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Show THE MUKKIMiMENN MOlEMEYr. Tjie laboring people of this cltj have proved to their entire satisfaction satisfac-tion that Uie so-called "Liberal part uas "0 particular ue for them except to gain their ote. The history of the municipal election, and of the school election, and of the preliminaries to the cojnfy election has settled this beyond question. When they demanded representation representa-tion they received only a sneer. When they asked for iiolitical bread they were not tveu otTerui a stone. They obtained nothing but a snub and they naturally roented it. The People's Party Is chiefly made up of bona jidt laboring men. They are actual working folk. They are in sj mpathy with any genuine movement to letter the condition of their class. They have been willisg to recognize the claims of the labor element even when not included within the lines of their own larty. This they Iiave demonstrated in the past. They are showing this in the present. They will du so in the future. The Independent Working Men's Party is the outgrowth of that Indignation In-dignation which has naturally arisen at the treatment he, labor clement has received from the so-called "Literal" party. Whate er excures may now be made, and whatever sophistry may be resorted to by the "Liberal" wire-pullers, it is an undeniable un-deniable fact that the "Liberals" have not recognized tho wl'hes of the labor organizations in a single in-tatice. N'ot one of their nominees has been accepted by "Liberal" ticket-makers. If a "cut and dried" ticket was presented at the Workingmen's Convention, it was but a following of "Liberal" methods without its flimsy attempts to conceal them. The ticket was evidently madeuu carefully, after vtry thorough in quiry among the working iieople, and the unanimity with which it was accepted in their convention showed that it was prtfty thoroughly thorough-ly understood by the body of the labormg element, as well as by their recognized leaders. The jiainful efforts of the "Liberal "Lib-eral organ to dWort and falsify Uie facts In tho case show how badly It is hurt, and how alarmed it feels over the probable result. Tiie working men know how much credence cre-dence to place on its statements and only a very few wjll be influenced by its misrepresentations If Uie laboring people want recognition recog-nition and a voice in the nflairs of the city, the county and the Territory, Terri-tory, they will unite with their friends in the People's Tarty to put forward really representative men, to fecure freedom and fairnes at elections, to detect fraudulent voting, vot-ing, to protect legal voters from deprivation of the ballot, and to maintain local self-government and the rights and interests of the People, Peo-ple, as against scheming politicians, hired demagogues, imported toughs, transient boomers, professional "strikes and spoilsmen." |