Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1888-07-25
The workinsmen's Democratic Club.
ORGANIZATION OF THE CLUB-A STIRRING

The Workingmen's Democratic Club.
ORGANIZATION OF THE cLUB-A sTIRRIN
To SPEECH OF H. ST. GEORGE TUCKER
az meeting Of the Democratic workingmel
iE of Staunton was held last Monday in the Sum
f merson building for the purpose of organizing
b. a club. About one hundred of the bone.and
In sInew of the land were in attendance, which
goes far to show that the workingmen ar
n alive to the Importance of the coming contest
of Mr.. M B. Oberdorfer nominated VIM. G
o. Straughan, Esq, for temporary chairman. anG
o. was unanimously adopted by the assembly.
as Mr.. Straughan, on taking the chair thanked
re the assembly for the honor and opened tn,
l. deliberations of the body.
l. On motion the chair was authorized to ap-
Of point a committee op permanent organization
d The committee reported the following officers
who were unanimously elected:
l. President-W. G. Straughn.
s, Vice Presidents-lst. e. R. Moon; End, C,
IS Bargamin; Sd. D. Fl. Evans; 4th, w. w. Fret
d well; 5th, John Cline; 9Th, Patrick Burke.
: Secretary-J. B. Burwell.
e Treasurer-George Hutcheson.
Ell After the election of officers had been dis
posed of, the President introduced our popu-
lar young townsman, II. st. George Tucker,
who will doubtless be our standard-bearer In
: the Congressional contest In this district.
Mr.. fuckers presence was greeted with
much applause He commenced Shy defining
the principles of the Democratic party, and
said Its aims and endeavors were to reduce the
power and influence OF the government to a
minimum and increase the power of the peo-
pie to maximum rate. He reviewed the CEN
tralizing dogmas of the Republican party from
its advent to the present time, and showed by
reviewing its legislation, its persistent HOSTILE
" tn fhof int nfx III
1864, "said he. when the House and Senate were
almost wholly Republican. bill was passed
called ''The Contract Labor BILL" The object
OF the bill was to enable monopolists to send
to far-off China and the sunny chimes of Italy
for twenty f1ve-cents-a- day- workmen to COM
pete with honest American citizens. The re-
suit was that Americans would not and could
not attempt to compete with such an clement
He reviewed the recent strikes in Pennsylva-
mia and showed how President Cleveland had
+ by his prompt, decisive and wholesome ad-
vice to Congress, caused legislation to be en-
acted which settled the differ ences to the SAT-
isfaction of all concerned.
In conclusion, Mr.. Tucker touched upon the
tariff and exploded the fallacies of the Repub.
lican party relative to the wage question. "1n
Staunton," said he, 1.-THE workingman gets
81 so per day. For the same work in Rich
mOAu hO sOu5 % W pei udy III 4NOW 1Oih % w
per day; in Chicago 81 90 per day, yet the
same tariff governs US all. Why is it Simply
because wages are governed by the laws of
supply and demand. Germany is the highest
protective country in Europe and England is
an absolute free trade country, and yet Eng
land pays the highest wages in Europe to her
workingmen. Why? Because wages are gov
erned by the law of supply and demand.
Mr. Tucker reviewed the principal articles
In the Mills tariff bill, those in which the
working people are directly interested. I'm
| the Mills bill wool is free of duty. The tariff
on WOOL, said he, under the present tariff is
| 53 per cent. It costs the manufacturer Is cents
in labor to manufacture one dollars worth of
wool. and 20 cents for labor on every dollars
worth of cotton manufactured. The amount
of tariff in excess of these figures is not for the
benefit of the laborers but OF the manufactur-
| ers." Mr.. Tucker closed by showing up the
sham arguments of the iron and steel manu-
| facturers. His remarks throughout were lis
tened to feelingly and attentively by those
present.
| The club, after the appointment of an En-
rolling Committee and the enrolment OF a
number of names, adjourned to meet agaiE on
| next Friday evening. WoRKINGMAN.
Peabody Normal Institute (COIored.)
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