The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-08-02
Candidates and Labor Ref0rmers.

THE Homestead Champion, published
by Hugh Cameron,at Washington d. G.
is the central organ of the Labor Re.
formers. Its issue of May last contain;
the following:
"Nothing for individuals, but every.
pirate motto for party organized fol
the attainment of great public object
Individual preferences, private pique
personal interest,a political ambition
must all give way to the paramount
demand of the organization for success.
Imbued with these ideas, we have
given our time and labor to the further.
auce of the cause of the toiling millions.
Inspired by no other motive than that
which legitimately springs from the
desire of successfully establishing the
principles which we profess, we attend.
ed, as a spectator, the session of the La.
bor Reform Convention, held on the 9TH
of May,at Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
We found there, to our surprise, 1--WE
confess it with shame,) men gathered
together, not for the purpose of organ.
izing for the advancement of just
principles ; not for tho sake of consulta-
tion in reference to the interests OF
labor not with the intention of devils
ing ways and means for the overthrow
of the land-grabbers, subsidy-jobbers
carpet-baggers and gift-takers, who now
dominate in the country; but to look
after their personal advancement, to
seek office,and to strive for selfish ends,
at the risk of covering with disgrace,
and strangling at its birth, the organiza.
tion of which the toiling millions were
led to expect so much.
1t is true that the earnest friends oil
the cause were also there, but they were
Outnumbered by packed delegations
from corrupt political centers, manu-
factured for the occasion in the interest
of the enemies of labor. Railroad cor
porations and mining monopolies hat
their representatives there, and some
of the vultures that hang around thu
lobbies of the State Legislature were
active on tho outside.
Hartranft, the Republican candidate
for Governor, had this emissarie
there.
1t was not singular that the tool
of Hartranft the hangers on and paiC
lobbyists of the great corporations o
the State, worked together so harmous
ly for the same candidate for the guber
Material nomination. Nor was it at al
strange that they accomplished theil
object and secured the nomination of {
man for the highest Office in the gift o
the people of the State, who has beer
identified with corporations all his life
and who was the father of at least
dozen oil companies, whose stock cos
many an innocent purchaser his littl
all.
The labor reform party must first ac
complish the overthrow Of the rims
which at present rules this country be
fore 1t can hope to engraft its principle
upon federal or State legislation.
| Corporations, monopolies, &C., tn,
enemies of labor, find no filter instru
ment than Grant and his partizans t.
work out and fasten corrupt scheme
upon the people. Grant is their candid
ate for President therefore the frs
duty of the workingman is to see to i
that Grant is not reelected.
The October election in Pennsylvani
must not be allowed to 60 for the Gran
party. The result of the election will
in all probability, exert such an influ
ence throughout the country as t
determine who is to be the next Pres
dent. 1t Is easily to be seen, therefore
how important it will be that n
workingman's vote be thrown away 8
that election. If the Democrats 6
Reading will nominate a candidat
whom the workingmen can trust, the
will rally to a man to his support. w
believe the intentions and desires of tn
distinctive workingmen who met E
Williamsport, like those who met 6
Columbus, were patriotic and noble
and we are confident, if the Democrat
evince the same spirit, that an hone:
alliance and victory to the allied force
will certainly be the result.