Year: 1876

4


President Finnerty now told the as
semblage that those In favor OF MT.
Fitzpatrick should take the right OF the
hall, and those In favor OF Mr.. Farrar
the left: with great howl and rush
the division was effected and the presi-
dent decided that the election was In
favor of Mr.. Fitzpatrick by two to one.
The meeting then adjourned with
shouts for Fitzpatrick.


s.SILK STOCKINGS vs.. SHORT HAIRS. +"
Editor Democrat In your issue OF
Sunday there, appears, over the sigma
ture Of Eleventh Ward" u commuDi-
cation with the above title, which is
calculated, think, to exert most per
nicious effect. II the writer did not
avow his belief that "an amicable set
tlement Of those differences" should be
effected, one would suppose his article
was certainly. intended to divide rather
than unite t he people His entire arti-
Gle ia directed TO prove that those whom
he desiguates as silk Stockings are
acting outside regular party lines and
machinery, and That they are, there
fore, IN the wrong, His premises are !;
the short Hair" are IN possession OF
the party machinery, ergo they must
| be assumed to be right, while the
| silk Stockings" are not in possession
of this machinery. ergo they are wrong.
| Thus. following out his logic, the former
| being right aDd, the latter wrong, why,
of course, the latter must go and seek
what crumbs they can get by all the
| wilcs and degradation of compromise
from those assumed TO be right.
Now, this is damnable doctrine,
and because IL has been SO long preached
and so often practiced Is the reason
why the corrupt men OF the party Will
continue to pursue the course they do.
They always have seized the reiDs of
party early in every canvass and either
ruthlessly lashed a whole people into
their highway to ruin, or, falling In all
they hoped to accomplish, they have
forced compromise and utterly vitiated
the public service.


l take distinct issue with Eleventh
Ward" on vital points.


/. distinctly claim that there is no
political difference between the honest
and industrious men OF this city. All
are of ono mind as TO the policy that
should prevail in this canvass. All be-
lieye that intelligent. capable and hon
est men should be put In office. All
professional, mercantile, manufactur-
ing. banking, working and other classes
all are pursuing this one end. Then,
as applied to such men, there Is no
division into "silk stockings and short
hairs" In the so-called "Independent"
movement now going on. / personally
know the fact that many OF the most
active instigators and workers are to be
found in the industrial class, those usu-
ally called "the bone and sinew." And
here may say that a persistent truism
i'm politics at all times and under all cir
cumstances only finds in this present
struggle fresh illustration, viz, that
the honest working classes of society
are always filled with more zeal and
work harder for good government than
any others.


In the ranks of good men, then, there
Is no division; consequently the term
"Silk Stockings and Short Hairs can
be only applied to the good and honest
on the one hand and the bad on the
other. This is the only division known
in this city.


2. The division being defined, / argue
that it is utterly wrong to recognize the
despotism being exerted by a few ward
bummers and Office seekers. 1t cannot
and will not be submitted to. Beyond
ali doubt the good people OF this city
overwhelmingly outnumber the bad,
and they are entitled to govern the city.
III we admit the contrary, or even an
equal division, then the contest is fruit
less. II the former proposition be true,
II is simply madness for good men to
either abandon the first to the bad or
compromise with them by dividing such
Offices as judges, legislators, admins
traitors, etc For eight years the utterly
corrupt have ruled, and where are we
There must be thorough change, or our
struggle is in vain. There Is no more
good to be be.expected from the corrupt In
one party than from the corrupt OF any
other party. Corruption carries with It
its own meaning, and our fight is against
corruption.


3. II there be any division in our
party it has not been brought about by
the "Independents; !" on the contrary,
it is forced by the men VINO, corruptly
seizing the party reins, would treat us
voting, as their own private schemes
may require. No real man will submit
to this


/ claim to be as good a Democrat as
Eleventh Ward" as faithful a party
man as any, and fully alive to party
dicipline; but am not dog to be fed
with bones by the Finnertys and Fitz-
patricks OF ward bummerism, and to
be whistled up and frowned down at
their corrupt will. Such men as these
must give way, or honest men will
know the reason why they do not. :.


The terms "Silk Stockings and Short
Hairs" are odious, and +" Eleventh
Ward" does infinite injury when he
parades them with such arguments as
he adduces. Such distinctions should
be frowned down by all good men. The
terms are only the clap-trap Of the
worst men we have. All honest men Of
all classes want good and true men In
office, and nothing can prevent 1t but
low trucking to the base minority who
now struggle to dictate.


THIRD WARD.


The Wharves.


The new wharf contract between the
city and Mr.. Ellerman having been