The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-11-14
Where In Pennsylvania. In the Revolu-
tlon7
New YORK, November 4th, 1874

New York. November 4th, 1874
To the Editor o. the woRxINenASs ADVOCATE
Pennsylvania is the second great Statt
in the Union, and it used to be said, al
goes Pennsylvania SO goes the Union. Yet
the Wall Street organs, one and all, studi
Ously avoid publishing the result Of
yesterdays canvass.
Since early in the morning l have been
hunting over the Times, Tribune, Herald,
Ereai,g Post, Express, and as many more
semi-fry organs Of the Monopolists, Bond
Holders and Bankers, to get information
of the Pennsylvania election, but in none
was the result announced. Indeed, one
would suppose there was no such State,
or If one, of no more consequence than
Rhode Island, or some rem te territory; at
last chanced to pass the Grants new $500, :
600 organ, the Republic, and purchased a
copy in which learned that Pennsylvania
had certainly gone Republican by about
ten thousand majority =
knew very well why these specie basis
organs were so unwilling to proclaim the
result in Pennsylvania, but more than
likely half your readers would not guess.
In the natural .course of the food,
Pennsylvania should have stood with Ohio
and Indiana, sending forth 80, 900 to 40
OOO Democratic majority. Why did it fail
to do this The answer is full Of signif-
canoe and need not be told to the cunning
ones. The reason, and the only reason,
Pennsylvania did not roll up $4,000 to
10000 Democratic majority is that that
party went to the people with a hard mon
ey platform, and the Republican party
accepted substantially the same ground on
6Uance as the Ohio Democrats, and like
the Ohio Democrats, took the Labor Vote,
which voted in Pennsylvania and every
where else in the whole country against
specie basis wherever the opportunity was
afforded
In the State Of New York both parties
occupied the hard d-noney platform, and
the working people and farmers voted as
near their principles as they could in vot-
ing against Grant, whose veto and Jones
letter showed that he had sold out to the
bond holders and usurers, and from him
and his party we had no hope. Let no
farmer or labOrer who reads this letter, fail
to see. 1t is my business to watch the
question and the policies. am right, as
the knowing ones will admit.
Seeing the Importance of this question
and the course Of parties in Pennsylvania,
leading minds of the Labor Reformers ad-
vlsed our people to vote in this election in
Pennsylvania for the Republican party,
and among the published action was the
following letter inserted in the Official
Organ" Of the Labor Union and "Indus-
trial Congress" and taken by all the lead
ers through Pennsylvania. 1t speaks for
itself
To ALL THE woRKINGMEN OF PENNSYLVANIA
VOTE YOUR owS BENEFIT TO-DAY.
will not take space to argue that which
must be self. evident to so many The time is
upon us when party wants are of no possible
consequence. The issue for us is starvation
and death, under the plan Of specie payment.
such rs is proposed BY the Democratic party
leaders of Pennsylvania, and the Belmont
Rothschild Democracy # New York, wi b
which the Pennsylvania Democratic leaders
are IN confederation. The opposite, and our
salvation, is in the ample supply Of currency,
such advocated by the labor reformers
from the first, and which, in a measure, is to
day proclaimed by the Republican party of
Pennsyl ylNanIa. | ask you to accept my ad-
vice. You know me to he true. | have
studied this subject tor many years. l have
looked over the whole field. | am as sure
that | am right in your interest Of my very
existence, Ny advice to you 10 that in this |
election, wherever your labor party has a can
didate in any part of the State, vote for him /!
In all other cases, vote the Republican ticket |
1t was the Democratic party in Ohio and
Indiana that adopted our financial system in
part, and there our people voted with the
Democrats but in your State the leaders |
and RI 8 Ia
are confederated with Wall street and the |
European capitalists-your worst enemies
DO not think that in this voting you aid the |
National Republican party; that is as certain |
ly dead as that there Is a God. Our great |
work to-day is to make certain and secure |
our own salvation as well as that of the whole |
country, by using the scattered fragments of
those old rotton parties to aid ourselves If
you have any doubt of the correctness Of my
advice. and do not wish to embarass your To-
cal counsellOrs, write to Schiling. Fehren-
batch, Siney, Foran, Trevellick, Cameron,
johnson, or Troup, CT any of the old, we'll
tried friends Of our cause. l feel sure they
will agree with me, and give you the same
advice as to your duty Of this hour in Penn
sylvania. Remember the final, national is
sue on the financial question underlies, and
for the moment, overtops all others in its
bearings upon our prosperity and the carry
ing Of Pennsylvania in this issue will strike
iron into TIE souls Of the specie basis monopo-
lists, who are our only enemies, and who
alone oppress US.
Believe me truly, your friend,
Horace H. DAY.
Vice President Natianal Labor Union, and
Member Of the Industrial Congress
New York, Oct. %. 1874.
There is not banker or one of their or
gans of the press of New York to-day
ignorant Of the true position Of the Penn
sylvania Republicans on the 8 65 100 con
vertible bond and ample currency question
and opposition to gold basis, and hence the
dishonest withholding Of the truth from the
people and the verdict Of the workingmen
Of Pennsylvania in this election.
These papers are studiously avoiding the
truth-not history-and at the their old
game of cheat and fraud, claiming all as a
Democratic victory, whereas it was the
real work Of Farmers, Grsngers, and Labor
Reform organizations now pervading the
land.
One end all Of them knew an well as
do that the financial question underlines
this revolution-such honest Democrats as
Washington Mclean, of Ohio, has told the
truth and he and his lead will be support
ed, while the knaves will be overwhelmed
and confounded. This to-day il the only
real issue before the country, and it will
not be long before it will have to be b.
estly recognized and squssc,Sn = III. Penn
-. r."of but, most Of all, let every
farmer and every working man and every
workinQ woman in the land also stick pin,
and under no possible consideration to
change, modify, or yield one iota of their
claim, which reads:
ITO establish Just distribation to capital
and labor by providing purely national cir
culating medium, based on the faith and re-
sources q the nation, issued directly to the
people. without the Intervention Of any sys-
tenn Of banking corporations, which money
shall be legal tender in the payment OF al
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