The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-09-05
THE LABOR CANDIDATES..

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iFsom 70 tis s1Inausirial Bulletin.
Messss. Davis. and Par ksr having dc,
olfnsd HE Columbus nomination, the
labor organization IS without distinct
i've candidates other than Grant and
Wilson, who were nominated at the
New York Conference, at which two
hundred delegates, representing thirty
Ava Sta.ss,se present. We expect
I q IL "a M. honest and independents
labor element of the country drawn to
the support Of the Presidential candi.
date who holds that ",he true prosper.
ity and greatness If a nation is to be
found 10 the elevation end education
sot its hborera,'' I and the candidate for
Vice President, who says II want to
see the men and women who bear the
bardenss and do the work have 4 full
share Of all they earn, and that an
honest days work shall always have q
fair days pay" l---, -
We can remember when the contest
Of English and American labor for the
possession of the markets of the Uni
ted States was decided against the
American nottingham, by the casting
vote in the Senate Of its president, who
was the Vice. President Of tho United
States. Such a calamity cannot occur
when Henry Wilson fills that honorable
Office.
From the Chicago Working man, Advocate.
We had tondly hoped that the Lib
aral q movement, about which 30
much parade has been made, was in &C.
tive sympathy with the Labor Reform
ems and tha. such sympathy would be
practically shown in an endorsement of
their principles and PLATFORM. But,
and there is an al important but, the
committee found they had been egregi-
ously fooled. At Cincinnati. was col.
lected the greatest conglomeration of
aimless, unrrincipled characters, con.
atitseutless, polit;oaltrauds ever assem-
.bld under the canopy Of Heaven; men
whose hostility to the Labor move
nsnt and its adhereuts was open and
xndi.guised. Tricks.ers whose only
creed was "rotatiou IN cfice;" who
didn't or who couldn't understand what
true reform meant; who rldiculed every
plea OF claim put forth by the working
Glasses; who in fact evinced as much
sympathy with their platform as con-
victed sinner does with tho bottomless
pit. And yet it is refreshing to note in
view, Of these facts, with what gusto its
organs, and with what assurance its
supporters, lay claim to the suffrage of
the producing classes.
On the other hand, the Democracy,
from which so much was expected, and
for which 80 much was claimed, has
proven that it was more corrupt aud
unprincipled than even its bitterest en-
envy had given it credit for. With
the aloaves aud fishes" for its only guild
ing star, it presents to-day, one of the
most pitiable sights ev~ offered BY a
political party. sit is of its father, the
devil, and the work of its father it will
do," but it is asking too much to ex.
pect that the Labor party will help
warm it into life, especially since it has
50 lately evineed its friendship for them,
In the contest of diamond cut dia-
mond, about which We are about to en-
ter, its members can have little il any
istsrest To the proposition TO become
sthestaiEto the Greeley kite, 10 surreo-
der its identity and organization to help
elect men who have no sympathy what
ever, with its principles, and who we're
nominated by men; who denounced
them, 1t can pay no heed.
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