was a combination of Gardnersm, on the one
part, with certain Republicans who had exceeding
dull axes TO grind, which the party would not
grind for them, on the other part, to aid each
other in the accomplishment of their respective
obiects-Gardnerism to resuscitate itself from its
PROSTATE condition, and the Republicans, to get
those same dull axes ground. To effect these
purposes, the cry of temperance was set up, as
one which would draw to its support sufficient
number of honest well-meaning, straight Re-
publicans, to secure majority for the ticket.
Such were the means by which it was done, and
such, as we believed, were the purposes for which
the Republican party of the city was betrayed
and sold out to its enemies. Such being our be-
lief, We did not hesitate to expose the fraud, and
to denounee il in such terms as we deemed its
iniquity demanded
The plan succeeded, the ticketwas elected, the
party was sold OUTLET us see, now, for whose
benefit and whether we were right or not. The
City Government is organized and its appoint
ments made, and the result is, that the theatre
was licenced at the very first meeting of the
Board, BY unanimous vote; that of all the sal.
aried Offices, which it is an object for any to
take, not one Of them is given to any one who
has acted for the last two years with the Repub
lican party--the party which is the dominant one
in the city, and which numbers more than two to
one, over the party which has obtained nearly all
the good Offices. The three principal officers Of
the Police Department, which was to be renovat-
ed, and put upon rigid Maine Law basis, are
Geo. w. Richardson, Mayor, and ]. Waldo Den
ny, Deputy Marshal-both Of them Know Moth
ings, and neither Of them friends of the Maine
Law, or even temperance men-and frederick
Warren, Marshal. whose removal from that Office
was ayowed to be one Of the special objects of the
movement To make way for Denny, John L.
Qolrn rfoaR nj q afffo
I fiicer, was displaced Such is the entertain
ment TO which we have been invited. How does
it look We grant, in this connection, that the
theatre issue, earnestly insisted in the OUT
set, was abandoned by the nominees, after they
became satisfied that persistence in it would de-
feat their election.
We now ask the Republicans, who have been
the means Of bringing about the present state OF
things, whether all our predictions have not been
verified to the very letter Are not Republicans
disgr icefally excluded from participation in the
Offices of the city and are not their bitter cppo-
nenta enjoying the hoHors and emoluments there
off Is not the party, az such, politically pros
trate in the city. with the heel of GardneIism on
it's neck The carse Of temperance has sus.
"a ned blow from their hands that its worst enc
mics could not have inflicted. because it has been
placed in the keeping Of those who have no
sympathy with it. and who, If they mad, are NOR
ally poSerless. because they represent faction
Of less than one-f0urth OF the voters Of the city,
faction whose double faced moral obliquities and
whose midnight cabals and conspiracies have
made them stench in the nostrils of all good
men.
Yet, for foretelling just what has happened,
and putting others On their guard for declining
% be party to any such movement, and refusing
20 be bought or sold for keeping straight for
ward in the good old course, without turning aside
into any dark and devious BY way, we have been
pursued with malignity and spite that we
cou d haadly have conceived -Four aud twenty
men. claiming to be respectable, concocted a
handful and circulated it through the city by
thousands, on the Sabbath. in which was contain
ed most atfocious calamny and faiSehood about
the writer Of this article. Two of the number
finding they had been deceived by their assoc.
stes frankly retracted the charge and did us JUS
tee, but the other twenty.two persist in the
wrong. TO this day. On the night Of the elee.
tion, those who had tiumphed and who were
addressed on the occasion BY the Mayor elect
and other Of the successful candidates, paraded
themielves before our office, blowing fish horns
and bowling like Aends from the neither regions.
and making night hideous with their demoniacal