Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-16

| Tested at most OF the meetings. The friends of
| Gen. Butler have been very actively at work,
| and were out in all the force they could muster,
but they were doomed to disappointment. The
| disposition OF the republicans of Worcester is
| hostile to the claims of Gen Butler, and a dele
CATION composed of men who will vote for any
one OF fifty candidates that can be named before
they will for Butler was chosen. The only ex-
ccption is in ward four, where the men who
voted for Wendell Phillips last year in opposi-
ton to William Clafin controlled the caucus,
and elected three delegates favorable to Butler.
The preference of the republican delegates
chosen is understood to be for Jewell and Wash
| burn. The action of the several caucuses was
| as follows:
| WARD ONE.
The meeting in ward one was large, nearly
filling the main hallway of the old court house.
| The meeting was called to order by Charles +.
| Stevens, Esq, chairman of the ward committee,
and organized by the choice of Hon. Hartley
Williams for chairman, and George L. Boyden
secretary.
| On motion of Hon. John Milton Earle it was
unanimously voted that no person who voted
| against the regular republican ticket
at the last state election be allowed to
vote in this caucus. 1t was also voted that
| the several candidates on the tickets circulated
be called upon to declare to the meeting, before
| the balloting began, for whom they
should vote for governor in the conven-
| ton. Two printed tickets were in circu-
| lation, one of which bore the names of G.. B.
Mctcalf David Manning and T. j. Hastings, in
accordance with which vote each of these three
gentlemen successfully declared for benjamin
| Z. Butler" The other ticket, headed "anti-
| Butler" bore the names of w. W. Rice, J. W.
| Wetherell and George F Thompson. MessrS.
| Rice and Thompson declared for OWN. b.
Washburn," and Col. Wetherel for Harvey
Jewell for his first choice, and VIM. B. Wash
burn for his second choice.
On proceeding to ballot for delegates the anti
Butler ticket received 81 votes to SO for the one
for Blu tler-a two-thirds vote against Butler.
Hon. W. w. Rice, who headed the successful
ticket, stated why his preference was for VIM.
B. Washbum, whom he had known intimately
from boyhood, and knew him to be faithful,
honest and capable man, eminently qualified to
fill the high office of governor. He referred to
what Speaker Blaine had recently stated to him
complimenting MIR. Washburn in the highest
terms for his course as chairman of the com
mittce on claims, as emitting him to the high
est credit for uprightness ability and integrity,
in the very front rank of public men at Wash
ingtou. The western part of the state was now
entitled to the nomination for governor, and
with the aid of Mr.. WashbUrn's friends in other
sections, considering the division of the east
upon candidates, we could by united effort
in the convention easily place Mr. Wash
burn in nomination, if we did our duty
To Gen. Butler Mr.. Rice was willing to accord
all due credit for his services in New Orleans
and elsewhere during the war, and in congress
in the impeachment Of Andrew johnson, but
old Massachusetts was not the sphere of action
for him. We wanted another and better man.
After choosing Charles E. Stevens, J. d.
Daniels and George S. Hoppin ward committee,
the meeting was adjourned.
WARD TWO.
In Ward the caucus was called to order by
Mr.. S. A. Porter, and organized by the choice of
7. l.. Nelson, Esq, chairman, and II. L. Shum-
way, secretary. The chairman announced the
first business in order to be the choice of dele
gates to the state convention. On notion a
committee of seven was appointed by the chair
aud instructed to report list of four delegates
While they were attending to this duty calls
were heard for Mr.. Hoar, in response to which
Hon. George f. Hoar came to the platform and
addressed the meeting.
He did not propose to express or advocate any
opinions of his own'in regard TO the duty that
had called the audience together. We have to
do our part towards selecting a man who is to
stand before the world as the representative of
our state and Of our party, 1t is an important
duty, and have no doubt that it will be intelli-
gently and conscicntiously performed. He spoke
of his visit 10 England during the past summer
of the growing interest there in the United
States, and the increasing desire to cultivate the
most friendly relations with us. Some of the
problems which agitatc society there are the
same which are forcing themselves upon our at
tention. How to increase the dignity, the
comfort, the intelligence and the profits of
the nottingham, is one of these ques-
tions upon which some of the best minds
of England are engaged, such as Mr.. Hughes,
Mr.. Mundella, Mr.. Gladstone and Mr.. Bright.
The republican party has to meet these ques-
tions; it cannot afford to dismiss them to the
hands of demagOgues and charlatans. He
spoke of cooperation as affording the most
promise of solution of these questions, and
related some instances of its working which had
come to his knowledge in England. Whatever
can be done by legislation to improve the con-
dtion of the most numerous part Of the people,
ought to be done. Cooperation cannot be
forced upon employers or employed, but it can
be encouraged by laws so framed as to offer
special inducements for it in the shape of re-
duced taxation, additional corporate powers, or
other advantages where business is conducted
on the co operative plan. To deal with these
matters is duty of the republican party. 1t
has an honorable record but it will be, and de-
serves to be, as some of its enemies sag it is
already, dead and buried, if it does not deal with
the duties of the present and future as earnestly
and faithfully as it has with those of the past
The elevation of the laboring man must be
made party measure; we must not leave it to
the demagogue and the charlatan, to the auda-
cious and lmpudent prctender.
AT the close of Mr.. Hoar's remarks, the COM
mittee reported the following list of delegates,
which was accepted and adopted by the meet
ing, and by subsequent vote they were al-
thorized to fill vacancies in their number Hon.
George +. Hoar P. L. Moen, L. W. Pond S. A.
Porter all opposed to the nomination of Butler.
ward committee was then chosen as fol-
lows: r. NJ. Gould, George W. Gale, William
7. Harlow.
1t was voted to request Alderman Barnard to
use his influence in the city council to provide
gas and settees Tor this ward room.
WARD THREE.
In ward three the attendance was not very
large, but it was decidedly anti Butler. Only
two or three Butler men were present. The
business of the meeting was completed ms fol-
lows: Chairman, Gen. R. H. Chamberlain: secre.
tary, James Draper. Delegates, d. w. Bemis
G. J. Rugg. Ward committee, Thomas Harrino.
ton, Il. II. Chamberlain, S. g. Curtis.
| WARD FOUR.
The Butler men had control of ward four ow
ing to a rally of labor reformers and prohibi.
tionists who supported the Wendell Phillips
ticket last year in opposition to VIM Clafiin.