Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-21
GEN. HARRISON AND LABOR.
rhey Don't Seem TO Hitch Well
Together In Indiana.

rhey Don't Seem TO Hitch Well
Together I'm Indiana.
INDIANAPOLIS June 2S.-Go where you
will among laboring men of any trade in
indianapolis and you will find the utmost
antipathy to General Harrison, 1t is
tradition quoted often and with great
force that in a speech at the time of the
strikes in 1877 he said that 81 day was
wages enough for any laboring man. 1t
| is said the speech was delivered at the
Union Depot, where the railroad men
out OF work congregated during the
strike. Yesterday asked General Hai-
| rison what truth there was in the story.
He listened, and then began walking up
and down the hall of his house in medi-
tative fashion.
cat the Union Depot?" he repeated,
in thoughtful tone. "Why, l never
delivered speech at the Union Depot in
my life." Then remembering, as it
seemed, the anonymous letter he had re-
ceived advising him not to be inter,
viewed, he started up suddenly, saying
in louder and more forcible tone, "But
don't propose to say anything at all to
| such charges as that, nor to waste time
denying tt at l am an iiot. 1t is MOI
my intention to carry on campaign OF
denial. l shall not stop to refute every
lying story regarding me. There is too
much serious business ON hand"
During the strikes General Harrison
was captain of militia company called
out against the strikers, and the memory
of that is another thorn in labor's side
| Connection with the militia is bad card
among the Knights OF Labor in Indiana
for any man who is running for Office,
and there is a record o more than one
candidates. defeat in local elections on
4 that very ground. The Indianapolis
Sentinel, which will make spirited fight
against General Harrison, makes the
following paragraph, printed during the
strikes, the keynote of an attack upon
Tim.
Four companies of volunteers under
the respective commands of Gen. BENZ
Harrison, Col. N. R. Ruckle, Major J. j.
Palmer and Capt. Harry Adams, march
ed into camp at the United States Arsen-
al this morning. They are armed with
the new breech-loadipg Springfield rifle
la most formidable and efficient wea-
pom.
A cartoon printed to-day represents
Harrison in military uniform and musket
in hand at the head Of squad of armed
men advancing upon strikers.
Gen. Harrison addressed them and
said something which incensed them
greatly and almost caused open rupture.
What it was, none OF the daily papers
printed al that time show, but the files of
: a labor publication edited by Col. Light
are being diligently sought.
To-day visi ed ex Senator Mcdonald,
who says he we'll remembers the meet
,r, 10 which roforouoo m ado
sThere was q concourse of laboring
men," he said, accompanying the
strikers committee, 80 that the hall was
| pretty well filed. The general attitude
we took towards the strikers was that
while they had right not to work il
they didn't want to, they had no right to
interfere with others who did want to
work, and while we would do all we
} could to secure them an advance of
wages, any effort en- their part to inter-
fere with the rights of property would
, be resisted by the committee. Gen.
Harrison did some talking. / was en-
gagged in conversation with another man
, at the moment and don't know what it
was he said, but something offended
! them terribly and they started to 60 out,
: but their Chairman cooled them down
and peace was restored. What it was
, that was said didn't know, or, at least
| after this length of time, can't re-
member.
Senator McDonald's conversation
drifted from the strikers to the ticket
9 and the present prospects. Harrison is
! good man." he said. "He is certainly
, representative Republican, but he can't
3 carry Indiana. Here's the way I figure
it." The Senator drew out slip Of
paper on which he had been making
2 some computations. There are about
500, 900 votes in the State, 900 Dem
ocrats and $4,000 Republicans and
25 900 of what may be called a floating
vote, made up of Labor, Greenback and
Prohibition.
"Ten thousand OF these are Greenback-
ers, against whom Mr.. Harrison is pro-
nounced. One of them said to me to-day
ANY man but Harrison. He called us
8 idiots and said the number OF asylums
, ought to be increased to accommodate
, u.s. That is fair index of the feeling
!, of the Greenbackers towards Harrison.
,, Of the 10000 Greenback votes / am posi-
tive he cannot get over 1000. Of the 25,.
600 floating vo'e es he must get 5000 more
than we do to beat us, and don't think
b can do it,
- y L~OOf totyftNtJ pLO WI c
] organ in this State. will print tomorrow
in its editorial columns the following
"rhe men who made up the Chicago
: Convention appear to have but little re-
g I'd for the wishes of organized labor.
The nomination Of Mr. Harrison was a
genuine surprise to the organized work
ingmen Of this State, because their atti-
tude towards that gentleman is we'll un-
derstood, and it did not seem possible
that convention of sane men would in.
vite conflict with large number of
voters in an extremely doubtful State
by naming a candidate 50 obnoxious.
"The readers of this paper will remem-
ber the opposition Mr.. Harrison's candi-
dacy for the Senate aroused two years
ago among the labor organizations. 1t
found expression in scores OF resolutions
adopted by assemblies and unions, many
of which were published in the Signal at
the time.
"This paper opposed Mr.. Harrison s
election to the Senate for reasons that
would prevent it from supporting him
now. His public record, in our judg-
ment, has not been such as to commend
him to the favorable consideration of the
people this paper represents. Hundreds