Chicago eagle., 1889-10-05
WILL THEY UNITE
The Labor Party Offers an Alliance to
the County Democracy.
1t Demands in Return the Reorganization
of the Police and the Ignoring
of Bar Primaries

OF tne fOllce ana the Ignoring
of Bar Primaries,
The Labor party, which combined
with the Democrats last spring to
elect Mayor Cregier, has apparently
become restive about something.
Through one of its committees, of
which George NJ. Sloan is Chairman,
it has issued an address to the Cook
County Democratic Central Committee.
1t is a rather forcible document, and
contains several propositions upon
which it says the two parties should
unite Among other things, it says:
Gentlemen of the committee, you
see we are frank. The bond of our
union grows slack. You stand for the
organization; we for votes, without
which your majority is at least ques
tionable We remain Democrats in
this coming election if your convention
will heed us. We will put more faith
in it if it is conyoked under the prim-
ary law.
We want
a. That the convention shall re
nominate every Commissioner who has
made a record for integrity and capac-
ity, and that those it adds shall have
no taint of Doodle on their garments.
90 That it shall make no deal in
the Judgeships with the Republicans;
shall repudiate any bar nomination.
shall nominate for itself honorable men
who have not prostituted their knowl
edge of law in the service of private
corporations -men fit to sit by their
sides to whom we owe it that an Aus
trian police has not been established
over us. No such man is a Republ-
can or can be. The bubbles and prab-
bles that impede justice are inven-
tions by which the bar makes profit at
the peoples expense. Lawyers thrive
by dissensions, and as class foment
them. Their fayorite is always under
suspicion To deal with the Republic
cans is to commit the choice Of Judges
to an inside ring, which makes its use
Of both parties. To accept the bars
ideal is to leave the selection to a caste
There are none too many fit in the De
mocracy, but for our votes the conven-
ton must offer the peers of those We
have"
Speaking of the police force the adj
dress says
Though we think Cregier honest
and capable, yet his administration
does not meet our just expectations.
We did not vote for the retention of
men in control of the police force
against whose aggressions on free
speech and free assemblage the court
must interpose. There is no place
found for the tiend Discretion in the
law free people obeys. The time
draws near when another strike for
eight hours will be upon us In its
agitation those who favor it are the
equals before the law with those who
resist it. The free asSemblage is not
to be repressed because enthusiasts
harangue it nor the paper to be sup
pressed that venomously assails it.
The secret conclave of the magnates
devising schemes to defeat it is not to
be invaded nor are spies to be sent
from the detective force into the coun-
ellis of the strikers Such struggles
are the natural sequence of the econ
omic relations of men. Public opinion
only can definitely settle them. But
under its present control the police in
a general strike always threatens the
people with another Peterloo or pro-
yokes another Haymarket We would
have it neutral and have it keep the
peace. There may he cogent reasons
for this retention, but while these rea-
sons are not apparent no Independent
is satisfied
Again This was meant for u peo-
pies administration In the Police the
first proceeding due the people was a
reorganization from the bottom"
THE RECORDERSHIP.