The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-08-26
ATTENTION, LABoRING MEN /!

The most disgusting demagoguery in
this entire campaign is the constant pro-
fessions of the Democratic papers and
speakers, of love for the poor man, and
especially for the laborer. We see post
ers out, appealing to poor men, to vote
for Bill Allen. Why should laboring
men vote for Allen? There is not a
more wealthy, proud, aristocratic man in
the United States than Governor Allen.
He owns 300 acres of the finest land in
Ohio, in sight of Chillicothe. His land
could not be bought for half million of
dollars. There are thousand laboring
men in Ross county alone who do not
to divide with any poor man2 1t is
raked up as an objection to Gov. Hayes,
that he gave some religious denomina-
ton, for some charitable purpose, $500.
Can any Democratic paper, or Democrat
ic stumper, state where the rich, aristo-
cratic Governor of Ohio ever gave dol
lar to relieve the necessities of the poor?
Gov. Allen wants the laborer to be owned
as beast, by the capitalist In a speech
made on the 10th of September, 1868, he
said:
These abolitionists say slavery is the
cause of the war; / say it is not They
say slavery ought to be exterminated; l
say it ought not!
Coal miners, when they strike, often
do things they ought not to do. But we
have mixed freely with the miners in
this place when on a strike, and we never
saw more sober, quiet law-abiding set
of men than they have always been. We
hold that all laborers have right to sell
their labor for the most money they can
get for it. If capitalists cannot, or will
not, pay them what they ask, it is not
only their right, but their duty, to quit
work, and seek living wages. Allen
thinks differently. Being in favor of
slavery-of the capitalist owning the Ia
borer he violated the Constitution and
laws of the State, in calling out troops at
the public expense, to force laborers to
submit to the dictation of capitalists. In
the Ohio Legislature last winter, Gen.
Grosvenor of Athens county introduced
a resolution calling upon Gov. Allen to
inform the Legislature by what authority
he had called out troops to make war
upon the miners at Nelsonville, and we
had the humiliating spectacle of the
Governor of the great State of Ohio put
ting himself upon the record, in an off
cial paper, as a public liar. He knew
that he had no such authority, and had
violated the law, and so he sent in mes
sage stating that troops had not been
called out. To fasten the lie upon this
message, we copy the following from the
Statutes of Ohio, page lis, act of March
80, 1875, making appropriations for the
fiscal year 1875:
To pay the expenses of the Ohio Inde-
pendent Militia, while under orders dur
ing the troubles at Nelsonville on the
1Ith and 18th of June, five hundred and
forty-two dollars.
That can be seen at the Office of any
justice of the peace in the State.
The Steubenville Herald thus shows
up the utter illegality of this war upon
the coal miners, at the expense of the
taxpayers of the State:
BILL ALLEN AND THE LABoRING MAN-CoAL
MINERS, ATTENTION.
Our readers will all recollect that in
June, 1874, difference arose between
Brooks & Sons, great coal operators of
Nelsonville, this State, on account of a
reduction of wages of the miners. These
hard toiling men, feeling that it was i'm
possible for them to maintain themselves
and families upon the slender pittance
that their wealthy employers saw fit to
give them, felt it imperative that some
stand must be taken by them in self