Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-29

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ICHABoD WASHBURN, of Worcester.
In the number of Mr.. Eli Thayer's organ,
that was issued last Saturday, there is short
article that begins as follows =" Look out for
all manner of lies, plots, frauds, and conspira-
cies." 1t was well TO make this announce
ment, for any one on reading this number of
it, might reasonably doubt the capacity of its
conductors to get up a new flood of such
things. He would be likely to conclude at
once that their power of production was ex.
hausted Among the deliberate fIlsehoods
found in it is one which charges us with mu
tiating a telegraphic despatch which announ-
ced the election of senators in Oregon. The
New York papers had a dispatch in which it
was said that one of the new senators, Mr. Ba-
ker, sis a non-interventinn republican, with
views similar to those of Eli Thayer" Mr.
Thayer's organ says
"This dispatch was published in full in all
the New York papers of the I'D, and was re-
ceived in this city on Monday night Yet the
intolerant and bigoted Bailey organs in this
city gave it to the public in a mutilated form,
having carefully eliminated from it the intel
ligence that Mr.. Baker, the republican sena~
tor from Oregon, is a non intervention repub-
lican, with views similar to those of Eli Thay-
err"
Now, Mr.. Thayer and his friends kno0 that
we printed the news from Oregon just as it
came by telegraph, precisely as it was print
ed in the Boston papers and they know that
they are guilty of a deliberate, cod-blooded,
and most shameless falsehood, when they say
that such dispatch as appeared in the New
York papers was received here Monday
night" and mutiIated by the "bigoted Bailey
organs, which, Of course, means the Spy, the
only Worcester paper that received the dis
patch. Mr.. Thayer himself has said in his
speeches what is said in his organ, and that,
too, after he knew all the particulars of the
case, and understood very well that what he
said was false. But he seldom scruples to say
anything that seems to him calculated to pro-
duce an effect favorable to his aims.
1t is not so much to correct the false
hood that we refer to the matter, as to say that
we do not see anything very comforting to
Mr. Thayer in the report that Col. Bakers
views are similar to his. The report comes 10
us OIL the authority of some telegrapher, and
it may or may not be true. But, let us assume
it to be true, and all that can be said is that "
get from the Douglas democrats the best re-
pubcans they could afford to give us, not pre-
cisely such man as ought to be sent to con-
gress from the ninth district in Massachusetts,
but much better than was hoped of a state
where threefourths of the voters are demo.
Gratis. Beyond this there is nothing but the
great difference between the republican plat
form and the Eli Thayer platform. Our DIES
patch said that Col. Baker was a republican
but this was not enough for Mr.. Thayer. II
was nothing to the purpose to show the
Oregon senator as republican. To give
comfort to Mr.. Thayer and his friends,
Col. Baker must be described as a strong,
and very peculiar cross between Oregon re-
pubIicanism and Oregon Douglasism, that is
to say,-"a non-interventon republican, with
views similar to those of Eli Thayer." He
may be, as the telegrapher to the New York
papers said, a political curiosity who is not
sufficiently described by calling him republi-
can. If so, it is very likely that he resembles
Mr.. Thayer. But, before believing this with
entire confidence, we must have more anthem
tic and exact information; and it will be neces-
sary to know whether he resembles Mr.. Thay-
er as he is now, or as he was two years ago.
We certainly have in this congressional dis.
trict one OF the most remarkable contests ever
heard of in the state. When it shall be posi-
BILE for such INSCRIPTIONS methods to succeed
the laws of things will be out OF Joint. and
reckless audacity will be better for all useful
purposes than truthful ard honorable reliance
on the force of great principles. The course
pursued by Mr. Thayer gives great satisfac.
ton to the democrats, and herein is a lesson
which all sincere republicans should study
carefully. Mr.. Thayer and his friends are in
constant communication with the democrats
and most of those who will vote for him mex
week will be inveterate enemies of the republi
can party, who seek its destruction. There
is in this city a prominent democrat
one Of the two who represented TIN
democratic party in the national conyen
IlOn, WHO WHEN IilK VIII on Tue SIfecl, II
81" utterly opposed to having democrats vote
for Eli Thayer;" and yet this gentleman is Sc
crety at work for him; secretly through feai
of alarming those Thayer republicans who dc
not fully comprehend q the mystery OF mi
guilty" AT the Douglas congressional con
yention, the other day, he was overheard urg
ing his democratic friends to support Thayer.
"We'ye nothing to lose by it, he said, " and
ii we elect him, we shall break up the -
black republican party and get material ia
puAd ourselves up with" Some rough words
were used which we omit.
Iha democrats, especially the Douglas dem.
ocrats, are now MIR. Thayer's most active sun.
porters. Ills principles and his methods ot
procedure appear TO suit them and their mo.
tiyes for supporting him are well described bv
the language Of the delegate to the Cbarlos,or
Baltimore convention, which we have quoted
They seek to injure the republican marty
How many republicans will Join them in mi
work
Gen. ID. r. Atchison Of Missouri, and som,
what prominent in the nvasions of Kansas h