The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-21
SAUNDERS SPEAKS
AT the MIDDLESEX
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creased every day, including Sundays
and holidays, $1,000 a day. Contracts
have been given out from the city hall
with view not of benefiting the citi-
zens of Boston but of maintaining in
power the democratic party.
Assistant assessors in this city-and
there are S4 of them-are required by
law to DE appointed equally from the
two political parties. These assistant
assessors collect the polls, which form
the basis for the voting list. 1t has
been impossible under democratic rule
in this city for the republican party to
have the representatives to which it is
entitled among the assistant assessors.
Men are put on in violation of the law.
They are democrats themselves, or in
complete sympathy with the admins
tration The list of assistant assessors
is supposed to be made up by the as
SCISSORS, but in reality it is made up
by an inner and now defunct body.
VOTING FRAUDS.
"The enormity of the thing comes
right here: There are on tine voting
lists today-and 1 make this statement
not on my own knowledge solely, but
know something about it from my own
L
inner official sources-there are at least
5000 names on that list that have no
right to be there. The voting lists of
Boston are in a worse condition today
than they were before the general reg
istrat:on of 1896. That question inter-
ests me more than any question of poll
icy, because it makes no difference what
our opinions are on this question or
that question if the vote that is to be
taken is not to be an honest vote of the
citizens of Boston.
I'VE could not have carried this city
last Tuesday by any possibility except
for democratic dissension. We have not
carried it except by democratic dissen-
sion for 10 years. The democratic adj
ministrations have been planning to
make history repeat itself. They have
been locking forward to the time when
they would have in this city $4,000 or
$4,000 majority as of old, and when the
democratic party gives up its folly
free silver, and the republican vote out
side of Boston shrinks, they would
overtop it with this enormous demo-
cratic vote in Boston. See what sue
cess they have had. Gov. Wolcott car
ried thi,; city in 1896 by 1900 majority
1t fell to 5000 in 1897, to 1000 in $685.
and this year Paine carries the city by
5000 majority. How much longer do you
think we could have stood that sort of
thing?
a REPUBLICAN CITY.
Now my point is that the time has
come when we should start in to make
this city republican, so that we will not
have to rely upon democratic dissen-
sions for our triumphs, and it can be
done. There is no reason why it should
not be done. One of the leading demo-
cratic politicians, a member of the
board, said last year that if
he were a republican he would make
Boston republican so quickly it would
make your head swim. Republican poll
tics in the city of Boston have been the
laughing stock of our opponents. When
we have won through the grace of
democratic dissension instead of re-
Numbering the men who have borne the
heat and toll of the day and accom-
plished that victory, the policy has been
to placate and conciliate and win over
those men who have fought us tooth
and nail,
What would the democratic party
amount to in Massachusetts or in New
England if it could not look to the city
of Boston as it's inspiration. where the
democratic majorities have been, where
the democratic press is. Now is the time
to make Boston republican and keep it
republican, and you have won state
campaigns many in the future. We are
in complete control of the state govern
mental the commissions. We are
going to be in control of the city of
Boston. Nothing is needed to maintain
that control but the ordinary principles
of common sense in politics. We want
to keep with US those who have made
the victory possible; winning others.
ha h &c
been tried and one year of republican
government in Boston was all we got
out of it.
OUGHT TO HAVE FUNDS.
with all the power we had in state
and city we ought not to be so short of
funds here. Why if this campaign had
gone against the republican party, be-
ing the third in succession. / do not
know what would have become of the
republican organization. 1t was pretty
nearly on its last legs, AS it was, no
money, two or three rooms up there for
headquarters, no organization, no head
quarters in any ward of the city that
have heard of-nothing at all that BELTS
the great republican party in the me-
tropolis of New England. Men who re-
ceive office at the hands of the repub-
lican party ought to be grateful for it,
and they ought to come forward and
help that party year by year in lib
eral manner.
THE various republican committees
should not be always on their uppers
There should be headquarters in every
ward in this city.
Politics nowadays, unfortunately
perhaps, are not as they used to be, and
it is useless to expect to contend against
the democratic hordes we have in this
city--the shrewd democratic politicians
with their shrewd modern methods-un-
less we use a little common sense and
practical politics, and if l could see an
era of that sort now established in city
and state politics it would be worth
more to my contentment of mind than a
dozen speakerships."