Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-08-06

| 0. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he made the Republican Legis-
lature take back a bill that only went
half way and compelled them to pass
a bill, which he at once signed, abol.
ishing convict contract labor in every
institution-state, county and city.
10. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he appointed railroad commits
sion, which, by what it has made rail-
road corporations do, he has made
travelling OH the cars safer and more
comfortable for every man, woman
and child.
II. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed two bills abolishing
tenement house cigar making and so
gave health and enjoyment of home
to thousands.
II. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed bill making work.
ingmen first creditors for wages where
an employer fails.
13. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed the bill appointing n
tenement house commission, which is
to report how tenement houses can be
made more healthful and comfortable.
This will benefit hundreds of thous-
ands of men who work all day and es-
pecially add to the happiness of their
wives and children.
II. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed the bill which did
away with the manufacture of hats in
state prisons. This bill ended con-
vict contract system which had thrown
hundreds of honest workingmen out
of employment.
10. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed the emigration COM
mission bill, the provisions of which
protected emigrants from robbery, in
justice and extortion.
IS. We will work for Cleveland be-
cause he signed the bill limiting the
charges of pawn brokers and prevent
ing the sale of poor mans furniture.
II. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed the bill which gave
the people a chance to speak their
opinion of convict contract labor.
The people having spoken, he signed
at once the bill which carried out
their wishes.
Is. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed the bill that savings
banks should be more carefully ex-
lmined, and so the savings of labor
ngmen and women should be kept
safe.
10. We will vote for Cleveland be-
cause he signed the law to give pure
butter and cheese, and also to prevent
he sale of watered milk.
20. We will vote for Cleveland be-
,ause he recommended again and
again a large appropriation for the
of men on the new capt.
.ol, which appropriation was refused
'y the Republican legislature. This
action of the Republican legislature
n refusing to appropriate money has
made it necessary to discharge hun
lreds of men. There is plenty of
work, but no money to pay for it.
81. We will vote for Cleveland be-
,ause he signed two bills, one'in 1883
and one in 1884, to prevent cruel and
unjust treatment of children.
%. We will vote for Cleveland be-
'ause he signed the bill which largely
'educed the fees of receivers of cor
,orations, and saved the money for
he people to whom it belonged.
%. We will vote for Cleveland be- {
.ause he signed the bill which COM I
,elled insurance companies to keep {
heir promises, and SO protected the ,
Widows and orphans of men who had .
'aid their money to be insured.
"a. We will vote and work for
cleveland because he has done more {
or the workingmen Of the State of
New York than any Governor we
ave ever had, and because every act ]
hows he has at heart the true inter-
st of the workingmen.-Bay City
Ill