Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-07-18
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That large numbers Of workingmen
are now In favor Of Blaine Tor President
that were never before Republicans, Is
but prosf that the real principles Of the
Republican party are commencing to be
properly understood and appreciated.
From the first 1t was the party that
showed its sincerity for the laboring
population by striking the slave shack
les from the limbs Of four millions OF
human beings that were held in the
most abject and degraded bondage. 1t
has never failed to protect all labor In
this country against direct competition
with the wretchedly paid labor Of Eu-
rope
In return for this protection we find
citizens of Irish, German and Scandi-
navian birth flocking to the standard OF
the Republican party. The reward to
that party has come slowly but it has
come surely. For years past there were
certain partisan prejudices to overcome,
which made the number Of recruits
small, but the rush has come at last
Irish Americans, both native born and
adopted, have at last awoke to the fact
that the industrial warfare wazed by
the protective policy was the only one
which could destroy England's CONNER
cial supremacy.
Republicans have been discouraged
and disappointed for years past because
SO many Irishmen voted in solid body
against their real interests, under the
lash and spur Of partisan dictation and
partisan bossism more degrading than
even the degradation Of labor.
1t took many years of experience to
show that the party that was honestly
opposed to negro slavery to be honest
was opposed to white slavery as well.
1t took years of toll to make Irish la
borers sbelieve that a protective policy
was the only policy that was friendly
to American labor, but, in the face OF
discouragements,t the Republican party
has held to its faith and it now has its
reward. 1t is unmistakable that great
bodies of laboring men that are not Of
fee holders and do not expect to be
office holders are flocking to the support
of Blaine, not because he is Republic
can simply, but because he represents
an emphatic American policy, because
he represents the principle not only Of
protection to labor but of protection Of
the laborer as well, whether at home or
abroad.
Mr.. Cleveland's nomination was es.
pecially obnoxious to workingmen, and
Mr.. Blaine's manly defence of natural
lied Americans, and his sturdy Ameri-
can policy in foreign affairs have es-
pecially commended him to the sup
port of Irish voters, and to the poor,
depressed laborers of the nation. This
movement Of the working masses to the
support of Blaine has incurred the
censnre of the Democratic press and
leaders, and they are now showing
their real feelings by denouncing such
vote as " Dynamiters and Socialists. "
The free traders have always de-
nounced workingmen who support the
protective policy as the scum of Gre
alton. We predict that these epithets
will not stop the flow Of the tide to tue
Support of the Republican party
Workmen are getting their eyes open.
They see labor in our workshops be-
coming more scarce. They experience
the cutting down of their wages to the
basis of free trade wages They find
manufacturers afraid to take large or
; ders, fearful of the success of free trade
under the name of Democracy. Al
these things are steadily turning tn
D tide of the labor vote to the side tina
. will protect American labor from tn
degradation of poorly paid European
t labor. This protection is found in thu
: platform of the Republican party, ant
in James G. Blaine is found the maj
r who is in sympathy with that plat
g form, and who has the courage to carr,
out its principles. The Republican
n party has invited these voters into it
y fold by its fidelity to it's principles
= II there are men within its fold VIII
r cannot endorse those principles, the.
/ have only to step down and out AM
/ make room for those who an.