The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-10-24
Rotten. Egging workinglnen.

The summary discharge of Hon, David Hea-
ly from his position as Chief Clerk of the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics at Albany, N, Y, be-
ingmen has aroused the greatest indignation
all over that State. 1t now appears that Gov.
Cleveland and Lieut. Gov. Hill were both an
gersd at Healy's action, and that the Commits
sioner OF the bureau was ordered to dismiss,,him
Even som of the Democratic papers in Alba
ny are protesting against it The Evening
Times of that city says:
1t was the act OF q mailman to discharge Mr..
Healy in this way. To throw rotten eggs at
him while presiding at a Butler meeting was
bad enough: to follow this up by dismissing
him from Office on a trumped-up charge is
worse. III the present Democratic party man
ayers in the State think they can get along
without the labor vote, and are careless wheth-
er they have il or not, then such acts do not
matter; but if they have any desire to see the
workingmen of the State and Nation rallying
round the old flag of Democracy once more
they do not want to offer repeated indignities
to labor's representatives OF whom Mr.. Healy
is certainly one.
The Press, an Independent paper, which is
| supporting Cleveland, also says:
We can scarcely think the leaders have given
up the battle and have become careless, no
matter how much this action on the part of
Mr.. Peck has that appearance. Thatit looks
that way fair-minded men must admit
The only paper which supports this personal
insult to every workingman in the United
States. is the Argus, Cleyeland's personal or
gan, which, of course, stands by him and APP
proves this dastardly business. The Albany
Evening Journal rep aptly characterizes the
outrage in the following indignant words:
Gov. Cleveland has long since shown that
E. A i. go -. f.1A. ,a,l1xr foNuop1 tho
workingmen. His nearest supporters and
some of his own appolntees were among the
men who threw rotten eggs at ex-senator
Grady and Mr.. Healy at the Butler meeting of
workingmen in this city. Contemplate as
was this disgraceful assault, the discharge OF
Nh. Healy without a day of warning il still
more contemplate. Vile and detestible as
were the wretches who assailed Messrs Grady
and Healy with foul oaths and putrid eggs,
yiler and more detestible are those who would
take from o workingman his daily bread sim
ply because he ASSERT his rights to an mde-
pendent stand in politics.
Do w~orkingmen need any further illustra-
ton of the anlmosity of Grover Cleveland TO
them and their interests? If they were IN any
doubt after his successive vet0es of the Five
Cent Fare bill, the Mechanics Lien law, the
Car-DrIvers' bill, and almost every other labor
bin passed by the republican Legislature, can
they remain in doubt now whether Cleveland
has nv regard for them? The summary dis
charge of Mr.. Healy because he presided over
a meeting of werkingmen, whose interests he
was representing in this bureau, and in which
he was appointed at the request of the work
ingmen of his own state, is something they can
understand There is not a workingman IN
Illinois or in any other part Of the United states
who was not personally insuited IN the double
outrage of rot~ten-egging and discharging Mr..
Healy. If they have any spirit, If they are cap,
able of resenting an insult, Grover Cleveland
and his hirelings viii hear from g m,-Chioago
Tribune.