The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-20
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"A Hattsr q Supreme Indifference
70 Boss chaFae and the
Times IFI, ]

The Times is in position to know that
Chairman Ziegenfuss never offered, di-
rectly or indirectly, money or other con-
sideration to the labor committee TO IN
duee them to place Mr., Graham on the
ticket Mr.. Ziegenflss asserts thatAhe
has not been in correspondence with the
committee or any of its members, and it
was matter Of supreme Indifference to
him what they did in the premises
Times. ,r..
We believe that the Times tells the
truth in the first sentence of he+para-
graph which we quote, but we question
the correctness of the statement made
. in the second sentence 1t swell known
that the Zines and its patron, Mr.. Chat
fee have nothing in common with the.
workingmen. The sentiment conveyed
in the sentence referred to is probably
thatof the Times and Mr.. Chafee, not
of Mr.. Ziegenfuss, the chairman of the
republican county committee. The re-
publican party is essentially the work
ingman's party For one its represen-
tatives to say tliatit is a matter of su-
preme indifference to him whether or
not the workingmen support the party
nominees is to be impolitic as well as to
misrepresent the attitude of the party
toward the laboring men. We do not
believe that Chairman Ziegenfuss ever
made the statement. If he did not he
would do we'll to puta quietus upon the
Times use of his name to give promi-
nence to its own and Boss Chatfee's SEN
timents.
The workingman of Denver knows
we'll enough how tenderly the Times and
Boss Chaffee regard him. They both
look upon him as a commodity to be
bought. There may be some little diff
ference rs to prices; but that doesn't mat
ter. Chaffee can afford to be liberal.
The Denver workingmen need not be
told that they are matter of supreme
indifference to Chaffee, for they have
had every demonstration Of it. To be
sure he is willing to try to buy their
votes but he regards the transaction as
purely business matter. He is as in
different to their presence, until he
wants them, as he is to red undershirts
hanging in store window until cold
weather tells him that he needs them
When election comes on he sends out
his strikers to attempt to buy working
men, Just as he would send his valet to
get him a dozen undershirts. Have the
honest laboring men of Denver-thOse
who have too much manhood to sell
their votes-ever received dollar of
Chafees immense wealth Where is
the stonemason who has laid the foun-
dation of building owned by Chaffee 4?
Where is the bricklayer who has laid
one brick above another and been paid
by Mr.. Chaffee for doing it? Where is
the carpenter that has ever driven a nail
or planed board and received his pay
from Chaffee? Where is the printer
who has ever set a thousand ems and
sent in his string to Chaffee? Laboring
men can.fnd hundreds of frugal workers
among their own number who have
done more to build up Denver and make
work for its mechanics than Mr. Chafee
has ever done. Oh, yes, the working
men know well enough what Chaffee
and the Times think of them. But they
must not permit themselves to be de-
ceived by the Times and by Mr.. Chaffee,
nor by anyone else who tells them that
they are "a matter of supreme indiffer-
ence" to the republican party Repub-
lican.