The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-05-11
THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION.

erAl " CONVENTION has liet ohu az lOuAASu'
The politicians have triumphed, and the
key note of the campaign has been decided
to be, BEAT Grant at any price" Aplat-
form has been adopted which satisfies Bel
mont and his satellites; Horace Greeley has
been selected as the standard bearer-has
accepted, we are assured, the nomination
and upon the first act of the drama
rather farce-the curtain falls.
The surprise which succeeded the nomi-
nation has died away the sober second
thought is at work, and from present indi
cations it is more than probable that the
Democracy -actuated by no higher motives
than guided the Cincinnati marplots-will
deem it prudent TO acquiesce in their &C
ton. Should such surmises prove to be
correct, it will only furnish another and
striking proof that no reliance whatever can
be placed on partisan professions, and the
necessity for keeping the organization of
the Labor Reform Party intact
The Cincinnati Convention was in no
respect representative body In fact, the
Liberal Party, there assembled, car
ried their constituency with them. Twenty
three individuals comprised the attendance
at the mass convention held in the Old Bay
State to select its delegates; Ohio, with a
population of 100000 souls, mustered
one hundred and twenty three representa-
tives; New Hampshire was represented by
two soreheads; Texas by scallawags, and
several States by proxies. While many true
and good men were in attendance, it is safe
to assert that, as body, a greater conglom-
Grafton Of disappointed ambition, dead beat
adventures, (the louisiana delegation, for
example political villiany, more servile
tools Of the monied power, or characterless
humbugs, were never assembled under one
roof, in Christendom or any other dom
Barter and sale was the order Of the hour
the Hosannah Of to-day was the Cruciied of
tomorrow; and while these frauds on soci-
ETY. were indulging III invectives against the
friends of Judge Davis and the arrogance of
the working classes, the promise ofa second-
rate post-office would have changed the
complexion Of their arguments and pur-
chased their friendship.
But even had Judge DAVIS received and
accepted the nomination on the platform
adopted, the Labor Reform Party could not
have consistently given him their support.
1t has proclaimed from the first hour that its
doctrines were promulgated that "Princi-
pies, not men" was its motto "Oil and
waterwill not mix" Areturn to the spocieba
Bhumbug- urged by charlatans who know
As much about what they are talking Of as
an imp Of darkness knows about the "pearly
gates means the reinstatement Of labor;
the periodic returns Of our commercial
panics; the supremacy of the Wall street
means ruin and desolation to
the homes Of hundreds of thousands of our
citizens and the re-inauguration Of a sys-
TEN which has reduced the masses Of the
Old World to . vassalage more degrading
than American slavery, and which viii, if
persisted in, inevitably reduce our own cit
liens to the same status.
Under these circumstances we insist the
Labor Reform Party cannot and WILL NOT
give its support to the nominees, without
virtual disbandonment without a quasi
of a system which it was or
yanized to destroy without betraying in
terests which it has protested to support
Aye, without losing its honor, manhood and
IDENTITY, and proving to its enemies that il
s unworthy the confidence or respect of
my portion of the community.
Having thus referred to the labors Of the
we desire to refer as briefly to
,ome Of the reasons which secured the de-
ieat of the Labor Reform candidates.
Prominent among the causes was the I'M
hostility Of the Trumbull
faction, from lllinois-many Of them
barnacles Of the worst character-who
seem to think they have the special privil-
eye Of sucking the public teat, and who rep
resent ring equally odious as that pre-
sented by the Washington regime. These
men went determined to rule or ruin The
which awarded such a faction
an equal voice with the majority was
one, as it enabled them to use
their influence to secure the defeat of the
candidate whose adherents, outnumbered
them ten to one. If reform ever comes
through the instrumentality of such class
of leeches-God pity reform.
The treachery Of some of the professed
friends Of Labor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
pirants at Columbus-whose names it is
unnecessary to recall, no doubt had an in
furious effect in some quarters. eff So
andso is the case, said several delegates,
. what evidence have we that Judge Davis
will receive the support of the working
classes :" If dissensions exist in your
ranks, as published by your own people,
and your influence is destroyed thereby, the
Liberal Republicans can gain no apprecia-
bic strength by taking up your candidates
and you have no right to expect them to do
20, )" said one Of the shrewdest politicians
in the west; and while those who knew the
facts, placed the proper value on such
it was evident that this argu-