Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-11-14

j. Gardner over the deStlntes OF Massachu-
sets, it is also sufficiently Imaginable to pay
for the trouble. His first election. was
| political clark" By singular coincidence,
| all the people of Massachusetts, became at
once oppressed with a sense of t'foreign inhu-
ence." The present Governor had bad at
tack of Celuphoba at the same time, and by
some accident became the nominee OF the new
| party. Well, he was elected by a majority
sufficient to satisfy the most fastidious. We
all laughed, called it a joke, and declared it
was good thing that the old parties were
broken in pieces, and that we would all
''pick our fints and try again" Up to this
| point there was nothing said Of "principle."
| Those who had been initiated into the secrets
| of Americanism went into it without know
ing what they were to find 1t was some
thing new; there was a little mystery in it
and "like the lemons" they event in" and
were 'squeezed."
When the Governor had got a good taste of
| power he began to think he liked it, and even
then he had got so far committed to the
''principles' Of Americanism, that he was not
resigned to the reception of the Republican
nomination at Worcester two years ago. He
| sent his delegates there it was long and
| doubtful fight; and at last he was beaten.
| Nobody doubts nows and nobody, doubted
then, that if he had received the nomination
he would have accepted it as Republican
and there was not, up to that date, sufl-
cient popular attachment to f'AmeTican prin-
ciples, to Lave made a demonstration against
him, Well, after he had demonstrated that
the charge upon which he was slaughtered at
Worcester was true, and had acknowledged
that though he had endeavored to pack that
| convention with his friends, he was in no
| way committed to its action, then arose the
| cry that 'tGardner had been abused" We
suppose that some actually believed that his
| clothes had been torn off his back, his best
hat knocked over his eyes, and an ugly bunch
induced under his left ear. Then American
principles suffered some, aud about that time
those principles began to be comprehended.
| The result was that the Governor got his
election and his revenge ~
By this time the devotion Of the people to
the fortunes OF the Governor had become dis.
| gusting. He had brought into power with
| him set of small men, pale with long fast
| ing, and seedy in the service of unrequited
| patriotism. They were set up in business in
various commissions. They were made JUS
tees of the peace. They were stuck upon in.
| spectorships. Whatever and wherever they
were, they were the obedent tools and toad
| les of the Governor. They went up and
| down the State crying "great is Gardner OF
the Athenans." Expenses were multiplied.
Every department of the government became
! extrayagant State taxes, that were regular
eye, openers, were levied. Three hundred
dollar mirrors went up in the Governors
room. Officials got in the habit of doing
| three days work in one. At last the party
had come to identify its lie with the Govern
or, SO that if he were to fall out, the whole
thing would go to smash Such was the fact,
at any rate. So he had it all his own way.
| Than nana the Frpmont nanopaiuD That
was a great windfall to the Governor. He
was choked down the necks of some of the
| less scrupnlous Republicans, while the others,
1 of whom, if we remember correctly, we
formed half dozen, more or less, quietly ig-
nored the fact that Governor was to be
elected, and held our noses, as we leaned
against the gate posts, while the gentleman
walked through. That job well got along
with, the Governor began to 6e aware that he
had been spending great deal of money.
| So he became fierce for retrenchment. Moth
ing in the whole history of the man is SO
laughably impudent as this. We think it
must have been the first time in the whole
history of the State that Governor under
took to make capital out of his own sins. But
then, he wasn't going to be Governor any
more He wished for retirement and those
who are in the Governor secrets declare that
he was, for once, sincere-that he calculated
to 60 to Europe, to have for his successor
in office the man. milliner who formed the
butt end of the judiciary committee last Win
ter, and get back in time to secure Henry
Wilson's seat in the Senate. This was the
programme, until Mr.. Banks quietly looked
over the fence, and threatened the Governors
melon patch. Then came the vetoes, voiley
after voey. The Fremont Governor grew
unkersh-courted Wings, Democrats, Fill
moreites, and SUCH Then followed the long
intrigues for denomination, the brags the
bets, the lies, the woodcock breakfasting, the
button holing, the coaxing, the threatening,
the bookkeeping horse power, the mus
tering, the cattle showing, the Boston Travel.
lsr-ing, &c., &C., and then such political
threshing as never Governor got before.
Governor Gardner has sunk to rise no more
1t is not uncharitable to say that he lived
without principle; it is certainly merciful to
hope that he dies without feeling. We found
him out at the beginning of his career and
have not changed our minds in regard to him
since. That he ever cared anything about
Americanism beyond its power to advance
his ambitious schemes, none of his followers
believe, and they have themselves to thank for
whatever degree of odium attaches to cause,
to which, many of them are, doubtless, sim
cerely attached. Their chosen leader has
abused them, and we know that thousands of
them are thankful now that he is powerless.
He rose from obscurity, by no merit of his
own he has been kept in power by combi-
nation of causes, whose operation was self
limited; and he sinks into political night
that has no dawning. Not in a thousand
years would another turn of the wheel of
destiny bring up such man, and if the whole
State had been raked and scraped, from Cape
Cod to Saddle Mountain, another man could
not have been found capable of debauching
the politics of the State SO foully, as he has
done. May we all have the grace of forget
fulness.- Springfield Republican.