Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-08-09
..REFORM- IN NEW YORK.

dealing with Mr.. Tilden's intimacy with
John Morrissey. That king of the faro
dealers may be a sincere convert to re-
form. Possibly all his games are dealt
on the square and that he has discarded
all secret springs in his boxes and all
waxed cards in his dealers hands; pos
sibly also his roulette tables are as hon
est as his mothers wash tub, and his
dice as fairly made as the peg-tops Of
his boyhood. Awful Gardner got reli-
giop; why may not Awful Morrissey
have got Reform? And is not a square
| game of faro as square as a square deal
in politics? They were flush times for
the poor folk when Boss Tweed and lit
| tie Sam Tilden were working together
featLeripg their nests. The Boss's dis
trict swarmed with unskilled laborers.
He was their Robin Hood. They didn't
| care how much he and Iilden plundsrsd
the city so long as they had plenty OF
work and fair wages regularly paid.
They were neither political economists
nor reformers. When the Boss was
stricken down they groaned as over the
loss of their best friend. They have
never ceased to mourn for him. They
never turned States Evidence against
him. They let little Sam Tilden do
that. Now they have taken to process
sions and protests and prayers to the
Reformers who have succeeded the open
handed, careless old Boss, who robbed
the rich to scatter money among the
poor. Tiiden writes long-winded ser
mons on reform while their bellies are
filed with the East wind. Up in the
millions he is serene and bland, looking
eomplacen,ly toward the White House.
They are nervous and discontinued,
looking toward the Work House. See
how they treat mstters while be is lei
surely writing his letter of acceptance.
On Monday, July 81, several hundred
workmen met in Tompkins square, New
York. Happily there was no occasion
for the police, says An eye witness, 'for
the men were orderly and extremely
mild in their utterances considering the
bad plight in which they undoubtedly
are Also says this witness, 1.-The
speakers counselled firmnsss and moder-
alton and the exercise of the elective
franchise in the next election, indspend-
ent OF party affiliations. What the
party affiliations of these laborips men
are is indicated by the following names
the names of a committee appointed
by the meeting to visit the Mayor and
other city authorities: Messrs. John
Ennis, Thomas f. Roach, William Nc
Govern, Joseph Burke, John Esgan,
Richard Connolly, William O'Connor,
James Howe and James Connolly. The
following preamble and resolutions were
adopted with cheers says our inform
ant:
Whereas the condition of the working
classes is a question of deep Importance
at all times, but especially so at the pre-
sent moment, when at least 10000 men
are out of employment, with at least
half of that number subsisting on pubic |
charity. Whereas il is q sad thing to |
see so many able bodied men who are |
willing to work walking through our !
streets day sitter day searching for en- !
ployment: whereas this is q great evil as |
the dependence of one class Of persons |
upon the charity of another class de-
stroys true independence of mind in the
recipients and at the same time produces
disease in the body polite; and whereas
the lsborer is bound to protec. and main
tain his offspring which God has given
into his change, be is not to allow them
to perish by brute force, or by hunger,
or by miserable food, or by want of pro-
per clothing; and whereas our city gov
eminent, as overated at present, is
most grievous burden borne by the peo-
pie. governed in a great degree by anti
luated precedents Of the dead past In
stead of the issues of the living present,
costing a vast amount of money to all
taxpayers, simply in many cases crafty
ng q morbid taste for practising The
tricks and for the beautiful uncertainties
If the law.
Resolved. as the sense of this meet
ng, That the condition of the laboring
classes imperatively demands immediate
legislation for the prosecution Of the
public works on principles of common
tense and justice. prominent among
which shall be a provision prohibiting
he Intervention of any third party in
he performance of tho same.
Resolved. That We, the working men,
n mass meeting assembled, respectfully
,equest His Honor, Mayor Wickham, as
thief executive of the city government,
o call, by proclamation, on the Board
# Aldermen to meet in special session
hat they may. by the power vested in
hem by law, take such action as in their
combined wisdom may be most prudent
md best for the amelioration of the con-
lition of the workingmen and their fam
lies, and we further request that His
Honor tho Mayor will use his authority
md influence to settle all difficulties eX- (
sting between heads of departments. In
,ur opinion that is where the evil lies,
md the people should know it.
Bv their reference to the 'interven-