Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-04

Republican Mass Meeting.
Mechanics hall was well filled on Saturday
evening by an intelligent and attentive audience
to listen to addresses upon the issues of the
campaign by Hon. Henry L. Dawes and DR..
Geo. B Loring, two of the best speakers in the
state. The galleries were occupied by ladies,
Hon. Geo. +. Hoar, president of the Grant and
Wilson club, presided, and introduced the speak
crs with pleasant remarks. He said that the
misfortune of the campaign was that there was
not opposition enough in this part of the
country to call forth energetic effort on the part
of republicans. He alluded to the singular fact
that members of the medical profession were
frequently found in the ranks of the liberal re-
publicans, and explained it by the suppositon
that they Joined from curiosity to see how the
health of the democratic party would be affected
by the emetic they have taken. He then intro
duced DR.. Geo. B. Loring as physician of an
other sort
DR.. Loring said he was glad at all times to
advocate the principles of the republican party
upon the platform of Mechanics hall The ver-
dict of the people in this campaign is already
announced; the states that have spoken indi-
cate clearly the voice of the people and the re-
election of Gen. Grant.
There would be no need Of discussion but for
the fact that the campaign is so anomalous, so
unusual in character, that the people will not let
it alone. 1t is characteristic of the American
people more than any other TO thoroughly dis
cuss all questions in which they are interested.
The questions at issue are not like those of the
famous political discussions of the former years,
when they were clearly defined, but now we are
met by an opposition who have pretended to
adopt the principles of the republican party,
and devote themselves to personal abuse of its
candidates instead of argument. Phe president
has been assailed with every opprobrous name
except that of coward, and no man has dared to
call him that. The councillors of the president
have also been assailed with abuse, and the
ablest representative men in Massachusetts
have been stigmatzed as thieves and plunderers.
The campaign is singular one in another re-
Spect. Those who had watched the conduct Of
the opposition in the last congress to gain facts
for argument in the campaign which was to
follow, discover that the leaders of the party
have changed their views and adopted at Gin
loud in cries of reform and reconciliation.
The speaker humorously traced the history of
the Cinc.nna movement, and spoke of the diff
Guilty found in properly naming the new party
When the movement had its birth, being too
weak too stand alone, its leaders looked around
tit being leap year, to find mate for it. The
republican party would not hear to the over
lures, but the gallant old democratic party,
throwing away its time honored principles, sur
rendered its hand. The nuptials were celebrated
with humiliation; three million democrats
bowed down in penitence before three hundred
disafiected republicans. Soon family quarrel
arose. 1t was the rock of civil service upon
which they split When the head of the reform
party was on its trip down east, he was assailed
with inquiries as to the distribution of the
spois, should the party triumph. Instead of
turning deaf ear to these inquiries, as might
have been expected of him, he said when he was
elected he should remember those who put him
there. Curious doctrine for a champion of civil
service reform.
The speaker then took up the record of the dem.
ocratic party showing that it abounded in incon-
sistencies. Never till the coalition was effected
did they dare to put plank in their national
platform thanking the soldiers and sailors for
their work in the war, and how did it work /?
The candidate, seeing in the city of Pittsburg,
that the soldiers and sailors were for Grant, de.
clared that it meant hatred to the former rebels,
and down went that plank in the platform. The
peace and reconciliation plank went down in the
Georgia election. Thus the movement has grad
ualy resolved itself into its true form worse
than that of the old democratic party. This op-
position movement was not begun at Cincinnati
or Baltimore, but had its inception four years
ago during the administration of Andrew John.
son. At that time the Chicago convention met
to purify the government. They made plat.
form full of sound planks and upon it placed
Gen. Grant. The ticket was elected, and nobly
has it accomplished the work laid out for IT,
Dr. Loring delivered an eloquent tribute to the
past services Of Gen, Grant and to the glorious