The Labor enquirer., 1884-11-01
OUR \. +. REPORTER
Interviews the Chairman and Sec
rotary Of the So Called Work
ingmen's Party.
There's Harmony in the Air, Caused
By the Unfair Division Of
the @swag.p

Il.
Our hitching post reporter Intervene
the curbstone man of that champion Z
free trade the Rocky Mountain News, o.
the political situation in Arapahoe coun
ty since the compromise" and th
curbstone man delivered himself as fol
Elows in answer to the question as t
what the chances were for the demo
crats beating the Peoples ticket.
think" says Curbstone, 's that th
Peoples party is making aIgreat mistake
as most of you are Democrats, and you
voting the Peoples ticketsis sure deatl
to the Democrats. In fact every vot'
cast for Butler is a vote for Blaine, ant
as for your county ticket, in the field, i
spoils to dead certainty our chance o
electlng single man on the democratic
ticket, with possibly one exception,
What is the exception?"
Wesmay possibly elect Judge Daw
son."
But you have the Endorsement of {
so-called Turner hall party haven
| YOUR
Turner hall party p-h he laughed
"Those deadbeats make me awfully tired
Why it was only yesterday that their
four-eyed alleged chairman, with his
Roulette secretary, informed me that i
their candidates didn't come down with
the dust they would be yanked off the
ticket. That if it was thought they were
running their ticket for patriotism OF
fun they would conyince the candidates
at once of their errof&
"They claim they carry the Ninth
ward in their pocket, and can deliver II
at any time"
"They carry nothing absolutely moth
ing. The whole movement does not
control six votes, and will notcontrol
these, if the candidates do not allow
themselves to be bunkoed into an al
legged assessment. Why | was told by
one of the men in my Office who is on
their Jim Crow executive committee that
they had got about all the blood they
could oatiof the candidates and with the
exception of "a little room OF Lagimer
street, used by the boys for poker room
under the guise of headquarters, there is
nothing left of them"
Soon after b. p. reporter met Abraham
Solomon Isaacs Pelton, acting assistant
secretary of the Turner hall crowd.
"Well, Abraham, how is the political
aspect?" 49,.
"very quiet am at pr esent watch
ing Fat johnson, our treasurer Il have
good reason to believe that he is hold
ing out on me and the other fellow"
"What other fellow" ?" asked the h. p
reporter.
Why, influential Vaughn. Fatty,
Pap and myself are all that is left of
the gang, and it will be pretty cold
day when a s., get left.' !
"But l understood that there were
twenty-five or thirty of you in this move
>ment."
"Well, so there was, but we froze 'em
out. You see l am the originator OF the
movement, and if there s,any money in
it am going to haveit."
On leaving this " Workingman's u
friend the reporter ran across Fatty y
johnson, the printer-orator of the Great
West, and inquired of him the particu-
lars of the row in the ranks of the Turner
hall ticket.
"There's no row, but like some other
organizations, we have a fool for chair
man he is all the time squirting around
afraid some one will get cent that he
knows nothing of. Why, he makes me
sick. made him chairman, because
wanted 10 use him, and the chump' has
had the big head ever since. As for be,
ing chairman in fact, it is ridiculous tc
think of. l give it out cold that if there
is any honor or profit in this thing am
going to get it especially the profit;
am the originator of this movement;
tell you I am in this thing for revenue
We played it rather low down on Pap,
Vaughn, Poole, Jim Cain and a few
others though, and now that we have
shook them, will put the Sheeny where
he belongs. iIintended to give him 5;
or $40 to keep his mouth shut, but If hi
don't stop 'back-capping me he will
get nothing" rs ~
Another of the rump delegates, who il
an ardent admirer of Senator Hill, sait
regarding this "braee game" that h'
/ went into it with the intention of help
ing Senator Hill, but as they simply in
dorsed three Republicans, and the bal
ance mongrels and Democrats, he quit il
| disgust. "'Their last racket" said he, 4
to make change in their ticket on tn
eve of election by taking off some Q
their candidates who have not been abl
to pay very much, and substitute tn
names of others who can be induced t
pay for the luxury; bnt it will do n
good, as they will have no tickets printed
and it would be useless if they did prin
them, as they have no one to distriout
them at the polls on election day, an
they, recognizing this fact, do not inten
to fool away their money on printing
but will put it where it will do the mot
good-to them-into their pockets.
refer to Fatty" and the "Sheeny," a