Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-06
THE ENEMY OF LABOR.
HOW INDIANA RAILROAD MEN REGARD
HARRISON.
Deserving the Republican Standard-Bsarsr BY tn
Sccrs-A Number Of Interviews That Show
Their Aversion 10 the Chinese Cheap
Labor Candidate.


here, says the members of his order every
where are hostile to Harrison. Work
ingmen everywhere are against the Rspub-
lican candidate" Gould continued, "be-
cause of his avowed sympathy with lead
ing railway corporations and his position
on the Chinese question. His record in the
United States Senate is somewhat blank,
but wherever opportunity offered his per
sonal influence was used in the interest of
incorporated monopoly, while he himself
usually lodged the issue.
"When the Chinese restriction bill first
u.saae before the Senate he spoke against
it. When it came to vote he showed his
cowardice by dodging it. 1t passed the
Senate, however, but was vetoed by the
President Subsequently it came to an
other vote, with view of passing it over
the Presidents head. In this case Mr.
Harrison voted to sustain the veto. Later
on, during the same session of Congress,
the same bill was again introduced, except
that the prohibition Of Chinese immigra-
tion was restricted for ten years instead of
twenty, as in the original bill. On that
occasion Mr.. Harrison voted against the
bill restricting Chinese immigration. In
defending his position upon this subject
among his Republican associates at Indian
apolis, he argued that the Chinese ought to
be eniranchised, and if the Republican
party would do this it would give them the
Chinese vote. Then by allowing unre-
stricted immigration from China the party
could populate America
WITH CHINESE VOTERS
to suit any emergency 80 long as they were
true to the party that granted them the
right of suffrage"
"Is that all there is against him?"
"No, sir, it is not" emphatically re-
piled Mr.. Gould. Aside from his bad
record in the Senate, he is the attorney for
numerous railway and telegraph compa-
nies, and no confidence is placed in him by
the masses who are seeking legislation
which these institutions oppose. AS an
indication of his loyalty to railroad COM
panies in times of emergency, it is only
necessary to refer to his course pending
the railroad strike of 1877, on which occa-
sion he implored the Governor to order ont
the troops aud shoot down the strikers.
Governor Williams stoutly resisted his in
fluence, claiming that the men were peace
able and that there was no necessity for
such action. At this he mustered up
company of his own and drilled the men,
so as to have them in readiness Upon
the same occasion he made a speech, from
which the following is verbatim and sub
stantisted by affidsyits
Were / the Governor, I'd force those
men back to work or shoot them down on
the spot"
"Aud upon another occasion during the
same trouble he declared in speech that
"A dollar day and two meals are enough
for any workingman.'
1.-The Knights of Labor throughout the
State officially petitioned fcr his defeat in
the last senatorial contest, and at Chicago
the laboring classes by the hundred were
| found
| WORKING FOR HIS DEFEAT.
Prominent among those quoted as being
favorably disposed toward Gresham were
Frederick Turner, Richard Griffiths and
Thomas Maguire, Of the General ESecu-
tive Board, Knights of Labor. The con-
vention was warned by printed circulars,
signed by representatives Of the Knights
of Labor and other prominent labor lead
ers that if Harrison were nominated they
would assist in his defeat"
The laboring classes of this city are pre-
pairing to organize snti-Harrison clubs un-
der the leadership of Thomas Gruelle,
chairman of the State Central Committee
OF the United Labor party, and he declares
that the campaign, 90 far as the national
ticket is concerned, will not be complica-
ted by any support of the ticket placed in
the field by the Cincinnati convention. He
SAYS that one of the great national parties
will carry this State, and that the labor
ing classes cannot afford to contribute to
Republican success by voting for third
ticket; that with nominees in the field who
were equally Objectionable to the working
people, either personally or in the princi.
pies they advocate, the latter could well
afford to assist their principles by voting
for candidates whom they knew could not
be elected, but when one of the parties
presents o man for the peoples suffrage
| who is personally Objectionable 10 all wage
workers, and whose acts have been op-
posed to their best interests, their duty is
plain.
While not taking the name Of the Demo.
cratic clubs, and not being required to vote
the Democratic ticket in its entirety, the
laboring classes to be forced into clubs will
be expected to obligate themselves to vote
against and work against Harrison. The
clubs will be regularly organized. This
city will be made the distributing point
for literature regarding Harrison and Nor
ton, and efforts will be made to form sim
liar clubs in all the cities Of the State. A
report that certain Irish citizens have
pledged themselves to Harrison is indig-
psntly denied by them, and they add that
Harrison will not carry anything like the
Irish vote given to Blaine.
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