Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-05
D%EMOCRACY'S RECORD.
What Cleveland Has Done for the coiore,

What Cleveland Has Done for the Coiored
Man.
NEW YORK, November 3.-Ons hundred
and ten c,lo;ed c~itizers who are going to
vote for Cleveland, TDurman and Hill,
hsld q ratification meeting last light at
their headquarters, No. Sol East 1olst
street. In the club are sixty-three fHd
voters and fo,ty-seven yosers who d opped
their tickets for BlaiEe in 1884. This
club has the distinction Of beirg the first
colored Democratic club in this city.
Each member is doing his utmost to gain
as many converts as p>ssib'e.
Last evenings met ting was addressed
by Hon. Nicholas r. 0Conro-, Hon. T
McCans Stewart, the cell DRAFTED coiord
lawyer Of G. dar stnet; Colonel George P.
Webster and Lawyer Trimey. The speak
ers declared that the attitude Of President
Cleveland 10 ward The co or d people WIS
friendly. 1t was shown by them that
mo,e colored men were ho'diug high and
lucrative Cficp tbaa daring any cores
ponding time under Republican admins
tration.
In evidence of this it WIS shown that
the following positions are filled by cclored
men at pIe.eot: James NJ Trot'er NJ ts. },
Recorder Of Deeds, Distric1 of Coiunbis,
$1,000 q year salary; John f w. Thomp
SOD, On. Y j Charge d'Affairs, Hayti,
IS, 900; f E. Smith IN. c., Unitsd State
Minister % Liberia, $4,000; A. c. c. AS
wood (Ill), Cor sui t, San Domingo,
81, 500; Henry F Downing IN. J, Cousul
to Loindo, 81, OOO; Charles B. Pdrvis, NJ
D. (PL.O. surS'ol In chang OF +. eedman's
Hospital, D D., 81, 800; Fu,man J. Sbadd,
NJ. d. %. c., ASS ant surgeon in charge
of Ffeedmau's Hospital, d. c, 1920;
Will am II. Smith ID c., Assistant L.
brarian House of Representatives. 81 600;
AaIOa Rassfll, NJ. d., clerk in House of
Reprt ssn;o,ivss, 81, 400; Sol G. BrSwn ID
c.. shipping clerk, Smithsonian lnstiln e,
81 ,4OO; David Warner ID. c }, clerk. Tax
Collectors Office, d. c., S1,400; W. p.
Montague ID. G., license clerk. d. c,
81, 400, John Fl. Brooks I'd. G }. clerk,
Bureau Navy Department, $1,000; Albert
X. Brodis n. c., clerk, Department Of
Justice. 81, 900; Thomas II Wright DC,
clerk, DEPARTMENT CT Justice. 81 400.
1t was further shown that tie following
men are employed In the Interior
Department: Three at $1,000, two at
1910 each, three at $500 each, Thu t 'en at
$500 each, two at 81 900 each, fiSe at
5000 each, one at $1,000 AID four al
at 1910 each.
Iuthe Treasury Department there are
employed three at 81, 900 each, ten OF
81 400 each, thirteen at s 1920 each oUe
at 81, 900, four at 5000 each, c'eSe1 at $40,
twenty three at $500, fJrty-two at $500,
four u: $500.
In the War Department the folio wing
negro clerks are emf Logged: Seventeen AT
81. 200 each, six at $1,000 ea:b, five at
SSi0 e1ch, ten at S72O each, twenty Mt
1850 e,c1, five at 5000 each, fo1r at $3.50
ZACH and Il rec at $3.50 each, not.courtihg
the small army OF neg'oes employed at
81 so per day.
Ia the Peneion Office there are no less
than eighty five colortd clerks, drawing
ia follows: two at 81, 800 each,
u ne at 81 400 each, thirty At 81 2O0 each,
at 81, 600 each, ten IT 1900 each,
seven ut $50 each, ak at S72O escb, five
at 5000 each and three at $3.50 each, while
the Postofics Department the good
show ing is made, two at 81, 600 e'ch, three
At 5000 ,ch, eight at S72O each, twenty at
5000 elch and two at $3.50 each.
In railway msil service there are no lass
han ior'y.two c)lored employees. whcsA
,~alaries range az follows: Four at 81, 800
Dc Oh, nine at 81. $50 each, twenty at FL 900
e. ca, five a. $500 each, three at $500 each,
and tie bslsnce ranging from 5000 down
ward to $500 each. |
There are MT less than $4,000 colored
Democratic voters in this Sta C, and it
will no doubt strike them that the Demo
ratio Tar,y has done more for them infshe
ronr short ytars than the Republican party
Wi ~ boats of bting the friend OF the col
orsd man, but qtstlhs same time d'tc'im-
inste sg linst bin by Cling the Govern
ueot Offices and positiors wisln s heelers
and kO,R,