The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-11-27
NATIONAL POLITICS.

hcan party IN regard u the issue To be
presented Tn the money question the
Republican party leaders will be As firm
rock III favor Of specie payments and
the national bank g-bsby swindle. The
currency question will be held III the back
ground, however, As much as posslble, and
if the Republican lesdere can prevent 1t,
will not he live issue at all. Grant, him
self, has declared rhat the rag baby Is
dead, he has declared with equal frankness
that the national bank rag baby sWindle
has hls most earnest support. The ma
tional bank confidence operators have be-
tween sixty and seventy bank directors in
Congress These men have already raised
the cry 'Alt We want is to be let alone
That Is all any thief wants when he has
got his swag secure. 1t is n characteristic
Of all evil doors that when they have done
all the damage they can to others, they
then simply want to be let alone. But it
viii be impossible to keep the currency
question IN the background. There are
too many good reasons why the people
teo many good reasons why the national
bank rag baby swindle should be stranglel
in its cradle, it has plundered the people
long enough under the false pretences Of
its guardians. However, this part Of the
question depends entirely upon the uppo-
stIon. The Democratic party leaders of
the Eastern States will urge that the
greenback dodge has been tried and been
tried and been defeated. This wing of
the Democracy, headed by sam Tilden, a
lifelong Wall street speculator, and one of
the chief members II the railroad ring
which stripped So many OF our western
farmers II their property under fraudu-
lent farm mortgage will insist upon the
adoption Il specie contraction, national
bank RAJ baby s~Indling platform with
even greater vehemence than Grant HIM
self Nothing Is To be hoped from this
Wing Of the Democratic party. On the
| other hand. there are many indications
| thar the Democrats Of the south and " est
are already prepared t. work together. and
the South Is sand % De quite generally III
tsvor OF honest greeuback money, and We
/ know that IN the West tins is the prevail
my sentiment. 1t is we'll known that be-
/ fore the war The sentiments of the South
we're always consulted by the Democracy
| before taking action, and that the Demo
cratic party was powerless unless 1t first
secured the and Of the South. To a very
| great extent this Is again true, but Sammy
| .ilden and his Tammany ring will not see it,
Or Al least have not seen 1t up to the pre-
sent time TINS mutual admiration Iociety
headed by little Sammy. seem to think
that IAmmany IS destined to rule the ma.
tIuu. ana the result Of this big headedness
Is that lively times can confidently bt
looked for when the next De mocratic Ma
tIoual Convention meets
Grant has recently sprung two new
tricks upon the public, which are des-
Z
parJ IA the campaign Of xt year The
trst e these was his bold, defiant declara-
tIon Of var against the Catholics, made IN
his Des Moiues speech Grant assumes
that our public schools are in danger This
school question had marked effect IN
| OhIr, and really decided the election,
Tins convinced senator Morton that the
school question vas the Republicans best
card Tor the campaign Of 1876. But
tho public schools arg not m anger 1t
| j. even doubtful whether a majority Of
the Catholics themselves, II they alone
we're left 10 decide the matter, would re-
fuse 20 uphold and defend the public
school system How absurd then t. as
sumo thar the public school system is III
danger There has been no especial
change IN the condition ~ the school
question for the past eight years, but since
the national bank RAJ baby robbers tind
away from them. they are only too anx-
| ions to stir up bad blood and try to bring
ou contest between the different religious
scots Of our country The cry that our
schools ara ~ danger IL transparent
fraud
The second presidential dodge IS To- pave
the way for declaration Of war with
Spain over the Cuba matter This too. is
All old question. SIx or eight years ago
the people were in favor Of Wal with
Spain for the acquisition Of Cuba, but
there is httle vitality in such proposition
now Grant, however. evidently takes
the ground that II war can be got up the
country will want military President.
and he has held this Cuba matter IN abey
ance until the proper time 70 use IL a.
Grants advantage Like the school qurs-
tlon, the Republicans will nAke the most
OF 1t. But every working man should re-
member that these old questions are no
more urgent now than they we're eight
years ago, aud that II Is u the utmost i'm
portance that the national bank rag-baby
s~Indlers be compelled to stop robbing the
p pie, and Il even greater Importance
that the people shall be given an inter
chaDgeable bond and honest greenback
currency at as early day as possible. All
Of the signs OF the times, however, seem
70 indicate that we must organise party
~ our own to secure this great reform.