| Show WITH A DULL SICKENING THUD That Is How the Bogus Workincraens Meeting Fell The Orlando Powers antiworkingmen meeting called at the metropolitan hotel had all the appearance of a patent medicine show Many persons passing down West Temple street stopped to find out what the fakirs were selling and when it was found that the quack doctors were dealing out anointment an-ointment to make aman see double on the labor question they walked on not wishing to look crosseyed After an hours effort the crowd grew to a couple of hundred persons with a sprinkling sprink-ling of men who appeared to be genuine toilers When Chief of Police Young showed up I with aL50 Walker cafe porterhouse steak under his waist jacket it began to be apparent I ap-parent that it was a real and not a bogus I workincrncns meetintr In the audience I were such hornyhanded sons of toil as J C Conkling Judge Lynch and Lawyer Brown John Lynch was tho chief medicine man He had made a close canvass among the laboring men and had only found 100 who would vote the Workinginans ticket perhaps per-haps 200 judg McDowell was called upon as a true antiworkingman and he sported his diamondset gold ring in the faces of the workingmen as he raised his hands to heaven and smote his diamondstudded breast with compassion and loving mercy After looking his audience of fifty in the face he recognized other elements than the tin bucket brigade but I saw no reason why he should not call them all workingmen He conceded that ho had only been here a year He proceeded to say that every man who was in favor of the workingmens ticket had received a bribe or been fixed I would not be here unless the gentiles were in the majority he said and the crowd trembled to think of their fate if he should leave and yet ho proceeded t advise the laboringmen who have been here twenty years what to do He would deny no man what he would accord to himself To worship God according to my own conscience con-science He proceeded to voice the Tribunes new heresy that a business man who earns 10000 on the sweat of his employees em-ployees who get 10 a week is as mnch a laboringman as anybody The few work ingmen in the crowd did not relish this When ho talked of Salt Lake workingmen a voice broke in on him How about Omaha scabs 1 Editor Bledsoe of thQ Stock Exchange Journal a bloated stock jobber was introduced intro-duced as a carpenter by tradeand it should have been added a piano player by profession Bledsoe had allowed his whiskers whisk-ers to grow for a week to assume the la borers role and he gave his speech a twang that told of his nasal toil For twentythree years he had labored and his services wore not worth ua yellow doa in the eyes of I the sleek greasy priests The sacred name of workingman was prostituted when it dared to put ticket in the field Frank Hoffman had also postponed his Saturdays shave to appeal to the sympathies sympa-thies of the antiworkingmen The speaker pronounced the high principle tJf we can make SaltLalce indeed as it is in fact This was greeted with a guffaw Thats the stuff old man When he thanked God for the blessings that Liberal government brought Utah ho shook the rail and glared at tho llimflams J L Frank was introduced as a knight of the brush and began to gyrate in this wise would that were Powers or a Stanton and I would wake you up UI have n story that is not a chestnut He said and then proceeded to tel the worst wormcnten story of recent years about the mau who wanted the conductor to call him off at a certain station to take a pi cal He propounded the great truth In onion there is strength and the audiences held their noses in a patriotic sense He alluded to Louis Hams as this personal friend who after selling pools in the Walker house saloon had found the sum of 14000 J both sides of the profit and loss ledger on the city books He wanted time hoii heavers and plasterers to hump up the mortar and ray fellow craftsmen will furnish the vermillion t smear the town a deep red on tho 5th of August John M Young was the next laboring laborng man who had corns on his palms His soul fairly yearned for the dear workingmen and I ho wanted to see them done up at the com ing election We are all workingmen he said He did not say anything of the thousands of dollars ho was draw ing from the c ty treasury while the street workers were sitting in the hot sun for their pittance He did not tel them that the Chief of Police in New York and Philadelphia adelphia could be expelled from offices i they dabbled in politics as he was doing i do-ing Ho did not tell thesi hoW the thugs and sandbaggcrs were holding up innocent I citizens while ho was fooling away his time trying to help up the Mormon church Ho I spoke of plungers and crooks in true policeman lingo and lampooned the church 1 of his fathers Dont you know way down in my heart there isa great sympathy for the wage earners he inquired of himself him-self Wages of workingmen in ten years have increased 33 > per cent he said with great gusto but ho failed to say that tho I salaries of the city officials had been doubled in four months by tho Liberal council One hundred per cent in four months for the office holder and JJ3 percent per-cent in ten years for the workingmen Judge Powers stepped on thftyplatfonn a r t > l I I I I as if the gig was up Ho wore a sickening I smile as if done for lA job lot of misfit I I workingmen he said had made an attack on his reputation After hearing that his j Michigan record had been exposed he assured as-sured them that they would never have a chance t vote for him His voice grew plaintive as he confessed that he no longerwas an issue Like the cardinal card-inal in his downward full he asked them to remember him for the good he had wrought The Liberals arc snowed under was heard on the outskirts of the nicotine I they had only the People to buck against they would have downed tbemvbut they cant got away with two parties |
