The Standard to-night boasts of the formation of an Operative
Con- servative Society at Worcester. The Tories find that, notwithstanding they have the majority of the men of 500/. a year and upwards on their side, there is little hope for them unless they can gain over the physical force of the country. Therefore, spite of their habitual sneers at the "swinish multitude," the "low Radicals," the "pickpocket constituen- cies," the " beggarly ten-pounders," the " Infidel crew," the "turbulent and demoralized masses," they are labouring to dupe these objects of their scorn and scurrility, into the support of a selfish oligarchy, who spurn and revile them. But the trick will not serve their purpose : the men whom they bribe into their ranks will require the usual " compliment" at an election. They may as well keep their cash and their flattery in reserve for the next contest. When it comes "to the push," it will be found that the poor creatures whom they think they have gained over, will demand just as much for their votes as if they had never smoked, drunk, and speechified, at a meeting of the Operative Conservative Association.
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