Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-07-23
Union County Ticket.

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THE workingmen of GAINESVILLE have
commenced making a big hole In the
Republican ranks. They are out for
Morgan, Seymour and Blair, as the work.
ingmen's friends. They recognize In the
Democratic National platform the right
sort of political doctrine, and the candi-
Understanding thereon as the ones worthy
the support of workingmeD. 1t Is, in
deed, the Workingmen's Ticket, and the
workingmen are not going to SO far dis
regard their interests as not to support
it.-[Statesman.
We very much doubt the truth Of the
first sentence In the above. The reason
assigned are so supremely ridiculous that
our respect for the workiBgmen ofZanes-
willie and ouropinion of theirintelligence
will not suffer us to believe they have
been guilty of doings so foolish thing.
The covert reputation contained in the
Chicago platform, If carried into effect
may, by depreciating the currency Of
the country, materially lessen the profits
of the bondbolder, SO far as his invest
ments in bonds are concerned, but 1t
would by the same depreciation Of the
currency materially lessen the profits of
labor. The Democratic party have been
the supporters of system under which
capital 0icned its o,on labor, and dttemp-
ted break up the Union because they
could not nationalize that system. They
have been the enemies of internal i'm
provement out of which labor grows rich,
and the advocates of free trade that par
alyzes the manufacturing industry of tho
country.
In what way the candidates on the
Democratic ticket can be considered the
"wofkingmen's friends" We are at loss
TO see. Seymour and Blair have never
been Identified with labor in any way,
and have never, 30 far rs we have learn
cd, been identified with any movement
In the interest Of labor. Politicians,
both of them, from their earliest history
they have never known what it was to
earn their bread In the sweat of their
face, but have ever lived separate and
apart from the toiling millions, and en-
The same, we apprehcnd, Is true of Nor
gan. In no sense can the combination
be called workingmans ticket.
The Republican ticket--with Grant
the tanner and Colfax the printer-is in
every sense q workingman's ticket. 1t
represents the party of progress and inn
provement, that during eight years has
done more to dignity and enrich labor
than any party or all parties that ever
before claimed the suffrage Of free peo-
pie. From the rail-splitters and tailors,
the tanners and printers, and not from
the aristocracy ofbondholding Of New York
or slave-driving Maryland, 1t takes its
candidates.
The men who, like Grant and Colfax,
rise from the toll and sweat OF labor to
occupy high positions, are more likely
to understand the wants and rights of
labor, aud 10 sympathise with those who
toll for living, than are such men as
Seymour and Blair who have never by
association or contact known anything
about either labor or laborers.
Grant and Colfax, therefore, and not
Seymour and Blair, are the true friends
Of the wOrkingmen of the country, and
they constitute the Workingmen's y Tick
ct which the workingmen and the
true friends OF the workingmen all over
the country will be found supporting.