New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-31
LABOR-MONEY POLITICS.
HOW THEY DO NOT YET SUCCEED.

BACK LFADERS-wHAT THEY SAY AND CLAIM.
lFRoM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUSE.l
POTTsvILLE, Penn, May 2G.-The strength of
party nPennsyvaniai Is an
unknown quantity None of the rules and data which the
political prophet has his command in forecastug the
result OF contest between the old parties be applied
TO this new organization Labor riots and soft money
are of old date in Pennsylvania; but il is only within the
past two years that they have appeared distinct body
In state politics Previous 1876 the strongest "oppo
silion' vote Of any kind that had been polled
In fifty cast by the Prohibition
party which, since ISL has had candidates for state
Offices every year except Its greatest strength
was III SIS, when il cast 1924 votes The following
year its vote fell Off to 1.jl9 and II Labor Grcrnback
party first appeared In the field hut it only 5000
votes Cor Cooper and Carey. The Cooper and Carey
party in Pcnnsy lvania had scarcely organi.on and
very littc campaign work done fort Last Fall the
Laboi-Grccnback men nominated candidates for the
minor state officers which to be elected, and ef-
effected an organization in several counties. TIE
chairman Of the state Committee, I. +. Devices, Of
Posvie, made two trips through the state and issued
an address. II n seven weeks campaign and The
party polcd 52,?~S votes, or about ora-h'th the
vote or each of the old parties. The recent Spring
elections are claimed by the Nationals To show large
gains last Fall In three towns Of Crawford County
where tickets were nominated 1000 votes were cast
against geo in the Fall Chairman Devices tanks that
the general the Spiing elections indicates
growth OF the total state vote from 539-s 10 10000.
But while there has been increase in some Districts,
falling of has occurred In Others. Ia Phlade,plIa
for instance. where the in the Fall had been 5000
il was reduced 10 300 and essentially Labor
vote There has been serious trouble i'll that city To cf
feet alliance of the 6irccnbIck and abor They
represent two very different classes Of people, who 50
cially and intellectually, have little III common
The Grccnhac advocate is man OF education, ignorant
OF manual labor, and hayinG little natural sympathy
with it, Il is difficult for the wOrkiaman 10 understand
how these theorists who have been strangers i0 h All
his lifc he his friends. Chairman Devices csti-
mated that - 900 IaborGrccnback votes would be east
in Philadelphia in le77 The fact was that only 5000
east H. had failed to that tn" two elements
of his party could not affiliate In that city.
In the state nominations made at the Phlla-
de!phia Convention, May ., very little was
done 10 Remove this difficulty. II tcn
pcst-tosscd convention such rs Is rarely known
in the history OF political gatherings. One strong man
was candidate for Governor and had he been MONT
mated the ticket would have been. least, Formidable
william II. Armstrong, OF william-port wa chairman
Of the Republican State Committee last year, and Is
leading lawyer in his section OF the state He widely
known and his popularity would have gained many
votes for the Grccnblck cause 81 winch he II no" an
advocate. Bat ia-tead OF nominating him. the cohycn
chose :. X. Mason for the head Of the ticket MI
Mason is lawyer Of Mercer County. bat
he IS In thorough sympathy with the Green
back party. vet there ~ nothing IN his name
which will attract any special support from I''oig
men There Is much discomfort among the people that
man was not nominated who represented with some dc.
gree OF prominence the wants and sunrrnS> OF Their
class, Here In Schuylkl County, but NOR" c'pccHly
over IN Izeruc this discomfort saesrayatcd lbs the fact
that the coal regions prcscHtcd 10 the convention the
name OF a who has National reputation for dcvo-
lion 10 the Labor cause. but only 10 have HIM rejected
lrndrick H. Wright had itysveh votes IN tine couNcn-
ton The county which polcd more than one i"nFih oi
the entire jJ.g~- votes cast last year was
not gwen single name on the Ticket, ana
it, delegates went home positively mad TIC
muttcrnss OF discomfort are stu heard. In Scranton
ana Wikcsharrc they loud AMI many. Threats
have been made of boltns the ticket Mr.. Mason ~ a
stranger TO these They know little ahoGt the
finances and fail To undcrstand how their ncghbors
who cry for grccnbacks can give them any work
Potsyile il the home OF Francs ". Hughes. who IL
probably the ablcsi IN this NatonaL nborGrccn-
hack party. lie IL sky years OF age II an oidtmc
Democrat. has been eminent at tie bar aud
IS well known throughout the state for his intel
lcrtua gifts He represents the Grccuhack Wing
of the Natloualists and viii pro!Hbly be their
candidate for United states senator against j. Donald
Cameron should his party elect members Of the L'gis'a
iure ~ they predict they Will Speaking II few daYsaip
Of the distinctions in the party he sud that among the
Labor men there was u very crude conception of the
wants of their party. They d not know that the soil
t!nn of thc Labor question the money question:
When there Is more moacy there Will be more work
These doctrine. are xpoundc. t. the Labor men by Mr.
Hughes nni other Ggccahnra Acn IN lod.'- ana III pub
lie mcetiu. They are forth III newspapers. and II
IL not an uncommon seen" t. nud company al uutm-
ploycd miners at street corurts in Potsylc or Tama
ans, kug about the cnrreuc. aud OF general P"litlc
one Of the company who can read takes ny - news
nlprr. or currency pdlnphlci. AMI disc "-'-
to his little crowd Of listeners what II con
tiins and when he finishes they MI JOIN III
q, free op,n.ar discussion. while there exists Ia this
county a communists element which. II It, power be-
extended. NAV become -crIou. factor IN the pi"s"rya-
ton Of pbir order. there ~ the same time honest
men, suffering from want oi the necessities Of liie' who
look tie situation calmly IN tn face ana d"HfCcatc acts
Of violence. Tine condition Of the worunIInan was
never as bad Men Hhr are competent 10 Judge
estimate the number out Of employment the nnthra-
cite coal region It, fuy oncth'rd more than year ago
The shipments roa last for the entire region were
Il O00 900 tons this year they have been only ljo0"
600. OIt ~ the twelve iron mills aud furnaces III
~ciuylkiIl County only two are III operation
and one OF these l. run on short timc. There
are hundreds OF men who pay no rents
Nearly all the storckccprrq have been sold out
ot sheriff. sales Small deposit bank. have failed. In
the valley ~ the CItwi5.a -chuyll County. II l. said
that all the farmers except one have been sold out
SEcr,' sales are made Of miners houses which id
been partly dd for: at recent term 80 were Oh the
lit, day ago pay arrived at small station
~, n, ilc maintains. # was expected. and had been
seen long before ii reached the station A. II came INTO
me depot ward Il dozen or twenty women ana children
came running after IT from across the stump hcd ana
crowded around eager haste To get ahead OF cach
other and receive their husbands or their fathers pay
MI Hughes Is very sangunc man, say those VINO nave
known HIM long. He VIII make estimates OF the
National vote freely. We rely" he says, Goa sen
tmcut aud not the old parties do. on money Inc
ErpublIcan and Democratic parties really two fac
tons Of one party. The only two real parties III ms
country are the money or the olgircist' ana the
masses Of the people The total vote of the Nationals
will be between 200 900 and 100000 shall lie dishi
pointed II We don't elect the state ticket thihh we
shall elect majority OF the Congressman. several htato