notice. Whoever, employed by this corporation, votes the Ben Butler ten-hour ticket on Monday next, will be discharged,That evening a meeting of the Democratic and Coalition City Committees was called. Consternation had seized them. They said it was all up with our hopes of carrying the election. Our men would never dare to vote under that notice, so that it was no use to do any more about it. The prevailing opinion was that our only chance would be to have nothing said about this notice. Some of our committee themselves were workmen in the mills. They said they could do nothing more; one or two on other corporations were already marked for discharge, they understood, as soon as the election was over. One or two were contractors with the corporations for building, and both said it would destroy their business as they would get no
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the eight hundred votes received by each representative by ten, although they were all voted for on the same ticket, and thus made a blunder.
The mayor and board of aldermen were all Whigs, and half of them overseers in the mills.
The ward officer offered to amend his return according to the facts.
The aldermen refused to receive the amended return, but declared that counting eight thousand votes thrown in Ward Four where there were but eight hundred, destroyed the majority of votes by which the nine representatives were elected.
They declared that their election was accordingly void, and ordered a new election of representatives on the fourth Monday.
This election, if the Whigs should carry it, would give the State to that party, and destroy the hopes of the ten-hour men.
This decision was reached some five days after the first election, and of course some eight or nine days before the following election.
Again the ten-hour men rallied to their standard.
The Coalitionists proposed to do all they could to help us.
On Monday preceding the second election a placard was posted just before dinner on the outside gate of the Hamilton corporation, which employed a very large number of men, and where the ten-hour feeling was very pronounced.
This placard was substantially in the words following:--
A. M. Thayer and Co. 1892.
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