The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-04
N EW CLUB
Starts Career
With Rally.
NATIONAL ISSUES
And State Questions Dis
cussod in Two Tongues.

The newly organized Republican Club
of Worcester held a largely attended
rally in ST. Famille hall, Green street
last evening. The audience was made
up largely Of French voters and their
friends, who greeted with cheers and
applause the slightest reference to Con
gresham Walker Charles G. Wash
burn and John G. Hagberg, their candi-
date for the legislature. The result OF
the words that were spoken at the
meeting will be seen next Tuesday
when the returns are announced.
A delegation from the club left the
city hall at $50 o'clock, and occupied
seats in the body of the hall Previous
to the meeting they circulated among
the audience and instilled time honor
ed republican principles with apparent
good effect.
The meeting was in charge of Har-
mon S. Hastings, who acted as chair
man. Charles G. Washburn, who is
the candidate for the senate, was the
first speaker of the evening. He said
that in the coming election ii was inn
/ portant to carefully consider what eff
/ feet the act of the voters was going to
have on the state as a whole He tried
| to impress upon his hearers that in the
/ republican party there were no Eng
/ lish, no Swedes and no F'renchmen, but
! been for the past four decades repub-
publicans. He dwelt at length upon
Worcester as a manufacturing center,
and said that we should not forget that
the prosperity she has enjoyed is due
in large measure to the mechanics
which make up her population. He
spoke of the legislatures which have
been for the past four decades re pub
lican, and which had framed legislation
in the interests of the laboring men.
He thought that it was a wonderful
thing to say that never had 1t been in
| timated that q penny of the public
moneys had been misapplied. Turning
to state issues, he said that there were
democrats and democrats and demo-
Gratis, but that there was only one man
| in the state who had accurately defined
Just what a democrat really was.
| George Fred Williams has said that
no one is a democrat except he has sub
| scribed to every plank Of the democrat
| ic platform as adopted at Chicago He
discussed at length the tariff and mon
etary issues Of the day. and paid
glowing tribute to the work and worth
| of Congressman Walker, showing how
Mr.. Walker had risen from a poor boy,
without educational advantages, to be
the peer Of his fellows. Where will
| YOU find" said he, "a man VINO is a
| greater type of the history of this COM
| naunitv?" He thought that if by any
possibility democratic congress should
be elected it would be taken as an m
dication in favor of free silver. He
said that the republican party stands
for all that is best and soundest in mat
ters of national finance. He thought
that what the district required in con-
| gress was q. man who will vote IN sea-
| son and out of season for sound money
He spoke Of Mr.. Hagberg as man who
had grown up among them and one
who had won the voters regard ana
confidence.
Speaking on more national issues he
! said that the late war was not FOR gam
or self ACKNOWLEDGMENT, but was rather
ore for humanity. He thought that the
war had accomplished results that
could not be estimated. Under Mas
sachusetts secretary Of the navy, and
with the guns manned by Massachu-
sets mechanics, our ships had been
able to accomplish results hitherto I'M
| thought of. With regard to the con-
i duct OF the war he said that the re-
publican members of congress We're
| pledged to find out facts in regard to
| its conduct by rigid investigation. He
/
DDS too severely, but to wait patiently,
and finally, if Justified, hold the repub-
| lican party responsible. In regard to
imperialism, he thought that we should
not be diverted into thinking that we
must of necessity become a nation of
| warriors We wish rather to be
| known as a nation of nlanufac-
turers. 1.-The invention of the cotton
! gin by Whitney" said he, has accom-
plished for the advancement of the
world more than many wars" We
| have become great through our devo-
ton to peaceful pursuits. In time we
shah dominatein commercial way the
world. Permanent prosperity is won
Withfthe plow-share and not with the
4 sword. 1t is to the people that we must
look for the support of any policy that
we undertake. Just so soon as the voter
loses interest in the administration of
public affairs, just so soon does the
government become corrupt. We can
serve our country in no better way than
by supporting the candidates and prin-
ciples of the republican party.
Charles r. Tatman, chairman of the
city committee, spoke more particular
ly OF politics in ward five, calling at
tention to the fact that Alderman Huot
and Councilman Riyard were elected by
the republican party and had been sup
ported in Their work by that party
. WHICH tlOI NC odlO vi Cetu-
olidates elected by the democratic par
| ty He urged voters to hang together
for the candidate of the legislature,
! Mr. Hagberg He traced in detail the
4 effect of the free and unlimited coin
age of silver and its consequent effects.
He said, in closing, that every vote ives
/ important, as it might decide whether
Mr.. Thayer or Mr.. Walker would be
elected to congress. Ward i've might
hold the balance which would decide
the election. He said that it was the
patriotic duty of every vo- n 20 so to
j the polls and cast his ballot for the
4 party candidates.
John G. Hagberg, the candidate for
the legislature was given an ovation as
he rose to speak. He said that he had
that day been mustered out nf his
ccuntry's service and was again a cit
len of Worcester. He counseled all
classes to unite and become American
citizens.
Alderman Napoleon P. Huor and j.
B. Ballanger addressed the assembiage
in French, drging the voters to sup
port all party candidates, and the meet
I ing closed with remarks by j. B. Stone,
| who predicted that the time would
come when congress would adopt a
Walker finance bill
After the meeting the members of
the club remained and discussed polit-
4 ical interests with some of the new re-
cruits to the party.