Year: 1877

NUCLEUS OF woRKINGMAN's PARTY
FORMED IN BALTIMORE.


The following is teleoraphed from
Ba'timore to the New YORK Times


"The great hall and gallel.ts of the
Maryland institute were packed this
evening with sc people brought toge-
ther by a call from the Work ingmen's
party of the United Stat .. The crowd
was principally made up of J. 'orelJ. and
WIS tumultuors, but good humored until
IT broke out In storms of execration over
the mention of the names of the railroad
pre- sidents. The throng cheered to tee
echo the rabid talk of the speakers anG
the radical features of the platform. 7 he
orator of the evening wss young Irish
man from New York named j. p. Nc.
Donnell, editor of the Labor StdTdc ID,
whose most Violent utterances were
loudest applauded. His decIa aeon I tiat
the strikers had been driven to burning
denotS ald destroying railroad propertT
by the uncomfortable tyranny of capita,
and that they might have been better off
now if they had done the same thing be-
fore, set the audience off into a whirl-
wind of applar'e Their Justification
for the destruction of property, he said,
was that necessity knows no law and
the men did it in their hunger and des-
pair to show their hatred of tyranny and
prove of what they are capable. The
mention of the names of Scott and Gar
rett wSS greeted with terrific yells and
shouts of Hang them The work ng
men were urged to act togetherin in politics
to come out from the Republicans and
Democrats, both of whom were oppr- e
sing them, and nominate and elect their
own men to office. If they do this they
could overcome their oppressors and en-
force new regime. As for the soldiels s.
the speaker said that, if necessary, the
worf'ng men could organize regiments
to sweep out of existence those who
would dare to fire upon them. The
whole tone of the speech was fanatical
and violent. The platform that w0r
read afterwards is that of the INTERIM


al Society, with some alterations to meet
the poll .c2 exigencies of the present
Its leading plank is that all railroads and
canals, telegraphs and labor machinery
snail be common property of the people,
to be operate by labor unions, under
the pro lection of the National Govern
ment that the wages system Shall be
abolished and labor have an equal share
IN the earnings of capital, and that labor
bureaus shall be formed by State and
National Governments. A call was


made for committee of five from each
ward to meet at headquarters Monday
next and prepare for the TRY of the
Worklngmen's Patty into the local poll
tlcal field. The movement is exciting in
tense interest on account of the enthu-
siasm that has marked its birth. There
are three or four sections of the Inter-
Lationalists They will form the nucleus
of the new party. After the meeting TO-
night nineteenth of the crowd came for
ward and signed their nam as mem.
l bers. President German, of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal, had another in
terI Jew with Governor Carroll to-day,
and at Mr.. Gorman's request the Cow
ernor decided TO postpone action to-
wards breaFing the canal blockade by
force. Mr.. German is now of the opin-
ion that he can induce the boatmen to
quietly dispense of their own accord; and
~ 1t is desired not to provoke a collision,
except in the list extremity, he wants to
t.y the effect of MOI al suasion few days
more.