Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-07-12
Tie pemocrnsIe ArIssoeracy.

LIS OHuOCIhlAC patty NCACLAotAuh pA -AS%A-
day was an exclusive affair. twas made up
| of the well-dressed we'll to- do sristocratic
| portion of the party. It was quite a lavender
water, white kid, green turtle concern. The
| hard-fsted em browned- visaged, strong armed
| and strong hearted mechanics, who used to
| swell the ranks of the party in the North End
wards, were among the missing, but in their
I steads were the Choates, the Austins, the
Harveys, and the Dehones, whose democratic
| antecedents, like the BwIll-miik COWS, are
| somewhat stub tailed. The chiefs Appeared
| to be recent recruits from the old Wing party,
| mea who couldn't be Republicans, because
/ Republicans elected machiue-shop men for
| Governors Of States, and shoemakers Senators
| in Congress- and who also believe that slave
| holding and slave-driving are neither demo-
| cratic nor national institutions.
The Grafton Of Mr.. Choate, like all of his
| productions, is able and eloquent, but he was
| either lacking in physical strength, or he did
not like his new party associates, or some
thing else, for he had not that fiery energy
| and vehemence which always characterized
him when making Wing addresses in the good
old times. The singing at the Temple was
very fine, and the dinner at the Revere was a
thorough anti democratic meal. The aristoc-
racy oil dukodom could not excel it in elegance,
and the richest wines washed down the graz
vles, and the highly compounded salads, and
the democratic" sentiments.
We say that the whole thing was an ex-
elusive, aristocratic affair. 1t was a celebra-
ton with which the people had nothing to do
lt'was designed to injure the popular cause
| represented by the Republican party. 1t was
| believed by the getters-up and managers of it,
| that the address made by Mr.. Ager last year.
| in which the spirit of true democratic liberty
was exalted, but which gave offence to tender
footed politicians and bunker democrats, Of
fered an occasion for making little Buchanan
capital in the shape Of an address on nation
atty, by Mr.. Choate. But the result shows
that his great name could not induce the peo-
pie OF Massachusetts to shoulder the fires of
liberty, or pay homage to the Moloch of slave
ry.
The tickets for the dinner were fixed by the
committee at the very democratic price of ten
dollars each, which, however, admitted the
purchaser and a lady to hear the address at
the Temple, by the old Wing star orator, Ru-
tqs Choate. 1t was believed that there were
enough of the arstoeratc elements in the
party, with the additions from the old
wing party, and the collectors, navy agents,
inspectors, tide waters and that portion of
the party whose aim it has been to hold the
federal offices, receive the federal patronage,
and keep the party conveniently small" to
I'LL the dining ball of the Revere House, and
give Mr.. Choste a select audience at the Tenn
pie; hut it was an error of judgment. The
tickets did not go off. They hung upon their
| hands and to prevent an utter and total fail
ure, and the presentation of beggerly array
of empty chairs, they had to tote in out
| siders. We understand that one dof the
ederal officers bought thirty of the ten dol
| lar tickets, and instead of tickets being de-
manded at the door OF the Temple for ad-
mission, prior to the commencement of the
exercises, the doors were thrown open and
free admission given to all who would 20 in
and fill up the empty seats. BY these means
the hall was respectfully filed, but not by
any means crowded. The procession was a
most ghosty affair. 1t was mere skeleton of
what was expected.
The orator of the day and the distinguished
guests comprising such.world renowaed Dem
ocTats as Governor Everett and Hon. William
Appleton, dld not make part of the pedestrian
regiment, as they were expected to do, and
as the programme announced. They proba-
bly, took what, since the recent yacht race
through the Sound, they call in New York
the opium Gut route, for they were in the
hall and seated the platform before the
marshals, the military escort, the band the
inspectors, the weighers and guagers, the dead
heads, and the tde-waiters arrived for, take
out the government officials from the pyoees.
sion, and, like Fallstatf S regiment, one shirt
would prove a sufficient under. garment for
| what was left, without rending seam or tear
| ing thread. This aud the dinner rather re-
versed the words of Shakespeare, that "tbe
| funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth
the marriage ceremony for in this case the
marriage baked meats did but coldly furnish
forth the funeral
Douglas Jerrold, in his admirable story of
Job Pippins, says, take temptation away from
his fine senses and Job stood before YOU a
model of self government. So in the case of
the Democratic PROFESSIONALISM the custom
house officials, of high and low degree, and
the walters on of government fortune away
from the ranks of the Democratic procession.
and it stood before you as Banquos ghost did
before Macbeth, mere phantom of the imsg-
inauon.
We read in Mr.. Warren's novel of tTen
| Thousand Year." that Tittebat Titmouse
the hero, when candidate in the borough of
Yatton, for the House of Commons, under the
advice of his legal friend, Mr.. Cannon. of
the law firm of Quirk, Cannon, s. Snap, in
vested 'fye pounds for a mob" to veil his
| praises at the hustings and make a demonstra-
| tive procession. We think it would have
been wise stroke of policy on the part Of the
Buchanan corporators, to have given only five
dollars for their dinner, and used the other
five for bounty money to get recruits to their
skeleton procession.
We have already said that the dinner was
unapproachable in style, elegance, and varie-
ty, Only about three hundred sat down TO
it, including dead heads. The aristocracy Of
the party were there and no one else. for shin
wrghts, calkers, and 'gravers, mechanics, and
working men, cannot well afford to nav the
earnings Of a week for Fourth of july din.
ner given at the Revere House. We think it
was very unkind, however, not to have had
place reserved for their military escort, who
we are.told had to forego the good things at
the Revere, and take their dinner at the very
excellent eating house of Mr. Learned in Con-
| gress street, which, though not so costly. was
| perhaps as wholesome.
We have no desire to interfere with the nr;
ces which gentlemen are willing to paw for
their dinners. Were the celebration Of the
Democratic Young Mems Club, Monday. a
| private affair, not one word would we saw
about it. But it was not; it was a public
political party demonstration. 1t was origi-
nally designed to break up the city celebfa-
ton, and to make party capital in both of
which they most egregiously failed. The city
had the best celebration that it has had for
| several years. The Younp Men,s Dar,oorot