"Labor party" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bonds bearing a low rate of interest, these bonds in turn to be convertible into greenbacks at the option of the holder. The National Labor Union recommended the nomination of workingmen's candidates for offices and made arrangements for the organization of a National Labor party. This convened in Columbus in February, 1872, adopted a Greenback platform, and nominated David Davis of Illinois as its candidate for the presidency. After the nomination of Horace Greeley by the Liberal Republicans, Davis declined this nomination, and the executive committee of his party then ...
— The Agrarian Crusade - A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics • Solon J. Buck
... past, and that they must look to government (inspired secretly by sympathetic civil servants) to bring about, bit by bit, such parts of the Socialist program as were not likely to rouse much hostility in the rich. The Independent Labor Party (formed in 1893) was largely inspired at first by the ideas of the Fabians, though retaining to the present day, and especially since the outbreak of the war, much more of the original Socialist ardor. It aimed always at co-operation with the ...
— Proposed Roads To Freedom • Bertrand Russell
... Union Labor party, and the United Labor party also placed candidates in the field. Harrison and Morton were elected, and inaugurated March ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... Jerome B. Cox Is for the second time in a bad box. He killed a man—the labor party rose And showed him by its love ...
— Black Beetles in Amber • Ambrose Bierce
... "with the most genuine reluctance," as he wrote Lodge. He recognized that it was "a perfectly hopeless contest; the chance for success being so very small that it may be left out of account." It was a three-cornered fight, with Henry George as the nominee of a United Labor Party on a single-tax platform, and Abram S. Hewitt as ...
— Roosevelt in the Bad Lands • Hermann Hagedorn
... panic," said Peter, "has led to the formation of a so-called Labor party, and, from present indications, they are going to nominate a bad man. Now, there is a great attempt on foot to get the Democratic convention to endorse whomever the Labor ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford
... good judge of which way the political cat might be expected to jump at this particular crisis, Pachuca had decided to throw in his lot with the Obregonistas. He knew Obregon, knew his hold on the people, his popularity with the labor party, and it looked to him very much as though that general of fascinating Irish ancestry had a good chance of being Mexico's ...
— Across the Mesa • Jarvis Hall
... a valid reason for "turning out the rascals" of the other party. No sane and sensible person believes that there is such a thing as "Democratic" economy, or "Republican" justice, or "Socialistic" efficiency, or "Labor Party" good government. There are only economy, efficiency, justice, and good government. Each party may have a different ideal of the best method of attaining these political necessities, and, therefore, since truth is not gained by dogmatic assumptions of any one set of persons but by approach to ...
— The Family and it's Members • Anna Garlin Spencer
... other possible direction in which society can move, and it cannot stand still. From the necessity for some intervention in aid of the weaker classes against the operation of the laws of demand and supply, it follows that "no class legislation" is not a good cry for a labor party. ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 • Various
... and the Philadelphia union one year. But the Manchester union died and the Philadelphia union metamorphosed into politics. Here again Philadelphia was the pioneer, for it called into being the first labor party. Not only this, but through the Mechanics' Union Philadelphia started probably the first wage-earners' paper ever published—the 'Mechanics Free Press'—antedating, in January, 1828, the first similar journal in England ...
— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth |
