Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1868-10-29
4 WORD TO WoRKINGMEN.

country that any aristocratic element OF
society which seeks to control the gov
eminent, always draws its greatest sup
port from the poorer classes by assuming
q name widely different from its real
character.
We wish to call attention therefore
on the eve of the important election
which is SO near at hand, to a few plain
statements regarding the two parties
whose claims have been presented to
the people during the campaign. 1t
may be possible that we address some
who intend on Tuesday next to vote
the Democratic ticket, and if so we
should seek to inquire, ON what ground
does a working man identify himself
with that party ? You all know that
the two social extremes of community
are its aristocracy and Democracy, and
that between them, generally speaking,
there exists but little sympathy. The
one is haughty and proud, and the
other unfortunate and poor. There is
no element of social life which both
can enjoy in common. and it is only
with the greatest inconsistency that the
two can harmonic in political action.
But what do we see in reviewing the
history OF our country, especially with
in twelve years !? The government, for
the most part unlike 1856 had been con-
trolled by the Democratic party as rep
by the South. The social sys-
tenn of that section of the United States
was as far from being Democratic in
the real sense of the word as light is
from darkness. They aped the gentry
Of the Old World in their idolatry OF
caste. in their adoption of foreign
custom in naming their estates. and in
many other things, not the least OF
which, was the unconcealed expression
Of contempt for all laboring classes
North and South. Well, in 1856 Mr..
was nominated and elected
and while the scornful epithet of mud
silr' was still echoing from South ern
lips, and the haunting threats of disnnion
we're growing louder and louder. the
Democratic party with its blind adhe
renee to partisan claims rushed to the
support of its leaders, whose insults to
the working men had just been uttered.
After four years of the most imbecile
that ever disgraced a
country after the plundering OF our
arsenals to secure the resources of the
South in view of approaching war |;
after dispatching our navies to the most
corners of the globe depicting
the treasury and crippling the army,
that great party, still bent on running
the country, craved disunion in 1860.
Its two branches, as you well remember
placed in nomination John G. Breckin-
ridge and Stephen A. Douglass, the one
q most incorporating autocrat, and
the other man who more truly repre-
sented the party to which he appealed
for support than any candidate it ever
Then came the election
Of Lincoln and the South plunged
the country into war. -Four years
passed and we witnessed the singu-
lar spectacle at Chicago, of party,
claiming to be Dem ocratic, choosing its
leaders because Of their boosted "blood"
and aristocratic training. At that con-
vention were assembled men who SYM
pathized with the Rebellion because it
sought to ruin republic and establish
a monarchy. They pronounced the
war failure when Grant was marching
on to victory, and advocated peace
that insulted the dignity of the nation.
With such sentiments they came before
the people. But their appeal was fruit
less I; and the workingman who saw in
the Republican party the true essence
of Democracy ceased giving his sup
port to gross deception and transfer
red it to his country's safety. There
never was, and there is not now, any
more of the vital truth of Democracy
in the party bearing the name, than is
by the royalty of England
or the imperial people of France and
q workingman insults himself and tarn-
ishes his self-respect if he votes for
Seymour and Blair. The Democratic
party wants votes, and so it assumes to
be the friend of the workingman and q
foe to all schemes calculated to his in
terest injury. 1t uses honied words to