Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-18
CLEVELAND AND LABOR.

| ElENELANU hND LNoOns
The Reasons Why workingmen Should
| Vote for Hhm-A Clear Statement of the
Case-Rsasons Based on the Same Num-
ber of CleyeIand's Official Acts, Submit
ted for the Benefit of the Laboring
Glasses.
COLUMBUS, August l7.-The Catholic
Columbian prints the following:
AT meeting of workingmen held in
New York it was decided to circulate lO0,
900 copies Of the followsng:
Twenty-Eour reasons why we, as working
men, will vote and work for Cleveland
First-We will vote for Cleveland because
he signed, on June 4th, 1884, the bill
which aboshes child labor in all the inst
tutions in this State.
Second-We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed the bill which reduced the
exorbitan eas of one of the great
| est monopolies of the country
namely, the Association of New York
Pilots, who are paid BY direct tax on COM
merce They are rich men, and their fees
were from $4,000 to 5000 for each man
every year. Cleveland reduced them to
$3.50.
Third-We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed the bill which secures
pension to the widows and orphans of po-
icemen. One section Of the bill provides
for testing boilers, and thus adds to the
safety of every working engineer.
Fourth-We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause by vetoing the elevated fare bill he
set an example TO all employers of honest
dealing with lsboring men, and showed the
need Of keeping bargain fair aud equal
with every man.
Fifth-We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed the bill authorizing the
spending of g., 100000 for additional COM
mon schools in New York
Sixth-We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he appointed on the very day the bill
passed, head Of the Bureau Of Labor
This Bureau Of Labor did much to awaken
the interest that resulted in the abolition Of
convict contract labor.
Seventh-We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he would not sign bill which would
reduce the car drivers and conductors one
third
Eighth-We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he would not sign a bill which took
away the rights of workingman. This
was called mechanics hen, but actually
benefited contractors and not the men who
worked with their hands on job.
1t made it cost ten times as much for a
poor man to get the money due him as it
does now, and the lawyers could have got
big fees and have been chiefly benefited.
9th. We will vote for Cleveland because
he made Republican Legislature take
back bill that only went half way aud
compelled them to pass bill which he at
once signed, abolishing convict contract
labor in every institution.
10th We will vote for Cleveland because
he appointed a railroad commission, which,
By what it has made railrosd corporations
do, has made travelling on cars safer and
more comfortable for every man, woman
and child.
Eleventh-We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed two bills abolishing tene.
ment house cigar making, and so give
health and enjoyment ofhome to thousands
TwelGh-We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause be signed bill making workingmen
first crecitor> for wages where an employer
fails.
Thirteeuth-We will vote for Cleveland
because he signed the bill appointing a
tenement house commission, which is to re-
port how tenement houses can be made
more healthiul and comfortable.
This will benefit hundreds of thousands
OF men who work all day, and especially
add to the happiness Of thei7 wives and
children.
Fourteenth-We will vote for Cleveland
because he signed the bill which did away
with the manufacture of hats in State
Prisons
This bill ended contract competition
which had thrown hundreds fworklngmen
out of employment.
Ffheenth-We viii vote for Cleveland
because he signed the Emigration Commis-
sion bill; the provisions Of which protected
emigrsnts from robbery injustice and ex-
tortiOn.
Sixteenth-We will work for Cleveland
because he signed the bill limiting the
charges of pawnbrokers and preventing the
sale of a poor man furniture.
Seyenteenth-We will vote for Cleveland
becsusS be signed the bin which gave the
people chance to speak their. opinion OF
convict contract labor. The people having
spoken. be signed at once the bill which
carried out their wishes
Nineteenth-We will vote for Cleveland
because he signed the law 10 give pure but
ter and cheese, and also TO prevent the sale
of watefed milk sEE
Twentieth-We viii vote for Clevels nd
because he recommended again large ap-
preparation for the employment Of men On
the new capital, which appropriation was
refused by the Republican Legislature
This action Of the Republican Legislature
in refusing to appropriate money. has made
it necessary to discharge hundrsda Of men
There is plenty Of work, but no money to
pay for it :,
fweuty-6rst-We will vote for Cleveland
because he signed two bills one in 1888,
and one in 1894, to prevent cruel and I'M
lust treatment Of children.
Twcnty-seeond-We win vote for Cleye-
| land because he signed the bin which large
" reduced the fees of receivers Of corpora
tons, and saved the money for the people
! to whom il belonged.
lTwenty-third-We win vote for Cleveland
because he signed the bah which compelled
/ insurance companies to keep their promises
and so protected the widows and orphans
of men who had yaid their money to be in
-snred -g- u - p
Twenty-fourth-We viii vote and work
! for Cleveland because be has done more for
the workingmen of the State of New York
| thsa any Governor We have ever had, be-
! cause every act shows he has ct heart the