Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1888-11-02
If ANY WORkINGMAN TOpES
AGAINST CLEVELAND.

If ANY WORkINGMAN VOTES
AGAINST CLEVELAND,
he will vote against a man and admin.
istration that have been his best friends
1t is no new thing for Grover Cleveland
to be the friend of the workman; in every
public trust he has ever held he has been
his friend. Let US go back. before he
ever dreamed Of being President Of tie
United States, and see If this is not so
He was elected Governor of New York in
1882 on a platform which said that icon
Wet labor should not come in competition
with the Industry of law abiding citizens, F"
and that "labor shall have the same
,, rights as capital to combine for its own
protection" In bis letter accepting that
nomination, he said that "the .laboring
classes should be protected in their Efforts
to assert their rights when endangered by
aggregated capital" During his term as
Governor he signed bills providing for a
Bureau Of Labor Statistics; prohibiting
the manufacture Of cigars in tenement
houses. and prohibiting the manufacture
of wooden hats in the State penitentiaries
and reformatories. When the bill prohib-
iting the employment of State prison con-
victs on contract labor Was passed and
came to him, he sent for Mr.. Thayer the
President OF the State Trades Assembly
and pointed out defects in the bill which
would make it imperative, and it was
amended, passed, and be signed it. When
the Mechanics Lien law. which, instead
of giving mechanics the first lien. put
them on footing with the other creditors,
was passed, he promptly vetoed it.
His record since he became President, is
or ought to be familiar to the working
men of the land. At the outset. in his
letter Of acceptance Of the Presidential
nomination in 1884. he u tered a senti-
ment to which he has clung ever since.
He said we should not discourage immi-
grafton, yet, as means Of protection to
our workingmen, different rule should
prevail concerning those who if they come
or are brought to our land, do not intend
to become Americans but will iDjuriously
compete with those justly entitled to our
field of labor" In his letter of accep-
lance month ago, he reiterated this SEN
timent. In the first twelve months of his
administration he sent a message to Con-
gress, April 22l, calling it's attention to
the disputes arising bstween laboring
men and their employers in which he said
1.-THE present condition of the relations be-
tory. The discomfort of the employed is due
in large degree to the graspinq and needless
eractions Of employers, and the alleged discrjnsi-
nation in J1uor Of capital as an object Of gog-
ernnaentaz attention. 1t must also be conceded
that the laboring men are not always careful
to avoid causeless and unjustifabe disturb
| ance."
In that message, he suggested to Con-
gress to create Board Of Arbitration
Eight months after. he repeated this re.
commentator to Congress in another
message.
UGder his administration the Eight.
Hour Law has been adopted in the Gov
eminent Printing Office and with the Let
LtI SdEf 1878.
Under his administration a Democratic
: House of Representatives has passed the
following bills which are still pending in
a Republican Senate:
To prevent the product of convict labor
from beng used by any Department of the
Government.
To prevent the employ ment Of alien
labor On government buildings.
To create a Board of Arbitration tc
settle differences between Railroad and
other corporations, and their employees.
To protect mechanics, laborers and ser.
wants in their wages.
To condne the sale of convict made
goods to the State in which it IS made.
And another bill (which has now be-
| come a law excluding the Chinese from
| this country.
Can any workingman think Of any
President of the United States who bias
been better friend of the interests of The
Iaboringmen of the United States? This
! is an eminence that Grover Cleveland
would occupy by comparison with any of
them, but he has crowned his work by
his advocacy Of frea raw material, a policy
which would make new, busy, and hap
pY country for the American workngmen.
| A vote cast by a workman for Grover
| Cleveland, is vote cast for his fireside and
| his wife ard children.