Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1872-10-26
The Republican Party and Labor.

One of the strongest columns in our fair
Republican edifice, says the Miners Jour
nal, is intelligent, thoughtful suffrage.
The workingmen of this country rs mass
deposit ballots which are expressions of
their convictions. This has been demon
| s....t \ :: 49, o'n"t ions which hnYe recently
been held in the great central States. The
thirty-six thousand Of a majority which
Pennsylvania for instance, recently gave
General Hartranft for Governor, was not
so much for the candidate, although he is
uncxccptionable, as for the principles of
which he is q representative. 1t was n
legitimate result of conviction resulting
from observation and experience ON the
! part of the workingmen of our State.
Study the history of tie Republican
party. from the period of its earliest incep-
opposition to the extention of slavery
on this continent-to the present, and it
will be found that every progressive step of
the party has been in the interest Of labor
for its elevation and increase of its emol-
umcnts. 1t said to the slave master, when
he would carry his "chattels'' on free soil,
THUS far shalt thou go no farther" II
struck the shackles from the limbs of the
slave, and made him free man with all
the rights and privileges, under the law, of
a free man. 1t opened up the vast wilder
ness lying between the Missouri river and
the Pacific ocean, and binding the two ex-
tremties with bands of iron, gave to labor
literally free homestead.
1t was contended for and given to labor
adequate protection from the low labor,
cheap capital and abundant machinery of
Europe. A Republican Congress passed
and a Republican President enforced an
eight-hour law in the workshops of the
nation. The Sympathies of the party are
with labor and its material interests and
welfare. 1t has demonstrated practically
that true labor reform, stripped of its cru
dities, is advanced Rcpubicanism. The
candidates of the party, for President and
Vice 1Rresidcnt, are men who have earned
theif~b bread by the sweat of the brow
Grant as q woolcutter and tanner, and
Wilson rs a shoemaker. They are men
who can and do sympathize with labor and
its needs, and who will never turn deaf
ear to its appeals when based on justice and
rights.
This is the party and these the men for
whom the workingmen of Schuylkill coun-
.tSevfvtf6 State, of the nation, should cast
their votes on the 25th of November. For
in neither Greeley nor Brown, O'Conor nor
Adams, can they place any confidence.
All are opposed to the interest Of home
labor and home industry, and would if they
had an opportunity, strike down our indus
tries, put out our furnace fires, and close
our workshops For the free traders say
quite frankly that they can support any Of
them. All of them in fact, on that point
arc satisfactory.
Lctthe workingmen Of Schuylkill county
resolve to q man to go to the polls on the
9Th of November and vote for Grant and
Wilson. The 1900 majority which they
can give in Schuylkill county will go to
make up glorious 100000 in the State,
and the moral effect upon legislation in the
future in the interest of labor cannot be
fully estimated. 1t would be immense.
Consider this question well, and at the
election now near at hand resolve 10 de-
posit ballot which in its future effects will
be calculated to produce results of vast i'm
portance to you ana yours.