The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-06-10
FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
SAN Francisco, May "a, 18'

Mr.. Peter Cooper having declined to Ac-
cept the nomination Of the Independent
Party for president, who shall be chosen
in his place Among those whose speeches
have read, and who would seem to have
the best chance to poll over a respectable
vote, would prefer Ben Butler or Kelly,
Of Pennsylvania. | do not consider that
there is a chance, even remote, for the in
dependent candidate TO be elected, for
sooner than see it done the Democrats and
Republicans would combine, as they did in
California, to defeat the independent party.
do not think Newton Booths political
friends will sustain him a. vice president
Of the greenback party, but there are ma
ny greenback men belonging to both parties
from whom he will gain two for every vote
he will lose But will Mr.. Booth consent
to run ! If he does the Bulletin and Call
will 60 back on han sure for they dare
not do otherwise.
The Bulletin especially has learned
lesson since taking the course it did in re-
spect to the Bank of California, that in
this State at least it won't do to be honest
The Chronicle says ''the Bulletin bounded
Ralston to his death" and almc st in the
same breath scouts the idea that Ralston
committed suicide. RalstOn was not q
man to take such . step. He had many
generous qualities; he had energy and in
domitable perseverance, but his hostility
to the interest Of the laboring classes was
incorporating. He was an advocate Of
cheap labor, and all his actions were
stern vindication of his principles. He
favored Chinese immigration. He op-
posed the eight hour law, and beca use the
bricklayers in this city had been able to
maintain the eight hour rule he imported
brick masons from Chicago to build the
Palace Hotel. We do not wish to dis
turb the rest OF Mr. RAIston We only
mention him incidentally to prove that the
Bulletin was right IN what it said, and that
instead of being condemned should have
been sustained by the masses, who joined
the pack Of sleuth hounds, who in Cali
fornis run down" the friends Of the peo-
pie, at the bidding of their masters, the
capitalist and monopolist. / wish all the
papers in California were a. honest m the
Bulletin. But it cannot support Booth
with safety to itself, unless there is great
change in public opinion. Will that
change take place There is every reason
to hope it will. Saturday the money
brokers had upon their bulletin boards
5000 in silver paid for 20 dollars in gold,
and ignorant that the working men OF
some of them are Fastening to change of
their little boards for silver. because the
brokers tell them il will 60 up again soon,
when they know better.
The fact is silver must soon depreciats
here to less than greenbacks. When the
working men find out how they have been
swindled, they will be exssperAted, and
when the merchants and farmers find that
greenbacks, easy Of transportation, safe
from depreciation, because they are really,
when adopted for currency, the mea-
sure or unit of value, will prefer them, and
thus in spite Of the bullionists are
aiding to bring it about without knowing
tive shall have q greenback currency in
Nal;forr,a noas uorw nh,o .-v~....-x.l n..k
class Gen. A. NJ. Wlnn, of California, az
among the timber to choose from, for .
president for the Independent greenback
party; has that writer read the Generals
correspondence in the W. II. ADVOCATE
If Gen sral VIM has become an advocate
for q greenback currency, it 10 certainly
very recently, and furthermore the Gen.
says distinctly that the road to reform lies
through either one or the other Of the
great parties, and he ought to know
whether his conclusions are true or not,
having tried them both.
This democratic legislature, composed
mainly Of poor msn, mis-called working
men-clerks and employees, signAlised their
devotion to the rights Of the masses by
obeying the behest Of Mr.. Stanford, pre-
sident Of the Central Pacific Railroad.
The monopolist don't want better thing
than TO have painters, clerks, carpenters,
and ether employees, who have been
workingmen, but who now begrudge
them even enough to live on, though
out of the labor Of these men they
themselves make q AaAdsons living and