Mexico weekly ledger., 1876-09-28
A WORD TO THE WORKiNGMEN


} your families, ard your action at The
polls in November will give evidence
of the fact whether or not you care
more for your wives and children
than for mere party. What is your
situation now? Ifyou have employ
} meat, does the mere pittance you
receive for your hard labor suffice to
furnish you with the necessalios OF
lite? Are you able to raise money
enough q, the end of avery month to
pay ysur ent without deprivlng
your children of bread?
Now is the time for action. Let
yolr voice be raised for a change;
let your vote be cast for q change.
Reform is the watchward, and to ef-
feet a reform a change in admins
tratlon IS the first step. Your con
dition cannot be made any 1iws'cf5e
under the guidance of Uncle Sammy
TlIden than it is to-day, and you
have the assurance of history that a
change OF rulers after a panic
always restored confidence and
brought good times in it's train.
Can You longer hesitate? Look
at your fellow men, in great mum
bers, discharged everv day. A bard
winter is approaching, and if the de-
mand for a change is not ratified at
the polls, woe betide the sufferer.
During the past three years you
bave hardly made money enough to
keep soul and body together, and i:
Hayes is elected it will be but q
continuance of the present admins
tration, present hard times, aud
thieves in office.
Laboring men, give this matter
your attention! Wives Of Iaboring
men, enlist in the fight; persuade
your husband to cast one vote for
you and your children. Give them
to understand that thoy have voted
for porty, low wages and starvation
long enough.
What party has controlled the al.
fairs Of the nation for the past l6
years7 The Republican party. Who
has levied and collected enormous
taxes, given away millions of acres
OF public lands, %plundered the Ma
tlonal treasury, squandered our
revenues, paralyzed our industries,
closed our mines, rolling mills, fur
naces, forges and workshops, and
brought our people to starvation-
bankruptcy and run; thrown thou
sands OF honest men oua OF work
and banished them from their homes
to tramp upon every thoroughfare
and highway in the land in pursuit
Of employment Is itnot the Re-
publican party that is responsible
for all this stagnation in business;
for all this misery and woe?
Shall we give this party which
has been guilty of these crimes, of
this outrageous career, a new lease
of power? Shall we vote for Hayes
and Wheeler AMI thus p~erpetuate
the reign OF Grantism? Shall we be
drawn into q decoy movement and
cajoled into the farce of voting for
Cooper and Carey, who cannot pos
sibly obtain a single electoral vote,
and thereby aid in continuing the
Republican party in power2 Or
shall we act the part of sensible
men, and vote in o manner that our
ballots will count in the great battle
for reform which will come off in
November. Is it not folly, ls it not
madness in US, who have suffered
such deep wrongs at the hands Of
the Republican party to waste our
strength upon this Peter Cooper
movement, which can bring US no
relief. .s E...
SHALL we not act like wise men and
vote with the army of reform that is
now marching on under the leader
ship of those fearless, gallant and
honest leaders Tilden and Hendricks?:
There is but n escape from our
present difficulty; there is but one
road which will lead US out of our
fearful condition, but one course left
for rs to pursue, and that is to vote
E1- fN.tI - - TY- 1