The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-30

Thayer told his associates in Congress
at Washington that he was coming
home to work for Philip j. O'Connell,
he came with the best wishes of all.
When the news was flashed over the
wire that the large manufacturing
centre of Worcester had chosen a
bright young Democrat as its chief,
they all felt like hugging O'ConnelI
and Thayer.
He referred further to the Demo-
cratic mayors of Lowell, Lawrence and
Springfield, and said that when the
Republican press makes statements
that the Democrats are not able to
take up the reins Of government, the
Democrats can point to the successful
administrations of these cities as
refutations of those statements.
He then called the attention of the
Democrats to the need of their active
work in registration, and urged all to
take hold and see that every available
Democratic vote is put where 1t will
be of some use-on the voting lists.
Judge Arthur A. Putnam, candidate
for attorney general, had the crowd
with him from the start. He said.
among other things:
Fellow Democrats: (Applause). You
see, I'm getting a little used to 1t. I
trust / may catch the true accent,
emphasis and twang after a while.
The truth is / ought never to have
any trouble about It. ] was always a
Democrat. / was so born. Some of
my dear Republican friends are ask
Ing: How came you, an old man,
just lettering into the grave, to turn
Democratic" l answer, / didn't turn
Democrat. In my innocence and total
inaptitude Of getting off the track,
Kept on being a Lincoln Republican,
and I landed with both feet in the
Democratic camp.
You'll find I'm struck on Lincoln
all the time. ] am not going to let go
that anchor. The liberty party of Lin
coins time was the Republican party
and the bourbon party of Lincoln's
time is now the party of liberty, the
Democratic party, the party led In the
old Bay State by Josiah Quincy and in
this district by the astute fox and vote
hunter, John r. Thayer
l am in this campaign with one
idea only. Some Of you can remember
the free soil days when under the In
spiration Of the Aliens, Giddings, Sum-
ners and Wilson's, the Republican par
ty was budding into life. / remember
those days when the night star was
Arson Burlingame. In a speech 1
heard him say, our friends of the OPP
position tell us we are the one idea
party, that we have only one idea. Well
II we have only one idea, we are bound
to put her through
Some Of our friends of the opposi-
ton, the imperial party, the G.. o. p,
the anti-imperialists have but one idea.
Yes, and we are bound to put her
through. What Is that idea. It is
Shall this republic endure, or shall it
sag back and tumble down, sprawling
in the mud of empire? Shall you con-
tinue to be citizens Of free republic,
or shall your children be the subjects
Of an empire2 Shall we give up our
Jewel? Just that is the mOmentous
question before the country today"
Judge Putnam then referred facetious-
ly to a statement made by his rival for
the office of attorney general, Herbert
Parker, that the combination of talent
on the Democratic platform is causing
miasmatic atmosphere to rise from
the icicles and said it is the first time
he ever knew miasma 10 rise firm ice
water He begged to assure the gen
tleman who made that remark that the
Democratic party is no stranger to ice
water. Its long life, surviving since the
Civil war. is due to the fact that ii has
got so much ice water in its diet.
If the republican candidate wants
something stronger, something more
miasmatic, he must keep up his mem
bership in the G. o. p. with its Gov
ernor Taft in Manila, which is one
vast grog shop with the flag Of the Re-
public waving over 1t and our friends
Of the opposition crying "Oh, long may
it wave"
In closing he urged everybody to vote
the Democratic ticket Tuesday be-
cause in that is their best hope Of pre-
serving the republic which the fathers
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