The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-05
Where the WOrklngmen of Philadelphia
Stand,

Where the WOrklngmen of Philadelphia
Stand.
WE notice in our sister city of Pittsburg the
nomination of three Legislative tickets by the
citizens of the great workshop of our State-a
Republican, a Democratic, and Working
mans. We regret this triangular fight, not
because we consider that the workingmen
should not have made their nominations, but
because it was the duty of the Republicans of
Pittsburg to ratify their selection, and not
place party ticket in the field. The reason
why we favor such a coalition is founded on
the natural sympathy and unity of interest
between the laborer and the Republicans,
Why, the very birth of the Republican party
was caused by the desire of the people to ele-
vate labor, and do away with the degradation
in which it was held in the Southern States
And if the hands of our great party were
stretched out to help the blacks, who had no
claim but pity, how much more does our
heart beat in unison with the injuries of our
own citizens whom the oppression of capital is
seeking to enslave The Democratic party, on
the contrary, is essentially opposed to the true
interests of the Pennsylvania workingmen.
1t is composed either of the newly imported
foreign element or of the rich and powerful
moneyed men, who naturally seek to secure
tyranny of wealth, an aristocracy of capi-
tai. The Republican party is party "of the
people, by the people, and for the people" and
those of its members who seek to play into the
hands of the capitalists, if such there be, are
20 koff
organization throughout our State.
The workingmen of Philadelphia send
greetings to those of Pittsburg. A common
battle is being fought. They, too, in the
Quaker City are having as severe struggle
as their brethren in the West. Here they are
working as zealously against Judge Ludlow
for the Common Pleas as we hope the citizens
of Pittsburg are striving to defeat Judge
Sharswood.
The battle is going on over the same
grounds. Judge Ludlow, the nominee and
pet of the Democratic party, has declared him
self to be the enemy of trades unions of all
sorts and kinds, and denounces them in
the most unmeasured terms as tyran-
nous. The issue, hence, is clearly made
up. The trades union men of all
classes are to-day striving together to defeat
the common enemy, and to defeat the party
which has endorsed his infamous doctrines OF
oppression and wrong. We hope that our
friends in the West are doing likewise. There,
as here, the real enemies of the workingman
are the sycophants and time-servers who under
the false title of Democrats, are seeking to
gain political power at the expense of the
working classes, and by pretending to favor
their cause. Workingmen, they do but
use you to gain an end, and they will
abandon you at the beck and call of their
leaders, who are all of them the rich capital,
lists of the State. Wealth, in the Democratic
party, is the only criterion of power, while
the Republican party is seeking, with all the
strength of great, living organization, to give
power to brains. With brains, and skill, and
numbers, we do not fear a contest between
capital and the bone and sinew of the land
We speak advisedly, and we speak for the Re,
publican party of this section of our State
when we say, that the supporters of Judge
Williams sympathizes thoroughly and only
with the workingmen in this contest, and that
the success of Pittsburg's favorite son will be
esteemed by the wOrkingmen Of Philadelphia
as triumph for the great doctrine of the
rights of labor as against the exactions o.
capital.