Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-10-10
TRIMS IN A BETTER BAND.

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Supreme Bench which the United La
Dor party has bestowed upon him, on
the ground that hc is mot prepared
TO sever all connection with the Demo
cratic party, with which he has hith-
crto acted, He has tull faith In the
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behalf of the laboring classes as oil
Others and, therefore, cannot con,
sent TO become the standard-bearer Of
any new party organization" although
he declares hc IL . a worklngman now
and always ready to support every
legislative or other governmental re-
form which may tend TO benefit the
laborng classes, promote all industrial
pursuits, and guard with impartial
Judgment the rights and interests of
both capital and labor"
Judge Elwell acts and talks like
good Democrat and man of common
sense, and the voters, be they few or
many, who have contemplated attach
ing themselves to the proposed organ
ization which has sought TO make him
its candidate have abundant reasons
given them in tho few sentences of his
letter to reconsider their deter
mination. If they will carefully
consider what Judge Elwell says, they
will find that he declines to be their
candidate because he is q Democrat,
and furthermore, because, being Dem
ocrat, he cannot possibly consent TO
Join political association which bars
from membership any class Of citizens.
Such an association is abhorrent TO
the fundamental principles of Democ-
racy, which demand that tho country
shall be governed by the voice OF a
majority OF all classes ot It's cltizens
and which VIII not endure that any
particular class shall take possession
OF the Government to administer IT IN
its selfish interest.
The United Labor party have made
a grlevous mistake IN setting up their
organization, and one which history
ana reason alike declare TO DC an error
No party whose members have been
solely drawn from any particular class
OF the community has ever succeeded
IN attaining power in a Democratic
Government, unless in time Of great
but temporary excitement, and none
so constituted has ever been able to re-
tain the power that II may once have
gained. DO the men who have origi.
mated this United Labor party honestly
believe that il will be for the good OF
the country thst IL should be placed
wholly under the control OF representa-
tives OF only the labor interest OF the
country Suppose that the capitalists
OF the country should undertake to
organize party which should admin
lister the Government wholly IN their
interest and give the laborer no voice
whatever in its control, would not the
members of the "united Labor party y
think IL great outrageY Would they
not at once, and most Justly, say that
il would be wrong TO trust the Govern.
ment to the representatives of capital
only, however virtuous their declara.
tons and pious their intentions q?
The interests of labor woulL not be
safe under the protection of the most
honest representatives of capital but
neither would the interests Of capital
be safe under the protection of the
most honest representatives of labor.
Men cannot be trusted to act fairly
against their instincts and appetites
the lamb cannot safely lie down with
tho lion. Judge Elwell declines the
invitation OF the Labor party to help il
get tho advantage of capital. He tells
1t very plainly that he favors the in
terest OF neither at the expense of the
other, but that he demands for both
the rights which belong to them. As
a Democrat he belongs TO a party which
proposes to defend every interest and
every class in the enjoyment of its
proper functions aud privileses As a
Democrat he frowns upon every move
ment OF one interest or one class to