Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1891-03-21

reclamation.
THE RATIFICATION MEETING
The ratification meeting of the Social
ist Labor party was held on Sunday,
March s, at Aurora Turner Hall. At
, 30 O'Clock p. M. the meeting was
called to order by cOmrade knefel. The
spacious hail was crowded. Comrale
b. Berlyn was introduced as the first
speaker and said:
Undoubtedly, we Socialists repre-.
sent the intelligent conception of the
labor movement of the world We ad
vOcate methods for the removal of the
evils under which we suffer. We realize
that such a removal can only be brought
about by making fight with the enemies
Of labor for political power. The battle
for freedom has already commenced
and from now until election day YOU
must work for our ticket ana give every
nickel and dime you can spare in aid of
the movement. Candidates are usually
held up as gods. Ours are of our own
flesh and blood, workingmen like your
selves The speaker then asked for
the meetings. formal Endorsement of the
platform and ticket, and it was given
Win tutDuSltSU,
G. a. Hoehn made lengthy address
in German. He spoke of the advance
made in ylate years by the socialists Of
Germany, and predicted that the power
! of those IN America would be felt within
lhe next six years. He urged the enthu
siastic continuance of the propaganda,
not with any idea of bloody revolution
in view, but in the hope that justice and
common sense would eventually succeed
| through steady and energetic agitation
and education of the masses of the toll
| ers. Neither the democratic nor the re-
| publican nor any her capltaliStiC party
would do anything for the working peo-
| pie; they must fight for their own eman-
cipation as an independent sociaIistic
| party.
Henry Kraft, nominee for city attorney.
congratulated the socialists on the evil
| dence of life in what many had supposed
to be asleep forever, The leaders some
| times grew discouraged, but this was
| because of the strange anomaly that in
| this so-called land Of the free freedom
was forced to take the last place. The
| oppression of the Czar was nothing in
comparison with that of the almighty
dollar. What but damnaton itself could
, 10 uumpa,u,, ~lJI otio avaI Ihg honest
poor of Chicago? The speaker found that
one great trouble lay in the fact that the
people were living under constitution
made for conditions and human nature
as they existed 100 years ago. 1t was
time that the people insist upon con.
stitutiOnal convention as often as
changes in conditions of life make it
necessary. Mr. Kraft said that the go.
ciaist candidates did not expect to be
elected but they felt that they could he
a warning and an example to the other
parties, whose promises he begged his
hearers not to believe in.
The following speaker was cOmrade
T. J. Morgan. He was greeted with
prolonged cheers when he came for
ward to address the audience:
"lf all of you will peddle tickets on
election day the applause caused him
to stop, 'and will work for my election
with the same enthusiasm with which
you have greeted my nomination. it is
barely possible that my candidacy for
mayor may not be the huge joke that
my friends of the press appear to think
it to-day. It is but step from the
sublime to the ridiculous, you know, and
while. as a candidate for m2vor, may
not be sublime, | believe that IA social
istic labor ticket in the field means a
more serious thing than the newspapers
anticipate. | represent a movement
which will never stop until wiser and
better teachers are at the head OF the
public press. These same teachers
thought the abolition movement "a huge
Joke yet it ended in the slaughter of
hundreds of thousands of human beings.
The idea of few obscure, horny
handed, nnschooled individuals meeting
in "a small room over a saloon to make
nominations at the moment that com
mittee knocks at the door Of millionaire
asking him to be a candidate for mayor
in order that they may pose properly
before the mOnarChies of Europe during
the worlds fair seems ridiculous 10
many. Perhaps the results will not be
so even to them.
81 as a candidate of the socialist la
Dor party, do not propose to pay my
own election expenses. For instance,
shall now ask you to pay for the rent Of
this hall. This may be unheard of in
politi 5, but isn't it fair, isn't it honest
shall always pay my share To day
contribute my customary Sunday dime,
and the candidate for mayor held up a
10cent piece and dropped it in the hal
amidst the applause of the audience
when | was a candidate for alderman
from the Fifth ward, he continued, %
: worked all election day and spent just
cents. That nickel went for glass o.
beer and that beer went inside myself
: At night they came to me and asked
t what / would give for sixty votes which
t had been held back. told them theJ
! could go to al before would pay on
. penny to secure even the presidency o
= the United States.
q lynn will have the customary VARIETY