Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-26


of slavery to be disposed OF by the people who do
or may hereafter, inhab such territories, they in
the exercise OF their sovereignty may decide Tor
themselves"
In moving the adoption of these resolutions,
NJ. j. McCaferty, Esq, of Worcester, highly
compimented the delegates from this district
to the Charleston and Baltimore conventions.
SENATORIAL CONVENTIONS
The Douglas democrats held conventions,
yesterday in four ofthe senatorial districts of
this county In the Worcester central district
convention, held at u o'clock, at Horticultural
Hail. Col james Estabrook was chairman, and
T. w. Caldwell OF Worcester, secretary. On
motion of C. A. Holbrook OF Worcester, Ma
THAN WAsHBURN of Worcester was nomina-
ted candidate for senator by reclamation. The
following gentlemen were chosen district com
miuee tor the ensuing year Levi Barker and
James Melanefy of Worcester, Otis Pierce OF
Paxton, Francis Davis of Holden, and George
w. Gates of Rutland.
In the Worcester southwest district con-
vention, held at the same time in the ante-room
of that hall, John Mellish of Auburn presided,
and Emory E. HARDWOOD was secretary.
Henry II. Stevens of Dudley declined running
again as candidate for senator. On balloting,
the votes stood, for Hammond Brown of West
Brookfield, 10, w. II. Stevens, II, and
Simeon Lamb of Charlton, g. There being
no choice, Mr.. Brown withdrew his name
as a candidate, aud Mr.. Stevens positively
refused TO allow his name to be used On
H. I,oI Hnr.
wood o. Hamond Brown 6, Emory Sanford
of Oxford 2 and Simeon Lamb of Charlton l.
Mr.. Harwood declined the nomination, and
Mr.. Brown was then nominated by acclama
ton. The committee on credentials, II. H.
Stevens, chairman, reported every town rep
resented by full delegations. The following
gentlemen were chosen district committee =
John Mellish of Auburn, Washington Tufts of
Brookfeld Simeon Lamb of Charlton, } ohm L. Ed
thy Aldrich OF Oxford, - Lewis of Southbrdge,
Benz. d. Hyde OF Sturbrdge, Warner Whiting of
Spencer, Francis Bugbee of Webster, John Il. Tyler
of Warren, Geo. Crowel of West Brookfeld.
The Worcester east district convention met
at the same time, at the Lincoln House. I,
w. Childs of Milibury presided, with 0. f.
Vinton Of Westboro' as secretary. VIM. II
Knowlton Of Shrewsbury was nominated for
senator, and the following district committee
chosen:
| j. Jackson of Westboro', L. J HEMINGWAY of
Shrewsbury G. E. Valentine of Northboro. T. W.
| Childs of Mllbury, S. A. PIERCE of Grafton, d. j.
King OF Upton,g,, }. Baker of Bolton, j. I Dame
| of Clinton, T. Bond of Boylston, A. Whiting of
| West Boyston, X. S. Hastings OF Berlin.
The Worcester southeast district convention
was held in Uxbridge, at two o'clock yester.
day afternoon. Richard D. Mowry of Tx
bridge called the convention to order and pre-
sided temporarily. The following permanent
organization was effected -
President-IIenry A. Adrich of Mendon
Vice Presdents-Henry Nelson of Milford o.
Morse of Douglass, and Rufus Haywood of Black
Secretaries George w. Rice of Sutton, Samuel
Ihay er, Jr., OF Blackstone.
The committee on credentials reported six
towns represented by forty-eight delegates,
Northbridge being the only town unrepresent
ed A committee of six, consisting of Samuel
Thayer, Jr., of Blackstone, B. L. Batcheller
of Sutton, VIM. Legg Of Milford, Capt. Sta
pies of Mendon, Simeon Rawson of Douglass,
and Charles Wing of Uxbrdge, were chosen
TO confer with similar committee of the Bell
Everett convention, to agree upon union
candidate for senator. The result of this
conference was not favorable to a fusion, the
Bell Everett folks claiming the nomination.
a ballot was ordered, and Messrs. Batcheller
of Sutton, Gaskell of Mendon and Adams of
Milford, chosen to collect, sort, and count the
votes for a straight-out democratic candidate
for senator. The first (informal) ballot stood
Orison Underwood of Milford 10, Francis
Deane of UXbridge II, j. g. Gaskell of Black
stone s, Joseph Day Of Uxbridge 2, Joseph IL
Barker of Milford l, and Henry Nelson of
Milford making 81 votes cast in all The
first formal ballot resulted OF the 80 votes
cast, Orison Underwood of Milford received
q, Francis Deane 10, and scattering Gen
UNDERWOOD was then unanimously adopted
by acclamatian
The following gentlemen were chosen dis
trict committee for the ensuing year
Samuel Thayer Jr and Charles IL. Fletcher, of
Blackstone; Il. ID MOWry and Charles Wing of Tx
bridge; Simon Rawson and Alvin Hall of Douglas
George W. Rice of Sutton; George Benson and H.
.. Bean of Northbridge; John S. Gaske and H.
A. Aldrich of Mendon; j. IL. Barker. John Reed,
and A. q. Gleason, of Milford
This committee were empowered with the
authority to change their ticket, in case Gen.
Underwood should decline, or there should be
disposition to "dcker." The Bell-Everett
folks say they won't fuse, unless Deane, Mans.
field OF Blackstone, Robinson of Northbridge,
Parker Of Milford, or some other good Bell-Ev.
erett man is the nominee, Deanes vote in
the democratic convention shows the whole
strength of those disposed SO to ''fuse"
The Bell-Everett committee, who were en-
powered by their convention so to do, have
nominated David Brewer OF Milford as their
candidate for senator So fusion is dead, there.
DEMOCRATIC MEETIN THE Douglas dem
ocrats OF this city had their first rally for the
campaign, at the City Hall, last evening The
hall was well filled, and the meeting was call
ed to order at y o'clock, by Mr.. E. N Chids
and organized as follows
| President-George w Bentley,
Vice Presidents-James Estabrook, Nathan Wash
| burn, Henry Prentiss. Henry w Conklin, Moses
| Bates, John Haley, VIM Greenleaf, S. b. Dennis
| Patrick O'keefe, Stephen Taft, Asa Walker, Moses
| TAFT, G. Is. Pratt, Oryille Lathrop, A G. Williams
John Simmons, Hamilton Holt Henry Mnrray'
| Charles s. Childs. NJ. ODriscoll, DR.. John A. An
drew, Appleton Dadmun, George r. Spur NJ :
| AcConyile, John Mason, Charles Beicler Levi
Barker. CORTLAND Newton, VIM. Adams, James
| Melanefy.
secretaries-A. IL. Ward, Horace W. Bates. E. A.
| Denney, S. ID. Nye, James A. O'Reilly Arthur b.
Estabrook Osgood Bradley, Jr
On taking the chair, Mr.. Bentley made
short speech, in defence of the canse, after
which he introduced Edwin G. Bailey of Bos
ton. Mr.. Bailey spoke at some length, going