The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-03
TO THE WORKlNGMEN.

A few words with the workingmen of
this city and county. To morrow will &C.
cur the opportunity of your lives Here
tofore you have had no voice or influence
in politics save as individuals. You have
voted with your respective parties, or by
reason of dissatisfaction with the tickets
have not gone to the polls. For the first
time you have organized as an independent
political party, and come before the public
with a ticket. For the first time YOU de-
mand recognition as members of the COM
munity entitled to voice in the govern
mental offices of the county In the past
you have asked that an Office or two be &C
corded you as Ia matter of right,
considering your numbers and the prop
erty you own. These requests have
been denied, and now you propose to win
in legitimate way and by legal methods
what should have been conceded without a
moments hesitation. You have nominated
good ticket; you have chosen good men
for the various Offices; you have been wise,
also, in selecting men from the old parties.
as your voters have been training with both
organizations. Up to this point your action
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been better if you mad been trained politi-
cians-which you are not. Your platform
and newspaper utterances have been truth
full, temperate and logical; your appeals
have been righteous, and your plea ad
dresses itself to the hearts and heads of
the best people in the community
AS remarked, you have done admirably
up to the close of the campaign, but your
best work, your most effective work must
be performed tomorrow. Failure to NOR
row will prove disastrous to you as an in
dependent political organization Failure
will cause you all to wish you had never
undertaken the labor in hand Failure
will delay, perhaps for long years, the con-
summation of your political hopes. Failure
will reduce you to a position and condition
where you cannot consistently ask, much
less demand, just recognition. Failure
will be confession that you are inhar-
monious, that you are lacking in unity, that
you are not of one purpose, and that YOU
haven't the power of numbers which COM
mands respect and consideration at the
hands of politicians and party managers
On the other hand, what will victory
mean. 1t will mean, first, wise and
economic government of the county. This
is impCr tanG to ALL and desirable by all save
the spoilsmen and the office hunters. But
OF greater Importance to the workingmenis
the fact that victory tomorrow will mean
that so long as the labor voters shall main
tain their organization and manage it pro
perly, so long as they shall be wise, conser-
vatiye and honest in their administration
they can hold the governments of Salt Lake
city and county. No combination that can
be formed against them will be able to pre-
vail; no party can gather sufficient strength
to overcome them. The workingmen will
simply be inyincible as a party. The toilers
must know this. They do know it,
And now, is not the prize worth the
effort: Is not the power to protect your
selves against the abuse and wrong doing
OF politicians and spoilsmen a thing to be
striven for! Is not the satisfaction of
knowing that you will have just govern
ment administered by honest men Of your
own selection and who will be responsible
to you for their stewardship something
worth struggling for! The prize is to be
WIZ Al Why oiiO ways ohu eiidg Is through
unity OF action. Workingmen, you cannot
afford at this time to pull apart and work
against each other. You must stand to-
getber, making common cause at the
polls, and that cause justice to work
lngmen, or you must go the wall
and disappear as political factor in this
city and county. Workingmen think of
this, and then perform your duty maufully
and courageously. Know that there is
more at stake than was ever before in
volyed in your case, and know also that it
depends upon you whether or not you
gather the reward that is within reach.
HE HERALD has SO much faith in the
good sense and wisdom of the workingmen
that it believes they will do their duty to
themselves and the community tomorrow,
and rescue this county from the danger
which is impending.