Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-10-31
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ports given in the New YORK n""
CDemocrat) of what the working
men of the city Of New York say
"W. 5. Graham works in a lum-
ber-yard at Greenpoint. lie Is a
lifelong Democrat, and voted Tor
Cleveland for Governor. He Is now
a leader in one of the Democratic
and Cleveland Clubs. He SAID:
sWe have about 200 men working
where do, and they are nearly all
straight-line Democrats like myself.
Out of the whole lot of them | real
" don't believe there are three
who will vote for Cleveland. | am
giving this to you straight, ana
you may rely upon it. We are
down on Cleveland from the word
go, and you can use any language
you are mind to III saying how
hard we are down on him, and 1t
will not be too strong. We are
down on him because he represents
British Free Trade and pauper
wages, and is the pet Of the Brit
ish: and we are down on him for
that dirty hangman veto business.
The Car Driver bill and the Me
chgnics' Lien bill were about the
dirliest of the lot, though it Is hard
to tell. | am a Democrat, and IN
tend to remain a Democrat, but Tor
Grover Cleveland am loaded for
bear,
John ID. Hatley, employed in
the ship-buildng yard Of James d.
Leary & Co., said he had been a
Democrat ever since he had been IN
the country, but he had lived a
workingman's life in England and
did not propose to vote for any
Free. Trade candidate who would
import that kind of life here. lie
/ furthermore regarded Cleveland as
representing all the selishness OF
corporations, and that he had prov
cd by his vetOcs and recommends
tons that he was hostile to every
interest Of labor.
'Of the the 300 men in our yard,
he said, $50 are regular old time
| Democrats, and out of these go
not more than forty will vote for
Grover Cleveland. They remain
Democrats and would be mad il you
called them anything but Demo-
Gratis, bnt they regard Grover
/ Cleveland as their enemy and VIII
not vote for him. Many Of them
/ belong to anti-Cleyeland Clubs
Edward Monagan is President
of a Blaine and Logan Club in the
Fourteenth Ward. One club en-
rolls 10 and the other 100 straight
/ Democrats. Mr.. M0nagan says !:
q worked for Cleveland for Gov
ernor and | voted for him. ! never
voted anything but the Democratic
ticket in my life. The 10 mem
bers of the club | represent are
Democrats. had it distinctly i'm
pressed upon every man who sign
ed the roll that if he had ever been
a Republican we do not want him.
There was u Republican club mp
street where Republicans shonld
be enrolled. We are Democrats
and propose to remain Democrats,
and in opposing Grover Cleveland
we felt that we were in the highest
degree standing by the principles
of the Democracy. For my part |
have voted the Democratic ticket
ever since was honorably dis
charged at the close Of the war,
after two years service in the army
began with George Il. Mcclellan
and have kept it up ever since. |
still hang on to my Democracy, but
bolt Grover Cleveland. He is the
candidate of the British arstOcra-
cy and Of the British Free-Trade
press, and he is as brutal an anti
labor tyrant as any Of the blood
sucking landlords of Ireland. He
has been false to his party and
true only to those who need his
official aid in crushing some meas
ure that laboring men had earnest
ly looked to for relief from the
miserles that the tendency of the
times toward monopoly has forced
upon them. Every measure alfec-
ting labor or laboring men that hC
recommended was an outrage, and
every veto that he put upon bills
in behalf of labor was equally an
tagOnistic. It's no Use for me to
talk. have got so many reasons
for despising him and repudiating
him, that | would not get through
talking in a day if were to tell
them. He will not get one vote o
: the $50 good Democrats in my club
you can just put that down rs his
tory. work in Harrington &c
Whitncy's lock-worls. There arc
about sixty men there, a large per
centage of whom are Democrats
and not Onehalf of these Democrat,
at moderate estimate, will support
Cleveland.
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