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has made them resolved to die in the last ditch. Accord- 

 ingly a few days ago a gigantic scheme was set on foot to 

 show that this agriculturist party is a collossal band of 

 Anarchists and that the entire State is permeated with red- 

 handed dynamiters. Accordingly, on Thursday last, every 

 State paper of any importance published what purported 

 to be an expose of the rituals of a secret order, the princi- 

 pals of which are the leaders of the Union Labor party. 

 This all purported to be sent out as a telegram from Win- 

 field the day before, but each paper published a large * cut ' 

 in connection with the alleged exposure, which showed 

 that it was a desperate preconcerted plan in which the 

 lesser lights are all expected to take up the cue and find a 

 desperate gang of dynamiters in every hamlet and rural 

 district throughout the State. ' ' 



The dynamite referred to in the above article is alleged 

 to have been furnished by some of the Republican man- 

 agers, and placed in the express office for shipment, where 

 it prematurely exploded, almost killing the wife and 

 daughter of the express agent. The whole scheme was a 

 farce, and the Legislature, when petitioned by the Union 

 Labor people to investigate the conspiracy, refused to do 

 so. Thus the press is used in every conceivable manner to 

 dupe the people. 



Another matter of the greatest importance to which 

 we desire to call the attention of the members of labor 

 organizations, is the practice so universally prevalent of 

 only reading one side of the question. It is a fact, well 

 known to all, that many of our leading men, those who 

 put themselves up as fit and qualified to enlighten the 

 public on the great questions of the day, only post them- 

 selves on one side of the question. For instance, if the 

 Republican party does anything wrong the Democratic 

 papers are quick to expose it; and if the Democratic party 

 does anything wrong, the Republican papers do likewise; 



