Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-11-19
AsHTABULA, OHIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1880.
ARACY RESOLUTION.

Few political campaigns have produced
anything more sharply sarcastic than the
following preamble and resolution. II was
offered at trades assemblage Of working
men Just after a number Of speeches. in
which most diligent effort was made 10
carry the wOrkngmen over 20 the Demo
cratic party. AT last gentleman, who
was evidently reader and thinker. As
well rs labOrer arose, and in the midst
OF laughter and applause, read as follows.
every word cutting 10 the quick and draw.
ing blood, as it we're:
WHEREAS, The Democratic party. since
the formation Of our Government. has
been, and is to-day, the sole and only
champion Of the rights OF labor and the
down-trodden and oppressed o. every class.
IL has always been the especial champion
and guardian Of liberty and freedom. and
never Tolerated, but opposed 70 its utmost
capacity, slavery in every form and guise .
it put down the rebellion organized bv the
Republican party for the destruction Of
the American Union, and literally choked
the life out Of the spirit Of secession; il
liberated from thralldom Of oppression and
chattle slavery four millions Of human be-
ings, workingmen and working women; il
gave to the freedman equal rights, civil,
political and religious liberty; il covered
the statute books Of the United States and
Of the States wherever it had control, all
over with laws enacted in the interests Of
down-trodden and oppressed labor; it en-
acted the homestead law, which guarantees
to the homeless poor aud wOrkingmen Of
the United States free home upon the
broad and fertile prairies Of the great,
glorious and free West; it enacted the
protective tariff law which protects the
mechanics and laboung men Of America
against the cheap pauper labor Of the Old
World; it enacted a law making eight
hours days work on the public works Of
the United States, and would have passed
a resolution to enforce that law in every
department Of the Government but for the
opposition Of Major Robert E Withers, a
Republican Senator from the State Of Vir-
ginia; it passed law forever forbidding
traficing in human beings-selling them
like cattle on the block under the auction
eer's hammer; it enacted law for the re-
sumption Of specie payments. and in spite
Of the opposition Of the Republican party
secured its enforcement, which set the
wheels Of industry in motion all over our
broad land, and to-day the American me-
chanic and labOrer, after their daily toll.
NV nv Aob " iAulAA p'NNl hllu MIS-
cry upon their return to their humble cots
and fresdes-by joyous, contented, smil-
ing wives, gay aud happy prattling little
ones. As further test Of its sincerity as
friend Of labor, the Democratic party at
its National Convention, with all the
sincerity at its command, solemnly prom
ised to protect the laboring man
against the cormorant and the commune.
and nominated as its standard bearers those
great, glorious, uneompromising, uuwav-
ering, irrepreSsible, Incompatible and un-
conquerable champions of labor, Hancock
and English, whose noble deeds and heroic
acts in behalf Of down-trodden and op.
pressed labor everywhere have entrenched
them in the hearts and confidence of the
workingmen Of the United States to such
an extent that time cannot efface their
memories, or detract one iota from their
lifelong services to the working people Of
our common country; therefore, as a re-
ward for their services IN our behalf, be it
RESOLVED, That the Hon. VIM. Fl. Eng.
lish be elected an honory member OF this
body, and that the name of this Assembly
be changed to that of the Workingmen's
Hancock and English Campaign Club Of
Cincinnati.