Show I In conclusion The Republican party is the party of the aristocrat Its ideas arc aristocratic and its policy has always ways burs ± It has refused to recognize that fthere was such 0 I person jas srorkingman except to leg 1s1ateaainst liim S I an They say that thrrc a men on I the city payrolls receiving salaries because S be-cause they ar Democrats and not because I be-cause of any work tht they are doing j for the city I defy them to name one case I ask any of you gentlemen pres Mr ent tonight to name one case Tync paused for the answer which did not come The contract system of city county and state labor is something Which muit be abolished I will require the all the worMngmen concerted action of al workngen to bring about this abolishment but I think i c be done Converted Eepublican Talks Adam Paul was tho other speaker His speech was brief but to the point He explained in beginning that he had S followed the Republican leaders tore tor-e But I have followed them as long a I a going to he said I refuse to have any connection with a party which i run bya clique and its paper I refuse to be c member co a party whose rule is the whiplash whose rulers argument i follow uswe are the I a one of many who do not relish that kind of politics and that is why I have left the Republican ranks I a going to vote the Democratic ticket boeause it Is the ticket of the workingman working-man I is time that the laborer a fcerts his riirhts We must rise up and tell the people who we are the bone and sinew oft of-t s republic I oni going to work for Barnes and the whole ticket and I hope they will be elected The meeting was attended by about 300 workingmcn Thomas Morris was cara and J C Hayes wa secre tary |