Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-21


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Views of the President of the Federation of Trades
1Ir. j. Alex Camper, who is we'll known
for his connection with labor movements in
Baltimore for the past sixteen years, was
asked recently what is his position concern
iu" the candidates now before the country
for President of the United States. Mr..
Camper said II have been identified with
| the working people in an earnest cndeaVor
10 ameIorate their condition. and am sutfl-
cicntly understood and known not to be as
sociatcd with any demagoglc or partisan
idea. do not profess to voice the senti-
mens Of the working people OF Baltimore IN
ANYTHING | may say. but being associated
with them in my individual capacity rs a
working man. believe am in accord with
large majority of them in my opinions of
Cleveland and i'll my express intention to
aid in his election
Sin Il review Of the record of the candi-
dates" Mr.. Camper said, There being no
probability of the election Of Butler upon
his record, ! therefore conceive that the
contest is between Cleveland and Blaine.
l'pon the records Of the two / judge
them. Blaine has for 20 years Of my per-
sonal knowledge Of the politics OF
this country as leader lailed TO recog-
niZe The interests Of the industrial classes.
Cleveland, in his two years Of public
life rs Governor Of the State Of New York,
has not only recognized them, but has full
filled the promises made in tho democratic
labor platform Of 1882 upon which he was
elected, and indorsed the bill establishing
the bureau Of labor statistics. Another bill
passed in 1883, known as the tenement
house cigar bill, which was declared defec-
tive in title and unconstitutional by the
courts, was perfected by the State Trade
Assembly and was signed again by Gov.
Cleveland. He also approved of the hatters
BILL prohibiting the manufacture Of hats in
the prisons, penitentiaries and reformatories
of the State; Of the child contract labor bill,
and of the bill making laboring men pre-
terrctl creditors for wages or salaries in the
case Of assignment by an employer. The
street-car conductors aud drivers bill, TO
which Governor Cleveland did not give his
approval was vetoed for substantial reasons,
rs expressed in his message. 1T was bill
that would invite litigation, it was ineilec-
tive rs a law, and worse than useless as Il
mere recommendation upon the statute
books, and calculated in its provisions 10
reduce the wages of the men. which scarcely
afforded 4 bare subsistence under the exist
ing circumstances.
"The convict labor bill, to abolish convict
labor in State prisons was submitted TO the
voters of the State, and did not reach the
do, nf Npu y ~
moved that II bill already presented be laid
asid". and be. introduced II bill providing
tha: The question be submitted TO the voters
OF the State This Was passed, and prompt
" signed by the Governor.
as regards Clevclaud's veto OF the ele-
ymlr,: i've cent fare bill i have examined care
fall, into the facts. ] find that the reduction
Of the fare was not sought by the working
people, rs the companies had, previous 10
the presentation of the bill, provided for the
running of cars for their accommodation be-
tween the hours of $50 and $50 n m. and
$50 and $50 p. m, which cars are run 1T
Intervals, al 10 seconds Under the agree
mcnt with the railroad companies it would
have been Il breach of public faith because
of the contracts existing between the COM
panic@ and the city Of New York. which
WAS approved by the State prior To CIeve-
land ; accession 10 tine SovcrnorShip. | have
the highest authority in the State OF New
York, the president Of that States Trade
Assembly, Mr. Walter n. Thayer, who was
closely associated with the Governor i'll the
formulation and presentation of the bills to
the General Assembly of New York, for
Stain. that Cleveland is an undouhed
friend of the working people: and as such
he commends him TO the working people Of
the United States.
son April .. 1882. Cleveland delivered II
forcihie address while presiding at a mass
meeting held i'll Buffalo 20 protest against
the treatment OF American citizens impris-
onei abroad by the American minister to
England. With This address vivid in my
recollection | was more than surprised Mt
the denuuciations hurled ut Cleveland by
speakers ut a meeting purporting to be held
by IN Irish-American and worklngman's S
league in Raine's Hall on last Friday night
"Thc democratic national platform voices
the sentiment of the working people from
Maine to California when it enunciates the
principles Of Jefferson in the declaration OF
Independence, which makes ours the land OF
liberty and the asylum for the oppressed OF
every nation, and does not sanction the i'm
portation of foreign labor or the admission
of servile races, untitled by habits, training
or kindred for absorption into the great
body of our people, or for the citizenship
which our laws confer, such rs the Aslatlc
races. This platform is compatible with the
euuncations of Henry George aud accepta-
BILE to the working people, when it demands
that the public lands ought, as Tar as pos
sible. be kept as homesteads for actual set
tiers: that all unearned lands heretofore i'm
proyidently granted to railroad corporations
bv the action of the republican party should
be restored TO the public domain, and that
no more grants Of land should be made to
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