The Labor enquirer., 1884-07-26
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Many sri;slisctiolIs crowd upon mo which
j cannot sssa tcuch apon in this letter.
I propose ta gsnenlise only upon some
of ths msin lessons derived from the
events of the convention.
And let me fifst say without fear or
hyos, and tntirely upon my own re-
sponsibility, thst the sneakinx. degener-
stei machine which goes By the false
name Of democracy in thisscountry never
looted % inEam0us and contempdble to
me = il does to-dsy. | chapcterise
without mircinx the whole conciaye
&hirh met at Chicago. with 9 few grand
exceptions to Be an insulting, skulking
conspiracy sgainst working people, and
aoowardly, Notwithstanding tribe'of tinie-
servers.
Although throughout the whole con-
vention great masses of workingmen
pressed THAR claims at the doors of the
meeting, andlalthough scores of petitions
looking to land and labor interests were
brought to bear upon the committee on
resolutions, these seryile trimmers,
despite the heroic protests Of General
Butler, only managed to issue few
sickly and donble-headed propositions
touching the vital reforms of the age
and the demands which lie near and
dear 10 the hearts Of 1000, 900 working
men. / confess to great surprise. shame
and modification that the democratic
convention, even after the republicans
had put these things 90 emphatically in
their platform, should have made 81
cowardly an exhibition Of their want o.
principle and conscience.
I take it that in these proceedings the
danocgats have told the working people
of this country virtually that they have
no faith in their power and influence in
the body polite. They evidently do moi
believe that the labor organization of the
masses during the past fifteen year
amounts to anything. They have nomi
mated Cleyeland squarely in the eyes O
the working masses whose enemy they
know him to be. Having insolently and
contemptuousIy thrown down the chal
lenge to the workingmen, / do most sin
cerely hope that they will have learned
( a deep and bitter lesson before mex
November. sn
Il have no sympathy with Tamman,
hall or any Of its agents But John
Kelly uttered a word that may be
credited with an honest thought and
purpose. That was when he declared
that Cleveland could not be elected ii
the face of tie workingDlen of New
York, whom hi had traduced and in
jured. And whatever Senator Grady
may be as politician / say that tht
bnll-dozing treatment which he received
at the hands of the convention in as
serting his indisputable right to STATE
his opinion Of Cleveland's chances o
election was simply infamous. What
ever Grady may be he looked noble
under the rowtiyish hisses!of Cleveland.
henchmen. Il the mantle of a people'
hero was for the time seated upon hi
shoulders it was placed there by tn,
despotic and 1owardly schemers VIII,
were determined to suppress him in th'
exercise of natural and parliamentar,
right. ,.t ...s -..,.,.rs s-- 3,
1t is into dirty ditch that the demo
crscy have descended when leading
republican journals announcing Cleye
lands nomination head their columns il
big letters:
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! :FHE MONOPOLY CANDIDATE TRIUMPHANT:
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Nor is this an empty title thrust upor
Cleveland. Read the black aud whit
record of his acts sent to the convention
by the leading labor Organizations o
( New York state, and it will be seen tina
/ his noble career has been a steady ant
I audacious determination to veto ever,
bill in the interest of labor and to us
his whole officia power for corporations
/ Yet in the face, of all this the convention
set its heel squarely upon every effor
of the labor interest to explain its posi-
( tion and record its protest, 1t simpl.
amounted TO a. dastardly and despoti