The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-09-14
THE LABORERs AND POLITICAL
PARTlES.

York Herald ON the influence that the
recent uprising OF the laboring pop0la-
tion IN bound to have on existing poaAe>
fcal organisations. The Heraid, which
belongs to no political party, processes
to see, and to be delighted at the signe,
that the interference Of the laoorefs
will cause the disintegrAtlon OF all ene
old political parties, something whlcn
the Herald has predicted thousand
times before, and which It has worked
for unremittiugly for forty years.
A good many political party os9ani.
xations have arisen within the post
forty years, and have passed away. I
The Democratic party Is ~ vtgor00a To-
tlay as It was when Thomas Jedere0n, l
the great founder OF American Demo-
cracy, was inaugurated IN 1901. II mas
been the steady advocate OF the peo-
ple's rights. It advocates them to-day.
No little ripple, such - the recent
movement OF Mborers, whose riGn!s
the party will always protect, Will
ever disturb the even tenor OF tts way. |
And vet the Herald, and the enemies
OF the Democratic party, who were
vociferous In their demands that these
Ipoor laborers who were demanding
their rights, should be shot down un-
IceremOniOusly, now come forward ana
attempt to make capital out OF tho
llabor movement.
We know something about the
wrongs of these poor people. We have
tsympathised with them In their tr0uO-
lies. We can say to them to-day that
their labor organizations and their new
parties will not remedy their palpable
'Ievils. They were doubtless clated at
the idea Of electing their legislative
ticket in Louisville. And yet that very
election set them back In the way OF
: reform. The Ave members elected to
. the Legislature can do them no gOod In
, a body, every other member OF which
. views them with suspicion. Moreover
) It secured the defeat OF very able
r Democratic candidate for the United
/, States Senate, who might have been .
Q jealous exponent Of their rights.
: And SO in Ohio, 1t matters not IRON
a whom the labor candidate may draw
Q his support, he must be defeated. I
v the Radical candidate should succeed
J. the working men will soon see that tia
Z Radical promises of assistance to then
d will be broken, as Radical promise
% have been invariably broken With
II he past sixteen years. II the Demo
N cratic candidate should succeed, tn
u working men will have to takc thel
IN chances of getting their rights from tn
he chosen exponents Of Ia party which the
ssl slcntleavored to defeat, and whose pro
cred assistance they aRnrned.
es Chartism in England got no Fagh
tn from the crown. 1t hurt nobody b'
10 its own adherents. The same thing
in making itself odious to-day In Americ
~ Moreover, in the hands OF demagogue
0l- like the New York Herald, 1t Ia begt
sh ming to be mixed up with Commu
sh ism aud Red Republicanism. The Id
he of its developing itself into a new par
Es- is only encouraged by those disappoint
CHI Radicals and their sympathisers with
at decaying party, who hope to invo
in its aid In tile destruction of the Dem
I'd, cratic party. The Democratic party
ace fndestructible. The only hope OF t
re, people getting their rights lies In Its
tendency. Once lot 1t pass away
ter the laborers of the country will be yc
Ugh ed to the car of slavery which Northe
ty, capitalists, under the manipulations
,e's the Republican party, have prepar
18th for them.-Shreport Times.