Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-01
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WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER l, 1871.


OF the enthusiastic pOlltlCldu, WHO sees every
wear crises more momentous than any which
has preceded it and clamors for everybody of
his political faith to come forward Just this once
and save The country from impending ruin; but
in this state, and still more in some others there
are reasons why the result of these elections
should be watched with mole than common in
crest. In Massachusetts our active political
came to an end with the republican
While the nomination for governor
was still in dispute there was
greater degree of political excitement
than has been known here for some years.
Since then the canvass has been languid
as if there were no further interest in the result,
and il seems to be conceded thatthe vote will be
light and Mr. Washburn'S majority not larger
than Gov Clahin's last year. We hope, how
ever, for something better than that, Mr.. Wash
burns personal character and public services en-
title him TO more than meager and formal
recognition by the party which has called him
10 preside over the government of the common
wealth, and the party, in justice TO itself, ought
to assert its strength and attachment to its
and organization, as an assurance of
what it will be able 10 do in the national eleec-
ton next year.
We are not ready to believe that all the inter-
est of our people in public affairs evapOrated
during the heated contest for the nomination of
state officers, nor that it has been diverted into
other channels by the great calamity at Chicago.
There are indications that an intelligent, practi-
cal concern for the public welfare is more prev
alcnt than at ordinary times, and we hope its
effects will be seen in the faithful performance
of a citizens duty on election day. 1t is our
impression that the caucuses recently held
for legislative and other nominations, have
been more largely attended than usual, and
by men Of all classes and occupations,
who seldom make their appearance at such
meetings. We believe, too, that the candidates
nominated for the legislature by our party are,
in larger proportion than common, men of
legislative experience as well as of proved
character for intelligence and integrity. We
t,ust that the legislature will prove to be an
ADLER, more industrious and efficient body than
some OF its predecessors, and will have character
enough to escape the imputationS from which
they have suffered. We hope it will give small
encouragement to the lobby, will discourage
special legislation as far as possible, and dispose
of its business before summer sets in. If it is
not unreasonable to expect such things of the
republican candidates, it is certainly worth
while to elect them.
Outside of our own state the New York cleo
tons attract the greatest interest There is
much reason to hope that the republicans will
carry the state. SO far as the state officers are
concerned it is of not much consequence
whether they do or not, except as an indication
of party strength. The astounding revelations
of official corruption in the city government,
the close alliance of the democratic leaders with
the thieves, and the controlling influence pos
sessed by the most guilty Of the latter in the
counsels Of the party, have given to the demo-
cratic party in that state, and indeed in the
VIII le country, a blow from which it cannot re-
cover for long time, if ever. The most notori-
ously and insolently corrupt of the whole gang
is candidate for the state senate, and his cleo
ton is universally conceded. The same frauds
that have been practced fer years in every cleo
ton in New York city, and which at this crit-
cal time will be used more desperately than
ever by the rascals who control the city
government, are trusted TO count ont
the requisite number of votes to elect
him, and will very likely provide
majority sufficient TO overcome the republican
preponderance in the rest Of the state. That
the state outside of the city will be strongly re.
publican, nobody doubts. Even the World con-
codes probable republican majority in the
legislature. Mr. O'Conor, in his letter de-
Ginning the assembly nomination, makes val
liable suggestion in regard to contested seats
from the city. He says that they may all be
considered together, as depending on the same
questions of fraud, and thus the conspirators
would be prevented from voting on each others
cases. That the republicans will have a ma
jo,ity, even if ali the city menbers should be
democrats, as usual, seems pretty certain It
the state fails TO pass wholly under republican
control, it will be due only to deplorabe dis
sensions with which the party there has been and
is still afflicted.
OF the other states in which elections are to
occur next week, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Hi
nois, Minnesota and Mississippi are confidently
victories with which the election season began
In Wisconsin General Washburne's friends an
nounce thai they are assured of a majority
larger by five thousand than that of last year;
the usual majority in Minnesota is sure to be
retained and probably increased; in Illinois the
latest reports predict that General Beyeridge, the
candidate for congressman at large, will have a
Drft tbo n 7
last year; New Jersey republicans only claim
about five thousand majority, but they feel very
confident Of that and from Mississippi there are
assurances that there will be a republican
majority OF not less than twenty thousand.
Every republican success adds to the confidence
of the party in the result of the national election
next year aud in the same measure destroys the
hopes Of the democracy. That party is already
badly demoralized and some ofits most influential
organs concedc that it has no chance of electing
a candidate Of its own; and that its only hope
hes IN promoting breach in the republican
party and giving its support to the disconnected
faction. As in former years, the democratic party
now owes its prospective defeat to its own folly
quite as much as to the wisdom of its opponents.
ut l"'pi II has SHOWN 10 RukluXlSm and
Tammany has been its ruin.
The London Spectator thinks that Mr.. Dis
raeli is the author Of the reported alliance be-
tween the press and the workingmen, and that
lis object is to circumvent MIR. Gladstone by
offering to the poop something more tempting
than the political reforms which the liberal
leader promises. This would be quite in Mr..
Disraeli's line. He is a master Of political
strategy, and delights in novel combinations
and brilliant maneuvres. The present scheme
Is only an attempt TO realize some of the theo-
ries Of his early novel, Coningsby. The Spec
tator, however would he inclined to doubt the
Authenticity OF these reports if the seven propo-
sitions had not been so clearly foreshadowed in an
address OF Sir John Pakington before the social
science congress, where he declared it to be the
duty Of the state to secure for the workingmeD
decent homes, good food at a fair price, A sys-
TEN of technical education, and the regulation
Of the hours Of labor That tory and an nris.
tocrat should advocate such radical maas-
ures caused general surprise, but il is no,,
held TO be a confirmation of the reported aI-
ance, and is thought TO have been uttered "a
prepare the way for it. The land measure is
the most startling TO the Spectator. Something