Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1866-03-21
The Worklngmen,s FRIENDS.

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~ for City Clerk, position he is wholly
incompetent to fll, In common gratiE
H. tude to those who nominated him, Mr..
White studiously misrepresents Or
ignores the action of various bodies Of
Union men with regard TO the Eight
Hour movement. He has repeatedly
IS - spoken of the trinmphs which hesclaims
, -, ~ the Eight Hour men have achieved,
and as frequently ignored the cause of
their success For time We were nm
der the impression that this was done
1nthonghsedly We are now salis6ed
that ii is done designedly.
zs,-z In his speech at the Court House on
.1 Saturday night, he galladed 20 the fact
that California had passed law making
= = eight honrsa legal days work. He re-
fused, however, to- state what was the
political complexion Of that Legislature.
ava Why didn't beltell the whole truth2 he
has often spoken of the !" Eight hour "
svisq triumph, in having @ law favorable to
o--1 the movement pass The. Ohio House of
= asf' Representatives, but has never, within
our knowledge, given The Union party
credit for that manifestation of friends
ship to the laborihg men Of the country.
.,ss., His attention has been called to these
va, discrepancies ie his speeches, yet he
o, tlirnever makes 1ny corrections, On the
Sun contrary, he studiously, deliberately and
ea' 40 sweafingly misrepresents the Union
party, and makes every effort to array
sas thea Workingneus i'm hostility 10 the
usss4 friends of the Governments Why is
.,q this, we aska. II. the soicailed Eight
Hoar League is not being prostitutsd
sassH 10 the base purpose Of handing over the
wan ,destinies of our city to the Copperhesds
and sworn foes of cur public Schools,
sds diwhy is il that everything The Copper
IN heads do is right and everything the
'sla' Union man do is wrong ia as . INV
p 2 The tricks ara too transparent. If
Bz7sathess men were honestly i'd favor of the
s 4 eight hour movement for the benefit of
the workisgmsn, they would Welcome
everybody to thsir support, and give
credit 10 every organization, political or
religions. that extended a helping hand.
The truth is there is not. solitary in
ssstance on record where Democratic
Legislature has passed an eight hour
law, The Union men have invariably
treated the movement kindly, and given
~ sunmistakable Indications that they wish
ed the enterprise success. In Union Leg.
islatuzes and in Union Conventions, the
movement hnB met it's FIRST and warmeat
Endorsement. :
The attempt, in the city Of Evansville,
ar fossell out the workingmen to the Cop
s.@ peFheads, to be used as an instrument
atty TO strike down our public schools,
sas'i the great arsenal from which the chill
81 sdren of workingmen draw knowledge
sssw and power, is the most impndent politi-
q & cal dodge, and the most transparent
: ~ Copperhead trick we have ever been
aiz called on to expose a,sL.is
!. .sago Look at the so,called warkingmen's
=, candidates for the City Council:
In the First Ward we have Louis
Topf, lifelong and bitter opponent of
the Union party; always acting with the
political and religious organization that
has labored for years 10 Strike down orr
Schools.
In the Second Ward Mr.. Henry
Schroeder is announced; Union man.
who openly avows that he is nota can
didate, and will not make the race.
In the Third Ward there is Matt. Muhl
:. hansen, as virulent Copperhead, aud
: r-es &C a. ,,,oe& ~ t;va and h;tta. crr,
nents Of the Schools that lives In our
city. 1t 10 his religion to destroy, il
possible, the Schools. He is a son-in.
lav of Mr.. Reitz, whose friendship for
the Schools is similar to that wolf feels
efor q lamb. a fsss SsFaWg :
In the Fifth Ward Mr.. Herman Fend
Sserich, another son in Law Of Mr.. Rei.z, is
a candidate He, too, ha always voted
against the Schools and sought their
destruction. "a
RI I'm the Sixth Ward, Joseph, Reitz, one
- of-the A6hiversal and irrepressibis -Reitz
family, figures as workingmen's can
didate for the Council. His politics ere
well known to our people. 1t is not ne
cssumry 20 define his positiona So, too,
with John Miller and Archie Sullivan,
in the Seventh and Eighth Wards They
have always--so far 40 we are informed
with perhaps one exception, done the
bidding of the Copperhead, caucuses;
and BilIagain if elected - : Z
Now what kind of q no party ticket Ia
that when out of nine Councilman, only
one, or twoat most, have ever acted
with the Union party. while ell the
others arelbitter opponents of the Union
party and the achools7 r a - "A
4 Wekn6w thelhisiory of these nomina-
tons. We know the men, who did
n the work and we, propose between
now and the election to make the
thing 50 plain that no Union man with
sny sef-respect or consistency can sup
ADport the ticket. We are confident the
people of Evansville will spurn the
whole thing as a base counterfeit.
SEQ ,rafi 30 4i 20 la d. .Lals1 81 7lfF y
-aslsa aAs An Indignant Soldier. s1sls V
The recent Comprehend Stale Conven-
ton made great professions of friend
ship for the soldier. Il is true these
professions were reserved till the SOL
a, diers had fought the eight, gained, the