Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-02

The Greeley and Brown hnIIy'
Mechanics hall was well filled last evening by
the supporters of Greeley and Brown, who
greeted the speakers with loud applause. The
meeting was called to order by J.J. O'Gormau,
who announced b, W. Potter, Esq, of this city,
as president, with long list of vice presidents.
Mr.. Potter, in assuming the position of presi-
dent, said that the October elections had not
destroyed the liberal principles, and that they
would live to establish themselves. He consid-
cred it as better to be right and be in minority
than wrong and in the majority In the end
the principles advocated by the liberals will tri
umph, and at the next presidential election
there will be one grand party of the people adj
vocating the principles that have been advanced
during the present campaign. He wanted to
belong to a party with one set of laws for all
sections Of the country, and that would bring
back the old time purity of republican
politics. Principles he considered as everything
and success as nothing, only as means of adj
vancing those principles. In closing he excused
the absence of Mr.. Collins, and introduced
James E. Fitzgeralds, Esq, of Boston.
Mr. FitzgeraldS, in opening, alluded to Gen
Grants first appearance before the people, claim
ing their votes as the most successful of those
| engaged in the war The people expected that
| as he had been a good military leader he was
| qualified to fill the presidential chair He was
| elected by an overwhelming vote, but his adj
| miniStration has not been such as to warrant
placing him in the same position for four years
| longer. No man is so high in this country that
| he cannot be sent back TO private life by the
| votes of the people and be open to chastisement
| at the hands of the people. Republicanism must
kill corruption or corruption will republicanism.
| When people endorse men like those in Penn
| sylyania, they are dead to their own interests
and to the best interests of the country. Voters
may be strongly tied by party discipline, but
| the day will surely come when they will break
| away and their verdict will be one that they all
may dread Take Gen Grant away and the
bottom of the republican party falls out; there
| is no such party to-day; its founders are with
| us to-day; the man who named 1t IS with us,
| and he is one who asks himself, is this right3
| not what will its effect be upon my political
prospects, | refer to the Hon. Charles Sumner,
| the statesman and not the petty politician.
| Again we have Horace Greeley, another man
| who worked for the party when there was
no public treasury to filch Where were
| the leaders of the other party when Sumner
was fighting their battles? He represented the
party in its honest days, and Cameron repre-
| Sents it to day in its time of corruption. The
| supporters OF Gen. Grant are trying TO elect him
| by appealing to the preludicies aud passions of
| the people and constantly tanning the old fame
|
| south, and by these means alone they are going
| to elect him. The objection we raise TO Gen.
| Grants administration is that he has used his
official position to advance his personal interests
| and to keep in power the party which elected
| him. In closing, he hoped TO live to see the day
when there will b. a union of hearts and hands
| that no one can sever, and when the liberal
| party, now in its infancy shall rise to suppress
corruption and corrupt officials.
The Hon. George NJ. Stearns of Chicopee, was
the next speaker. He considered that in the
time the Greeley party has been organized, it
has made the present administration promise
better things 1t has compelled its opponents
| TO desert solid argument and resort to SCOTS
| and ridicule. It has forced them TO leave all
discussion of the issues OF the day and strive TO
| hide their present shame under the glories of the
| past II has exposed public evils. 1t has COM
| nelled even IT, s. Grant to say, that if he is re-
| elected he will hereafter govern according TO the
laws. 1t has purged the democratic party of
lots of poor stuff, the old iogies who still read
their primers of forty years ago, rather than The
hooks of progress which to-day is writing; the
GOOD sanity old souls who, when they die, roll
IN their eyes and thank God they are going to
see John c. Calhoun; the office seekers; the
venal mob that hung on the skirts OF democra-
CIV all these have gone over to Grant, and are
now eating the rich and sayory soup of the re-
nublican party. 1t has caused the sweet echoes
of peace to ring out behind the retiring flags of
war. No defeat can crush party with such a
record.
The DAYS have been when VIC had free speech,
n free press and free soil but now 1t is Grant
speech Grant press, Grant soil, and these take
the place of our rree institutions. What is his
financial polcy2 Read his speech at Philadel-
phia, and answer if you canl But, you say, the
country is prosperous. Do you know that our
money is worth less to-day than that of any
other nation under heaven? Admit that the
working men have more money in the savings
banks, but let them take it ont aud try to buy
anything with it, and they find that the Ameri-
can dollar to-day will purchase less than sim
liar amount of money of any other nation.
( We arc told that Grant is paying the public
debt, but he is taxing everything we eat, drink,
] wear or sleep upon in order 10 do 1t, and his