The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-01
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THE WAGE WORKERS.
~ Ten Reasons OF u worhingmnn for vot.
Sk Ing Against Cleveland.

Iron and Steel Workers and stone cutter
Of Joliet and vicinity met in m imposin
demonstration Of from five to six thousan,
voters on Monday evening, and were nd
dressed by ex-Mayor Mclaughlin, 0
Braldwood, and A, +. Carpenter, OK. Vic,
President Of the Amalgamated Associa
ton Of Iron and Steel Workers. Mr.. Car
penter was an effective speaker. He In
heretofore worked with tho Democrat,
party: His denunciation Of Clcvelan,
was based upon ten different grounds
which still left untouched Cleveland's pri
vhte Character ind political inexperience
The grounds were:
|. Tint, although the people OF Ill,
State OF New York had by u popula,
majority OF 10000 adopted 4 constitu
tional amendment concerning convicr
labor, which had been urged by The labor
associations OF the State, Cleveland had
thrown tho weight OF his influence us
Governor against the passage of the
statutory measures essential to give effect
to the constitutional provision ind so had
nullilled the express will OF the people.
y. That the prctcnse that the s cent fare
bill is unconstitutional, is one that, Is true,
should have been decided by the courts,
who are the proper judges OF the consti.
l~utionality Of laws, AZ it Ia Cleveland's
veto OF the bill prevents the question from
getting into the courts, and II every Gov
ernor should do the like the people could
never get into the courts ut NIL with the
question OF constitutionality, even In 4
case In which the courts would, Il they
heard It, decide the aGt TO he valid.
3: He vetoed the bill a~holishing contract
child labor in the charitable institutions OF
the State. 1t certainly could not be con-
stisntional for a Legislature to decide
whether the orphan children al tender
years consigned to charitable institutions
should be let out 10 be worked in gangs,
like caayiets, under the contract system.
The man who would yrto such . bill Is too
inhuman to be President Of the United
States.
t. The bill to reduce p~ilotase fees, Is a
oil wholly in British interests, us a large
portion OF tho vessels which now leave
New York arc foreign. This being q bill
to Cypress labor in the interest OF foreign
corporations met the full approval Of
Cleveland, though had it been n bill to
lessen the gross earnings Of capital he
would have thought It unconstitutional.
D. The bill to lay n tax OF s. i year on
working engineers for the purpose OF pro.
vlding u pension fund for ah already well-
paid class OF public servants, being Il bill
TO tux labor, received his friendly sigma
ture. Had 1t been Il bill 10 lax Lawyers %
each per year, in order to provide 4 PEN
sion for railroad engineers he would have
vetoed it as unconstitutional.
Q. He signed the pivil service bill io-
cause it incapacitates O working man, how-
ever competent, from holding office, and
reserves the offices, after the English sys-
TEN, for tito school and college taught
younger sons ofthe American aristocracy.
!ts e0astlsutionality is considered most
doubtful in the minds al inc hest ,awfefs,
for the reason that it trenches upon the
Just rigita OF tho appointing power by set
ting up an examining board 10 govern the
Governor, and at the same time restricts
HE just. rights of the people by prescrib-
lnS conditions upon whipit ih,Y sha!. hQll
office, which are not found in any consti-
tuition or statute, but only in the changing
caprice OF the examining board.
!, he appointed chief OF the bureau of
Labor Statistics q political henchman OF
his own, who was %uniayorable 10 all the
for which the bureau was formed,
and was fsycEa4!!e only to the personal in
tcrests OF Cleveland,
s. Although the Democratic National
In i!a platform pledges itself
10 reduce the hours OF luborto eight hours
. day, they have placed on that platform
the Same Cleveland who vetoed an act re-
the labor OF car drivers and con-
ductors only to twelve hours u DIZZY, on the
that it is unconstitutional, Ii it
is unconstitutional to reduce the hours OF
one class OF workers down to twelve
hours, how can we expect the man who
holds 1t to be SO to aid In reducing the
hours Of all class Of work, including car
drivers, down to eight hours a day. Eth
er the platform or the candidate must be
dishonest on this Issue. and we hold that
it is the candidate.
o. Cleveland vetoed the mechanics lien
which would have made the wages OF
mechanics and laborerS . first lien on the
products and Implements with which they
worked. The speaker was one OF the s.
900 laborers at the Bridgeport Rolling
Mill. At that sudden failure the Sheriff
came and carried of everything out of
which they could get their wages. The
agents of the great corporation told the
men they hadnot a dollar left. It was the
dead of winter. There was no lien law to
protect them. More than months wages
were due. There would have been great
suffering. But Judge Blodgett, OF the
United States District Court, determined
that where there was no law he would
make the wages Of the working men a
prior lien and preferred claim by his own
arbitrary power, and be did II, and many
were thereby saved from great suffering.
But the kind OF law that Rlodgett asserts
by arbitrary power in the Interests OF
humanity, Cleveland vetoes even when
the Legislature has passed it.
10. Finally Cleveland defeated the oh
jects OF the net providing for q Hallroad
Commission in New York by appointing
in q board, whose only function was to de-
iend the people against the encroachments
Of tho railways, three OF the very men
whom the rallwaySthcmselves had retain
ed to back them in their poiiclcs-
The clan who came to Chicago to nomi-
nate Cleveland were told before the nomi-
nation how deep-seatbd and widespread
were the objections to him. hut their
job was to nominate him whether the
people showed him under or. not. In
Grover Cleveland the work!ngmen have
nothing to hope for, In Mr., Blaine, on
the contrary, We have nothing to fear,
His instincts are American, and with tho
people.
slr. C%arpenter's arraignment Of Cleve-
land was greeted with immense enthusi.
asm, and was one Of the most stirring and
pungcnt that has been made in any quar-
ter, .s
The above presents It's pitl and sub
stance. 1t is safe to say that no mar SO
arralgncd by the workinsmen OF the
country will ever bo President.