Year: 1879

EDITOR HERALD: [ know that
you write from party standpoint;
but believe in your own personal
manhood. You desire to be just
and fair. your structures on the
absence and almost positive defal-
cation of Mr.. Hamilton in yester-
days paper, an unjust fling was
cast on the party in which | have
labored honestly and faithfully, for
these two eventful years of heroic
struggles, and great popular ac-
complishments by the struggling
masses for their own amelioration
and the future of their children.
The party OF the people is built on
principles that cannot be pressed
out of existence. True, some of its
parasites-not its advocates-have
proven untrue to their trusts; but
what religion, what reform, what
great upheaval of the people,
whether in state or in the field, in
agitation or in war, ever burned
Its blazing letters on the page of
history, that did not have its para
sites and its black-hearted traitors,
to feed and fatten on, and to, if pos
sible, destroy it?


This man now fallen is an exam
pie in point. He came to us the
wreck of a man iu health and in
his pecuniary condition skeleton;
a man without strength to labor or
means to live. We had no evil
dence of his dishonesty; we pltied
him and thought he would be hon.
est, and gave him an Office that
paid him well, without any natural
temptation to be dishonest. And
what has been our pay for this
honest generosity of the great
hearted, hard working men of our
CITY? He has shown himself ever
siuce within month OF his cleo
tion to be a natural trickster try
ing to tear to pieces the party thai
took him in tenderly and fed his
insatiate NAV. His intrigues of
several months eliminated in the
fifth wheel movement, gotten up
by himself and lazy shysters to de-
feat the men on the Workingmen's
ticket who had labored honestly
and at crushing damage to them
selves to build up the party in its
purity-men over whose shoulders
such men as this Hamilton and
those with him in that movement
had crawled into offices of trustand
profit, and this was their pay, and
this was their thanks to the party
that made them what they are and
more than they will ever be again!
This same element, with this Ham,
ilton it's moving, its evil spirit fur
pished to this city its nominees for
the incoming Council, under the


name of the Workingmen's party,
men who had sneered at and cursed
its underlying and grand govern
ing principles. This occasion that


made my Independent nomination
a necessity to show to the city that


the Workingmen had nothing to
do with the dirty puddle, who had
stolen the livery VI tlo WOIhiuB
men to serve Themselves and the
devil in.


And now let me tell you, Mr.. Ed


Itor, the men who have violated


their pledges to the people, and are
now dancing around on broad
grin at Hamilton, have some OF


them already taken all they could
out of the people through their of
fees, and If they had the opportu-


nifty that he had, would have taken
, as much money and some of them
! would have been sharp enough to


steal more than he did. A violatoi
of pledges and promises to the peo,
, pie Is a thief and n scoundrel; and
, If | had it in my power he should


be hung higher and quicker than
/ the man who murdered his fellow
: in the heat Of excitement and sud
den passion, and / believe that this
will yet have to become tue law