Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-01
A DISTURBANCE IN PROGRESS.

pilory ever since the electoral ticket was put
i'll the field. 1t is claimed by those who repre-.
sent the German and Irish voters, that every
man on it will vote for Douglas. The New
York Express says that ten of them will vote
for Bell and Everett. Explanations are de-
manded, but they are not given. Finally Mr..
Ouendorter, German who Is one of the can
dates, asks the democratic state committee to
confirm his declaration that all the electors
will vote for Douglas, or else erase his name
from the ticket. The committee have just
been in session, two days. Mr.. Ottendorfer's
letter was before them, but they took no notice
of it, not even deigning to erase his name
as he requests. This unprincpled coalition
will be failure. There is a fraud in it which
cannot escape exposure.
Meanwhile, this poorly concealed bargain
with a fraud in it, has been heard of at the
west. We notice that Hon. Richard w.
Thompson, of Indiana, is out in a speech,
announcing his adherence of this coalition
policy, and declaring that he prefers Lincoln
to Douglas. Mr.. Thompson. has been moved
to this demonstration by the scandalous char
acter of the coalition in New York. He is
one of the abest and most prominent politi-
clans in Indiana, the representative man of the
Bell Everett party, and his speech will have a
powerful influence. We print here few ex
tracts from it,
"WHo CAN THE PEOPLE ELECT?
The four candidates having been nominated
in the manner l have stated, wish it was so
that all the people in the north, and the Union
men in the SOUTH could look at this thing as
do, and see the necessity of uniting upon some
man for president, who, like Mr. Bell, stands
upon platform neither sectional nor ultra,
and who would do his duty with an eye single
to the welfare and honor of the nation. (Ap-
plause.) Yet candor compels me to say
that | do not believe there Is much prospect
OF Mr. Bells being elected by the electoral
coeges-that is, do not think there are men
enough in the country who look at this thing
just as l do, to vote for him and elect him by
the colleges. l regret it, but cannot help it.
am not. responsible for the consequences.
| am like the doctor who gives medicine,
but cannot insure the eradication OF the dis.
ease. do not beiieue anybody can be elected By
the Colleges unless 1t be Mr. Lincoln. AppiauSe.l |
l am dealing in matter OF facts. do not believe
Mr.. breckenridge can be elected by the people.
AS for Mr.. Douglas, | am candid and honest
when l tell you mean no disrespect to him
at all, Tor told him, in high personal regard, J
think he will lack just one state of getting as
many as Mr.. Fillmore got in 1856. Laugh
ter If he gets an electoral vote at all, do
not know where it will come from. will not
say it with any degree of certainty, but it is
possible, that MIR. Lincoln will be elected by
the people. Applause 1 think has chances
are Increasing daily.
FUSION DENOUNCED.
When we made our nomination of Mr.
Bell at Baltimore, there was an implied agree
ment resting upon all of US, that we would
support the ticket straight through Give or
die, sink or swim, survive or perish" We |
were TO stand by that nomination, because we |
the democrats and republicans |
both wrong. There was ali implied agree
ment that we would stand under that flag that
had inscribed upon its folds 1.-THE Constitu-
ton, the Union, and the enforcement of the
avs" (Applause) But, from some cause,
gentlemen in different parts OF the country
nave supposed that they have right to
change that agreement.
Instead of fighting Douglas, Breckenridge,
md Lincoln, some gentlemen have seen fit to
make little private agreement with the
Douglas men that they will tie fast together to
thing in the presidential election. The people
Of the United States are confiding people, |
and are generally jealous of their rights. just |
so soon as they began to suspect that the poll
tiCians were making trades for tine presiden- |
cy, they inquired if it was not time to take |
the voting into their own hands, and they will |
do it. If Mr.. Lincoln be elected to the presi-
dency, these political traders are responsible |
for it. never made trade in politics with |
anybody. If there lives a man who knows
that l ever made political bargain, l give
him perfect license TO expose il. If there
shall be president elected by political
bargains, rash my hands Of 1t. L have no
such bargains to make. When the democratic
party was in its prime, and exulted in the fact
that we were laid low at its feet, was unwil-
ling to bargain with it, and now when it lies
dead and bleeding, l am unwilling to to be tied
to its corpse-I will not be. Great applause.)
| will stand by the faith that l have always
maintained, and will adhere to the honest con.
vlctions OF my Judgment If / cannot have
the man for president whom desire, will be
content with letting the people select the man
of their choice, and will not dissolve the Union
because l cannot have my way. tApplause.)
| am Uuion man, and l believe you
are Union men, too. (Renewed appause.)
,0ould greatly prefer 10 see Mr.. Bell
elected, but he neUer shall be elected nth my con-
sent, nor shall any other man, by bargain Nth
Mr.. Douglas and his friends, or Nth Mr. Breck-
inridge or has friends. (Applause.) l will
make no bargains with them. | have fought
them all my life. When they were strong
and compact party fought them and am still
willing to fight them, whether they come in
single platoons or as an allied army Zap
plause.) Why, how would ticket look made
up OF half Americans and half Douglas men
Is it possible there is man who was ever
know nothing who would consent to such ar
arrangement"