The examiner., 1882-02-11
Will Workingmen ever Realize their
 Condition.

It must be painful to any one having piness of fellow mortals, to see with what utter indifference the workingmen regard every movement around them, whether it be by friends for their benefit or by ene- mics for their discomfort. And yet all that seems to be necessary to wake them into life is little excitement. The poli- ticians understanding this to perfection, never fail to miss the opportunity of turning it to account, and the question of success between them-so far as the great bulk of the minimizing mass is concerned generally depends upon the party afford ing to pay for the biggest excitement, the greatest humbuggery. Thus we have our ''escorts'' and our ''companies" our ''regi- ments'' and ''brigades'' of poor dupes who travel the country once in four years, shouting and hurrahing for class of men, that care not as much for them as they do for their dogs. It is disgusting as we'll as sad to see even bearded men who should have better sense, stalking around in their gaudy oil-cloth trappings apparently as proud as child with his first pair of boots or monkey with his dress coat of scarlet. The politician pays for it all though until safely hoisted into position, when he then turns around on his poor dupes and allows them the glorious priv elige of paying for their frolic in the shape of taxation to feed big salaries, commits sions, perquisites and the thousand and one other devices by which lazy drones suck out of labor the measure of their useless existance.
 But it is only when high-priced thieves are to be exalted into position of high handed thievery that this sort of fandango is resorted to. The party journal takes care of the flock during the remainder of the term, but in the fashion that the wolf would be expected to care for the sheep. In our Hartford Common Council short time ago we had an illustration of the re- gard in which workingmen are held by that so-called Honorable" gang. One member, McCloud, of the alderman1c board, whatever his motives were, we do not know, strove to have an act passed which would cause the polls at our city election to open at six in the morning, like all other elections in Hartford, in order to give workingmen an opportunity of voting before proceeding to their place of labor, if they so desired but the mat ter failed to pass owing to the opposition of some fellows, who themselves are not obliged to be at their places of business before eight or nine.
 We mention this fact merely to show in what utter contempt even the small fry politicians hold the poor wage slave. They know full we'll that his voting is gen. era1ly but a matter of habit, and the ma- ocratic party, once inside the workshop will care very little for coming out again, until the big gates of the slave pen are swung open in the evening, then the polls are closed. In Case there may be work ingman who would resent such petty in- trigues against himself and his class and who is so far weaned from his party pap as to peruse the columns of the Examiner, in the pettyfoging work to write their names, and occupations. It seems that an ordinance requires a maj jority of oW the Boards as necessary to a passage of the act, which is nine, but all that could be mustered in it's support was six, out of total of sixteen.