What the Knights Should Consider

Posted Posted in County Election 1887, Failure To Govern 1887, Knights of Labor, Opposition To K of L 1887

The Dubuque Daily Herald    Sunday November 6, 1887 What the Knights Should Consider.  Because the Herald does not believe that the best interests of the people of Dubuque and their city will not only not be benefited by the supremacy of a little coterie of a few men who call themselves the Union Labor party […]

The Union Labor Party’s Record with City Finances

Posted Posted in County Election 1887, Failure To Govern 1887, Knights of Labor

The Dubuque Daily Herald     Thursday November 3, 1887 The Union Labor Party’s Record with City Finances.  The Union Labor party that carried the city last spring was then untried and scoured success by crying reform, reduce taxation, reduce expenses, reduce the debt and so on. The same party is now trying to gain control […]

MAYOR VOELKER —Will Please Rise and Explain.

Posted Posted in County Election 1887, Failure To Govern 1887, Knights of Labor, Opposition To K of L 1887

The Dubuque Daily Herald     Wednesday November 2, 1887 MAYOR VOELKER Will Please Rise and Explain. The “Industrial Leader Extra” of a few days since, tons of which have been sent over the county, states that the county  funds during the past ten years have “been squandered in paying extravagant salaries and in purchasing supplies […]

Vociferous Complaints That Too Many Knights of Labor Hold Office Now

Posted Posted in City Council 1887, Failure To Govern 1887, Knights of Labor

The Dubuque Daily Herald     Thursday August 18, 1887 ONE TO MANY .  Vociferous Complaints That Too Many Knights of Labor Hold Office Now.  Last evening the office was filled at different times with  complaining individuals, both male and female, who were not at all mild in their denunciation of the present park custodian and […]