Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-11-04
A Card from "waceworker.v

Editor Of the Dispatch: Allow me place
in your columns TO speak few earnest words
10 INV fellow wage.wOTkers who are yet I'M
decided as 10 how they will cast their ballots
at the approaching election, and 10 those
also who contemplate voting the Republican
ticket.
Many and weighty reasons have you pre-.
sented IN your paper day after day why every
white man in this city aud Slate-rich and
poor alike-should vote the Democratic tick
ct; but Notwithstanding this / am impslled
to sdd few words on that subject, and they
are in behalf OF my brother-workmen, who
are more deeply interested than all other
voters IN excluding from power that party
which has headed iis ticket with Benjamin
Harrison, who asserted That "ORe dollar q
Days enough for any loOrtinqIRdn." And
this candidate was placed at the head OF the
Republican ticket as the representative OF
that grinding monopoly whose members
have grown richer and richer while their
employees have grown poorer and poorer I'M
der the practice OF Candidate HaIrisOn's
preaching that zone dollar a day Is enough
for any icorkingmdn."
it Il authoritatively asserted that in Har-
rsOn's State, and especially In bis own town
and neighbOrbood, The mechanics are almost
q unit against him. Among the reasons OF
their opposition 10 bis election IL his Oppres-
sion OF the WorklngInen, who are therefore
forced 10 look upon him as their tiercest and
most formidable foe. Throughout the shops
and works OF all kinds in Indiana, his own
State, handbils are scattered containing ex.
tracts from his speeches advocating the re-
duelion OF wages by every means possible
the importation OF Chinese cheap labor
among Others and the record OF his advo-
cacy Of The hsrshest and most brutal treat
ment Of the employees Of large establishments
who refused 10 continue TO work for wages
which under HarrsOn's sense OF justice and
HaIrison's influence were inadequate 70 sup
ply even necessary food and clothing for
these wage-workers and their families.
Great as would be the misfortune 10 our
country, and especially to the wage-wOrker,
in the election OF Harrison TO the presidency,
there is still greater calamity which could
befal Us ia the triumph Of the Republican
party in our State and district. Virginia
aud the Metropolitan district should be kept
forever untarnshed from the blight and
curse Of Republican rule. To this end the
most earnest efforts and eeaseless labors OF
every white man in the district should be
dedicated from this hour until the closing
OF the polls on election-day.
Under the wise and prudent admlnistra-
ton OF President Cleveland every industry
throughout the country has been prosperous
and continues TO prosper and grow. The
South, for the first time In nearly
Twenty-Five wears, feels that she is
a part Of the General Government, en-
Toying equal rights with her sister St9tes
OF the Union. The iron heel OF oppression
has been removed from her neck and now
she stands erect and bids fair 10 speed on in
the road TO prosperity, adording all her peo-
pie remuneratiye employment
Through the agency OF cur able and ever
yigilant representative, Hon. George ID.
Wise, this district has received larger and
more appropriations and contracts from the
General Government than was ever before
granted TO it. Among these appropriations
aud contracts can be mentioned mammoth
war-shIp now under construction at the Nor
folk nayy-yard, the boilers and machinery OF
which are being manufactured right here 10
Richmond. Though Norfolk Is not In this
district the construction OF the snip at her
navy-yafd is greatly due TO our Democratic
representaiive.) Besides this there has been
an appropriation OF $4,000 for The extern
sion Of the eustom-heuse. and for the i'm