The advocate., 1892-06-22
REPUBLICAN, NOMINEES.

result would be the g9lecCon OF CAnuA-
date for the great Office of president OF
the United States, other than one In the
interest of the plutocrats of Wall street,
no one doubted; and care nothing OF
criticism upon the head of the ticket, for
the people, as we'll as the Wall street
brokers, know where to place him.
Neither do doubt but that your readers
know where to place Mr.. Reid, the nomi-
nee for vice president and editor OF the
New York Tribune; but his selection
calls to mind a bit Of history. Horace
Greeley, the founder Of the New York
Tribune, was q man of the people, and
it was he who said in the Tribune, just
before his death, that I'VE boast Of hRv-
ing liberated four millions Of slaves.
True, we have stricken off the shackles
from the former bondsmen, and brought
all laborers to q common level, but not
so much by elevating the former slaves
as by reducing the whole working popu-
lation to a state of practical serfdom.
While boasting Of our noble deeds, we
are careful to conceal the ugly fact that
by our Ubiquitous monetary system, we
have practically natlonalized q system OF
oppression, which, though more refined,
is only less cruel than the old system of
chsttel slavery"
Horace Greeley was also a thorough
believer in the theory of communion
of interests Of all Workmen in a large
labor employing establishment, and he
cheerfullY divided the stock of the
Tribune with all his employees who cared
to take It, and reserved for himself only
a minority interest. The Tribune owed
Its success largely to the genius and
brains of It's founder. Tribune stock
ran up to large figures, and the employees
seeing a chance to sell at profit, dis
posed of their stock, and it was gradually
gathered into the hands of the capitalists
Of Wall street, who at the time of Gree
ley's defeat for the presidency owned
majority of the stock. Undismayed atde-
feat, the great editor Of the Tribune re-
sumed his work as editor of the paper
he had expended so many years Of labor
and toll to establish; and it was then he
wrote the foregoing lines, that will stand
as long as liberty of speech remains to
the people of this republic, monument
of eternal shame and disgrace to the
civilization of the age. However, mark
the sequel: These consclenceless towards
CT Wall street, who had secretly gobbled
up majority of the Tribune stock, did
net have the courage, honor and manli-
ness to openly consult the editor Of the
Tribune, but in secret gave orders to the
foreman of the Office not to recognize
Horace Greeley as Its editor. One morn
ing Mr.. Greeley noticed that an editorial
he had written did not appear In the
paper, and he sought the foreman of the
composing room 70 know the cause, and
found the old man all broken up, and,
with tears in his eyes, he told his great
chief that he had been ordered by the
directors not to recognize Mr.. Greeley as
the editor Of the Tribune. A few days
later Mr.. Greeley sank, broken hearted,
into premature grave, a victim Of the
Wall street conspiracy. Whitelaw Reid
became the successor of Horace Greeley
as editor of the Tribune, and how fitting
that he should be the Republican noml-
nee for the vice presidency along with