The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-11-13
THE OUTLOOK

"Allen defeated in Ohio, Pershing in
Pennsylvania, the rag baby may as well
De buried out Of sight, for the greenback
issue will never again torment the Ameri-
can people" is the burden of
the pensioned lackeys and blath.
erskites who re-echo the twaddle of
the subsidized press--Or repeat the stereo-
typed phrases of the stump demagogue who
never gave an hours consideration to this
important subject. Allen and Pershings
defeat secures the nomination of an inGe-
pendent Presidential candidate on gre.-.-
back platform in 1876, and for this we can
thank God and take fresh courage Good
bye to parleying and fighting the devil
around the stump, to running with the
hounds and hiding with the hare, to dodg-
ing the issue, to sacrificing principle for
policy. Goodbye once and forever to COM
promise with wrong, to tricksters and po-
htical trimmers good bye to all men who
prefer Republican or Democratic principles
as practically illustrated, to the principles
enunciated in the Cleveland and Cincinnati
greenback platforms. No, no, the farmers
and laborers in the West and South Will
never rest satisfied till the greenback flag
is planted over the national capitol and the
lanche so vast that Gabriel's trumpet will
fail to resurrect them
We thank God that the Tilden- Bigelow
Wall street combination has virtually been
strangled in New York that State that
gave $1,000 Democratic majority at the
gubernatorial election, has nobly repudiat-
ed the tricksters who by their money and
their tools defeated the yeomsnry Of Ohio
and Penn sylvania in their efforts to de-
throne the golden calf and secure to labor
the fruits Of its toll. We thank God for
the result for another reason. 1t will give
such men as Kelley, Ewing, Phillips, Cor
don, Pendleton, Butler, Fields, Ferry, Lo-
gan, Allen, Pershing and host of others,
an opportunity to avow themselves on the
Lord 3 side-to cut themselves aloof from
existing political ties and parties to, prove
their devOtions, beyond peradventure, to
the cause they have pleaded so eloquently
and well. : He who is not for us is against
us" " Ye cannot serve God and Nam
mon" The question, and the only ques-
ton, for these gentlemen now to decide is
is my allegiance to the Republican or Dem
ocratic party paramount to my allegiance
to the interests of the country and the in
terests Of the toiling masses 1t requires
no process 81 argument to arrive at con-
clusion. The next Democratic and
Republican platforms will no doubt
contain a specie resumption clause, :"
and the American Eagles tail
will be pulled to make him scream in
unison with the patriotic (D howlings of
the bondholders' tools, while demanding
the pound of flesh under the plea that the
Nations honor demands the sacrifice of
the Nations life. While we do not believe
thdI Tile REPRESENTATIVES, Vi clJHeT party
from the South or West will endorse the
demands of the Wall street shylocks, there
is little if any ground for hope that they
will be able to suppress or modify them.
So far as our State is concerned the pros
pect is encouraging in the extreme In the
National Congress the Independent party
can point with pride and confidence to
Stevenson, Campbell, Anderson and Bag
by, representatives ioho acere elected on the
greefbdck issue, men who cannot and will
not be influenced by the dicta Of any eau
Gus, Republican OF Democratic. but who
will under all circumstances prove them
selves worthy of the confidence reposed in
them by their constituents and the people
at large. Compromise on the monetary
question means treason to re-
publican institutions, treason to the farmer.
treason to the mechanic, treason to the best
interests of the country. The present is |
crisis in which AMERICA expects every man |
to do his duty, aud the representative who |
fails, will be held to rigid accountability |
for his action.