The Labor enquirer., 1883-10-27
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ference.
On the evening of September %, last,
there assembled in East Turner hall, this
city, q convention of delegates, repre-
,senting the greater part of the voters of
Arapahoe county. These delegates came
together as the spokesmen Of the toiling
class, which recognized that it was en-
titled to voice in the selection of the
county officials, and which said, if con-
ventions are to decide npon whom those
officials shallbe Through q convention
shall we mark out our course. These
delegates organized themselves after the
custom of the times, and proceeded with
open doors to express the will of their
constituency. After the business which
usually precedes had been transacted,
the convention proceeded to select its
members of a County Central Commit
tee. The importance of ne duties de-
volying upon this committee was we'll
known to every member of that conven7l
ton, as it is known to every voter whom
they represented. 1t is, therefore, pre-
sumable that in the choice of this COM
mittee great care was exercised. Care
that cool and competent men should be
chosen, men whose past connection with
our organization and aims had proven
them to be not only able to fully perform
the duties of a member of such an, i'm
portant body, but men who had been
tried and found always honest and faith
full in the discharge of any duty placed
upon them. If the convention had erred
in its judgement upon these points, then
we, who were it's choice, would not have
q kIo ~ no
charges made against US by our enemy
and yours to ask your support of our
action. Had we been guilty of one OF
the breaches of faith and trust laid to us
by the blackmailing sheet, the Tribune,
we could easily have been convicted and
made to stand before you as the traitors
we would be under such conditions, for
not only has ample opportunity been
afforded our accuser to prove its charges,
but we have begged for the proof of the
treachery of any of our members,
But to place ourselves right with the
community-citizens who are not identi-
fed with us, as we'll as those within our
own ranks-we desire to call your atten-
ton to few points, and convince any
man who may be narrow in his judy
ment that there is not, nor ever was, the
least foundation for the cowardly assaults
made by Chaffee's paper upon the com
mittee, and also that the committee does
not intend to be cowed into the corner
by the paid bruisers of its enemy.
To begin with, we desire to pronounce
every syllable uttered by the Tribune,
any other publication or any individual
charging the members of your commit
tee with selling place ON the Working
mems ticket, trading any candidate, or
CORFU ption or crookedness of any char
acter, as absolutely false. We have,
through the Republican and the LABOR
ENQUIRER, positively denied every charge
made against us by the Tribune, and
have called upon it for proof Of even one
assertion. You know that not even
word Of proof has been brought forward
by this would-be destroyer of honest
mems reputation. Know you, also, that
the Tribune has admitted itself ignomin-
ously defeated and shown to be the falsi-
fer it is by skulking into its hole and
refusing to answer one single utterance
of members of the committee since they
first decided to belittle themselves by
noticing its contemplate conduct.
Beaten at its little game of "buy and
SELL" the Tribune now turns loose in an
abuse of the members of the working
mems county committee on another
plan. 1t says the committee is self-con-
stituted, and do not represent anybody
1t tries to show that the committee has
no authority, no following, no respecta-
bility, no anything. This little game
will not work anv better than the first
one tried. While it is true that every
workingman in the city did not have a
direct voice in the selection of this COM
mittee, the number of delegates that
Jointly selected it was as great as any
convention held in the county, and the
convention itself was second to none in
interest, both with the delegates and the
well-filled hall. Every workingman in
this county who appreciates his right to
a voice in the selection of county Ottl-
GERS, and who desires to assert that right,
knows that the county central commit
tee is thoroughly authorized body for
the transaction of such business as may
rightfully come before it, knowing
this, knowing that your chosen repre-
sentatives are made the shoulders over
which you are ridiculed and slandered
can you hesitate as to your plain duty in
the premises? Will you waver or finch
when an opportunity is offered you to
administer stinging rebuke to the
men(?) who have slandered YOU, who
have ridiculed you, and who placed
themselves on record as your bitter foes,
when they failed to buy you through
your representatives We hope not
We do not deem it necessary to need
lessly detail the reasons for our action
in filling the vacancies which unfortu-
nately occurred in our ticket. We feel
satisfied that you understood all that.
You, with US, last fall placed yourselves
on record as opposed to any scheme of
Jerome B. Chaffee-a man who ignored
or snubbed you then, when it was in his
power to show just consideration for
YOUR rights. Has his attitude toward US
changed since last fall Has it not really
been more antagonlstic and bitter? The
Times, one of his official organs, has
said, since this campaign opened, that
"the workingmen are a matter of su-;
preme Indifference to Mr.. Chaffee."
Now, fellow-laborers, we appeal to
your good judgment to decide whether
we have in any particular been untrue
to the trust you have reposed in us
whether we have not, in the midst of
complications and temptations, stood up
firmly and discharged our obligations to
you as men and brothers, as fel-
low workers who are bound to you by
the common ties born of the injustice of
an official system, in which we have been
sighted and frequently ignored? In the
face Of the evidence of our staight-for-
wardness and the cowardly retreat OF the
blackmailers who have attempted to in
jure us, we feel satisfied with our case,
and are confident that you will ever be
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