Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-31

the country. (Great cheering They mot
out here in Mr.. Goochs district the other dav
and they nominated Mr.. O. Ii. Perry as A can
dldate for congress, and fearing he would not
stand, they nominated Mr.. L. c. Baker as a
substitute Iaughter) This nominating
a substitute for congress is certainly some
thing new under the SUM- | congratulate
Hon: E. Z. Baker on the high honor of being
Mr.. Perry's substitute They nominated Mr..
Train of birmingham to run against cover
nor Boutwell,, and Mr.. Train, like a true
patriot, as he is, comes out with manly let
ter, In which he says that, as a republican, he
supports the proclamation of Abraham Lin
coin, and cannot be voted for by gentlemen
who have any doubts on that subject. loud
applause.) They nominated governor Cliff
ford to run against Mr.. Eliot, and governor
Clifford comes out and declines the honor
They nominated Mr.. Thayer in the Worces-
ter district 10 run there, but Eli Thayer was
too wise man to permit himself to run by
these gentlemen in the heart of the common
wealth. He, too, comes out with manly
letter and declines to run, and says he goes
Tor the unity OF the people of the country in
tins emergency. (Appause.) But the con-
YehtlOn instructed their communities in case
MT. mayer declined, to nominate somebody
else; and that committee nominated our old
to be employed in public affairs, and has been
| quite as unfortunate as Judge Abbott mean.
| Isaac Davis of Worcester Mr.. Davis ar
| cepts. He comes out with a letter. and he
says IN this crisis of the country he would not
| take aparty nomination, but as this nomina-
uoh comes from the sovereign people, he ac-
! ceptS 1t! 1t comes from little committee IN
IN the county of Worcester and Mr.. Davis
accepts 1t as coming from the SOVEREIGN PEG
PIE of the Worcester district
CHEERING PROSPECTS.
Ihey come down into this old fighting dis
trlct where You have had so many hard strug-
| giles Tor MIR. Burlingame, and nominate Judge
Abbott, an hopes to send him to the congress of
| the United States; and tell you that is the
only hope that any reasonable man among
| them can entertain for moment In the
| hrst place, John A. Andrew (prolonged cheer
ing) will be elected governor of this common
| wealth by an overwhelming and crushing ma
Jonty. Cloud applause.) Although the Fam
euil hall convention spent much of its time in
disappearing that patriotic meeting of the
! governors at Altoona, although his position
| has been mlSrepresented all over this state |
| say TO you there Is not man among them so
| foolish as to believe that they can defeat John
A. Andrew. applause and cries of 'sThats
| SOD They hope to defeat Charles Sumner
They have been intriguing for the last twelve
months to elect a legislature that should de-
feat the return of Charles Sumner to the SEN
| ate OF the United States, but tell you Charles
| Sumner is as certain Of reelection as next
Tuesday dawns upon the world. cloud
cheers.) l make the prediction, and | want
you to take it home with you and remember it,
that Charles Sumner will receive more than
two-thirds vote in each house of our legisla-
ture. (Applause.) There is no contest over
Gov. Andrew; there is no contest over Charles
Sumner; there is no contest in any congress
sional district of this state, with the exception
of this old district of yours
The speaker here devoted his attention to
the congressional contest in the fourth district
which want OF space compels us to omit. He
closed his effective and admirable speech as
follows =