Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-31

proper guarding of machinery from the badgers
Of. becoming cntauglcd to the jeopardy of life
and limb.
He agdiu pitched intd tie commission SYSTEM
INFO which the stare has laileti. T3tdtT phUl'
missions, costing the state over 100000 lie
8 id, ere using up the public money. Don't be-
licye the newspapers, said he; they have
reasons thHs are al n it, al have sonie rela-
tive or ntGrcst-i party pu ig dWdy 1T ths rHts
lie feat. Robinson, as clerk of The house, kept
getting in Il little extra % salary, until re uGl-
ly got 5000 for six months work, hes les his
srla'E e. the Republicans correspondent. Do
ydu H0ndCt lie sddefls wien Il = ~ mn him
away. q lud laughter) The general then a.
luded to what was paid for assistant clerk"
As another inst Ince of public wastclulness,
he procej led TO examine, in his way, the man
rer IN which the state lunatic asyldm in this
city Is Conducted JndGfg rom the silaies
paid he said, he had no doubt but that ii vas
tnc whole state, 61j insane state paupers and he
ou4d bS examination that there was one at
I ndant to every two lhsdhe Tatrers' St this
Worcester institution 1874 attendants and ass
siStants ere employed at an expense of $4,000
per year, besides their board; il costs S90C0
more +, ladrd the panpers' let us look, said
he at the number Of insane state pAlIpeiS there
are thirty-fve at this hospital coming under
state care; the others are paid for by towns and
ndiN,d He thought it time the matter was
look d into and change mNde-any change
would he preferable - the present mode OF Cafi
ute for tloSe ,thirty-five pauperS; it would be
cheaper iOr tie state th hire them boarded at
the Revere house, aud have them supplied Win
bottles of wine and other luXui ,es to keep them
docile. lie also said he knew whereof he af-
frmcd when he stated that the state has paid for
the board 1f parnera ut this institution after
they had been dead and buil ed fol tid.e tliau d
year.
lie said he wanted to scrape the baulacles
off the old ship of state; get her into shape that
she might steer well and sail into the harbor at
SOME tihiti There lias not Been democratic OPP
position enough to brighten her GObpefSi but
the time has come when the people viii take
hold of the work. He wished for the success OF
the republican party, and for another presiden
saw no man whom we can 90 to with hope Of
sucCtss but Gen Grant, let not the REPRESENTA-
tive state in the union 70 back; let her set All
example in progress to the states Just rcOrgan:
lied and sti Juggling onj let us keep alOOf from
corruption and extravaganza, Tie republican
party has Il lease of life much longer than any
other; while the war was going on the people
paid faxes and did not grumbc, but the time
has come when reforms must he made inside
the parry. The men who are try ing 70 dive me
out of the republican party will not succeed, for
the party will 30 out with me and leave its self
constituted leaders behind
He he'd come home, lie said, to clean the
ship of state, because the time he'd come when
he could sbe spared in Congress, his work in
making laws by which the people at the south
would be protected and his mission In recon-
st dcting other states WIS ended. He would be
glad of help, but if the people thought the state
ha better 90 back, after his frank statemcl ITS
to them, be it so, be it so, il they thought
| they could find man who would govel j
| the state better be it so. The salary of cover.
nor was of no consequence to him, he had a
| profession at which he could make five lines
| the mOney-he could bi.ng newspapers TO jus
| tice for slandeTing innocent people. The posi-
| tion was an honorable one, he s2id, one high
and noble, in which he thought he could do the
state great SCI vice; he came face to IF &c with
the people, speaking to them openly and above
board; he did not drink wine in the back par
lOrs of Boston hotels talking the matter over
with chosen few who would at last come to
Mechanics hall, where the platform would be
f'l-d with VICE presidents, like so many Orna-
mental flower pots.
He wished the audience - remember that he
had never spoken with such bitter less until a
stolm of unprovokcd abuse came upon him; his
colleagues in congrpSs-eveiy one who knew
him-would say that he never ms lie an attack
until attacked, and those attacking him were al
ways sorry for it-that WIS the way he intend !
to 90 through life
He asked What has Cen. Butler done that he
should be so attacked? Ii any one can put theii
finger on aught, let it stand against him-judgC
ye IT, on the contrary, it is found that he has
Cone the best he could With FL his mpcrlectionS
judge We.
He be l lived in Lowell forty years, man and
boy; if it can be found that the people of that
city have no confidence in him., he asks no
| more from the people of other pol lions of The
commonwealth. One more test, he would GSk
them TO 90 to any soldier that ever served with
him any where, (who didn't get into the guard
house, dismiss | or remov d) he would take
their judgment, and if nine-t 3lths of them
would not vote for him, he ought not to be
elected.