Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-11-02
The senntorinI Elec.ion.

was forced upon an unwilling party. by wire
ends to answer, we have not been uninter-
ested spectators of the contest, and we may
say with perfect proprety upon this morning
of the election, that whatever dissensions have
been aroused to the prejudice of that harmo-
NOUS condition which ought to prevail in
party, standing in the position of Republican
party of this city and district, the blame for
this state of things should not be attributed.
by any means, to the opponents of that nom
nation.
Two months ago, there was no cause of dis
sension in our ranks. The administration of
Gov. Banks had been in the highest degrse
acceptable to the people. Ho had redeemed
every promise and every pledge madd to
them prior to his election, and we could look
forward to this second day of November. with
ajoyful confidence that the Heart of the Com
monwealth would endorse his administration,
by an increased vote. and strengthen it for the
coming year by a delegation IN the Legsla-
ture, in whose ability, wisdom, and integrity,
the united party could confde.
But an unforeseen obstacle was suddenly
placed in the way of accomplishing so desira-
bic result. The overweening ambition of a
single man, for place for which, in the view
OF large portion of the party, his past ca
reer had shown him to be wholly untitled,
and the eagerness of few " active but not
very far-seeng politicians" who are reported
to have bargsined to put him through" the
forms of nomination provided he would do
a similar friendly act for them when occasion
should require, brought tie apple of discord
into harmonious party, and, for the last two
or three weeks, the greater issues Of the cam
paign have been lost sight of in an acrimoni-
Gus strife between the partizans of Mr..
Dexter F. Parker and a large and re-
spectacle portion of the party, who dis
Germ in his anteeedents no warrant for the
bestowal of their confidence, and who Justly
fear that he would miss no opportunity that
so prominent an official position would give
him, to enkindle hostiltes among the mem
bers OF the party in the legislature and
to create antagonisms between the execu-
tive and coordinate departments of the Gov
eminent. That there are good grounds for
such distrust, none could doubt who had
watched his career during the sessions of
the last legislature, or who had perused
the coarse, rude, and vulgar diatrbes which
he had Illuminated against the executive,
through one of the presses OF this district,
charging Gov. Banks with the grossest mis-
demeanors in Office, not to say crimes. They
believe, with good reason, and still believe,
that, if elected, he will go to Boston as a spy
in the camp, watching his opportunity to do
the executive of our choice, any injury in his
power. They believe this, because it would be
but the carrying out of what he has already
done, and what he threatened to follow up in
one Of his Cayenne Letters.
Under such circumstances, it was the most
natural thing in the world that the active and
long-tried members of the party should re-
coil at the prescription that disgust, even,
should mingle with the surprise with which
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friends of Governor Banks should set their
faces against it, and that the Heart of the
Commonwealth, which had always been
so loyal in its support of the principles
and true men of the Republican party,
should not, with their consent, be foremost
to insult an executive whose public acts they
most heartily endorse, by sending to the Sem
ate, his most malignant reviler, and bitterest
foe. Yet, while they felt that the du1y to re-
sist this nomination was plain and impera-
tive, they desired to preserve the unity of the
party. They held out the olive branch tc
their political friends and publicly proclaimed
their willingness to take any proper and suit
able man that the friends of the nominee
might name, so that they might be relieved
from the position in which they were placed
This was not acceded to. On them, there.
fore, will not rest the blame of the result
whatever it may be, They believe it to be
solemn and imperative duty, to defeat tn,
no mination-a duty which the best interest,
of the party and of the State require and
| 0OlOOhS'ihBt INC LuIehbe That nave been Iulml'
mated in certain quarters. have no terrors fol
them, They may fail in their attempt, Blu
they will have done their duty, and are salts
fed to meet the consequences.
Those who oppose this nomination regre
exceedingly that any state of circumstance
should exist which endangers the election O.
a Democrat. Yet even that result may have
more than its equivalent, in the salutary les
son it will yield for the future. And there il
this consolation, in view of such an occur
renee, that if the Democratic candidate
should be elected, he will go into
body so strongly Republican, that lis pol
itics can do no harm. He is, moreover
a highminded and honorable man, whose in
terests are deeply involved and identified witt
those of the city and every class of her popu
lation, one, on whose personal integrity ant
character no breath of suspicion rests, and II
whom, aside from his political opinions, NJ
objection can be made.
The next House Of Representatives promises Il
have many able, substantial, and experienced
men in it. Hon. Charles w. Upham and stepher
A. Chase are nominated by the Republican,
from Salem, Hon. Tappan Wentworth from Low
ell Hon. Ensign II. Kellogg from PittsReld an,
Moses Kimball, Charles Hale, and Martin
Brimmer, from Boston. Hon. Caleb Cushing i