Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-08-25
TOMMY MOR0AN'S TWADDLE.


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TOMMY MOR0AN'S TWADDLE.
Tommy Morgan IL nothing II not
analytical, but he is sometimes un.
fortunate In his analysis just as he Is
almost invariably wrong In his prem.
Uses and rerverse and illogical In
every argument into which he enters.
Taking his cue from the lying and
slanderous Republican press, Morgan
eudeavors to fasten upon the Demo.
cratic party in general, and the city
administration 10 particular, the
odium and the blame for the break.
ing up Of the misnamed Populist
convention last Saturday.
As q proof VI his assertion, how.
ever, Morgan, like the sources from
which he derives his ideas, IL unable
to offer anything beyond general
charges, unsupported by o tact or an
incident.
Listen to the twaddle to which
Morgan gives utterancc In answer to
q direct question put by one Of our
evening contemporaries, upon what
he (Morgan) based the presumption
that II was Democrats from the City
Hall broke up the convention.
"Let Us see," says Mr.. Morgan,
"whose interest II would be to keep
the labor party from putting
straight ticket In the field. The
labor movement Invariably draws
from the strength Of the Democratic
party and rebounds to the benefit Of
the Republican. 1t Is to the inter.
est OF the Republican party TO keep
hands OF oil POLITICAL labor movements.
and II Is just . plainly the interest
Of the Democratic party to prevent
by every means 10 It's power the
progress Of all political labor move.
ments."
After delivering himself Of this
weighty announcement. Mr.. Morgan
goes on to insInuate that the majority
OF laborltes In the convention were
In the employ Of the city govern.
ment and therefore interested In the
welfare OF the Democatic party.
''Those building trades" said Mr..
Morgan, referring to that section
Of tho convention which favored
Mr.. Ryan for Chairman and
kicked "Teezy. Weezy" Dixon out,
"are, more than any other
section Of organized labor, linked
with the city government. They In.
clude brlcklayers, who are employed
by the city, they have their building
inspectors, their plumbers, carpen.
tors, gasatters, and all that, all con.
nected with the building trades, and
I'LL largely represented on the ci,y's
pay.roll-closely connected with the
city government What more nat
ural than for these men to be inter.
ested In breaking US up and thwart'
Ing our purposes?
So this, then, is the philosophy OF
Mr.. Morgan. First, the majority oil
the labor delegates duly accredited
to the convention are not true labor
ties, because they sold out principle
for Jobs. Second, there never can be
an honest labor party, true to the
principles Of the party, until all
tradesmen and mechanics en-
rolled In the ranks OF organized
labor are refused employment BY
all municipal governments. Fourth
that su,h governments should
for that reason be discouraged
from giving employment to organized
labor: that the municipal government
and the party responsible for its ex
istence, which recognizes organized
labor and gives to 1t most patronage
should he regarded as an enemy t
the cause of labor, should be antag
oIized and defeated by the labol
, party in the interest of another part!
which encourages the true principles
and keeps alive the true spirit Of or
ganized labor by refusing employment
TO its members and erasing the nam'
OF every union labor man from thu
pay.rolls of the municipality.
Strange declaration Of principle
truly! Aud yet this Is the plain ant
only inference to be drawn from
Tommy Moresn's twaddle. Morgan
says "iab0r movements rebound Il
the interest Of the Republican party.
This then, 1t must be assumed, 10 thu
object of the present movement II
10 gotten up. 1t would appear from
! Morgan's utterances, for the purpose
Of helping elect the Republican
ticket this fall. There can be NJ
other object, since "all labor move
n msnts rebound to the interests D