Daily Los Angeles herald., 1878-11-27
Address to the Workingmen.

thk0 the liberty Oh auuTeS5inB you
through the press from consis-
tent Workingman's standpoint,
knowing that the clamor of the
of1ice-seekers and their tools in the
party would not allow me to BE-
heard from the platform. All Of
you who have been the real sup
porters of the Workingm ems
movement know that | have been
with you from the beginning and
you must give me credit for an
honest and consistent member of
your party up to the present time,
both in word and action, as my
purse and brain have always gone
hand in hand in helping to build
up your organization. You must
also give me credit for not beng
an officr-seeker, inasmuch as you,
on the 18th inst, heard me say, at
u full meeting of the Central Club,
whilst refusing the nomination for
a member of the County Commit
lee that / would not accept an Of
flee, neither in the club nor outside
of 1t. Hence, let your present
false leaders swallow their own lies
when they say that I feel "sore
headed"
Workingmen--Imean real Work.
fngmen aud not the town paupers
who live by their wits and who
have lately worked their way into
our clubs with no other object than
TO Use us ss stepping stone in the
paid Offices OF our city--we beg "a
well and we ran well as long as We
| continued to be a real Working
meme party. But when we go t.
An employer of Chinamen and
nominate HIM for the chief office
in our city government, we are de-
generating from our first love.
Look at the meeting on Saturday
| night last. Judging from the ab |
sence of the usual cry of "The |
Chinaman must goW one would |
naturally suppose that we had
given John new lease. But our
party has moved into glass
house. Hence it would not be
right to throw stones. Surely, If
our party Is so debilitated as to
compel Us, to insure success, to fix
upon man who gets up every
morning and sits at his table to eat
his biscuits baked and we, seasoned
with the celestial juice squirted
from the leprous mouth Of his pet
Mongolian, we must be low in.
deed. But l hear some say that
Brother Toberman is good, gem
erous sort of n man. Yes; aud l
will tell you how generous he was
with me once. Three years ago
last summer / was engaged as "A
practical coal miner, by coal
mine prospecting company. to 90
into the mountain to inspect what
they thought to be coal mine
claim. Now, Brother Toberman.
the good and generous, was a mem
Der Of the above company, and he
wanted to seud myself and another
man out to live on beans and ba-
con; ahd, because the balance of
the company were consiierate
enough to grant US few additional
luxuries, he Indignantly slid out of
the company. So much for Broth.
er Toberman's generosity.
l hear some of you boast of some
great things done by the ex Mayor
when Ia office before, but, for the
life of me, cannot learn from any,
one what those great things We're,
with the exception of ignorantly
signing a bogus bond and thus
dragging the city into the expense
of worse than useless litigation,
and the loss of twenty three thous-
and dollars into the bargain. If this
employer of Cinnamon should be
elected, his success will be the out
growth of his negative qualities,
and he will sit in his judgment seal
like the man whom Telemachu-
saw in hell, not for what he had
done but for what he has neglected
to do.
In the next place, I wish to bring
your attention to our new convert,
Brother Godfrey. A few years ago
this worthy left his native soil u
strong Republican and arrived in
our city. He looked around with
an eye to business aud saw that the
Democrats were the strongest par
ty; as matter of course,
he also very conveniently was q
Democrat. Two years ago Brother
Godfrey was elected on the Demo-
cratic ticket to his present office al
most unanimously and thus thing-
went on well until the last June
election, when we, the working
men, defeated him with u great |
majority. Then this worthy Re-
publicanTDemocrat began to smell
the rat, and he saw that we were
becoming power, and ut once
commenced to pave his way to be
coming workingman. His first
act was to kick up quarrel with
the Water Company. Now I wish
you to understand distinctly that |
am not defending the above par
ties, AS they are no friends of niue
neither am I any frieIdof theirs,
yet / am a friend of consistency;
aud when l see man like Mr.
Godfrey, changing with every wind
that Is likely to promote his own
interest, l have right to question
his integrity. We have him first "a
Republican, then Democrat as
long as he coud profit 6y it, and
now, forsooth, he thinks of retain
ing his hundred and fifty dollars a
month, being o hard working man,
Surely he is what we may call
smart, very smart. His colleague,
the ex. Mayor, and he will make
fine span of wheel mules for oul
party, with Tohsrman's Yo Hing
sitting on the driving box, aud
band OF wofkingmen marching In
military form behind the team,
crying, "The Cinnamon must go,"
and the wagon crammed full of
Chinamen to work out our city i'm
proyements.