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52 Districts or individuals, designated by Central Committees of States and Workingmen's Organizations."

The organ of this party, is The Indianapolis Sun, published at Indianapolis, Ind., and is ably and earnestly conducted.

All workingmen and others, who are convinced that we have nothing to hope for from either of the old parties—as now organized—would do well to procure this paper. I give a little extract from one of the Sun's editorials, in commenting upon some strictures of the Cincinnati Enquirer. It says:

"But the Enquirer does not state the facts. The destruction of the old parties, one or both, is already begun, and instead of 'nearly every man' being committed to either the Democrat or Republican party, hundreds of thousands of voters throughout the States of the northwest have already absolved themselves from all allegiance to either, and have espoused the Independent standard. What does the Enquirer say to the 75,000 votes for the Independent ticket in Illinois last fall? What of the 20,000 in Indiana? What of the 150,000 to 200,000 in Iowa and Kansas?

“The people have been too grateful to the party that saved the nation from the grasp of the Rebellion—have indulged the whims of its party leaders, and pandered to its vicious parasites, until two millions of honest toilers now beg their bread, until bankruptcy and commercial ruin overwhelm us, and the permanent enslavement of labor and the establishment of a monied oligarchy, becomes no idle dream, nor pet delusion. Yet shall the claims of gratitude to the Republican party be urged to the extent of making three