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Ogden. 
Wood. 
Anti-Auction 1828. 
Republican 1829 
Republican & Workingmen 
1829. 
Absolutely. 
Relative. 
Absolutely. 
Relative. 
Absolutely. 
Relative, 
8th. 
2nd. 
2nd. 
2nd. 
8th. 
1st. 
1st. 
1st. 
5th. 
1st, 
1st. 
3rd. 
9th. 
3rd. 
1st. 
3rd. 
9 th. 
2nd. 
2nd. 
8th. 
8tn. 
5 th. 
10th. 
8th. 
5th. 
4th. 
9th. 
8th. 
5th. 
13th, 
This seems to show that the vote for Ogden, as a Republican 
in 1829 was not unlike his vote as an Anti-Auction candidate 
in 1828 both absolutely and relatively; while the vote for Wood 
as a candidate for both the Republican and Workingmen’s 
tickets in 1829 is very similar to the vote for Ogden in both 
1828 and 1829. 
My conclusion from this analysis is that the Workingmen’s 
candidates, who in the main were workingmen, drew their sup¬ 
port from a definite and compact area of the city, roughly the 
13th, 10th, 11th and 14th wards; while their coalition merchant 
candidate drew his support from an entirely different section of 
the city, roughly, the first five w 7 ards; i. e. the district that sup¬ 
ported the Anti-Auction ticket in 1828. 
Encouraged by the election of one of their men, which they 
took more or less as a complete victory, they adopted a general 
plan for organization at a meeting of “mechanics and other 
Workingmen, etc.,” Dec. 29, 1829. Elaborate resolutions were 
adopted on the subject of monopolies—including banks and 
auctions. It is here that we find the first real labor argument 
against the system; but even here it is coupled with banking 
monopoly, etc. 
“Resolved: That the present auction system, which operates 
as a means of oppressing the producing classes, by introducing 
large quantities of the products of labor of foreign countries, 
which otherwise would be furnished by our own mechanics, is 
fraught with alarming evils, and should be immediately re¬ 
stricted. 
“Resolved: That this system is most decidedly injurious to 
