The workingman's advocate., 1876-07-01
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

The farce has ended The curtain has
dropped. Thelights have been extinguish-
ed. The actors have gone. The Repub-
hcan Convention has met, adopted plat
form dHtdgonist,c to tabor's interests, ex-
pended the usual amount Of bumcomb.
placed in nomination a couple of figure
heads-and adjourned. Already the frogs
have commenced their croaking the pot
house politicians are clearing their throats
for the coming campaign the penny a line
party scribblers, who if they were pilloried
could not give the antecedents Of either
Hays or Wheeler, have commenced to Div
their vocations the cross road saviors of
their country-hsve prepared their eulo-
gies the bloody shirt orators are waiting
for an engagement ; the party machinery
has been creased and remodeIed band
will soon begin to play, Great is Diana
Of the Ephesians, " and the party lash and
money contributed by overworked clerks
and employes-will furnish the wherewith
expected to secure the support Of poor,
miserable dupes, who have been ever ready
to listen to the song Of the siren, or sell
their birthright-the ballot-for mess Of
pottage.
But the guise is too thin-party cor
ruption- malfeasance in Office, from the
highest official to the humblest employe-
a continual neglect and betrayal of the
peoples interests, cannot be hidden BE-
hi''d the personal respectability of two
virtual nonentities. The past-with its
record-like BAnquO's ghOst-will not
down at their bidding. Certificates Of pri-
vate character are at a discount, and will
avail nothing in the prOtracted contest up
on which We are about to enter.
The Cincinnati conference betrayed
phase too common in human nature
gangrened jealousy of trAnscedant abilities
"A desire to pull an angel down, rather
than help mortal up. Blaine, the brains
the head and front of the Republican
Party, who for years has been it's recog-
nized leader-who never turned his back
on the foe, was slaughtered, because Nor
ton, Conklin and Bristow's parasites were
instructed to defeat him at all hazards,
and they obeyed their instructions. The
action Of the Democratic Convention in
1852, was duphcated-when the rsliying
cry was anybody 10 defeat Douglas" and
Franklin Pierce, an obscure New HAmp-
shire lawyer. was selected az the ''com-
promise" candidate. God grant for the
sake of the Independent Party, the parall-
el may not be completed.
Reader, we are not speaking from n
partisan standpoint. Republicanism and
Democracy have been to US for years sy-
nonymous terms. They have both been
the tools of Wall street.-the agents of the
money power. The question i'm which we
are now interested ia, has one of them at
least the manhood, the wisdom, the states-
manship to recognize this fact, and act for
once in the interests Of the people. If the
of the Western Democracy
are true to their best interests and the in
terests Of their constituents they will re-
fnes in no uncertain sound to longer bow
the knee to Baal-the golden calf. Let
them remember the struggling millions Of
the west gathered from every state and from
every clime-with their mortgaeed farms
and homesteads black horizon, who
know that the enforcement Of the worse
than infamous specie resumption act means
ruin and universal bankruptcy--means the
eviction of our farmers and the ruin of
our employers and mechanics, and the par
alyzing Of the arm of industry. Of one fact
the st. Louis convention can rest assured
that its only chance Of success is the nom-
inAtion Of statesman of acknowledRsd
ability and irreprOachAbls charActeR, on @
platform which recognises the important
fact that the greenback, which saved the
life of the Nation, which paid her defend
era, can save her commerciAl homnr-ds-
spite the plausible protestations Of our for
eign BelmOnts or our home .McCuIlc ughs.