Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1886-08-29
A BOU T POLITICS.
A QUADRANGULAR POLITICAL.
CONTEST.
Democrats That Don't Like Troup.
They Remember His Grccnhack
Dodge The Registers"
Prominent knight.
The Socialists.

he ilIol OF Illt WORN lllIlltll
conference ut Trades touncI! Hall
on the 18th inst. in calling II con-
gresSIOnal convention has caused con-
siderable talk among the boodIc men.
and their organs take every Opportu-
nifty to pour "vials of wrath" upon
the devoted heads Of those whom
they suspect Of having hand in The
movement.
Speaking to Il reporter Of ON" Of
our daiIies the other day, | cIiritcd
the remark that the independent
workingmcn had raised particular
sheol in the Democratic camp. This
may be tiguratlyel Y correct, for when
approached we'll known demo-
cratic ward politician upon tn" sub
ject, he was loud in his dcnunciatons
Of the Knights Of Labor for attrmpt-
ing to run separate ticket. NtlI,
he thought that the Knights would
not interfere with local politics, and
gave as u reason that there were in
ilucntlal Knights in town who would
accept positions on the primary tick
cts, and thus draw sufficient mum
Der Of votes to ma ke an independent
ticket in the city an lmpossIbrIty.
You have no doubt seen Troup's $
attacks on the independents. find
that among the more respectable
democrats he is looked upon us an
intruder, and is not trusted One
prominent democrat, not npolltician,
but man who has taken a lively in
tercst in politics at every election for
years, said that they couldn't forget
the time that Troup was running
the grpcnback business, and he, for
one, believed that it was nothing
more than IA matter Of dollars and
cents for Troup; "and," he added,
Il never trusted a man that would
sell out
asked him whether he Thought
that Spcrry had any Influence with
the independent workingmen.
"MclI, can't say; don't know
who the Independent men are; |
don't take any stock in what 1roup
says about the probably Judges
others by himself Still, if Spcrry
is candidate for Member Of Con-
gress, | think an independent ticket
would help him."
GLOW so?' | inquired.
"rhat's plain enough; YOU see
this is close district. and it won t
take many votes to hold the balance
Of power. OF course the work ng-
men would draw more votes from
the democratic party than the rcpub-
lican, and consequently the republic
cans would have the advantage. On
the other hand," he continued, "thc
prohibitonists will draw votes from
republican side, which, after all may
leave the contest Il close one between
the two parties.
These views are shared by rrpub-
licans us well us democrats, and |
think my friend presented very
fair picture Of the situation.
| notice that the Rcgi5cr has
finally followed in the track of the
iHi0H in making false inslnuations
against one of the delegates to the
conference, Mr.. Lane Such state
ments, coming from party organs,
will be taken by sensible folks rHm
gyuUo suits. The Hrgi>icr, us usual,
quotes its appointment Knight Of La
D0r." The statement made about
the American Socialist Section by
the TAi0n will no doubt causc some
mcrrimcnt among the gentlemen in
that society, if they read the | Hi0a,
which is rather doubtful. It's II
good joke on the American Sorial-
lists. though. and I'll report it for
their benefit, namely, that the Amer
lean section was compos, Il of lot of
German cigarmakcrs , | take the
opportunity to say that the Germans
have tiourishlng Section Of their