Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-04-13
POLITICAL ACTION.
ITS RESULTS NOT CONFINED
TO BALLOTS IN CHICAGO.
The victorious Defeated" Renewed
Activity of the Socialist See.
tions-Organizing for the
Next Campaign-The
BOOdlers Wall.

The results of the plucky elec-
ton skirmish, so gallantly entered
into by our Chicago comrades are
not exclusively found in the vote cast
on short notice. The healthful ex-
ercise has brought glow of enthu-
siasm into the Sections, and last
Sunday, at joint meeting held in
Waverly Hall, they began work for
the Fall campaign. Meetings were
arranged for in the four parts of
the city on the following Tuesday.
A committee was appointed to re-
port the last election, as to the num-
ber of votes cast, which must be
obtained when the official count is
made. The true and tried socialists
of Chicago are earnest workers,
fully alive to the duties and respon-
sibihtles of the hour, and true as
steel to the Party organization.
And thy will do their best to
make Chicago a stronghold of So
cialism, and by their example en-.
courage others to 'put their
shoulder to the Wheel 1t was
said that they went into polical ac-
ton too late-the fact is, they went
In just about earl y enough to do eX-
cellent work for the Fall election,
and the final duty performed this
month will serve them well as a
matter of drill.
The following extract from a letter
from Comrade Winnen will be of
interest in this connection:
"The election is over. The King is
dead long lice the King. John A.
Roche, who was elected two years ago
by the republican democratic capital
istic parties as the ruler of this city
against the candidate of the United
Labor party, Robert Nelson, will have to
deliver the scepter to De Witt Cregier,
the democrat Otherwise, things are
the same; the people are not benefited,
A new representative of the ruling class
was elected by a majority of over 10, 100,
a result that was not expected and sur
prised everybody. The number of votes
cast for the socialist candidate will not
be known until the official count is
had. There will not be many-say 200 at
most Not that the number makes much
difference under existing circumstances.
We are, nevertheless, the victorious
defeated" The Socialist Party in Chi
cago are not dead. We are Just begin
ming to live, and will soon-even next
Autumn-well equipped and aggressive,
marshal the Chicago proletariat against
the forces of both the old parties of the
exploiters.
"Our late entrance into the campaign
has been pointed out as insane, both
outside and inside labor circles, and is
given as a reason for the small result In
votes The decision to enter the politi-
cal arena this Spring was adopted at the
eleventh hour, and may be explained by
the following: The German Section
which withdrew from the Radical Labor
party last fall had long ago decided to
participate in the Spring election as the
Socialist Labor Party. The American
Section at that time voted against the
resolution relating to political action,
its reason being that its members then
were for propaganistic purposes, active
in the Radical Labor party as such, free
from corruption, branding individual
traitors and condemning all compro-
misses with the old parties. AS long as
the party remained sound, it was con-
sidered a transgressiOn against the labor
movement to withdraw; finally, it was
evident that connection with the United
Labor party and other labor parties,
and the formation of the Joint Labor
party was merely the last sign of life of
the political labor movement upon the
broad basis. Shortly before Prof. Gar
sides agitationE in this city, the, American
Section decided in connection with the
German Section to participate in the
election this Spring, and joint commit
tee, which was elected as early as Janu-
airy, was to make the preparations
Now, as according to the rule of the
Party, every candidate should have been
an active member of at least one years
standing and neither Section had a suffi-
cient number so qualified. The Ma
tional Executive Committee was ap-
pealed to-
The letter then goes on to relate
the unfortunate incidents connected
with the Party's initerant lecturer,
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