, 1884-09-30
NOT A LURlD SUCCESS.
About One Hundred Persons Attend
the Mass Meeting
of WOrkingmen and People Held
Last Evening.
Several Ion partisan Speeches
Made on the Occasion.

Circulars were scattered throughout the
city yesterday advertising to the public the
fact that a w%orkingmen's and peoples
meeting was to be held last evening at
City Hall. At 1880 O'Clock, the hour set
for the gathering, about twenty-five
people werein attendance; the number was
increased to fifty a quarter of an hour
later, when the meeting was called to
order, and probably 100 people assembled
there all told during the course of the
evening. i
On motion of Mr.. Rishel, Mr.. II. w.
Moore was called to the chair. Mr.. J. y.
Rowan acted in the capacity of
Secretary.
Mr.. Moore called upon Mr.. Fred j.
Stanton to air his views. There had been
considerable discussion, he said, as to
where the call for the meeting emanated
from. In explanation, he remarked, that
it came directly from the people irrespec-
tive of party. He had been invited to
speak at the meeting. There was IA pop
ular uprising throughout the country.
There were 3 1900 assemblies of the Rights
of Labor, with a membership Of a
million and a half. They were coming
to be a power. A new party
was to be formed. The Demo-
cratic party was not any too good, and the
Republican had become so corrupt thar it
must step down and out. What was to
be the name of this new party Mr..
Stanton frankly said he did not know, but
it was to be a personifcation of the work
ingmen and people. 1t was to be a party
to advocate the principles of universal
humanity, equal and exact justice to all
men, free speech, free petition and free
rights and a good many other things that
smacked somewhat of the millennium.
There were fifteen to seventeen millions
of working men, and it was for each to do
his mite and great ends might be ac-
complished. Even the local Legislature
was controlled by railroad men and cattle
men. He referred his hearers to the laws
passed at the recent Legislature for evil
dence of this. The Maverick Bill was a
disgrace to the people and was repudiated
by a majority of the cattlemen. 1t was
time for the w~orkingmen to assert them
selves. The Cincinnati riots showed there
was something in the air. In this city
and Territory the idea seemed to be to get
as many moneyed men as possible on the
ticket to pull the remainder through. As
to the parties, in this respect, it was six of
on and half a dozen of the other. He
had no idea as to the proper
programme to adopt, but had merely
called the mass meeting TO show both
parties that the workingmen insisted upon
being represented. The Knights of
Labor could not have much effect in pol
tiles now, but four years from now they
would almost elect a President, and eight
years from now they would elect a man
from the people to occupy the White
House. He wanted the Government to
control the Union Pacific, which he con-
sidered Il grasping monopoly.
what party granted the Union Pa
cifc its privileges inquired a man
named Williams.
Il am not here to throw odium on any
party" replied Mr.. Stanton, evasively.
II am merely here in the interest of the
people"
SIN other words, said Williams, you
simply dodge the question
The Democrats, Mr.. Stanton thought,
would be bad if they had the opportunity.
He closed his remarks with the statement
that the audience might have an opportu-
nifty of hearing him again later in the
evening.
Secretary Morgan being called upon,
stepped forward and said he wasn't Ger
tain if he clearly understood the object of
the meeting. If the object was the tear
ing down of the two existing parties, he
was cordially in sympathy with the move
ment 50 far as one of them was con-
cerned. They all probably understood
which one he meant. 1t was not true
that any party had ever ostracised the
%workingmen. The workingmen might
elect whoever they pleased. If they
failed in doing so it was their W
fault, As he understood it. the meeting
was for the elevation of free labor. He
heartily favored anything that went to
acknowledge the Fatherhood of God, and
the brotherhood OF men. He believed
heartily in the priciple of every man
asserting his own right, but at the sa me
time cheerfully according his neighbor
his. Labor had been recognized in this
country more than any one supposed.
Slavery, as he understood it, had been
abolished because it degraded free labor.
He had often preached the doctrine that
the workingman should recognize the
dignity of his position. Workingmen
have the privilege of assembling and con
sidering their rights, but they should not
be forgetful of the rights of Others. Capt.
talists should not impose on labor; labor,
on the other hand, should remember the
rights of capital. In Pennsylvania they
have a system of arbitntion to settle
labor disputes. In the labor excitement
in this city and Territory the working
men, when they ceased work because they
thought they were not paid sufficiently,
committed not a single overt act. The
man who advises the w%orkingmen to resort
to violence is the foulest enemy of labor.
He halieved withon falling ~nolifice that