The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-06-30

other hand, the energies OF the position we're
too we'll justified by the prevailing code OF po-
litical and social ethics. The attempt to COM
bine all the machinery of inf uencs, including
all the newspapers, against kearney. seems to
have been launcbed with the sanction of all
| the leading politicians, including the State
Committees of both parties /; yet iE grievonsly
miscarried. Both Democrats and Republicans
ran what is known as o straight tlcket, and
drew off thousands of voters from the Fusion,
or, as it was speedily dubbed. the "Concrete"
or Mule" party. Moreover, the event of the
contest is said to have utterly disheartened and
dispersed the Fnsonists. On the morrow of
| the election, according to o telegram from San
Francisco, every body was q wotkingman.
One thing is made obvious by the success of
this popular movement in California. In this
country the questions at issue between labor
and capital are to be settled, not by paving
stones ON the one hand and bayonets on on the the
ballot box The regular army will not be
called upon to quell riots and keep the peace;
the man on horseback will be entirely soperfo-
ous. The American workman is no fool; he is
not likely to compromise his cause by threat
and violence, when be learns that whetever
changes he thinks needful in the organic law
Of the State can be effeoted by walking to the
polls.
tFrom the San Francisco Chronicls)
The vote in the city was over "a 600; and from
the most reliable information oLtainable at the
hour this is being written, the Workicgmen
appear to have about a 600 more votes than the
Non-Psrtisaps, the Democratic and Republi-
cane cnstirg hardly any fEure worth mention
ing. With suoh large plurality as this in
San Francisco, 10 is alwost o cSRth Ipty that the
Workingmen will get away with the State
very easily and unless there has been an un-
commonly large amount OF scratching, that the
workingmen have secured all the thirty-two
delegates at large. In this city their victory
has been az complete aud overw helming ss the
most sanguine K arneyite oonld have hoped
Even In those ''nobby" precincts wdefarA the
odor of labor never scents the -stRaesPseFeJ eBd
vhara hal trad nf IA
anticipated solid vote for the Concrete can
didstes. the Workingmen, to the astonish ment
even of themselves, have plurality of the
votes polled
The fact is, there was q general apathy out
side of the ranks of the lab or party, and there
were great many votes polled quietly for the
Kearney ticket by wsll-to-do merchants aBd
taxpayers who had lost all confidence in the
old party organizations and in all the tricky
leaders con nected With them. Seeing, es they
could not but see, the tracks of these old party
hacks SO plainly in the Non. partisan move
ment, they made choice of the WorkiDgmen's
ticket as q sort of last refuge against the infa-
mics of the sncients in politics who have for
macy years been robbing the State and i'm
poverishing the people. One of the mt 81 strik-
ing features in tue election is the utterly con-
temptible figure cut by the Democratic and
Republican parties.
From the San Francisco Catholic Monitor.
Any one who witnessed the procession of
lest Saturday night, could see that the hearts
very depths There was an esrnestness about
tho dem, ,ustratiou that contrasted strangely
with mere political displays, when the chief
question at Issue was between the "inS" and
"outs.n
Young and old, women aud children, turned
out zen masse" to take part in the popular
protest that "The Chinese must GO" It can
no longer be doubted that the working people
of California regard this Chinese question al
most as matter of life or death for themselves
and their children. AS We go to press the full
Of r,afo o1 hat nnfA al MT
is kno wn to believe that the popular cause has
achieved signal triumph.
We are sure the warkingmen feel glad to-
friends, and did not permit themselves to be
driven into any unls wfnl acts, or Anything
that could be construed into an attempt at
Communistio revolution. The ballot is the
only true and sure weapon for American
freeman. 1t requires patience to bear and
wait, but still it will bring enduring victory
in the end.