National Republican., 1884-10-31
AN ENEMY OF LABOR.
Another Broadslde Poured Into the Candidate
Of Free Trade-rhe Strength OF the Opposi.
tlon to Gov. Cleveland Among the Working.
men Of New York and New Jersey.

cratic clubs In this city is the Copplnger Cam.
paign club. 1t is named after Col. Coppingcr,
Mr.. Blaino's sonin-law. Among its organizers
was Capt, Dooley who served in Italy under
Coppinger in the Papal guards The club has
enrolled 1,273 voters. They were all democrats
prior TO this campaign, and will all vote
against Cleveland. All of the twenty. four
assembly districts have, in addition, one or
more anti-Cleveland democratic clubs
whose average membership is In the
neighborhood OF 100 This Is saying nothing
OF the Butler clubs the majority Of whose
Various estimates made by ant. ti.Cleveland
democrats plnce the number of straight demo-
cratic votes that Cleveland will lose in Now
York city alone at between 10000 and 10000.
The democratic detection among the work
ingmen Is widespread aud earnest to an extent
that can hardly be understood by persons who
have not made an impartial investigation of
the subject. Democratic anti'Cleyeland work
ingmen generally place the number OF votes
that Cleveland will lose at about twothlrds Of
the democratic workingmen's voting strength
IN the city. a canvass OF workshops and man
niaetories taken here aud there at random
leads to the conclusion that this estimate is not
greatly exaggerated.
katthewss mandatory of soda-fountain
apparatus employs about 500 men. James
Kennedy, who is one of the foremen there, has
always been democrat, and never voted any
other ticket. He said
Here In the mable department there are
sixty men, all OF them, with perhaps the ex-
ception of two or three. are straight democrats
and will lor the most part vote for every candi
date on the democratic ticket, except Cleve-
land. For Gran, they are about solid. AT a
moderate, estimate, nine out OF every ten OF
them VIII vote against the democratic presi-
dental candidate. About the same percentage
runs all through the works. out OF the 800
men here Cleveland will do well IL he gets
forty votes. All these anti-Cleveland demo-
Gratis, like myself, still assert that they are
democrats on democratic principles. hold
that 1t is Cleveland who Is not n democrat, and
Tor the reason that he Is not democrat will
not vote for him. He has shown himself hos
tile to labor by vctolug every measure In the
interest of labor that came before him. Be-
sides, vote for him Is a vote TO encourage the
iree.trade fanatics who believe that the Ameri-
can workingman should not get any higher
wages than are given to halfstarved arlsto-
oratic-rldden laboring men Of the Old World"
Frank Mccormick, who works in the same
establishment, said:
81 voted for Cleveland for governor, and
have never got through being sorry for It,
voted ror him because / had always been
democrat and thought he was q representa-
tive OF democratic principles. am us good
democrat as ever was, and will vote the dem.
ocratic county ticket, but no Grover Cleveland
gets my vote. He has opposed everything
democratic that came before him. lie opposed
every effort to better the condition Of work.
ingmen who have been the democratic party's
bone and sinew in the past and he even
went out of his way TO get measures passed
which struck ut particular classes of work
ingnen. He Is moi the nominee of the dem.
| ocratic party. He Is the nominee of the re-
publican kickers and the London free.trade
press lie Is just the man the free traders
would like have in the white house TO help on
their labor-squeozing schemes. As to how the
sentiment In these works runs, let me tell
you one Instance. Right here In this alley
where work there are nine as strong demo-
orats as there are In New York, and every man
ofthem, with just one single exception, will
vote against Grover Cleveland. That man who
is the exception has special reasons, which
know to be sound, which compel him 10 vote
the straight democratic ticket His sympa.
thies as workingman are with the rest OF us.
