Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-30
The Candidate for Mayor.

II is announced that a few gentlemen have
proposed DR.. f. H. Kelley for mayor intending
TO run him to-day against Mr. Earle who was
nominated by the general caucus. We have not
heard that DR.. Kelley has accepted the nominal
ton; but, as he was a candidate in the general
caucus, VIC do not see how he can do so with
propriety and honor. BY going into the caucus
and allowing his name to be used, from the be-
ginning TO the end of the baloting, he was
placed under obligation to stand by the result;
and as we have no warrant for supposing that
be and his immediate friends are men who stand
ready 10 play fast and loose" with such obliga-
tions, we choose to believe that they have not
consented to such use of his name as is re-
ported.
No fairer nominating caucus than that which
assembled in Mechanics hal, last Thursday
evening, was ever held in this city. Ii was
largely attended; all classes and interests were
represented; the balloting was conducted with
the utmost fairness; and there was nothing
whatever to furnish ground for reasonable COM
plant, or to suggest that any Of the citizens en-
gagged in it could think of withdrawing from
their obligation to support the successful candi-
date for the nomination. If men can ever be
bound TO each other, in honor, to subordinate
personal preferences to a general purpose, when
they combine in behalf of any municipal, social,
or political interest, the men who took part in
that caucus were SO bound. If deliberate trifing
with such obligations should become general, it
would be impossible for men TO trust each other
Mr. Earlewas nominated fairly and honoraby.
He did not seek the nomination, andwas not in
the city either when the caucus was held, or at
any time previous after it was called. If ma
jority of the votes had been cast for one of the
other candidates, he and his special friends
would have supported that candidate most cor
daily. But majority of the large caucus pre-
ferred MIR. Earle. He is an old citizen of Wor-
cester; he has had great experience in business,
and his faculty for managing business and for
work gives him special fitness for the office at
this time; his long residence in the city
and connection with business here have
necessarily given him an interest in municipal
affairs which adds to his fitness for the office;
and be is well qualified to take in hand the I'M
finished work of our late mayor and carry on
that work TO q fitting conclusion. For these and
other reasons, a very large meeting of the peo-
pie has designated him for the office of mayor;
and, to-day, he will be honorably and earnestly
supported at the polls.
Mr.. Earle is now SO situated, that be can de-
vote his whole time to the work that devolves
upon the mayor of Worcester, which, at the
present time, Is Ger ainly, not work that can be
safely entrusted to any ease-loving man without
experience in business His ability, energy in
business, and great interest in our municipal af-
fairs, no one is likely to doubt. Therefore, let
him have cordial support and large majority.
This is not time when the city can afford to
have its interests made the sport of personal
aims and maneuvers. We have too much
at stake. The question is, will the people of
Worcester support mayor who shall undertake
to finish wisely and thoroughly the unfinished
work of our late mayor2 And, at the polls, to-
day, the question will be, will the voters support
the candidate whom great meeting of the citi-
zens has selected for the Office, fairly, honorably,
and with a knowledge of his warm interest in
that work, and his ability to undertake it sue
cessfnlly?