Workmen's advocate., 1890-11-01
UNION SQUARE.
GREAT RATIFICATION MEET
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The Cottage Handsomely Deco
 rated with Trade BannrrS-NiG.
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 tons, and Honest Enthusiasm.
 An audience of from four to five thoo- sand people gathered before the cottage and around the two trucks al Unam square last Saturday evening t raufy the ticket of the Socialist Labor party. The meeting presented a grand appcar- aucp, whether viewed from the main platform or from the street From the main platform, a dense mass of Uphlted heads was seen, except t) the right and left where the faces were turned away from the cottage and towards the near est trucks, and ever and anon this multi. tude broke out into loud applause, his. ses or laughter, according as they wrr" moved hy the remarks of the speakers. From the street the sight was brilliant,
 
 thirteen bright-colored red trade ban ners while on the stand. at either side of the speakers, rose another flag, to the right the American. to the left that of the Bakers Union. of which the Chair man, August Delahar is a member; and the whole was thrown into strong relief by the long TOW of gas lights over head. From $50 to nearly II o'clock the speakers addressed the crowd and arrested their attention with the argu- ments on the issues of the day
 Up to o'clock, even few minutes later. an uninitiated might have ina gined the meeting was to be a failure. At that hour only two or three hundred people were gathered before the cottage, and the stand looked deserted; in fact, some of the reporters of the poodle press began to display peculiar smile upon their faces. But the smile soon died out, From the east, the west, the north, and the south side. the columns began to pour into the square headed by their banners and bands. The appearance of the square changed within few minutes, and the meeting was opened. August De!abar presided at the main stand from where he introduced James J. Daily, Alexander Jonas, Daniel DeLeon, Charles Sotherau, 4. Cahan and Charles 1 F. Wilson in suCCessiOn; while from the trucks, E. K. Thomas, E. BrueCkman, Ensminger, Robert Leonard, Paul Flachel, Henry Glynn, Wagner, and many others aroused the enthusiasm of their hearers,
 At the close of the meeting the follow ing resolutions were adopted amld rous- ing cheers
 WHEREAS, The plutocracy of New York, like elsewhere, though seemingly divided, are in fact one in principle and ignore the rights of the working masses; 1 and
 WHEREAS, In pursuit of their hostile interests to Labor they have, without a single exception, nominated for the offices to be filled at the next genera! elections men who live upon the labor 1 of others and who contribute nothing to the welfare of their fellows; and
 WHEREAS, The existing social ills, riz corruption in government, immortality in the ruling class, and want among the masses, cannot be rooted out so long as the very source of those ills-the competitive system of production-con- tinues in existence; and
 WHEREAS, At all the critical stages in the his ory of mankind, where justice has been substituted for injustice, the class of the oppressed has itself had to work out its own redemption; therefore, be 1t
 ReSolred, That we, the working peo pie of New York, in mass meeting assem- bled. recognize in the candidates nOmi- mated by the Convention of the Socialist Labor party and the affiliated labor or ganzatiOns the true representatives of the tOiIing masses, and hereby ratlty their nominations; and
 ReSOlrcd, That we recommend tOevery self Prospecting workingman and to thoSt in sympathy with the working people to vote the straight Socialist ticket headed by Francis Gerau,