The Labor enquirer., 1884-11-01
OUR MEETINGS.
The Seventh Holds its Rsgniar and
the First Has : Rouser.
The Parade.

n The Monday evening meeting of tn
Seventh Ward Butler and West club wa
mainly devoted to business connected
with the impending election. AS tn
grand parade occurs next Monday even
ing, this was the last meeting of th'
campaign Committees were appointed
to work at the polling places and to wit
ness the count. Indications are that th'
Seventhwill give heavy vote for th'
Peoples ticket 1
4 The meeting of the First Ward club a
West Turner hall was successfulin ever,
way Every seat was filed and the au
dience received with appreciative snthu
siasm the efforts of the speakers. Mr.
Z D. S. Benton again reviewed the fnan
clal situation and broached several prop
ositlons calculated to reform existing
abuses notably to secure .depositors by
making the government responsible fol
4 the entire banking business done under
its sanction. He also spoke of the need
of, homestead exemption, referring te
The great stability of all governments
when the people have homes secured to
/ them, and prophesied something nearly
realizing the milsennium when the peo-
\ pie shall finally accomplish the work
they are now undertaking.
John Lennon briefly enumerated the
bills thatar needed for the peoples ben
eft and which the representatives OF the
Peoples party will put before the legis.
llature this winter if elected.
| Mr.. Adamson, candidate for state aud
iitor and coal miner from Fremont
county, being called for responded very
briefly in behalf of the oppressed
workers, who demand a fair wage for a
fair days work.
Judge Miller, candidate for attorney
general, from Gunnlson, proved himself
capable of powerful efforts as political
speaker. Referring to the charge so
often heard that the new party is largely
led by, disappointed politicians, the
Judge recounted his first political expe,
rience, at least as candidate. He had
| emgrated from Indiana and settled in
one of the border towns of Kansas in
1856, and was regularly nominated for
the state legislature by the settlers, the
republican party being almost without
opposition in the place. Visions of use
fulness and pride in the prospect of po-
litical preferment filled his waking hours
and colored his dreams, until the dawn
of election day, and then he saw long
procession IF men in jeans each with
knife and pistol in belt and some with
rifles, came filing into town and took
possession of the polls, and proceeded to
elect one of their wn>number, a Missou-
rian, to the place to which he had been
nominated. Venturing to protest against
this the Judge nal rowly escaped with his
life, the fllibusterers being rather of
opinion that to hang an opposing and
troublesome, candidate would be the
safest and surest way to dispose of him
and from that day the; term" "disap-
pointed politician" had always associ-
ated itself in his mind with his narrow
escape, not from Office but from the vol
unteer hangman.
The speaker continued his theme from
this, enumerating the outrages that free
but moneyless people had endured since
that time, and especially the ''best finan
cial system the world has ever seen," fol
the fnanciers. Not only has the gentle
man thorough knowledge Of the sub
ject. but way of putting things that
made new light in the minds of many
who were already pretty well posted on
the subject. The exact modes of the
change made in the government paper
money, the treasury note, at the instanct
of the brokers, who cried for ."protec
ton" and finally induced the committee
to write the lnfam ous reservation, "ex
! cept for. the interest upon the public
debt and payment of duties on imports,
thus forcing the people to buy the
boarded gold that otherwise would have
remained a drug in the dungeons O
Wall street, and enabling the brokers tc
, crowd the greenbacks, all but those IS
sued before the change mentioned, which
never deteriorated, down to nearly the
point of requiring three of paper to buy
one OF gold. This logical and eloquent
address occupied the remainder of the
evening, and would make a splendid
campaign document if it could be re-
ported entire. /L.- -.
The committee having In hand the
matter of grand parade of the Peoples
party held caucus after the close of tht
meeting and it was determined to d{
theabest we can on Monday evening
Let the People join just once and shdN
what we can do in numbers, even thouA
we have no money for lights and uni
forms. .- -.
, You will save. money by buying you
f election hats at T. S. Clayton's, 2S5 ant
1851 Fifteenth street. :s..
gM. A. Hirsh, the West Side DIR.
goods house, has no auction goods no
. bankrupt stock but only straight, homes