The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-18
GENERAL WILLIAM 3. THOMAS
AID DTERTISEMENT

AN advertisement in the Sunday papers yes
terday, published in the interest of General
William b. Thomas, invites all who are "op-
posed to the introduction of Chinese coolie
laborers" into our factories and Gin our
streets and parks, as advocated by the Hon.
William D. Kelley and his two organs in this
city, the Press and EVENING TELEGRAPH" to
attend public meeting favorable to the pre-
tensions of the disorganizing candidate for
Congress in the Fourth district. AS advertise
ments in favor rofindependent of ofice-seekers are
usually paid for with the money of the de-
luded aspirants themselves, it is a fair infe-
renee that this call for a meeting either
emanated from the great pen of the mighty
Thomas himself, or that it had received his
imperial endorsement, and this inference is
strengthened by the fact that the notice reeks
with demagoguism and falsehood, which
will serve to increase the disgust already in
spired among the intelligent citizens of both
parties in the Fourth district by the efforts
of the disorganizing Thomas to sac
rifce their true interests on the shrine
of his ridiculous and treacherous am
bition. The EVENING TELEGRAPH
is not the organ of William d. Kelley or any
other individual, and he is no more re-
sponsible for our views on general subjects
than we are for his. We support him as a
candidate for Congress not only on account
of his immense intellectual superiority over
his pretentious and arrogant antagonist, and
his devotion to the industrial interests of
Philadelphia, but because he has
been fairly and deservedly made the
regular Republican nominee. When
Thomas says that The TELEGRAPH
is Kelley's organ in any other sense than as
the organ of all reputable and fairly
mated Republican candidates, he wanders as
far from the truth as when he alleges that
we have advocated the introduction of Chinese
coolie laborers ''on our streets and parks"
In forcing this Chinese question into the
canvass at all he betrays conscious sense of
individual weakness and of the pitiful pro-
portions of his true platform which will sink
him lower than ever in public estimation.
This shallow artifce will not facilitate his
escape from deserved odiun for his hostility
to all forms of skilled industry in
America, whether it is performed by the
Chinese, Germans, Irish, English, or native
born Americans. If his free-trade notions
prevail, and he reforms the revenue down to
the point where foreign fabrics can Danish
the manufactures of our country from our
own markets, incalculable mischief will be
inflicted upon the workingmen of the Fourth
district. They will have no opportunity to
raise an issue about the division of portion
of their labor with either Asiatic or European
immigrants after their workshops are closed
and the whole business of pro-
ductive manufacturing industry is trans
ferred to a foreign soil. The Phila-
delphian who, false on this vital issue, osten-
tatiously panders to ignorant prejudice on
points of comparatively minor importance
for the purpose of gaining an opportunity to
betrey tens of thousands of industrious work
men to their merciless foes, deserves not only
to be defeated but to be eternalIy disgraced;
and as this is the attitude of General William
b. Thomas, as we understand it, it should
secure for him the most overwhelming over
throw that has ever occurred in the annals
of the Fourth Congressional district.
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