Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-24
Political.

CALIFoRNIA-TuE REPUBLICAN QUARREL.
SAN Francisco, Aug. 22.-The division in
the republican party on local affairs and the
legislative ticket, caused, as alleged, by the
mcddling of George G. GOrham, secretary of the
United States senate, appears hopeless. mass
meeting of dissatisfied republicans, last even
ing, repudiated the legislative and the munici-
pal nominations, and appointed a committee to
nominate new ticket. After the meeting an
affray occurred between Frank PiXley and A. j.
Bryant, who participated in the meeting, and
Billy Carr and W. w. Stow, friends of Gorham,
in which pistols and knives were drawn, but no
one injured.
oHIo-PENDLEToN SPEAKS HIS PIECE.
LovELAND, o., Aug. 2S.-Hon. e. II. Pendlc-
ton made his first speech of the campaign yes
terday, to a large audience. He commenced by
paying glowing tribute to the memory of G.
l.. Vallandigham, and denounced what he
termed a crusade against the south. He said:
"Put the democratic party in power, and it will
reform abuses, punish corruption, restore purity
TO legislation, and honesty to the admlniStra-
ton. 1t will restore self-government 10 all the
states, and bring about an era of harmonious
union, OF real prosperity, and of true liberty
LoUIsIANA-THE REPUBLICAN DIFFICULTY.
New ORLEANS, Aug. % Collector Casey
and United States Marshal Packard have issued
an address to the public, emhOdying their eN-
PLANTATION of the custom house convention.
They charge the Yarmouth party with bribery,
corruption and threats of assassination.
NEW Observation-Disclosures IN COUNCIL.
NEW YORK, Aug 23.-Ihe republican state
central committee met in this city to-day, APP
| pointed the state convention at Syracuse, Sep
| TENDER q, and adopted--19 to 4-after a long
debate, resolutions approving the recent reor-
ganlZatlon OF the party in this city IN accordance
with recommendations of the committee in
March, and thanking Messrs. Orton and Schultz
for their services in efectng the reorganization.
WISCONSIN-DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
MADISON, Aug. 23.-Ihe democratic conven-
ton met to-day, 154 delegates being pr esent out
of 200 to make full convention. The follow
ing resolutions were adopted: The representa-
| tives of the democratic party of Wisconsin, in
state convention assembled, hereby affirm:
That we point with pride to the economical
| administration and limited amount Of taxation
that prevails in the state under democratic rule,
us contraSted with the enormous body of TAXA
| tion and profigate expenditures of the succeed
| ing republican state administration
| That we denounce, as Il vicious OfIShot Of the
| centralizng tendencies of the general govern
ment, the frequent attempts of the agents of the
federal administration to interfere in the local
| political officers.
That we are in favor of tariff for revenue;
that, under a preteXt of raising Ia revenue
within the last ten years, the national congress
| has established and continues that enormous
| robbery of the MASSES for the enrichment of a
few known as the protective tariff system, which
has swept cur commerce from the seas and
fettered and depressed every agricultural pur-
| suit.
| That as the late amendments to the con-
| stitutiCn have been declared by the properly
constituted authority to be a part Of the funda-
mental law of the land, they are binding upon
| the people.
| That the democratic party now, as in the
| past, knows no higher law than the constitu-
ton.
j. S. Doolittle was nominated for governor,
receiving 1913 out of 154 votes cast, and ac-
| cepted.