Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-02-28
WHIT L4BORERS THINK.

A communication from Scranton, Pennsyl-
vania, in the New York Post, contains dis
couraging words for the labor reformers
The laborers in that section of the country,
where it was supposed the ticket would be
strongly supported, prefer to give their votes
to Grant as better representative of the
laboring class than Judge Davis. The writer
says: Although an earnest and decisive eff
fort is now making to transform all the labor
unions and working mems societies in the
country into vast and powerful political ma
chine, it is nevertheless conceded by the mi
ners of this county that the ticket nominated
yesterday by the National Labor Convention
at Columbia is a weak one, and will rot re.
ceive their approval and support. Out of the
eight hundred thousand members which the
association claims to have, fully three fourths
of that number have never read the history
OF David Davis, nominated for President.
They ask one another, who is he? No one
knows. The miners profess to love consist
ency; if so, they will be disappointed in the
nomination of David Davis Since his ap-
pointment by President Lincoln to a Supreme
Judgeship he has proven himself unworthy
of the confidence placed in him by the Re-
publican party.
Why Judge Davis was nominated is puz-
zle to the workingmen here, as the working
mems party possess but one plank in the plat
form, namely: The Inauguration of a con-
test between Labor and Capital. The leaders
of the movement are men who are sworn
enemies of all capitalists, corporations and
men of wealth. They are the bitter foes of
all men who do not labor with their hands for
livelihood; all men who have acquired
competence, even by the sweat of their brows,
are classed as the aristocracy, and looked
upon as foes to the workingmen. They would
have recognized Alb .aham Lincoln, while he
was 1atboat-man on the Mississippi river,
as a worthy member of their organization,
but when he by hard work and the develop
ment of the great brain which God gave him,
rose to distinction and eminence, he would
have been denounced as nabob and arsto-
crat. They would have supported for any
position L. ). Grant as a journeyman tanner
bnt as an eminent military chieftain and
statesman they denounce him.
The same principle is now recognised and
carried out by the leaders of this movement
1t is subversion of the principles and gem
Jus OF the Republic. The very men through
out the nation who are now so Justify de-
nounced by the political leaders of the Labor
Question as aristocrats and nabobs, are men
who have risen from the ranks of labor by
their own indomitable industry and economy.
The leaders are inaugurating a war in which
not they, but the poor, needy workingmen are
expected to bear the brunt Personal obser-
walton assures me that these selfish leaders
are on the wrong course. If Grant is nomi-
mated the Welsh miners will to a man cast
their votes for him; his deeds and actions are
familiar to all of them but they do not know
David Davis, and will, therefore, set him
adrift. Messrs. Lewis Pughe. Thomas Nor
gany, ID. M. Jones, II. M. Edwards, d. T.
Richards, M. A. Ellis and a legion of others,
men respected in the community, are une-
quivocally for Grant. They know that war
between capital and labor is not needed, but
party to harmonse existing difficulties in
such a manner as to secure justice to each.