| Show TO THE WOttKlNGSIEN A few words with the workingmen of this city and county Tomorrow will occur oc-cur the opportunity of your lives Heretofore Here-tofore you have hdd no voice or influence infuence in politics savSsnindividuals You have voted with your respective parties or by reason of dissatisfaction with tho tickets havo not gone to the polls For tho first timeyou have organized as an independent political party and come before the public with a ticket For the first time you demand de-mand recognition as members of the community com-munity entitled to a voice in tho governmental govern-mental offices of tho county In the past you have askedthat an office or two bo accorded ac-corded you a ia matter of right considering yOUr numbers and the property prop-erty you own Those requests have been denied and now you propose to win in a legitimate way and by legal methods what should have been conceded without a moments hesitation You have nominated a good ticket you have chosen good men for the various offices you have been wise also in selecting men from the old parties as your voters have been training with both organizations up totnis point your action has been admirable and could not have been better if you nad been trained politi cianswhIch you are not Your platform and newspaper utterances have been truthful truth-ful temperate and logical your appeals have been righteous and your plea addresses ad-dresses itself to the hearts and heads oft of-t o best people lathe community As remarked jou have done admirably up to the close of the campaign but your best work your most effective work must be performed tomorrow Failure tomor row will prove disastrous to you as an independent dependent political organization Failure will cause all to wish had wi you al you never u ndertaken the labor in hand Failure will delay perhaps for long wi years the consummation con-summation of your political hopes Failure will reduce you t J position and condition wherE you cannot consistently ask much less demand just recognition Failure will be a confession that you are inharmonious inhar-monious that you are lacking in unity that you are not of ono purpose and that you l havent the power of numbers which commands com-mands respect and consideration at the hands of politicians and party managers On the other hand what will victory mean It will mean first wise and L economic government of the county This i s important to all and desirable by all save the spoilsmen and the officehunters But of greater importance t the workingmen is the fact that victory tomorrow will mean that so long as tho labor voters shall maintain main-tain their organization and manage it organizaton anl properly pro-perly so long as they shall be wise conservative conser-vative and honest in their administration they can hold the governments of Salt Lake city and county No combination that can be formed against them will be able to pre vail no parcy can gather sufficient strength to overcome them The workingmen will simply be invincible as a party Tho toilers must know this They do know it And now is not the prize worth the effort Is not the power to protect yourselves your-selves against the abuse and wrong doing of politicians and spoilsmen a thing to be striven for Is not the satisfaction of knowing that you will have just government govern-ment administered by honest men of your own selection and who will be responsible to you for their stewardship somethin worth struggling for J The prize is to be won in only one way and that is through unity of action Workingmen you cannot afford at tab time to pull apart and wor against each other You must stand together to-gether making common cause at the i polls and that cause justice to workIngmen work-Ingmen or you must go the wan I and disappear as a political factor in this I city and county Workingmen think of this and then perform your duty manfully and courageously Know that there is I more at stako than was ever before involved in-volved in your case and know also that it b depends upon you whether or not you gather the reward that is within reach THE HERALD has so much faith in th i good serise and wisdom of the workingmen 1 that it bolieves they will do their duty to themselves and the community tomorrow and rescue this nty from the danger which impending |
