| Show THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR convention THE convention which has been in session for three weeks at minneapolis and adjourned today to day was in some respects a notable gathering albeit without notable results As a distinct aud and actual convocation of the bone and sinew of th the nation the capability of that class to legislate and regulate was put to the test and the aggregate gg re g ate results cannot certainly be g gratifying ratify g to themselves or their f friends bleg in point of respectability and dignity it was not altogether wanting but when weighed in the ba balances of statesmanship it was several degrees removed from froma a success ce ss too much time was spent in in bickering in over unimportant details and a areat deal of the remainder of the sittings way was taken up with calling offenders fenders to account and visiting harmless wrath upon business establishments men ts which had failed ailed to con conduct duct themselves in accordance with the registered will of the knights of labor boycotts were established here and removed there with a solemnity savoring somewhat of mockery when tie fie indifference of those assailed to what was done or undone is considered si two of the leading papers of indianapolis one the sentinel of national reputation were freighted with the embargo embargo of the order and it if bills for the advertising of those journals had been forwarded them it would not have been much out of play since that is about the only effect it could possibly nave upon them |
