The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-07-06
FROM CALIFORNIA.
SAN FRANcIsco, June rs, 1877.

SAN Francisco, June rs, 1872.
10 the Editor q the woRKyexAN's ADVOCATE
There appears to be leaven distributed
among the people that is silently working
1t is plain that the Democrats do not pull
with their leaders The Democratic Con-
Vention in this city was composed Of old
file leaders, with G. W. Coffroth, the ami
able, in the chair, to whom the countenance
of every county delegate in the room was
as familiar as the chickens round the house,
the pigs in the pen, or the old mare and her
foal, or the old brindle, chewing her cud
The San Francisco delegation were united
on Greeley, but the old liners would not
take the bet bit good /; some reared and
plunged, but the twitch brought them into
the harness, and although many shook
their heads and snorted round considerably,
there was no apparent disposition to bolt.
The facts were, the rank and Tile had
shown disposition to go for Greeley, and
the leaders had to go after them, and sWal-
low the bitter dose of sheltifcation, or the
flesh pots would be forever lost to them.
The Labor Reform organs of CalifoFnia
have hOisted Greeley and Brown, intending
doubtless to be in at the death. Wouldn't
it be funny if they came to be ahead of the
birth Of anything but an abortion. ] sup
pose You exchange with that naughty or
gan Of the Labor Reformers of California,
and for that reason | do not send you the
logical oblation which the Enterprise made
70 the public at their daily exhibition Of
It's ability to wheel about and turn about
and Jump Jim Crow"
The Woman's Suffrage Convention has
been in session, and Mrs Emily Pitts Ste
yens was delegate from that body to the
Democratic Convention, in session at the
same time. Mrs. L. F. s., introduced a
resolution, that the Convention invite the
BALTIMORE Convention to put a Momans
Suffrage plank in their platform, which
was submitted to the Committee on Reso-
lutions, under the rules.
Mrs. Pitts Stevens and some other
friends had little affair here night before
last, at Platt's Hall, during, and after an
anti-suffrage lecture, that might have been
called a hostile affair. Pitts drew a pepper
box ON a venerable gentleman who talked
of putting her ont for applAuding out Of
place, when she would preferred 70 have
been Kissing. It's matter of dispute with
those present, whether she covered tie old
gentleman or the ceiling. The lady her
self admits she feared it might go Of and
hurt somebody, and freely expresses her
thanks to the gentlemen who kindly relIev-
ed her from her perple1ing dilemma If
what to do with the dangerous thing. Mrs.
Stevens had Just been elected President OF
the Association for the coming year, and
now those who opposed her demand that
size resign.
The first section of the Internations held
a meeting last evening to appoint dele
gate TO the Federal Congress to lie held in
the East, and to take into consideration
the question of marching in the Fourth Of
July procession, 50 that there is a pros
pect of the red flag being seen for the FIRST
time in a national celebration in San Fran
CISCO The English speaking section meet
tonight, when the conclusion will be
marked.
Mrs. Rose Mackinley addresses the Eng
fish section tonight
The celebrated General L. NJ VIM has
mounted his old hobby, the Eight Hour
League. The General kept astride Of the
old line Democratic charger until it fell
with him in the last ditch. We hear but
little here about the eight hour move
ment; our town papers hardly notice it,
Is not its failure, which seems to be an es-
tabhshed fact, ifnot foregone conclusion,
proof Of the want Of organization How
is it that the strike Of 50 many trades was
participated in at the same time Is not
the finger Of capital to be seen in this, to
prevent one trade assisting another to hold
out
Our general is organizing here but with
failure, at least there is nothing to be
hoped for the strikers here but the same
fate a.