Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1872-03-13
rHE poLrr1c1ANs AT WORK.

.rfHe 49, tfFF,aH
4 convention of so-called workingmen
met lately at Columbus, Ohio, and nom
mated a candidate for President. The
nominee is Judge Davis, of the Supreme
Court of the United States, q man worth
five millions of dollars and no more a rep
resentative of the men who chose him, or
of the principles they advocate, than Will
liam b. Aston, the New York millionaire.
A convention under the style of /" liberal
Republican " is soon to meet at Cincin-
matt, under the direction of professional
politicians, to ratify the first nomination.
The two conventions are, in fact, in the
interest of q shrewd set of political schem-
ers, who are behind the curtain pulling
the wires. These men, realizing that
the Democratic party must see the
hopelessness of success under their true
and their hatred of President Grant to
whip them into line and win the White
House by their votes. We say this whole
plot is the work of politicians, and so it is.
1t bears upon its face too many badges of
fraud. TO begin with, what is there in
common with rich judge and lawyer
like Davis and the working mems party?
The latter demand eight hours for days
labor, certain legislation to reconcile capt.
tai and labor, and the recognition of the
working men as an element in the govern
ment upon the same basis as capital. If
convention of such men should have
put forth champion of their principles
or a representative man of their organiZa-
ton, it would have been consistent
and had force. Bat when, contrary to
all expectations, it dominates millionaire,
almost as far removed in temperament and
from workingmen as Senator
Hammond, of South Carolina, was when
he called them "mudsills of society,"
how can people fail to suspect their sim
cerity? How does Judge Davis come so
suddenly to be a laboring mans friend
more than Gen. Grant, whose earlier years
were burdened with the cares and toll of
real working man ? Why should every
one feel that the Cincinnati Convention
will ratify Davis nomination? Is it be-
cause the people believe that the same
political ring controls it, or is it appropri-
ate and natural? If the former is the reason
is it not remarkable that Mr.. Davis sud-
denly becomes the hope of laboring men,
whose interests he probably never before
thought of, and of Liberal Republicans
whose chief aim is political power? Is it
not still more remarkable that this same
man should at the same time combine
qualities attractive to that corrupt, treas |
enable old organization, VIGOROUSLY and
known as Democracy What |
tract so suddenly Laboring Men, Liberal |
and Democrats all towards !
very clever old gentleman supposed to be |
busy with law principles in the Supreme |
Court room at Washington? Is there |
any alarming danger to the country to |
fuse so promptly all these heterogeneous |
elements into one mass @
We do not know of any. The people do |
not either, and they will therefore be anx-
GUS to Know the real cause. We believe |
he cause to be the ambition and disap- |
pointment of class of sore-head polite |
ans, who have cunningly used the |
Labor Convention to spring NOM
nation, which they hope in desperation
will be taken up by the other conventions. |
The whole combination is so unnatural |
md uncalled-for that no other eXplana-
ion can be found. Judge Davis is, per-
jonally, a very clever and unobjectionable |
but his prompt acceptance of
he Columbus nomination and all the |
events, lead US to believe |
him the politicians candidate and not the |
peoples. Gen. Grant is nearer the work. |
candidate than Judge Davis. |
zen. Grant is q better I" LIBERAL Repub- |
lean than those who assail him. Gen. |
Grant, by his integrity, by his successful |
and by the confidence of |
he people, is more entitled to be designa-
ed as their candidate than the leader of |
III the elements opposed to him. The |
people have sense and can not fail to de- |
ect this huge political trick.