Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-01

The mass meeting at Cincinnati, originated
by few men in Missouri who betrayed the re-
publican party of that state and went into al
lance with the democrats, two years ago, be
gins formal operations to-day. All the chief
actors have been on the ground several days,
prospecting and operating. Mr.. Samuel Bowles
sends a communication TO the Springfield Re-
publican, dated Monday night, from which we
infer that he does not find ''that crowd" so
charming as he expected. He discovers an
abundance of firing arrangements" considerable
activity of ''huckstering politics." and great
danger THAT the convention will be run after
the fashion of New York and Pennsylvania poll
tics" He says, ''the vultures are certainly here
in force" but hopes for a good result; and vet
he must have known beforehand that they
would be there, for the mass meeting was called
by some of the most intriguing, treacherous,
and untrustworthy politicians in the country,
and the great activity of the "vultures," in re-
Spouse to their call, has been neither concealed
nor silent.
The call for this mass meeting was not in-
spired by any great principle whatever. 1t was
the device of certain men in Missouri, who had
manifested great lack of principle and placed
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traying the republican party of that state, and
giving supremacy TO the democrats. 1t was
desperate movement on their part to save them
selves from the fate of certain political traitors
in Tennessee, who had acted in the same way
Nothing but dreaming political dietanteism
could have allowed any reasonable person TO
suppose the mass meeting so called, would be
great in character, spirit, or aims.
Very naturally, that call set the political "vul-
lures" in motion, and ''that crowd is now very
largely represented by such political hucksters
and adventures as D. D. Field aud others like
him, of New York, Yarmouth and his
ring from Louisiana, the notorious opera
tors from Kansas, Mcclure and his crowd
OF Pennsylvanians, Fitz Henry Warren
and that great man, Grinnell of Iowa, Long
John Wentworth and a regiment of the same
sort, from Illinois, John D. Defrees, the insata.
BILE place hunter, J. NJ. Ashley of Ohio, Hinton
r. Helper of North Carolina, Jack Hamilton of
Texas, and that miserable creature, Scoville of
New Jersey, who became noisy very early, inter-
viewed himself and sent the result by telegraph.
formally announced by telegraph that he ode
clined to be candidate for the vice presidency y
and has finally got himself published as ''Gen
James NJ Scoyille" Mr.. Bowles says, Mcclure
"held back to bargain with the democrats of his
state, that, in return for his support of Davis
here, they were to help him to Cameron's seat
in the United States senate, next wihter.' Ger
tainly and it is well understood that hi intends
to go into the democratic party, as soon as all
the necessary preliminaries can be arranged.
There is a large representation of those who
swung out of the republican party, with Andy
johnson, and went with him Ground the circle
A very consderablenumber of the members, d" i
is said, are democrats officiating as "liberal re
publicans;" those from Arkansas quarreled
iercely, Monday night, we are told, and de
nounced each other as democrats and thieves y
There is, also, strong force Of regular demo
Gratis on hand, including such men as the editor
of the St. Louis Republican, the editor of the
Louisville CourerJournal, and August Belmont
who finds the season favorable for "Snipe-shoot-
ing" in that neighborhood. 1t is lunacy to ex-
pect high aims or honest reform from such a
'mass meeting" as this. According to the dis
patches, only two questions, so far, have en-
gagged any attention whatever: First, who shall
be nominated; and, second can a two.faced
resolution be devised which will be per-
fectly acceptable to both free traders
and protectionists. Agreement on these
questions has seemed to be Impossible.
There is no lack Of candidates; but the reports
generally agree that Judge Davis was consider.
ably ahead up to last evening, with the draw
back of sharp quarrel about candidates
among the Illinois " liberals" Mr.. Adams had
been Sunk from probability to a possibility y
Irumbull was an uncertainty; Mr.. Greeley was
urged by his friends; Graft Brown was hopeless;
Palmer, of Illinois was trying his feeble best;
and the mournful ghost of SalmonP Chase had
appeared occasionally far away in the distance.
We can not wonder that our editorial friend,
Mr.. Bowles, is unhappy; but he has something
new to criticise, something not dreamed of
when he supposed the Cincinnati mass meeting
would be an assembly of sanity sages. 1t is in
reality a ravening assemblage of dismissed
oftice-holders, angry officeseekers, adventures,
and intriguing politicians from all parties, with
few political dilletanteists and respectable Gil
rondists. The chief aim of its managers is to
aid the democratic party.