Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-31

Republican Demonstration ia Webster.
The supporters Of Grant and Wilson in Web
stcr had grand demonstration Iast evening.
Promptly at eight O'Clock procession was
formed as follows:
Worcester National Band
Worcester Regiment of Tanners, under command
of Lieut.. Col. j. NJ. Rogers.
Globe Village Cornet Band.
SOuthbridge Battalion of Tanners, under command
Of Major Daniel Walker.
Webster Drum Corps.
Webster Battalion of Tanners, commanded by j.
IL. Marshall.
The houses along the line Of march were bril-
lianty Illuminated, and fireworks were dis
played as the procession passed. While the
Tanners were marching through the principal
streets of the town, the citizens proceeded to
the town hall, filing it TO oycIfowing, where
Gen John l.. Swift Of boston, the speaker of
the evening, was introduced. Mr.. Swift, in
opening, said thar while the Tanners were
marching around outside, he proposed to do
a little tanning on his own account. He then
gave an account Of the visit of Horace Greeley
to Canada, as u self appointed ambassador.
Again we ind u. S. Grant upon the banks of
the Mississippi ready to move upon the enemy
works. To-day these two men are before the
people of the country for their sulfragcs, and
present indications are that the man who took
Vicksburg will meet with more decided ap-
proyal than the man who went to Canada. The
party that the latter leads has no DO
litical act to throw overheard Their success
has been so complete that the democratic party
now seeks to get into power by adopting the
principles Of the republican party, and taking
from its surplus stock a man us their candi-
date. We hear from our opponents constant
charges of corruption among the carpet baggcrs
of the south, but nothing of the doings of the
brotherhood of devils who are the terror of the
southern people. The new departure he con.
sidered as dissolving view. Its author lies in
in his grave, but the candidate Of tine
new departure party is running about
making speeches that he is Obliged
to explain or take back, and on Tuesday
next. this new departure will take its final
departure. The party is divided into the straight
out and the laid out democrats. The nomination
of Horace Greeley was forced upon the party for
certain sectional purpose by a portion of the
party, The southerpers hope to unite, aud by so
doing divide the north, while they gain control
Of the government. Horace Greeley himself
said that the triumph Of the democratic
party in 1872 was equal to an is
sue of the late civil war in favor
of the south. He once said that the fur
ther You get from a school house the more
democrats Iyou Will find, thus charging the
party whose votes he wants with ignorance
If We had taken Horace Greeley's advice in 1861
we should have been Tonight without coun-
| try and without a flag. As an editor, we are
willing TO admit Mr.. Greeey's ability, but as a
presidential candidate we do not believe in him,
as he has shown thathe is a man who will kick
the pail over as soon as he has filled
it. In the palmy days of the demo.
cratic party, what was the con-
dition of the farmers and mechanics? Why the
| young men of the present day know nothing Of
the panics and difficulties experienced by the
merchants in the days of democratic rule. Re
publican rule has brought peace and plenty to
all classes of society where before we saw peo-
pie wanting for the necessities of every day life
In closing he asked his hearers to stand by
the republican party and republican princi-
pies at the polls next Tuesday, and to let the
old Bay State again be the banner state, while
our brethren shout God bless the veteran re-
publicans of Massachusetts.
AT the conclusion of Gen. Swift's remarks the
Tanners from out of town were invited into the
hall to partake of a collation.. Immediately
after the hall entertainment Gen, Swift adj
dressed large crowd in front Of the Grant and
Wilson headquarters.