The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-08-23
Seditious Strikes and Communism.


The Philadelphia Times gives an exceed
ingly sensible warning to both Democrats
and Republicans against the folly and
fanaticism OF the movement Of labor COM
bined with fanaticism. The Democrats are
about to hold a convention in Pcnnsylva-
MIA, and this gives occasion for the we'll
pointed advice of the Times. We copy
from it the following paragraphs:
The vital point to be guarded by all par
ties at this particular iuncturc il the ten
dencv 10 rush after strange gods, which
must perish before the considerable iudg-
mcnt OF the American people. True. men
OF unbalanced minds rs candidates, such as
Judge West, OF Ohio, can do irreparablc
damage to Il party in sixty seconds; but
Judge Vests folly was bred in the convcn-
ton that nominated him. The fountain
was polluted, and its streams could be no
better than the fountain. Thus convention
and candidates unite their folles to make
Republican disaster in OHIO inevitable.
The Democrats of Pennsylvania will find
no lack OF broad and apparently inviting
paths to victory through the bramblcs OF
class prejudices and common misfortune.
There is an element that will crowd upon
the Democratic and Republican conventions
during the next two weeks that is potent
only for evil 1t dcformed the Democracy
OF Ohio and left scarcely living skeleton OF
the Republicans of that State, and it will
not be easily mastered in PENNSYLVANIA. The
disorder that has prevailed in many loca!i-
ties in this State. and that yet threatens
both property and life in the anthracite re-
gion, has brought q bountiful crop OF dema-
go@ueS to the surface, who hope to climb
into prominence or offices by pandcrlng TO
lawlessneSS. To all such both Democratic
and Republican conventions should have
but one anSwer-that there shall be liberty,
law, and peace in our great commonwealth.
The prostration of our industrial interests,
and the consequent suffering OF most OF
our laboring classes, are proper subjects
for the dispassionatc, honest, and states
manikc consideration OF political conven-
tons; but all attempts to give countenance
to the lawless spirit that denies to any Ia
borer the right to labor on his own terms,
and that teaches violence as the remedy
for real or imaginary grievances between
employers and employed, must provoke the
revolt OF all fair-minded men in conSerra-
tive and law-loving Pennsylvania. No
measure Of demagogi>m on this question
BY either party will gain the votes OF the
revolutionary classes, and the more the
great parties degrade themselves by ignor-
ing the true interests OF honest labor to
propitiate the lawless, the more detantly
will the disturbing elements oppose the
tickets of the old parties until an open
huckster in the political market-place shall
result from the mutual efforts of the traders
to cheat each other.
The Democratic convention has to lead
on this grave question in Pennsylvania, and
it has many and dangerous stumbling-blocks
in its way; but it has also the swift retri-
button that has fallen upon the demagogues
of Ohio. The dignity, the honor, the pros
pcrity OF our labor is the first care OF every
patriotic citizen; it should be the guiding
star OF every political party. and the organic
cation that turns from the true interests OF
our now suffering industry to degrade it
and make it drink more deeply OF the cup
of bitterness by pandering to the disorder
TINT is the foe OF all trust and thrift will
be defeated in this State as surely rs the day
succeeds the night.