Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1883-09-27
HOadley's Love for the LabOring
Man

Our Democratic friends, know, are
constantly setting up the claim that they
are the especial friends of the working
men. When you aek what they have
ever done to establish such claim, the
only answer that can be made is, we
have always talked it. Well, talk is
cheap, and this pretended claim of our
Democratic friends is very cheap af-
fair. If they have ever done anything
in the interest of the labering man, what
is It?
Did they help to abolish slavery? No;
they helped to sustain it.
What party gave you the homestead
law-that gives every man home with
out money and without price? Why,
it was tho Republican party.
Who gave you yonr lien laws. mining
laws, bureau of statistics, ETC.? All, OF
nearly all, are the enactmeHts of the
Republican Legislatures
Who opposes the Scott tax law, that
saves S2.OO0,0OOto the taxpayers of Ohio
Not Dem ocrat voted for it.
And now they have placed in nomina-
tiOn for Governor a man who in 1878
was member of the convention assem-
bled to frame q new Constitution for
the State of Ohio.
On July 9, 1878, it was proposed to
make the following provision a part of
the new Constitution:
The General Assembly shall, by penal
and other laws, provide for the safety Of
life, health and employment in all
mines, msnufsstoriss, railway service
and other industrial positions Of special
danger"
Judge Hesdly, in opposing this propo-
sition, among other things said:
What l wish to suggest as the safe
side is to leave the people free, and to
allow mishap and disaster to have its
natural effect rs the penalty for and
cure of the evils that result from negli-
gence which causes mishap and disas-
ter"
This same candidate comes before the
people pretending to be the friend of the
laborins man-not only opposing fun
damental law in the interest of laboring
men, but who proposes also to tax the
churches, and to let the Iiquor traffic go
untaxed. and who, according to his
friend, Don Piatt, says: The common
school is fraud and a dslusion," why,
fits common people for what they can
not secure. It makes them dsspise their
own surroundings and to be in an ugly
state of discomfort with their homes"
OF whom is he talking? Piatt quotes
Hoadlys words. What are they2 Come
these streets att o'clock in ths
and from these houses you will
see men issuing in their worn clothes.
each armed with pick or shovel, on their
way to work. An hour later from these
same homes issue children dressed in
cheap fnery, especially the girls, and
carrying their books to school" This is
an expression Of love for the laboring
man with a vengeance.
Boiled down, then, Judge Hoadly is
opposed to laws that would protect the
miner, and in favor Of those that would
abolish the common school. He would
tax churches and would permit the liq-
nor business to 90 untaxod. This man
is the candidate of party that is trying
10 catch the votes OF the lsboring man
on the ground that they propose to cor
rect the evils of the contrast system.
This inconsistency and absurdity needs
only to be stated to carry with 1t the
conviction that this claim is simply
false pretsnse and should not recsiye Sc
rious consideration from thinking men.
= From speech Of Gov. Foster at Spring
field, Sept. Is.