The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-25
TREMENDOUS.
A VAST AUDIENCE OF CHICAGO
WORKINGMEN
'"ear with Uplifted Hands Never
10 vote an Old Party Ticket
AgaIn-They are Populists.

Thousand significant facts all show
ing that the Peoples party are about
to sweep the nation:
hlchard Powers stood before $500
persons at Bricklayers' hall last NIGHT
and bound the assembly by a solemn
oatn 10 renOunce the two old pOlitica1
parties and eSp0,tso the cuuse Of the Peo-
PIE party. The scene was dramatic
IN the extreme. The speaker had inst
nnlshed an arraignment of the two
polltlcal machines, which he blamed
lof tle present depressed condition of
the country. Then he told the assem-
plage TO repeat the oath after him.
with my hand uplifted'-the null
tltude roared the sentence-''and be-
fore the everlasting God." The audi
ence repeated after the speaker, and
the noise had scarcely ended before he
continued: Il renounce all parties
-" The rest was drowned in the
shouting. Every hand in the hall was
held high and the rest of the oath was
lost II the noise. 1t was an indorse-
ment OF the Peoples party.
FILLED WITH CHEERS AND KISSES.
The meeting was a strange mingling
OF political and labor discussion. q.
V. Debs was lauded to the skies and
the very mention of President Cleve-
lands name was the signal for tor
rent Of Kisses and shouts of disan.
proval. Mr.. Debs had been advertised
to be present and all through the
meeting the crowd kept calling for
him. When the last speaker had fin
ished NJ. II. Madden, who presided,
announced that he had received mes
sage from Mr.. Debs and Mr.. Howard,
which said important business had
prevented their attendance This did
not diminish the enthusiasm for the
railway union leader, but the audience
adjourned. giving three ringing cheers
for the president of the striking rail
way men.
Chairman Madden opened the meet
ing by saying that the laboring people
were making history. They were do
ing so, he said, by making a protest
against industrial wrong and tyranny.
Then he asserted that if the laboring
people made the proper protest they
could muster out the tyrants without
shedding one drop of precious blood.
The way to muster them out. asserted
the chairman, was by the ballot boz. lie
then reviewed the action of the Off
Gals during the strike and declared
That only one opinion could be formed
from such a course as had been
adopted and that is that the presi-
dent of the country is no such friend
of the workingman as he is the friend
of corporate wealth.
Richard Powers, of the Seamen's
union was the next speaker. He car
ried the audience by storm by the way
lie denounced the federal officials. He
referred in scathing terms to the or
dering out of the troops when, he as
serted, there was no need for soldiers.
When the audience was worked to the
highest pitch of enthusiasm he admin
istered to it the oath which it ac-
cepted.
Chris O'Brien made speech in the
same vein, and w. f. Cooling, presi-
dent of the Single Tax club, explained
that organization connection with
the Peoples party. He held that cor
porate wealth had control of the
farmer and of the markets because it
owned the railroads. He denounced
the Democratic and Republican par
ties as being agents of great corpora
tions. Cooling then explained tue
theory of single tax, and ended by ask
ing the people if they would assist in
bringing about what he had described
as the result Of the adoption of his
idea.
POMEROY SCORES 4 HIT.
The next speaker was William C.
Pomeroy. When he sarcastically re-
ferred to Grover Cleveland the crowd
cheered until Chairman Madden
thought he was never going to secure
order again. ''Some people think l
look like f. V. Debs, said Mr.. Pome-
roy in beginning his address. "IfI
have one part Of his intellectual at
tainments the creator has been kind
to me-" The speaker then warmed
up to the scOrching he was to give Mr..
Cleveland. lie told how there had
been no trouble in Chicago until the
president had ordered the troops here.
The man in the white house fought
the battle Of the railroads. There is
way to stop such things. Use you, bal
lots and PIT men OtsyOur OTle class into the
offices and they ,rW make such things right.
Elect man like Eugene v Debs. He
would not forget you. The two old
parties are really one. Our president
was elected by Wall street and now he
says he is going to place Debs in Jail
because he stood up for the working
man. He says he has been guilty OF
conspiracy. Olney, that celebrated
corporation attorney, sends soldiers
where they are not needed to serve
two of his best-paying clients. We
were peaceful and lawabiding before
they came. They caused what acts of
violence were done. What spectacle
we have-an alleged Democratic presi-
dent sending soldiers when Demo-
cratic governor and Democratic
mayor both are asserting that bayO-
nets are not necessary to run trains.
done the same thing. Probably he
would not be asleep or fishing. Now,
the time has come for you to find fault
with yourselves. They will come and
ask you to vote for them. They will
tell you about Jefferson and Lincoln
and they will tell how the Democrats
invented the stars and stripes. and
how the Republicans defended them.
We love Jefferson, Lincoln and the old
flag, but every time it floats over a
or Democratic meeting it
has to be fumigated.
INDoRsED TIE SPRINGFIELD PLAT
FORM.
The following resolutions were then
read and unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting of
Chicago wage workers halls with feel
ingS of Joy the action Of the represent
atives of the trades union, the Farm
ers' alliance, the Single Takers, the
Socialists and Populists in joining
hands in common effort to restore
the liberties of the people by means of
the ballot.
"Resolved, That we pledge our un-
divided and united efforts and work