Year: 1876

No man in America has more cheek or
less basis of character than the demagogue
holding the second place on the Greenback
ticket. August 80 he stood before large
audience in Cooper Union hall and said:
You can shout for Peter Cooper without
choking, because he has accumulated
large wealth by fostering productive in
dustries, and he is the representative of
our principles. 1t would be well for
Sam and the world if the same could be
said of him. He never fostered productive
industries except as leech on the body
polite, never sweat an honest drop in any
useful industry, but has hung upon tenn
perance and politics like barnacles to a ship,
adding nothing to its value, clogging its
speed ard impairing its strength. He COM
mepced his literary career by stealing and
reciting the productions OF others, and at
the same time calling God to witness his
honesty, was detected and forced to con-
fess.


He saddled himselfupon the Temperance
cause, and lived in clover from that benev-
olence for years. Alter he entered the po-
liticsl arena his ruling passion again mani
tested itself. He fastened himself on the
workingmen, and rode that hobby until
they discovered his true character. His
first feat after he got foothold was an at
tempt from the platform Of Cooper Union
to sell the workingmen to the Democratic
party for the second place with Seymour.
Failing in this, he went home and attempt
II 10 b;r,oa1f int
Democratic workingmen's platform. But
the New York swindle was exposed, and
he failed again. Last year he turned up
with fossilIzed Allen on the Democratic
greenback ticket, and again went under.
Now he is quartered on the national green
back ticket with Peter Cooper. No two
men ever differed more widely exact an
tipodes. No one man has contributed more
to the development of the wealth of this
country than Peter Cooper none less than
his colleague, S. F. Cary. The one is as
honest as the law allows the other as dis
honest as the law allows. The party they
claim to represent is chiefly composed of
men of moderate means and practical
industry. Peter Cooper is a millionaire,
Cary comparatively Dauper. Mr.. Cooper
does not in any sense represent the masses;
neither does Cary. Cooper, however hon
est, has never rendered equivalents in time
and force for his vast accumulations, and
therefore, according to their own creed, he
does not represent the masses. These same
masses are declaIming against public cor
rupion aud demanding honesty in public
men, and yet have accepted as their leader
Cary, man whose vacillations and tergi-
versations have seldom been equaled in the
history of the world.


Now, as heretofore, there is most likely
an understanding between him and his
Democratic confederates of the Allen
stripe that he is TO lend himself to divide
that they may conquer He certainly has
no hopes of success, and is demagogue
enough to do any dirty work fora place
that will enable him TO exc out his nom
productive existence until the flesh shall
finally drop from his lazy bones. From
childhood till now he has had a constitu-
tional diathesis antagonistic TO labor, and his
place on the ticket as the representative OF
the working classes is one of the greatest
insults ever offered the American people.
He has brass enough to demand anything,
but how they can stultify themselves by
voting for a millionaire and political
pauper who has never earned the salt in
his bread, added one useful idea to the
sum of human knowledge or one dollar to
the wealth of the country, is one of the
uDsolved mysteries of human perverse,
ness.