Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-13
TO THE REPUBLICANS OF WORCESTER.

Fe'iou Cjtizens, Republican Voters IF Worces-
| ter:-The undersigned have read am anony-
nous appeal, purporting to be issued by order
of the Republican City Committee, published
in an extra from the Transcript office, which
urges you to vote against the citizens ticket
on the ground of party obligations, and the
more serious ground of the interests and honor
of the city of Worcester
This City Committee by the casting vote of
| W. w. Rice, the candidate whom they now
support, decided to make party nomination,
| it being well known that the name of that gen
tleman was to be presented as a candidate for
the Office of mayor. AT the meeting which
they assembled an informal ballot was called
for by his friends, and obtained, contrary to the
expectation of all not in the secret ofthe previ-
Gus arrangements on his behalf The friends
of other gentlemen of larger experience and
greater prominence in the public mind were
unpfePared with printed ballots and without
concert of action. 1t was sought to forestall all
action, except such as the wire-pullers had
agreed upon, and, so far as that meeting went,
the attempt was successful
After the meeting but before any party
nomination had been made, or any ballot had
been taken upon the question of making a par
ty nomination, the undersigned, with hundreds
of other Republicans, signed call for public
meeting, to nominate candidates for the various
municipal offices in this city, irrespective of
party politics.
Such a meeting was held-in numbers, in
character, and in the variety of interests rep
resented, inferior to none ever convened in the
city of Worcester. 1t put in nomination the
gentlemen whose names are before the peo-
pie, and we challenge a comparison of those
those names with the ticket subsequently NOM
mated by portion of the Republican party, or
with any other names ever presented to the
citizens of Worcester, in any former year. or
by any organization.
We are arraigned, now, as deserving our po-
litical party, and your votes are demanded, on
strictly party grounds.
We deny the right of any party formed for
National or State politics, to bind its members
upon questions of local interest and municipal
government. No such claim has ever been
successfully urged by any party anywhere.
Here and now we deny its justice and rcpudi-
ate its obligation.
Our taxes, our schools, our highways, our
police all the interests economical and moral,
which are the subject of municipal regulation,
are matters in which we claim to exercise a
manly independence, and to consult our own
interests and our views of personal honor and
duty, regardless Of party dictation, and fearless
of attempted party prescription.
Have we not the right to exercise this free
dom? will not you cooperate with us in
doing 500
This anonymous circular further assails us
and the ticket which we support, as opposed
'by men of all parties, who desire that good
order shall prevail in their midst, and that the
laws of the Commonwealth shall receive that
respect and obedience which is their due, in
the opinion even of the conservative classes
of the community, and as rallying the support
of the so called "Citizens ticket" those
men of whatever faith or name, who desire
that those laws shall continue to be violated
with the same IMMUNITY in the future as in
the past"
Such a statement is best refuted by the
names of our candidates. 1t is a fasehood,
as harmless as it is malicious "a SANDER as
cowardly as it is groundless.
We are conscious of nothing in the private
or public character, in the social or moral re-
lations which are sustained by the gentlemen
for whom we invite the sutfrages of the cit
liens of Worcester, which leads us to shrink
from any scrutiny or comparison.
We believe that the nominees of the citizens
party, will enforce all the laws of the Com
mOnwealth, and fulfill all the duties of a NUM-
cipal government more wisely, more fairly,
and more efficiently than would be in the pow
er Of any mere partzans
| Do you believe, fellow citizens, that we,
whose names are here subscribed, or they,
whose names compose our ticket have at
heart anything but the honor and the welfare,
the highest economical and moral interests of
the city in which we dwell? Have we or they
triiing and insignificant interest in the gen
eral good? We commend such and similar
considerations to all candid minds
1t is poor evidence of the moral superior
ity Of our opponents, that they are the reck-
less caluminators of men, who in the next
breath, they confess to have characters which
compel their highest respect.
We ask such of our Republican friends as
well as all other citizens who agree with our
views, and believe that the election of our
candidates would promote the honor and the
interests of the city Of Worcester, to give the
citizens ticket a generous and hearty support
at the polls.
JOHN c. MASON NJ IT NOPSE