National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-10-27
TERRIFIC BRoADsIDEs.


Hostile TO the Free-Trade Candidate for
Presldcnt-Thcy VIII Not Vote the Dread
Ont Of Their Own Mouths.
The New York Sun has been wnging relcnt-
less war on Cleveland through Its nows col.
umns, as well ~ on. It's editorial page, ever
since the nomination More damaging to the
cause Of the frcetrndo candidate for the presi
dcncy than editorial donuncatlon are the in
terviews with democratic workingmcn In
and about New York which are pub
lished morning amer morning, the talks
filling from one TO three columns OF space
every issue Of the paper Below are given II
number of these short interviews, taken at
random from the suns collection, ne showing
the unmistakable drin Of sentiment among
the industrial classes;
Richard Langley an engineer, said II did
him, good TO tell what ne thought OF ClGve'
land. cleveland" he said, has done
everything he could against us, and now he'd
like to get into u place where he could doinorc
mischief He's for introducing hce trade,
| which would starye our families by bringing
our labor into competition with that of over
crowded Europe. stand here all day, attend
ing to my engine, and I'd be glad to have as
easy berth as the police have, but thanks !"
Grover Cleveland must pay 81 n year into
the police fInl. I'd work for any democrat
except Cleveland, but I'm dead against him."
"rm an Englishman," Robert Thomas said,
and worked rs laborcr in England thirty
years ago. | know what that life Is, and I'm
glad to be ont OF IT, Yeti Cleveland should be
elected we'd have free trade here. know
what that means-ow wages and little TO eatT-
and If my vote viii keep Y away the curse shall
not come to this country" ..
"tf tfyou'll show me one thing" said william
Dorian THAT Cleveland has ever done for we
worklngmen I'll vote for him; but you can't
do 1t. He's been against us first aud last and
all the time"
Michael Egan said he had always been
democrat aud Is yet, and he was very indig.
nsnt that such person as Grover Cleveland
should be the candidate of the democratic
party "Clcvelnnd pretend to be democrat !!
| he exclaimed. "llc's ms much of n democrat
as Queen Victoria Is. and noth bit more, He'd
sell every laborer In America II he could lind
| an elevated railroad or n horse car company
| to buy them, and he'd ruin us with free trade
| to please England and the renegade demo.
| Gratis who tried to hoist the Morrison bill on
| US, He'll get no vote OF miue."
James Arthur aud Andy .Finan are also
| blacksmiths, and were working together
| yesterday at the same anvil.
| Were both of us democrats" said Arthur,
"and we've worked and voted together for
| good many years. Wen vote tOgcthcr his
| time, too but II won't DO for Grover Cleve-
land A democratic house OF representatives
! passed the Morrison bill and tried to bring US
down TO starvation wages, and If Cleveland
| should be GleC,Cd they'd succeed next time
| Then we should have to compete with the
laborers of the old country, and live as miser
ably us they do Wen try TO prevent that,
though, by voting against Cleveland. aud
| we're not sorry ~ do ii, even II we are demo-
Gratis for he has always worked against our
| interests"
William Mulligan is another democrat who
does not want Cleveland. lie said 1--WE are
against him because lie Is free trader and
because he liz not the worklngman's friend
| There is no more solid democrat than |
am," Patrick llOnr said, but III never vote
for Cleveland. When they put him up 1t was
as much as to say that they did not want
workingnen's votes. Now Wen see how he II
| get along without them
Thomas Kennedy is molder, and has al
ways been u solid democrat But when |
saw that tho democrats were working around
toward free trade" said he, that sickened
Inc and frightened me. The democratic CON
| gress tries TO pass the Morrison bill and bring
us down to starvation wages, aud now they
cap the climax by trying to make US yote Tor
man like Cleveland, who has been dead
| against us all through. I'll vote Tor Blaine, 10
beat Cleveland and free trade
Dan O'Neil is well known among Iron men,
| 1--WE been thirty years in this country he
said, land I've voted ever since was able TO,
| and never anything but the democratic ticket
/ shall vote against Cleveland. lie Is the
enemy of workingmen's interests, and after
they made him governor he thanked them by
vetoing every bill in their tnvor, and by ap.
