The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-13
VOTE YOUR TICKET
If You Desire a Favorable Legis-
/lature Next Fall, Stand Firm
'''7 Now.
Editor Labor Enquirer.

| DENNER, OCG. y. Il utSlIc W say W blc
workingmen of Denver and Arapahoe
county, vote your ticket be independent
and free men, and exercise your rights
to vote your county ticket, electing the
men to filLthe county offices who were
chosen by your representatives. What
will you do? Will you stick together
and work like men, the same that you
do at your work or business or will you
allow the old party tricksters to pull the
wool over your eyes, and submit to their
dictates and fair promises until after
election, then to be snubbed by them
and forgotten until they want to use you
again when they will call around, set up
cigars, whisky, etc, calling you bully,
good fellows? But says a croaker 1--WE
can't elect our ticket" Why not? Have
you not large majority? Are you not
in the right? Have you not a right to
your choice and to a share of the offices
Then vote for your own candidates Do
you not pay nearly all thetaxes? Ifnot
directly, you do indirectly furnish the
money to pay them.
| want to answer a common saying
among workingmen. When one of their
own class is put up for office the croaker
exclaims: "Well, | know him; why it
is nobody but Bill Jones. He don't know
any more than do can't elect him. If
you did he would do Just like all the rest
he would steal, too" How do you
know that he doesn't know any more
than you do? How do YOU know that
! he would steal too? | want to say to
Mr.. Croaker, you can and should elect
your candidates, if you will work for
them and have the same confidence in
them that you do in your daily transac-
! tionS. Don't you trust them in other
things" Why not in politics? Let me
make d comparison for you; If you
were Keeping a grocery store, had clerk,
and YOU found out he was taking your
goods and stealing your money, wolld
you keep him? Wouldn't you give him
the grand bounce and try some one else ?
Most certainly You would. Now, haven't
YOU found out the Old politicians or office
holders: Then why not turn them off
the same as you would your private
clerk? If you tind they are not c1erking
in your interest as they should do, why
not make change and give the men in
your own ranks far trial men whom
you have known for Years to he o. X in
all your dealings with them? You vote
for the man YOU do not want because
some one says he is the man YOU can
elect him and you can't your man stick
to the good old party-democrat or re-
publican, as the case may he and you
do their bidding and get slaughtered
like sheep hy the butcher. Why don't
YOU vote your own choice and
use your own Judgement? Vote for your
own men then YOU will get your choice
and aid in building up an army Of voters
for 1884, that should be the one great
object now il. view, so that You can send
men to your next Legislature who are
honest and can be trusted.
don't say some Of our last LEGISLATORS
were dishonest. Oh, no leave that to
you and Others But ! do say they fooled
away a good deal Of time 20 eject United
States senators and to spirit away bills
that were introduced, one to a lumber
pile and some others to God and them
selves only know where.
Worklngmen of Arapahoe county,
won't YOU stick to your ticket this fall,
and in 1884 be prepared to send men to
your legislature, men who will work for
you and your interests, men who Will not
fool away the peoples time and sell out
for money, men who will put in all their
time in passing laws for the benefit Of
the hard working men and working
women of Colorado, instead of working
fOr the benefit of those who neither toll
nor spin" If you fail to vote the work.
lngmen's ticket then you fail to do your
duty and will have to abide by the result
Of your own actions, and will be to blame
Yourselves if you don't get representa-
ton III the near future. Vote for the
right man in the right place, and obtain,
or rather regain, the blessings Of Amerl-
can liberty, that your fOretathers fought
for, or else You will have to submit to
slavery and oppression, or 60 into reyo'
luton and use dynamite. God forbid
that such should be done; but grant that
your condition NAV be bettered by the
ballot and not by the bullet. Sooner or
later something must be done.
Workingmen of Colorado, arouse from
your lethargy Show the tyrant8 by
your votes that you have the numbers.
Tell them by your actions, as loud as
many thunders, that you intend to make
your numbers felt. Tell them they shall
no longer be public plunderers; that by
the ballot you will burst your chains
assunder. Yours, J. D. B.
The Other Side.
Joseph Medill, of the Chicago Tribune.
the kind hearted philanthropist who in
1877 advised all his readers to put strych-
nine into the food that they furnished
'tramps," was given chance last week