The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-11-07
FE0M IND lama.

CARBON Clay Co., Oct. "a. 1874.
10 the Editor u the woGKIxoxAS's ADyocArs
Noticing the advice of Ii. H. Day to
the laboring men Of Illinois, in your issue
of Oct. 24sh, as to what their conduct
should be on the Sd of November toward
the champion of labor, we are compelled
to drop you q line or two from this county
in hopes that it will be the means Of im-
polling some Vi our miners in Illinois to q
renewed effort in behalf Of their interest
Of laboring classes. After al effort for
several years, the miners Of this county
succeeded in getting a miner nominated
for the State Legislature man that was
differed politically to be a gentleman OF
principle, unsullied by any act in his num-
erous transactions with his fellow working
men for several years. He had been q
resident of this county $50 We were inform
ed) for some twelve years previous to his
nomination. His competitor ON the Dem
ocratic ticket had been in this county but
scarcely two years. This young miner who
We understand is goa head-a tive Scotch
man, with an honest ambition, leased some
few acres Of land and in conjunction with
two Of his fellow-workmen sunk shaft on
his leased land, using Gin apparatus to
hoist their coal. Although their only
capital was their labor, and that the afore-
said nominee had been engaged only few
months on his own hook; no sooner had he
been nominated than that the cry ope-
rator, The is AL operator, was raised, and
that by those who profess (D to be the
friend of this fellow-Ininer, one Of them
especially, who mas by his fellow miners
been elevated to position of honor in our
organization, and now bears the appella-
ton of President, though tor his last
time we're he to live for a hundred years.
And his conduct lii the premises has been
the theme for considerable Comment, and
great many express themselves Of the be-
| lief that II was another " seil-out," a
transaction of which so much has been
done. We must IN Justice to the majority
Of tie miners III TINS county, say that the
majority gave him their sutirage--alI hon
OF 10 them for 1t, and shame ON those who
did not. Some few objected to him be-
cause he was a Republican, TempsIsnce
man, or a foreigner. Valid excuses those.
la the name u God what is the difference
of mans politics, II he has principle. Its
| principle We should seek alter, and not
politics.
What Is the use VI R. 7. Trevellick.
John Siney, john James, Ii. II. Day, and
others to work for the elevation of the
working classes, when they themselves
seek some hImsey subterfuge in favor Of
lawyers, doctors and preachers, and against
| their own fellow-wOrkmen Where does
| the sincerity for reform IN favor Of the la
boring masses come mi Men that will
preach tor the rights of laboring men, and
work against them when they are put be-
fore them fer their suffrage, are nothing
more than wolves la Sleeps clothing.
Some Ut them would say, u, he has allied
hlmslf with the wrong party, OF he is the
right man III the wrong place, or there is q
wrong time to do a right thing" What
flimsy snbterfuge which according to our
faithful % PresIdent, two wrongs will
make One right. Bah in such principle.
Ben Butler once uttered in Congress the
following words while discussing the tariff
question: " MIR. Speaker. English gold is
more potent than American greenbacks. "
Aud the same may be said IN this case.
The favor Of the operators is more potent
than principle, and the rights Of our fellow
man. Yours truly,