The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-12

prominence, or to question the nlotlVes
of the men whose support keeps MN III
such nrominence. But the situation
undergoes a radical and vital chahse
when. as at the election tomorrow, ne
stands before the entire city as can
didate for public Office, and looks pc
yond the boundary lines OF warn = ~
snnnort from fine people. Mr.. Mellen,
by his present candidacy places MN
self before the united body OF ms rel
low-citizens as an applicant for thelr
suffrage, and the united citizenship OIL
Worcester has a perfect right TO COZ
stitute itself a jury and SIT upon MS
claims. - =.
His record in public life, whether IN
state or city, for 90 years is one un-
broken trail of political uncertainty.
His political acts and methoqs-l say
nothing of him but as a pubic Mail
have been notorious for their pecuIi,ai
tv. to use no palmer word; so much 50
that leading men in Boston and else
where have time after time publlcly
and privately expressed their WondeI
and amazement that such man could
have so strong a hold on the voters oil
this city. Toe
For 20 years James II, Mellen mas
lived on politics without shame or uel-
icacy. Ten years ago, that prillia an
democrat and patriotic cltizeIl' Ge 'il,
| Patrick A. Collins, administered 70 mn
| in Mechanics Hall before eighteen nun
bred democrats of this stare, cast
cation that will not soon pc lorspt ~,
| by those who heard it, and the ratters
| fairly rang with indorsing plaudlts OF
| Gen. Collins when he characterlzed MT.
Mellen with whitening scorn as tnl s
champion of the working man WHo
never works" The taunt struck nome
and it was true in its every syllable
James H. Mellen works at but one
calling and that calling is pollllcs. we
assail the rottenness of Tammany and
! of Quay. for bringing into being a
crowd of professional politicians VINO
act as vampires on the pubic treas .
ury. Has the political atmosphere OF
| Worcester taken on so yellow nue.
| that here, in the second city or Mas
sachusetts, a city that has always
prided itself on the integrity of its pub
! lic men, matters have grown so easy
| that a professional politician car i've
| from January to December on politics
as his only calling.
Look at the demoralizing effect the
| Mellen influence and Mellen methods
must have upon the young men Of our
city, more especially Of his own party.
Does it tend towards the building up
| or healthy CltlZenShlp OF the cIed-
ton of sound public opinion, of the
preservation of a good code of political
morals in this community, to have a
man without a profession, without a
business, without honestly earned
property of an eXtent-for he took
oath within a year that his possessions
were confined to a roll top desk some
where in Boston--to have such man
| subsisting in easy circumstances on
the profits of politics alone?.
Mr.. Mellen has some strange ALLAN
ces in the republican party of Worces-
ter What they are may soon be UNI
masked before a wondering public. 1t
is well known fact in political circles
today, and to their credit be 1t stated,
that enough democrats will vote
against this man tomorrow to defeat
him, but he hopes to be saved by re-
/ publican votes
This should not be. If there are any
republicans who wish to cast a vote
for a democrat for alderman tomorrow
there are five other democratic can
didates, against none Of whom a word
of reproach can be uttered, as public
men or private citizens, But the man.
democratic or republican, who votes
to send James H. Mellen back to the
senior branch of our city government
there to continue his peculiar ways and
methods, must cast that ballot in de-
fiance of his conscience.
A Democrat.