The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-10-30
THAT "WAR OF CLASSES"
The Democrats Recognize the Fact that
Workingmen Have Political Rights.

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The Leader has q new whine. 1t is
afraid the Democrats are "trying to
foment war of classes" 1t perccives
"a desperate attempt to get up a class
movement in politics. and is Mortified.
What has the Democratic party doneP
1t has recognized the fact that working
men have political rights. 1t has de-
clared that a working man should not
be debarred from office or from taking
an active part in public affairs because
he is poor. 1t has declared that the
wage-workers ought to have representa-
ton in legislative affairs. 1t has de-
clared that a workingman, if he is in
teligent and capable, has just as much
right to seek Office, be elected to Office,
and take part in public affairs as any
millionaire has. And it has given its
principles practical form by placing
representative workingmcn on its tick
cts, State, Congressional and county.
If this is ''trying to foment war of
classes" so be It. 1.-The "war' will
probably go on, very much to the
Leaders, sorrow and the disgust of Re-
publican politicians. who think they
own the country.
Ii any thing has been done tending to
foment real war of classes it has been
done by the Republican party through
its policy OF legslatng in favor of mo-
nopoly and its eternal toadying to
wealth and grasping corporations. 1t
has done all it could to make the con-
dition of lauor intolerable and goad it
into "a war of classes" The wretched
policy of the Republican party, party
that has ever favored the rich and
powerful as against the poor and feeble,
is in a great measure responsible for
these very "classes" that the Leader is
afraid now will go to war. 1t has
fostered monopoly. 1t enacted the law
authorizing the importatiop of pauper
labor. Under it's rule gigantic corpora
tions came into being and few men
amassed millions, while the poor grew
poorer. 1t has sold its organizations
time and again to millionairos and mo-
nopolis,s, grinding down, crushing
down the poor, the toilers, the wage
workers into abject and helpless pau
pcrism And now when labor asks for
recognition, asks for its political rights,
asks only chance to make itself felt
and heard in public affairs to the end
that its lot may be bettered, and when
the Democratic party, always the friend
and champion of the poor and oppress-
ed, takes up the appeal of labor and
makes its cause its own, the whine goes
up that tho Democratic party is "trying
to foment war Of races"
Let the Leader look to its own party.
Let it remember how it sold itself to
Jay Gould and the shylocks OF Wall
street when Blaine was lis candidate for
President in 1884. Let it remember
how it put millionaire at the head of
its national committee that year. Let
it remember that there are four million
aires on the Republican State Executive
Committee now. Let it review the
whole course and career of its party,
and finding it always ON the side of
wealth, of monopoly, of great corpor-
ations, its leaders millionaires, its legis-
lation dictated from Wall street. its
policy making the rich richer and the
poor poorer, it will not have to look
further Tor the causes of that political
uprising of the masses that it is pleased
to consider a war of one class upon
another. Dealer.