The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-03
WITH A DULL SICKENING THUD.
That is How the Bogus Workingmen's Meeting
Fell

The Orlando Powers anti-workingmen
meeting called at the metropolitan hotel
had all the appearance of patent medicine
show. Many persons passing down West
Temple street stopped to find out what the
fakirs were selling and when it was found
that the quack doctors were dealing out an
ointment to make man see double on the
labor question they walked on, not wishing
to look cross eyed.
After an hours effort the crowd grew to
a couple of hundred persons with sprink-
ling of men who appeared to be genuine
toilers.
When Chief of Police Young showed up
with Sl.50 Walker cafe porterhouse steak
under his waist jacket it began to be ap
parent that 1t was real and not a bogus
workingmen's meeting. In the audience
were such horny handed sons of toll as j
Q. Conkling, Judge Lynch and Lawyer
Brown.
John Lynch was the chief medicine man.
He had made close canvass among the
laboring men and had only found 100 who
would vote the Workingman's ticket-per-
| hapS 200.
| Judge Mcdowell was called upon as a
true ti-workingman, and he sported his
diamond-set gold ring in the faces of the
workingmen as he raised his hands to
heaven and smote his diamond studded
breast with compassion and loving mercy.
After looking his audience of fifty in the
face, he recognized other elements than
the tin bucket brigade, but
saw no reason why he should not call them
all workingmen. He conceded that he had
only been here year. He proceeded to
say that every man who was in favor OF
the workingmen'S ticket had received a
bride or been fixed. Il would not be here
unless the gentiles were in the Majority
he said land the crowd trembled to think
of their fate if he should leave), and yet he
proceeded to advise the laboringmen who
have been here twenty years what
to do. He would deny no man
what he would accord to himself. TIC
worship God according to my own con-
science" He proceeded to voice the
Tribunes new heresy that business man
who earns $4,000 on the sweat of his en-
ployees VINO get $40 a week is as much a
laborlngman as anybody. The few work
ingmen in the crowd did not relish this
When he talked of Salt Lake workingmer
voice broke in on him; "How about
Omaha scabss'
Editor Bledsoe, of the Stock Erchdrat
Journal, bloated stock jobber, was intro
duced as a carpenter by trade-and il
should have been added, a piano PLAYER by
profession. Bledsoe had allowed his whisl
ers to grow for week to assume the la
borer's role and he gave his speech twang
that told of his nasal toll. For twenty three
years he had labored and his services were
not worth "a yellow dog" in the eyes of
the sleek greasy PRIESTS The sacred
name of workingman was prostituted when
it dared to put a ticket in the field
Frank Hoffman had also postponed his
Saturdays shave to appeal to the sympa
thles of the anti workingmen. The speaker
pronounced the high principle: eff we can
make SaltLak indeed as it is in factl"
This was greeted with outlaw; ''That's
the stuff, old manl''
When he thanked God for the blessings
that Liberal government brought Utah, he
shook the rail and glared at the film fans
j. l.. Frank was introduced as a knight
OF the brush, and began to gyrate in this
wise: 81 would that were a Powers or 2
Stanton and | would wake you up
II have g story that is not chestnut, he
said and then proceeded TO tell the worst
worm eaten story of recent years about
the man who wanted the conductor TO cal
him of at a certain station to take pill
He propounded the great truth, I'm onion
there is strength" and the audiences hel(
their noses in patriotic sense
He alluded to Louis Hyams as
this personal friend, VINO, after selling
pools in the Walker house saloon, hat
found the sum of $4,000 on both sides oil
the profit and loss ledger on the city books
He wanted the hod beavers and plasterers
to hump up the mortar and ''rny fellow
craftsmen will furnish the vermillion tC
smear the town a deep red on the 5th Of
August"
John NJ. Young was the next laboring
man who had corns on his palms. His sou
fairly yearned for the dear workingmen aut
he wanted to see them done up at the com
ing election. I'VE are all workingmen.
he said. He did not say anythins
of the thousands of dollars he was draw
ing from the CITY treasury while the stree
workers were sitting in the hot sun fol
their pittance. He did not tell them tina
the Chief of Police in New York and Phil
adelphia could be expelled from Offices i
they dabbled in politics as he was do
ing. He did not tell then how the thug.
and sandbaggers were holding up innocen'
citizens while he was fooling away his time
trying to help up the Mormon church Fl,
spoke of ''plungersn and 'crooks'' in tru.
policeman lingo and lampooned the church
of his fathers. Don't you know way
down in my heart there is great sympathy
for the wage earners.'' he inquired of him
self.
wages of workingmen in ten years have
increased 1875 per cent he said, witt
great gusto, but he failed to say that the
salaries of the city officials had been
doubled in four months by the Liberia
council. One hundred per cent. in -four
months for the Office holder, and 30 pei
cent. in ten years for the workingmen!
Judge Powers stepped on this platform