Among my democratic acquaintances fully 50
out of every 100 will vote against Cleveland. |
would rather put 1t under than over, lest you
might think my own prejudices lead me into
exaggeration. Eighty out of every 100 IL Il
moderate estimate. Had the democratic con-
yention put up such man as Randall or
Thurman we would all have voted the straight
democratic ticket. We do not vote against the
democratic presidential candidate because we
want to II is because we have to. That man
Cleveland is a stencil in the nostrils of every
workingman IN the country who is not parti-
san mad, and the democratic convention
knew he was 1t had fair warning how the
workingmen felt toward him, but 1t thought
the democratic party had a mortgage on the
workingmen, and that 1t could tickle the
Brittsh-republican kickers and keep its grip
on us at the same time. That is where It made
its mistake. When such O nHlrp Us Henry
Ward Beecher goes on the stump for candi-
date II is time worklngmen who do not go In
for Beecher's dollara-day bread and-water'
theory to organize against that candidate.
Cleveland is man aiter Beecher's heart in
more ways than one"
karan Mccormick works In another depart.
ment OF the same works. He said.
y am no republican, but ! shall vote for
Blaine. 1t Will be the first time ever voted
against democratic presidential candidate.
think for myself and do not try to influence
a utl1 N
not care to speak about how Others around me
VIII vote, though cannot help knowing from
the talk hear that many democrats here are
going to bolt Cleveland. One of my sons is go
Ing to vote for him. That is all right, and do
not try to change his principles. | vote against
Cleveland because he Is dead against labor in
terests and in favor of mOnOpolies. He is fur
thermore the representative of free trade and
/ regard free trade as the death warrant to
American labor and American prosperity"
Martin Moore works In Jackson's iron works,
in West Twenty-ninth street, between First
and Second avenues. He Is a lifelong demo
crat and II member OF an anti.Cleyeland demo.
cratic club Ae said:
81 can only speak for the foundry here In
the works, for that is where | am employed.
There are sixty democratic voter here, and
forty of them will vote against Grover Cleve-
land Somebody else will nave to tell you how
the rest of the men feel am down ON Clcve-
land for his anti-labor ,yetoes, and because he
would be just the man If he were president, to
play into the hands OF the free-trade schemers
who would like TO grind American working.
men M n down to the beggar wages OF workingmen
Felix Rourke works In the same establish
ment. He has always been a democrat, and
voted for Cleveland for governor He is u
memb OF an tiCleveland Democratic club.
lie said:
"All the oldline democrats around me here
| In the works are solid against Cleveland. |
| know of thirty-tive here among my acquaint-
ances who have always voted the democratic
ticket who will vote against Cleveland. For
my part cannot see how any workingman
can vote for man who has shown himself
| such a labor hating tool of monopolists us
| Cleveland has been, He has been against us
In everything, ana has even gone, out of his
way to give workingmen stab He Is a rep
resentative OF free trade, and we do not have
to look further than England to see that free
| trade means beggary and starvation to work
| ingmen. That convention must have been
crazy when 1t nominated such man as Cleve.
| land"
John Bealin works in the Manhattan Brass
| companys works. He has been democrat,
and voted for Cleveland for governor. He
| said
~ am no longer a democrat. i am 80 dis
gusted with the democratic party for nomi.
| mating such thing as that Cleveland that l
| have burned my bridges behind me, and Will
have nothing to do with the party again,
though have stuck to 1t through thick aud
thin In the past, To say nothing of Cleve.
land yetoes and his being representative OF
iD'Ni'u hoe uuuc, ~ was sihPly ihPuueuI uii4
insolent TO put such a man upon the demo
| cratic ticket, because he is wholly unfit both
mentally and morally, TO be president, or to
hold the office he now holds As working
man, regard that nomination as an insult to
| every worklngulan in the country, with the
| dirty record he has of toadying 10 monopOlies
and yetoing every just aud reasonable meas
ure in the interest of labor that the assembly
sent to him for approval. Cleveland will lose
800 straight democratic votes out of this
establishment alone. You hear nothing but
talk against him among the workingmen
wherever you go. The predominant idea
against him Is that he is the man that British
| Tree traders want in the white house to help
them beat down the tariff barrier which stands
In the way Of their swamplng American labor
with the products of their pauper labor at
home. II the duties were removed brass
manufacturers in America would either have
10 shut down or pay their men wages that
would not half buy their bread and butter.
That Is plain enough to our men here, and