The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-25
HUSTLE.
Any Tune But
Slow Ones.
REPUBLICAN CLUB
Plays "a Hot Time" on Cof-
fin-lid of Sloth.

Inc I Dung Mems Republican CLUB
has come out of its trance That is the
verdict of those who attended the hot
test meeting that the club has held in
many moons, which occurred in the re-
publican city committee rooms last
night.
1.-The old club of hustlers is dead and
the new club has been marching to the
tune of Old Hundred long enough. For
my part, I shall be glad to be one to
furnish the music for a little livelier
measure in the future, and the sooner
we start off to the tune Of "A hot time
in the old town tonight the BETTER
This was the utterance of Edward
d. Cunningham, of ward 8, and it
seemed to suit the members to a T.
There is no doubt that the renaissance
is on hand, and the fruits of last nights
meeting will be picked on election day
by the bushel, shaken down and run
ming over Somebody is in for a hustle
to keep up the pace the club is going to
set and whoever is in at the finish of
any race it enters will have earned his
laurels. The club men say so, and what
| they say is going to go in the future
The meeting was called to order by
President Whitcomb, and the first act
on the program was a surprise. The
resignation of Second Vice President
| Paul b. Morgan was offered to the club
and without discussion was accepted on
motion of Mr.. Sisson of ward s. who
also proposed the name of Alexander
| H, Bullock to fill the vacancy Mr.. Bull
| lock was unanimously elected.
| President Whitcomb outlined the
work Of the club in the past few
months, and spoke some very COM
mandatory words in regard to it. He
stated that the club had succeeded in
naturalizing about 100 new voters of
the true faith, and most of them lived
in close or doubtful wards He added
much in laudatory strain regarding
| the success of the club in recent
months, and prophesied a continued
usefulness for it.
! All this was very nice, but there was
| something better on record. The ball
was opened when a motion was made
| to have such members of the club as
are delinquent in the payment of their
| dues brought to time and made to dis
! gorge. A motion was offered by Mr.
Sisson that such members of the club
as did not render unto the club what
was the clubs before the first of the
coming year, should be rejected from
| the councils of the faith and left to
tread the icy sidewalks of independence
all by their lonesome. In other words
pay up or retire.
This was discussed with much vigor,
Messrs. Washburn, Tatman, Cunning
| ham, Hastings, Busby and Bullock TAX
| ing up the cudgels on the question and
not always being careful where they let
them fall During the course of the
| discussion Mr.. Cunningham made use
| of the immortal words before quoted,
and the club will march to coon melo-
| dies in six-eight time with allegretto
accompaniment from now on in conse-
quence.
1t was agreed at the end of a half
| hours debate that the club had no
more use for funeral marches towards
an evanescent progress, but the thing
| to do is to grasp time by the forelock
and hustle, in the parlance Of the vul-
gate.
Something was done, too, in the way
of plans for such rapid transit prog
ress. for in the minds OF the club menu
( bers, it seems to be the idea that rap
| idity is the one desideratunl, and the
| destination can take care of itself. AZ
ter the motion to give the Trapped Wis
age of the unrecognized to such mem
| bers as refused to pay up in the spec
Gifted time, means were taken to cof-
lect the fare for IN express train tran
sit to victory.
| 1t was determined that committee
of ten should be appointed from the
| floor to reorganize the working of the
club. The lack of funds is the worst
| difficulty that the club has had to COM
bat in the past, but the wealth of the
organization is to be Klondiketious in
the future, if the precedent of last
night is followed. r. NJ Washburn
of ward s started the capitalistic ten-
| dency, when he rose and stated that
he would be one of five if they could
be found to give $40 each towards the
needs of the club.
He was taken up in a moment, and
the other four contributors were with
him, as if he were a Hobson calling
/ over, more than $50 had been SUB
/ scribed, and there is plenty more COM
ing as soon as the members have a
chance to get down into the stockings
at home
The committee that is to start the
procession of the club on it's march
| of iigsteps is as follows:
Ward 1, II. e. Whitcomb; ward q
Lieut.. e. B. Fish: ward 3, Edward d.
Cunningham; ward 4, John F. Sheri-
dan; ward 8, William J. Bragg; ward g.
Frank r.. Batchelder ward Z, II. S.
Hastings; ward s, G. W. B. Sisson; at
large, Robert M. Washburn, Alexander
H. Bullock
Amid the utmost enthusiasm, the
meeting adjourned till next Wednesday
night, and the members wendell their
way homeward to such swift music
that their political enemies could have
i played checkers on their coat tails.