The Labor enquirer., 1884-10-11
a Letter Not confidential.

To James D. Warren, Chairman of the Re-
publican State Committee of New York
SIR You are mistaken in your man, as
I infer from the appeal you sent to me
for money to promote Blaine's election.
You say:
nThe state committee finds itself, en-
barrassed for want of funds with which
to defray the necessary expenses OF the
campaign
s You add
''To you, as one believed to have pride
in the history and interest in the con-
tinued ascendency OF the republican
party, we appeal for aid to carry on the
campaign" !"
You give me this warning:
IF any one imagines the contest will
not be a severe one, he is mistaken"
And finally you getback to the original
appeal. thus:
aWill you not send US a contribution
according to your means and interest in
the campaign ?n
Now, sir, in the first place, am sur
prised that you are SO much "em bar
rassed for want of funds" as to solicit my
subscription. You must need stupen-
dous fund for the election in New York
state if the monopoly vampires of the
republican party of this city cannot fur
nish it. Vanderbilt, Gould, Astor, and a
hundred other millionaires of the city
stand behind your candidate, and if they
should send you but per cent of the
millions they have been enabled to filch
from the mudsills through the policy Of
the republican party, you will have tens
of millions with which to corrupt the
venal voters Of the state.
In the second place, am aware thai
your contesttwith the democratic party
is "a severe one y but, in the words Of
the old song, 81 don't carela toss-up
whether Mossup beats. Barry or Barry
beats Mossun ,.<s.---f r "a, ii.
In tae last place, instead Of desiring
ftlie Continued ascendancyof the repub,
hcan party, am filled with an mex
| Itinguishable desire for its destruction
AS lifelong antI-slavery man, i added
one to the ranks of the republican party
when it was founded; and, as an editor
of a republican daily paper in this city
earnestly upheld the party as long as il
stood for freedom and popular rig hts
standing by it for years after it had be
gun to blotch It's record, under the hope
that it would be brought back to its org
inal principles. Not till it finally sur.
rendered to the enemy, and became the
too1of this monstrous and remorseless
money power that is riding the country
to perdition, did 1 cast it off. l now re-
gard it as brazen- faced subvereer of all
that is good IN our institutions, a de
stroyer of our country, a traitor to oul
rights, a barrier to progress, and an en-
emy of the masses, responsible for theil
thickening wrongs, the mere panderer Of
land-iumpers. railroad blackmailers
grain gamblers, bank buzzards, million
aire monopolists, Wall street jugglers
and the unclean brood of, cormorants
ravaging this country and devouring our
substance. 1t is the power that main
tains the organized brigandage of the
country. 't',. Z y
Instead of sending subscription to
keep it in power, l would tear it from
the throne it has usurped; and instead
of desiring it's continued ascendancy,"
I am urging my fellow-voters to trample
it to destruction.
You were mistaken in your man, Mr.,
Warren, when you sent your appeal for
funds to JOHN SwINToN.