The Labor enquirer., 1884-08-23

ha vas : Republican. That is to say, to
| carv Ills measure, he helped dest=by his
money. Democrats and Republicans indis-
i criminately, but both sets Of members were
always Gould men.
No monopolist cares which party wins
| He is only anxious that the nominating con
yention Of each party should nominate Q
j candidate whom he could control.
Thus are the people played with and kept
apart by the fetish, called ..party allegiance,
ever bound to the ceanot wheels Of their op-
.pressors,
MIGHT we not learn something from the
fate Of the African negroes? In their own
country, each tribe had its fetish and they
i fought each other for its supremacy, and
both sides sold the prisoners captured IN
those battles to the white man as slaves. 80
i the laboring man votes for his fetish, the
i Democratic party, and the farmer votes for
his fetish, the Republican party, and the re-
| suit Is that both are handed over as cap
i tiyes to the corruptionists and monopoiists
| whichever side wins
Marx this: the laborers and the people
never winl
Let no man say tnat desire to array one
class in this country against another class.
Not so. wish to set all classes against the
corruptionists, the plunderers and the Alb
i sorbers of other peoples earnings wrongful
| iy by bought legislation, and speaking for
the whole people / desire to array
| them against such men only. And if to any
it seems differently, let him reflect that
among the common people of the country
there Is no political bribery, corruption, or
desire to do anything except TO have good
government, under which, men may earn
/ for themselves and their families a whole
L cso$o nd fo1r
| Every convention of either party is pre-
| vented if possible, from nominating any
pronounced friend of the laboring man or
anh-monopolist to high office Witness the
| fate of Thurman, the most accomplished
i Democratic statesman Of all, in the conyen-
ton calling itself Democratic at Chicago.
Is VOTE TOGETHER, IS THE REMEDY.
What then is the remedyfor these so
monstrous evils2 How can the people, the
true Democracy, repossess themselves OF
| their government, to make laws to protect
their own interests and to redress these
| great wrongs and cause the plunderers to
4 disgorge their robberies from the treasury ?
The cry has already gone forth ''f the
people put third candidate in the field
| those who vote for him will throw away
their votes" Be it so. The voter will do
| worse than throw away his vote If he votes
for either candidate of the monopolists.
Such vote thereby perpetuates the rule of
his oppressors without protest, If by his
| vote he puts or keeps either in power. a,
| The same argument was used in 1848 to
| the abolitionists, that they should not vote
| for Van Buren, to establish free soil. And
again the same cry went out in 1852 when the
Whig and Democratic parties made the
| same platform on the slavery question to
crush out the Abolition party forever. But
| the true-hearted Free-Soilers stood irm, and
appeared, if you please, to throw away their
Yotes-but though the Democracy elected
| their candidate with only four states in
opposition, yet in 1856 the Free-Soilers, the
despised third party, elected Fremont, who
was counted out by the returning boards of
that day, but the Whig party was destroyed,
And in 1860 by the third party of '52, Lin
coin was elected and the Democratic party
was worse than destroyed. As its majority
gravitated to treason and armed rebellion /
left it then to serve the country as now I do.
Fear not. The people will not have to
wait eight years for their triumph. Every
thing, including politics, travels faster now,
as there are more railroads and telegraphs
to distribute intelligence. .--... 5z &
In politics, as in everything else there is
seed time and harvest. He who expects
he ought to be sowing, and the presidential
crop is harvested only once in four years.
HE RECOMMENDS FUSION.
In framing your electoral ticket, make a
fusion in all the states with the supposed
minority, and make it upon this theory:
Not that you are going to vote for the elect
ors, of any candidate opposed to your inter
ests, not that the friends of the other candi-
date are going to vote for yours, but agree
that you will run the same electoral ticket,
provided the electors who compose it are as
they ought to be, reputable men who will
be bound by yltheir honorable undertakings
which is all there is that binds Che electoral
college to vote in any direction, and then
have it agreed that the electoral vote of the
state shall be divided in the electoral college
according to tie number of votes thrown for
your candidate, and the number of votes
thrown for the other candidate on the same
ticket. The number of votes which each
candidate gets will be known with substan-
tial accuracy long before the official count
is made. Therefore you will have every in
centive to vote for your candidate because
the larger number of votes you cast the
more electoral votes will your candidate get,
and the less will the others have. And
those who are voting for the same electors
with you will throw as many votes as they
can for their candidate in order that he shall
have as large share of the electoral vote of
the state as possible, neither in fact voting
for the candidate of the other. Thus you
will show your strength and hold the bal
ance of power.
Organize in every state, and present at the
polls an electoral ticket, and support it with
your votes. ="
When the word "organize'' is used, at
once springs up to the mind the political
machines which have been created, caueuses,
conventions, and delegates who can be
bought and sold in the market like sheep
the contrivances by which the peoples
enemies have conspirei to take away their
rights. \ ia> a'..ss
By that word / mean nothing of that sort.
Organize in your workshop-agree to vote 4
together for one ticket. There need to be no
great and expensive meetings. You can
vote together without brass band just as
well as you can with one. Torchlight pro-
cessiens are an invention of your enemies to
deceive you into following their banner and
marching to- their music, and into not yot-
ing for your own interests, and the interests
of your wives and your children.
Therefore let the people stand together and
vote together and SOW the seed of great and
victorious party, fnot at this election at the
next. IF you do net SOW now Won will mt