Year: 1877

because the leaders of the workingmen1


movement have always sold them out, VI


shall not undertake to say; but it has always


been believed that there was moro or less


selling ont, with very little delivery II


may be that some Of tie amateur working


men who are seeking to organize for this tall


have something of this kind in view.


| But If there should prove to be bona 1ldt


coalition between tho different factions, and


a determined effort shall bo mode to elect a


workinglnan's ticket, what will be the NOV


ing cause Of such a combination? This is


the first question that will suggest itself to
| the people who pay the taxes. Outside OF


the County, Probate, and Superior Jud sos,


the County Treasurer aud County Clerk
| offices which it is the common interest of the
entire. community to fill with honest and


capable men,-the chief struggle will bc over
the election of five new members of the
County Board. This Board is the County


Legislature. 1t is charged with the letting
| OF contracts, the support Of paupers, the
purchase and distribution of county sup
plies. Do the Communists mean, by coming
to the front at this particular time, that they
want the county affairs administered and the
county moneys disbursed on the Communist
ic plan? Do they mean that they intend,
if possible, to secure control of the County
Board in order to assure more liberal let
ting of contracts for work that is not needed,
III extension of the asylum for idle men as
county employees, an enlargement of the
fund to be expended on paupers and sup
plies, and, in one word, more generous sys-
TEN of dividing up than las heretofore been
in vogue? The purpose of the election is
such, and the offices to be filled are Of such
character, that 1t is difficult to put any other
explanation than this upon persistent Us
sertion by the Communistic element of its
associated strength at this time. If this is
the true meaning Of the various movements,
it will make itself apparent before the day Of
election, and serve to /unlte the taxpayers,
large and small. aud all conservative citi-
zens, i'll q desperate resistance, and leave
the so-called Worlinguen's Party very far
in the rear There has already been too
much Of the Communistic plan Of dividing
up under the manag agement Of the County
Ring, aud it is an escape from this practice,
and not m enlargement thereof, that The
people of Cook County denend.


1t is not likely that the movement Of the
Communists in the county election will be
dangerous unless the Democratic party shall
either take it under its wings or consent to
hy its colors. Even in this case we do not
doubt but that both together could be routed
by junction Of property-owners, taxpayers,
business men, and conservative men in favor
Of the Republican ticket. But We certainly
hope thet the respectable element Of the
Democratic party will have sufficient influ-
ence to defeat any such disreputabIe alliance;
if not, then it is pretty certain that the re-
spectacle element will desert the Democratic
ticket, for this fall at least. The situation is
of kind that will pretty surely lend to the
election Of that ticket which commends it.
self as being made up of the most honest
and efficient men,-a probability which the
must also keep we'll in mind. !