Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-03

key-note-retrenchment and reform and yet they
all arise from miserable demagogue, who him
self introduced the system of profigate expendi-
ture and of reckless squandcrng of public money
upon his wretched partizan tools, so that during
the three years of his administration taxes to the
amount of nearly Cf not quite) TWO MILLIONS of
dollars have been laid. l charge upon Henry J..
Gardner alone the responsibility of an impover-
ished treasury, of burdensome taxation, of the de
probation Of ;he State scrip and of shock to the
State credit. He alone, the Executive head, is
responsible for the financial policy and the fnan-
cial condition of the Commonwealth. If Gard
ner, of the firm Of Denny, Rice, & Gardner, had
allowed the financial affairs of the firm to be man
aged as he has allowed those of the State to be
managed, the concern would have been in insol-
vency long ago. His creditors would hardly have
admitted his plea" Oh, my partners managed
badly or the book. keeper embezzled our funds %
OF course, the creditors would reply" We don't
know your book keeper, or your porter; we look
ed to you why didn't you look after them ~
And he does look after them but as to his sub
ordinates in the State government, he has wink
ed at their extravaganza and their plundering
he has created offices for the sole purpose Of re-
warding his laekeys has paid them enormous
salaries has inaugurated a SYSTEM of reckless
and profigate expenditure, unparalleled and un-
known before; and now thinks to save himself by
vetoing appropriation for training idiotic chill
dren, on grounds Of economy-saying twenty-five
hundred dollars year-ihus aiming to deprive
old Massachusetts, of the only glory left to her
II bo,a h., ,,hs
lanthropic purposes. And there is not man in
either branch to give the history of Gardner's
mal,administration and expose the cheat of his
economical professions.
By the way, speaking of his rewarding his par
tizans, the recent appointment of Bank Commits
sioper in pluce of Mr.. Phillips, is notable Illus
tration of Gardeners reckless contempt of public
sentiment and the public interests, in carrying out
his policy of rewarding subservlent tools. need
not say that if the Bank Commission can do any
service, il can only be because it is composed of
men of character, OF ability, of business expert
ence, and of unquestioned integrity-and on ac-
count of these qualities, of men possessing the
of the entire community. Gardner has
appointed to this responsible post person BY the
name of Shed. q don't know but he adds anoth-
Ell d. When the appointment was announced
the question was asked in business circles-"Who
is Shed ;" Upon inquiry find that he has been
for some years messenger, or porter. or sweep, in
the Hamilton Bank. OF that Bank, you are
aware, Mr.. Denny. Gardner's business partner and
brother-in-law, is President. For a year or two
past, this Shed has bsen confidential emissary
If Gardners. Whenever he wanted a faithful
DOL for some secret service, Shed was his man
Some loafer or other was picked up to CARY
'ound the bank notices and make the fires while
le was gone, and he would serve his patron for a
week or two, or three, as the might be. and
then turn up as the Hamilton Bank messenger
again. In this way he earned the ofics of Bank
Commissioner In this way he acquired a pro.
fessional education for the responsible duties of
that Office Now, ask who Shed is and they tell
you" Don't you know Shed Why he has
been an officer in the Hamilton Bank for years =,
1 notice in to.days Spy paragraph or two in
relation to the mares nest which Boston cor
respondent of the New York Tribune has discov.
cred in Cornhill Square. submit, very respect.
fully, my dear Spy, that the game is hardly worth
the candle have not seen the letter in the Tri-
bune: and until saw the Spy, to-day. | knew
nothing of the matter, except what is contained
in the following from the Journal -
a" The Boston correspondent Of the New York
Tribune asserts that there is secret political So
ciety in this State, the principal object Of which
is to overthrow Messrs. Banks, Wilson, and Bur.
lingame, and put the direction of the Republican
party OF Massachusetts into the hand of F W.
Bird, who used to be Chairman OF the Republican
State Committee, but has since Joined the CARR.
sonian abolitionists The writer says:-
He has accordingly instituted new Order,
whose chiefs meet regularly every Saturday after
noon at Young's Coffee House in this city. Last
year they met on Saturday afternoons at the old
Free Soil headquarters in School street. They
called themselves then the North Star Club APP
parently, they have since extended their organ.
izatioD, and if the Herald is to be trusted, term
themselves the Pine-Tree League
There may be some truth in this report. Mr..
Banks has been talked of as the Republican can
didale for Governor next FALL which seems to
have stirred up the ire of the radicals of the Wor-
cester Spy school. Neither Mr.. Wilson nor MI.
Burlingame are in favor with this class of politl-
clans, whose motto generally is rule or ruin .
Of course, I supposed the radicals of the
Worcester Spy school " included your humble SER
want, 4" Paul Pry," who, if my memory serves me,
has made "a few feeble remarks about Mr. Bank
Still, Paul Pry would not have wasted ink on
the matter, had it not assumed some Importance
by the notice which you and the Springfield Re-
publican have given it.
The only surprising Thing about it is, that the
Tribune should publish letter most of the
statements in which are lies and so far as they
are true, they refer to private gentlemen and to
matters with which the public have no concern.
The letter was evidently written by one of those
penny-a-liners who infest Boston and
exc out precariOus and predatory subsistence
by scribbling gossip and calumny for any paper
that will pay them for the degrading service
Some of them are men of ability some of them
get into respectable society, and of course occa.
'ionally they learn of events and movements
WHICH make their contributions to the newspa.
pers of some value, aud thus they acquire posi-
ton which enables them to make their letters We
hiclea of personal abuse.
As to the " Pine Tree League, :" false as is the
statement Of the existence Of such a League"
the name is an admirable one. II thank thee.
Jew . Hail to the old Pine Tree emblem Of
Massachusetts, sovereignty inscribed on the old
Pine Tree Shilling. in audacious (thoueh almost
unconscious) exercise OF the sovereignty of the
Provinc in coming money-the highest act of
sovereignty. Welcome, thrice honored Pine
yet to be borne upon our banners as the emblem
of State sovereignty-the only banner under
which the effective battle with slavery is to be
fought. " Honored and blest be the evergreen
Pinel" But, fine poetry, wise prophecy it is
vet lie. and the writer of the letter klelg II qros