, 1886-10-21
Goes 70 the Spot,

the political issues of the day, winch
brings bleod every lick. We COM
mend it to the public as emanatins
from a man who says something
when he opens his mouth, and who
knows how to say it in an effective
manner. Read it:
The platform, which VOORHEES, wrote
himself in order that he might stand
upon it. endorses the administration
If the Democratic President, CIeye-
land. who ordered Gov. Squire to de-
clare martial law, and subsequently
endorsed his action; but another
plank in the same platform censures
Gov. Squire for obeying the orders
of the same democratic admlnlstra
ton. which Voorhees, endorses IN
qualifedly. The explanation may be
found in the fact that Cleveland is a
democrat and Squire is a republican.
Why did not Voorhees, put plank in
his platform censuring his Z. 5.
Prosecuting Attorney appoIntee for
advising the course which Gov. Squire
pursued reluctantly? The cloud OF
dust which Mr.. Voorhees, is raising
on the railrord question will not blind
the vision of thinking men.
What has our delegate done during
the past term, what endeavor has he
made, to alleviate the sufferings or
tighten the burdens of the common
atty?
What is lis position on the tariff
question? Why is he as silent as hlS
platform on the protection OF labor
and the industries of this Territory ?
Last winter, when the coal mines OF
the Sound were closed because the
miners could not compete with the
pauper labor of Europe, who glutted
the San Francisco market with coal
brought to this country as ballast IN
foreign ships, the democratic party
of which Mr.. Voorhees, is represen-
tative, were trying to pass the Mofrl
son bill. which would have cut off the
duty on foreign coal and placed our
labor in direct competition with the
pauper and convict labor OF Europe
and Australia. This same democrat
ic free trade measure would have
closed the iron works near Port
Townsend and most of the lumber
mills, then running half time. Hav-
ing a delegate in congress of free
trade proclivities, the people of this
Territory, boards Of trade and cham =
bers of commerce, appealed to con-
gress in a private capacity to save
them from the ruin contemplated by
Morrisoa's free trade measure, and
the bill was killed by solid rspubi
can vote, the democratic members
generally voting for free trade. Not
only does this matter concern Puget
Sound, where the resources lie which
in tho near future should make
Washington Territory the Pennsyl-
vania of the Pacific coast, but the
wool growers and farmers OF the
bunch grass country are also inter
ested. Wool at present is selling al
Victoria for 10c. per pound; at Seat
tie for 20c., owing to duty. Take of
this protective tariff, and our wool
growers and farmers must prepare to
accept one-half less for their pro
ducts. In the coal mines and at the
| numbering mills the laborer must suf
fer in the adoption Of free trade. If
the mines and mills are now running
barely at a profit, then further reduc-
ton or competition with foreign i'm
ports would close them or compel Ia
borers to accept lower wages. Can
the Iaboring element afford to sup
port man for congress who, as an
individual and in his party platform,
ignores these vital questions?
Born in the purple, dandled in the
lap of luxury, schooled in democracy,
at the knee of a father who branded
Union soldiers as Lincoln dogs, what
have the working classes to expect
from the silken hand of Voorhees,,
who never knew an act of honest toll !
A stranger to the harship' of common
life, with q warped mind. imbued
with ideas antagonistie to the nsces
sites of the working classes, how car
laborer vote for Voorhees, for con-
gress?
What have the laboring clement in
common with the broken down polit-
ieian, carpet-bagger and renegade
republican, Ex-Governor Newell, who
was loyal republican for half cen
tury, SO long as he was permitted to
suck at the public teat; but who, when
retired to private life, repudlated the
party that had sucked and raised
him from obscurity?
l an Knight of Labor and sym
pathizc with my fellow laborers, but
L cannot be deluded into the support
of bankrupt politician. If tn,
wol king men of this Territory have
no congressional timber in their ranks
who has worked with his hands as
well as with his jaw; if they can find
no one among their number who ever
blistered his hands except in raising
hot potatoes to his mouth, then they
should not throw away their votes on
third party candidate who stands
30 show of election, and Who, if he
could be elected, would probably ig
more their wants. The peoples party
platform denounces shams, railroad
frauds and politicians, and ex-Gov.
Newell, who stands on the platform.
| is the embodiment of the combina
ton
Never in the history of this eoun-
try have times been so hard, money
SO scarce, riot and bloodshed SO gen.
eral as during the past two years un-
der democratic administration, with
| a free trade Speaker Of the House of
Congress. Labor has cried aloud for
relief from the legislation enacted by
those who never knew what it was to
work. Workingmen have demanded
representatives in congress elected
from their own ranks. If the labor
ing classes of this Territory mean
what they say, they can do much in
the present campaign to show their
sincerity The only candidate of the
three now seeking election to con
gress who has ever been identified
with labor in any manner is Charles
NJ. Bradshaw, the republican candi-
date A poor boy he came to the
Territory, followed the plow in Clal
Ian. county on his ranch, labored
in the logging camps and studied
law in his spare moments.
By and through his own e1ertions
and energies he has risen from pov-
erty and obscurity to the eminance
OF the Republican standard bearer of
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