The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-11-02
The WOrkingmen of Wake County.

We do not know of any body of men who
have been so thoroughly trifed with as the
Workingmen of Raleigh and Wake County
have been, by the leading arlstocrats re-
bells of Raleigh. These aristocrats, spoken
for by their tools, Mr.. Pell, Mr.. Gales, and
Mr. Russ, have been promising the Working
men of Raleigh that their claims should be
remembered when the nominations for the
Convention should be made; but the
meeting has been held, the nominations have
been announced, and not one Workingman
even has been placed on the ticket. The
following appeal, signed by % Workingmen,
was generally circulated previously to the
meeting on Thursday, at which the Rebel
nominations for the Convention were made:
"To THE WoRK1NG-MEN OF WAKE COUNTY -
Fello,v- Citizens The election for delegates to
the approaching State Convention is near at
hand, and candidates will soon be before the
people. Time and again have the great body of
Working-men of this County discussed among
themselves the propriety of nominating gentle
man from their own ranks for places OF honor
and responsibility, and as often have they been
outwitted by willy politicians and tricksters We
tence of character. We have been too much
divided among ourselves.
our own ranks who are fully competent to occupy
seats in our Legislatures and Conventions; nor
will any one deny our right to put forth the men
of our choice.
The authors of this Circular claim to have been
Union men throughout the late unfortunate war,
which brought our present troubles upon US but
do not endorse the extreme views of the
Standard, or the eXtravagant ideas of the Sentinel;
nor has this movement anything to do with
National politics, or with hindering or obstruct-
ing any law of Congress.
A call has been made for meeting in this City
on Saturday evening next, 1.-THE 26th October. y
Letus attend in full force, irrespective of party,
and to it that justice is done us, and that we
have fair representation in the County Con-
vention Let attend that Convention, and
demand that at least one Of our number be placed
on the ticket.
We are commencing, as it were, anew. Con-
stitution is to be framed under which we will
probably have to live the remainder of our days,
and our children after u.s. How important then
that we should be alive to our interests
Come up, then, Working-men not Holden
Standard men ell-iSentinel- men, but
Constitutional Union men-men who know their
rights and dare maintain them-the "bone and
sinew of the land.'
~ = ~ IS WoRKING-MEN."
1t is plain that these Workingmen look
ed to the meeting OH Thursday as the only
source from which they expected Justice
They looked to that meeting, and staked
themselves on it, What has been the result {?
Why, as they feared, as their Circular shows,
they have been again g outaoitted by aoily pol
iticians and tricksters" The " Holden Stan
dard-men," as they are called, had nothing
to do with it, and the Pell-Sentinel-men"
have triumphed.s These aristocrats now, as
during the rebellion, have no respect for me-
chanics and Workingmen. During the
rebellion they roped and handcufed them
into their armies to die for their slaves, or
allowed them to stay at home on such wages
as beggared their families, while they were
trembling every moment lest they should
offend these aristocrats and be hurried off to
the front, leaving their families to starve.--
The Republicans make no professions to any
particular class of our people. They simply