Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-13

as the makers and executors of the municipal
laws. under which we all live, and under which
we all have rights and interests in common.
And that feeling was nevermor operative than
at the time the call was issued, call signed by
some three or four hundred citizens, a mCyo7Y
Of rHom rere Republicans, a meeting for the
purpose of nominating city officers, without
reference to nation or State politics. At the
time the call was issued it was well known
that the Executive Committee Of the RepubL-
crn party had had the subject under discussion
and that that committee were equally divided
upon the subject and that it was only by the
casting rote of the chairman of that committee,
who is now the candidate of the Republicans
who dissent from the action Of the citizens
meeting, that the call was issued for an eXclu-
'siye Republican caucus to nominate a board Of
Republican officers, to the exclusion of all
others.
AT the time that casting vote was given,
Mr.. Rice knew that he was voting for himself,
as the candidate of portion of the Republican
party; for | have the best means Of knowing,
that the thing was all planned before hand But
the love Of Office overcame, in that crisis, the
gentleman's native modesty, and he was will
ling, then, to extend his own hand, to rake out
a few chestnuts for himself, from the fire Of
partizan selfshness and intolerance, which had
so often been extended to rake chestnuts for
others. So much, in regard to the nomination
itself and the circumstances and means by
which it was made. And now, in regard to an
other matter. Neglecting to use the manly
weapons of reason and argument and unable
to find in the list of candidates presented, any
vulnerable points of attack, the opponents Of
the citizens nomination. seek to prejudice the
ticket upon general grounds, by raising the
unjust and groundless assumption, that it is
'@rum ticket, and that the motive and the only
motive of those engaged in its nomination,
was, to give unrestrained and unrestricted
license to the liquor traffic; to shield from harm
the violators of municipal and State laws of
every shade and description, and to make our
beautiful city, sort of moral Golgotha, filed
with dead mems bones and all manner of I'M
ceanness.
These assumptions and charges, also, I'M
hesitatingly deny, and refer to the character
and social standing ofthe men upon the ticket
as its best refutation.
Who, except under the strong excitements
of political controversy, would dare to stigma
tie such a ticket as the exponent of the views
of the rogues, rascals, and law-breakers of
Worcester! When did suspicion ever be-
fore blur the names of such men, when pre-
scented for the suffrages of their fellow cit
zens Without disparagement to the names or
character Of any Of those upon the other ticket
it may be said, with the most entire propriety
that theirs is as fair a record taking name for
name and candidate by candidate they
are men of as pure lives and conversation, as
steadfast in their support of law, order, and all
the essentials of wise and just government,
as are those who have been put in nomination
against them, while, on the score of ability and
executive capacity there are few who would
have the boldness to assert that the nominees
of the citizens ticket are not greatly their SUI
periors, as might be expected from the applica-
ton fthe principle upon which they were NOM
mated. The voters of the city will be called
upon, today, to decide this question for them
selves, and hope and trust that they will de-
eide it in view of all the facts, and after an i'm
partial Investigation of the true merits of the
case.
Let no Republican be inundated at the
polls, by any handful threatenings to "spot
him." if he, in the exercise of his duty as
freeman, chooses to cast vote for some men,
other than those of his own party, as the
guardians of the fame of the city, and the in
terests of its people-and let no man be misled
into casting ballot for any one whom he does
not in his heart prefer, by the application of
any political thumb-screws, applied from any
quarter.
The question is a very simple one, as it
seems to me, and that is, whether portion of
the Republican party shall elect an exclusive
Republican board of government, in opposition
to the wishes of a very large and respectable
body of its voters embracing most of the prom
inent working men Of the party, or ,chether
It ,cM not be better for the interests of all CON
cerned, to unite with our fellow-citzens of
every party, and of no party, in fair division
of the honors and the labors of governing this
city of our love. AN OLD REPUBLICAN,