The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-08-24

The following article, entitled A
Rising Humbug," from the Detroit
News of August 18th, is worthy perusal
by all our readers, who have the welfare
of our nation at heart: t.
Working people will do we'll to think
twice before they rush into the move.
ment for workingman's party which
has just begun. Is there anything in i.
more than proposition to hunt out Of
Office one set of politicians and put in
anotherY Why not examine the quail
fications of the new aspirants Who
are they? Workingmen? Not a bit
of it, but the LATEST, most incompetent
and most dangerous demagogues in the
country. If they were men of real in.
telligence aud brains they would not be
where they are, but would be leading
the parties that are powerful enough to
give them the Offices they covet. These
parties have cast them aside as ignora-
muses. and incompetents Every one of
them has tried his best TO get standing
in the regular parties, has failed through
ignorance and inability, and has been
pushed into the rear as worthless aud
useless. Are the working people willing
to accept and obey as their leaders these
dregs and scum of the parties Do
they imagine they can gain any substan-
tial victory Differed by men who have
been turned out of the enemy's camp as
fools Do they suppose that such fel
lows, even if they were honest, could
lead them anywhere except to their own
destruction
Without saying word as to the mer
its of the objects which are set forth in
the platforms and resolutions thus far
adopted at workingmen's meetings and
conventions, is it not obvious that these
ignoramuses will not be able to accom-
plish any object whatever, good or bad,
which requires the control of national
legislation. They may succeed in keep.
ing up the excitement for period, more
or less protracted, and few of them
may get elected to the legislature, as in
Louisville, or even to congress. What |
they will do there may be prophesied
with perfect assurance that the prophe.
cy will prove true. They will make
blatant speeches about the wrongs of
the poor, and present a communistic
bill now and then which will be buried |
in committee; but on all live questions
on which legislation is really done they
will vote ashley are paid to vote by in
terested parties. The regular party
must vote with his party, and
the caucus is generally more honest than
the individual. The workiugman's
however, on all great jobs is
free to vote on which side he pleases,
unchecked by any caucus, and will vote
every time for the side that has most
money Thus it has always been, and
thus it always will be. Let not the
poor voter who helps put such fellows
in Office imagine that they will be too
honest for this sort of thing Examine
their past lives. Has not every man of
them striven above all things TO live
without working? Are not many of
them without visible means of support
Gro to their butchers, grocers, washer
and examine their unpaid bills.
The very existence of many of them is
a robbery of Nature, to whom they re-
turn no payment for the air they
breathe.
The News will certainly not be ac
cused of any particular interest in the
of either the democrat or
republican party. 1t hates humSug,
hewever, in all forms, and the greatest
Of all living humbugs is the demagogue
who prevades workingmons conventions
and puts himself forward as working