The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-10-01
In Two states.

There have been times in its history
when the Democratic party has allowed
itself 10 forget it's mission as the party
of the poor man, the wage Garner, the
man of the masses, and to follow tempo
rarily after false gods. But these depar-
lures have been neither nCmerous nor
frequent, and always it has come back
to the stI aighC path of duty, and aligned
itself with the advocates of what was
designed to assure the greatest good 10
the greatest number.
As illustrating it's Inevitable tendency
to the defense ar d protection OF the great
army of labor against the demons of mo-
DopOly and Capitalization, Its attitude at
this time in the two states o. Pennsylva
MIA and Connecticut is worthy of special
remark. 1t is the same party every
where, of course, but in these two states
the lines are perhaps more sharply drawn
than anywhere else. In Connecticut the
Repu blican candidate for Governor is
practically New Yorker. He sleeps
and eats some Of his meals in COnnectl-
cut, to be sure, but he is President of a
National bank in New York, and there
his interests chiefly lie. He who is to be
the Democratic candidate on the other
hand-State Senator E. s. Cleveland
has for twenty years been the devoted
friend OF the workingmen. "He was
the sutho- Of the HON, stead law, that
allows everv farmer and workIngman an
equity of $1,000 in his homestead. He
believes in and advocates weekly pay
ments; a secret ballot which will secure
an lncorIuptible and nnintimidated
vote proper sanitary rules for factories
| restriction of child labor, and all the
! other beneficent measures that the
workingmen have been trying for a
score of years to have adopted"
Here in Pennsylvania the r publican
candidate is the tool of the political
| bosses, who has oDce been Iepudiated
| by the people of the state on that &C
count the president of a corporation
/ the part owner of a company store and
| issuer of store orders involving direct
| infractiOn of the law. His Democratic
! opponent has just signaliZed his sympa-
| thy for labor by inditing one of the best
! and strongest and most practical letters
| in defense Of its title to fuller recOgni-
| tion of the statutes that has ever been
/ put in print. And his is no conversion
! of yesterday either. 1mbiOing the adj
! vanced sentiments of his venerated ia
| ther, and prOfting by and improving on
! them, he bas, ever since his first entry
into public life, been conspicuous for hi:
! courageous and intelligent advocacy ot
| greater restrictions of the power of con
! centTated wealth in the industrial worlC
| and larger libeCty for the tOilers.
These are comparisons that no irtelli
gent wOIkingmau Col avoid formulating
| for himself, and their meaning mus
| needs be plain. If the workingmen art
true to themselves they will elect thes,
! Democratic candidates in both states.-
1t they are true TO themselves they will
take hold Uf the Democratic party ip al
the states as it has been taken hold o.
In these two, and by simply keeping
! true to itself, keep it true to them-tht
s'IOngest defense they can possibly have
/ aud the only defense they can need I
their manful battle for just protection
and proper encouragement under tn,
! law WilbeSbdrre Union Leader.