proving every bill hostile 10 them, England
| loves him because she hopes to get free trade
through him. l. IN an irishman, and III Vole
against him, and SO will every lrishman in
| the country who has any feeling for Ireland. ~
7. f. Wallace, who works in Barlow, Condit
& Morris's iron, works, in speaking OF the
| anti-CleYeland democratic revolt, said:
81 am an iron molder and union man. and
| among the members of our union there is a
feeling that is of the greatest importance y
labor Interests to defeat Cleveland. The work.
ingmen have stuck to the democratic party
long enough, when It will put up the worst
monopolist tool in the country for president.
The fact that he is the fayorite of all the free
| traders in this country and of England Is
alone enough to make II every workingman's
| duty to work and vote against him. Iron
molders in this country earn from sl5 to 81
per week In England they do well If they
earn 81. OF course our employers cannot com
pete with the products of such pauper labor ps
that unless they meet 1t by cutting down Our
wages to the English beggar level. Any block.
head can see that, and how any workinglnen
can cast his vote ior candidate who would
expose them to misery of that kind is more
than can see. He must be a-well, / don't
know what TO call him. We have got forty
tion Of just nine they will vote to a man against
| Cleveland. They are democrats for the most
part but the nomination OF Cleveland has set
them all adril, Some hayegone to Butler and
some to Blaine, and we have even got four oil
five prohibtionists. IL is Il queer mix. But
anything to beat Cleveland is the cry"
II. ThOmpson's furniture factory employs
twenty men. Among them is Michael Hag'
gerty. He said:
Every democrat in this concern is solid
against Cleveland, and am one of them
never voted anything but the democratic
ticket in my life, and / am still u democrat
But can't 20 Cleveland II is as much every
workingmans duty to vote against Cleveland
Us II is TO support his family, and when he
votes for Cleveland he is voting to take the
bread out of his ihmily's mouth. Free trade
means starvation, and Cleveland is the cham.
pion of free trade, and OF all the greedy selfish
monopolies in this country and in England
where they are so terribly afraid he will not be
elected lie vetoed labor and labor will veto
| him."
Thomas Moran, one OF the spinners In the
great thread factory of the Clarks in Newark
estimates that about one'quarter Will vote
against Cleveland. Moran has always been a
democrat himself, never having voted any
other ticket at national and congress elections
He now belongs to an anti.Cleveland club. He
said: II will vote against Cleveland because
will not vote against my bread and butter
Cleveland Is a free trader, and the candidate
of all the free traders both in this country
and In England. | have seen something ot
the starvation beauties of British free trade
because have worked under IL. II would, II
adopted here, at once reduce American work
ingmen TO the pauper pay and dog life of the
wOrkingmen of the old country. An Ameri
can workngman who has not got sense enough
to fight against that as long as he has go
strength to stand, ought TO be shipped across
the water and forced to work in some Of the
British slave mills. About one week of that
sort Of thing would put some wisdom into his
head"
Richard Parker is an old gentleman who ha,
Tor SO many years been slahch democrat anu
so Jealous worker In the democratic cause
that his pronounced hostility TO Cleveland
and the ardor with which he has gone int
the aRti-Cleyeland movement has been a sur
prise even TO those who are heartily with hin
in the movement. He Is a tailor. He said
"Cleveand Is man wholly unfit TO be presi
dent ofthe United States and | would put II
votes against him If | had them. His vetoel
and this pushing of measures hostile 10 labol
are enough to lose him the vote of eyery labor
ing man even If he were not the British can
didate who is being pushed on by British gOt
In the hope that his election will open the dool
for free trade"
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