The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-09-08
woRKINGMEN OF PORTLAND
What Think You Of the Honorable Bilks.
The following Is an extract from circular
sent over this city Saturday nipht.

The following Is an extract from circular
sent over this city Saturday night:
Workingmen of Portland, come to the res
cue. Now is the time to crush the party that is
robblng you of your hard earnings and turning
your homes over to the Money Lords You
know their policy is not the policy for you.
Today you have the ballot to right your gre
vlous wrongs; you may not have 1t long-use
1t, as becomes fir ee men.
The above circular is put out in aid of those
Honorable Bilks and Money Lords. Nathan
Cleaves, Lewis Pirce, Darius I'll. Ingraham,
Daniel w. True, Augustus +. Mouton and Ed
mund Dana. 1t is directed against the Repub-
lican party and its intent is to convey the inn
preston that there is an organized party in
this country whose aim is to crush the poor
man and aid the rich man, and that the Re-
publican party is that party.
Workingmen of Portland: If you believe
that the Republican party is robbing you of
your hard earnings and turning your homes
over to the Money Lords, follow the dictates of
your conscience, and vote against it. If you
believe the party that struck the shackles from
four million laborers in the South, that threw
open the rich lands of the West as free home
steads to the laborers Of the North, that has
made the laborer's dollar as good as the bond
holders that has carried into successful exc
cution financial policy which has brought
about great revival of industry and trade
and ushered into being an epoch of widespread
and growing prosperity-if you believe that
this party, which has been your stay and
shield, is guilty of the crimes mentioned in the
a,r ,Ja,, 10 D,,{
you surely ought to know that not word of
that Indictment is true, and that you will con-
suit you best interests by voting the Republic
can ticket.
If, however, you are convinced that your
prosperity lies in the success of the fusion
ticket, and that the Money Kings and capital
lists and men of property are to crush you, look
at the fusion ticket before you vote it, and
strike from it the names of your oppressors,
strike from it the name of the banker, the
name of the bondholder, the name of the capt.
talist, the name of the inheritor of ancestral
wealth. Strike from it the name of every
Honorable Blk. If you vote for these men
you belle your professions and display your in
sincerity.
Mind you, Workingmen of Portland, that
we believe the men on that fusion ticket whose
names we have mentioned have acquired their
wealth honestly and honorably, by enterprise
and industry and frugality, and that the path
they pursued to riches is open to every honest,
industrious, frugal and enterprising working
man in this broad land. We do not believe
that a Money Power or Money Kings are seek
ing to Cypress you. But we call your atten-
ton to the fact that the circular is put out to
further the interests of men on the fusion
ticket who belong to the very class you are
called upon to condemn. They have no sympa-
thy with that appeal land do not believe word
OF it; but the appeal is made to you to set your
votes.
Therefore: We arraign these Honorable
Bilks as countenancing falsehood and mis-
representation to further their own selfish
ends.
We arraign them as hypocrites who lend
aid and countenance to appeals in not one
word of which do they believe.
We arraign them as appealing to the preju-
dices and passions of workingmen in order to
accomplish their own selfish ends.
We arraign them as striving to promote
conflict between labor and capital.
We arraign them as demagogues who are
seeking to make political capital by mislead-
ing the people.
We arraign them as carrying in their hands
the torch of the incendary-and we warn
them that if their own roofs are set on lire.
they have forfeited the sympathy OF honest men
For each and all of these things we arraign
them and hold them up to the scorn and con-
tempt of the people of Maine.