Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-14

But it was mistake; a weak reckoning,
The Radical Labor Party received 1 600
votes in the entire city-about six per
cent. of the ballots east, in II city where
seventy per cent. of the voters are wage
workers.
1t is not necessary to attempt to eN-
plain; stupidity. apathy, ignorance,
Doodle and whisky are some of the pow
ers which opposed us, and they were too
much for rs.
And the LabOr knguirer also very
pointedly remarks that:
"SOme of the loud -mollthed union men,
who profess such Il hatred for scabs in
their trades, were found working for the
boodIers against the labor ticket on
Tuesday. The political scab hasn't any
| the best of the industrial scab.
This applies all over. The union
man who votes against labor party
is Il worse scab than the poor devil
who goes to work for Il non-union
boss. The latter. has the excuse,
ottentlmes, OF present, urgent neces
sity-hunger.
The Town of Lake did better IN
proportion. claw and Order" was
victorious only by ma jorities ranging
from lJO to 400 ont OF II total vote
of 1000.
The Cleveland Workman tells the
story of Cleyeland's election as fol
lows:
ave crow, and we have reason to
crow, With an outlay on the part Of
our central committee of So. p; with no
tickets at all at sixteen polling places;
with ten other polling places manned by
only one man part of the day; with the
old party managers offering anywhere
from $40 to S25 to our ticket peddlers to
get them to take their tickets away from
the polls; with the history of the black
list hanging over them so that many Of
our best men could not, for the sake Of
their wives and children, be seen with
our tickets at the polls; with the lightest
total vote known for years, we have
polled upwards Of two thousand votes in
the city. We have every reason to be-
lieve that that vote would have been
doubled could we have gotten our tickets
before the people as the Republicans and
Democrats were able to get their tickets
before the people. Man after man came
to the polls at places when we had no
peddlers and asked for our ticket, but
could not get it. The West Side was
plastered with lying placards saying we
had withdrawn in favor of the Republican
party; every art known to the politician
has been used to draw off our votes and
in spite of it all we stand here two thous-
and strong-the only PARTY with pur-
pose in the city. The old machines
have tried their best to break our ranks
and reahsorb us into their own ranks but
they have falled--utterly and ignomini,
ously."
In Milwaukee, the Labor Party
polled near y two thousand votes for
Colin Campbell for Mayor, while the
political combination antagonstic
fuslons of "democratic," "republi-
can" and "labor" parties polled
about Is, 900 each, the odd votes
being in favor of the opponents Of
the Labor" fusionists, calling them
selves the Union Labor Party.
Naturally, the latter are greatly
lncensed at the Socialists for voting
for their own candidate, but as it
made little difference which fusion
ticket was elected, the Socialists
voted for principle. The treatment
Paul Grottkau received at the hands
Of last years successful Union "la-
Dor" party candidates showed plainly
enough that they were labor men
only in name. The rank and file
are mostly conservative. The LaJo,'
Rerte'c, organ of the Union Labor"
party accuses the Socialists of
fusion" with the "democrets" and
''republlcans," and speaks thus of
the result
Contrary to our expectation we were
defeated III the election yesterday. This
was the direct result of the Infamous
deal between the Fusion managers and
Paul GrOttkau. We confess that we
J underestimated the numerical strength
oil tins man. following small though it
be. There is compensation in
everything Although defeated by little
, more than the shadow of a maiority, we
are at last cut loose from that incubus
Grottkau and his misguided followers"
If one could be sure that the
Union "Iabor' party in Milwauk ee
were more than mere repetition of
the old parties, the result of the
election would be deplored by all
trun friends of [ q hnr PIT 1hn I,nl