The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1869-10-09

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insutiag hshssg, sesDectsbilIsy, ospaci.y and
stability in conductors, and as we feel confdep,
that the plan We have suggested, Is the only one
which affords reasonable hope that men com.
biEing these exeellent qualiR easions can be In.
duced to accept and retain such situations. We
are assured that every experienced raiIwaymap
will give the scheme his hearty approval. Thea
BY all means let rs have such an association
Let committee be appointed to draft cons.i
tution, and let the result Of their labors b. laid
before the board Of presidents, for its consider.
ation. move in this direction connot Be
made too soon, and if BY any possibility the
plan IN its ffultion should fail to effect the re.
suits We predict for itn ehe future win be attri
butable TO some defect in its practice, for the
principle is uHquestionablv sound one.
NOVEL PoIITIcAL MAEoxUvRE-The Demo.
cratic party, or rather the committee having in
control the local movements OF that party, has
executed manoeuvre, which from its novelty,
may be Of interest to the general reader. It
will be remembered that at the time of their
making, we felt constrained to characterize the
nominees Of that party for positions Of municipal
trust and profit, as men without ability-men
in every moral light Ineligible to the Offices
they sought to occupy. That this opinion was
not alone that Of few stray individuals, is
proven in the fact that even the organs Of their
party refused to solicit for them the support of
our citizens, and in one or two instances even
went as far as to demand their Withdrawal. In
answer to the always potent influence Of the
press, the people themselves murmurel, and in
accents and words unmistakable, called upon
the nominees 10 render back the privileges il
was claimed they had unjustly come by So
loud and deep did these murmurings at last be-
come that the city executive committee having,
by previous arrangement possessed itself Of the
decllnation of the several candidates, convened
and nominated entire new slate made up Of
names far ahead of their predecessors in point
of respectability ard material 6tnssa The of |
6eial promulgation of this action was accompa-
MED by a statement showing that while the
committee felt its action 10 be, under ordinary
power, the proximity of the day by law set for
holding the election, rendered it impossible to /
Ieconvene the delegate bodies, or have an en-
irely new set Of delegates elected, and that,
therefore,, what they had done had been with an
'ye solely to the interests of the ''Great Demo
ratio Party" This change Of ticket has been
TariOusly received by both parties While
ONE of the Democratic papers pronounce it a
'ise and most benencent move, Others denounce
in the bitterest Of terms % the action Of
ew selfconstituted pOtentates, without prece-
ent and without equity. By perhaps yhe most
iolent Of the dissenting organs all good Dem
andidates," as they are called, and to deposit
heir ballots only for the regular nominees
There is Q fearful tempest in the Democratic
ca pot in consequence, which bids fair to ex
aust itself by doing injury to nothing more
ian to ITSELF Between the two sets Of candi-
atss there is this difference: The first was
ade up Of disreputable men in search only Of
ersonal profit, the last of men whose associs-
ons ct least are more respectable, and whose
,ilitY is more readily TO be discerned But
icy are all men Of means, specially commended
the kindly consideration Of good citizens
J having at heart the mercantile interests Of
lr city. They are all merchants, with one ex
option, and he is lawyer in good circum-
ances. The natural inference is that they
l have some special axe TO grind, and that
lille if elected they will institute and execute
jealous guardianship over the mercantile and
oneyed interests, they will, as all their prede
,ssors have done, be criminally careless of the
terests of labor which constitute the only bona
De wealth Of community. A conviction that
OliLical states Of the kind to which those we
ave mentioned are an index, have very nearly
IN their race, Is no creation Of our DER sangu-
e expectations, but is nurtured into life by
he indubitabIe evidence of an array Of facts Of
hich the almost universal discomfort manifest
by the best Of our citizens at the manner in
hich the political machine has, of late years,
cen manipulated, is BY no means least We
e watching Massachusetts with anxious eyes,
listing that the independent movement now
eng nursed into party proportions in that
tate, may prove successful one. convinced
rat if it is, it will prove but the pioneer Of
mil ar victories in waiting for the people Of
very State.