The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-10-28
LABOR MEN AROUSED.
They Bitterly penounce the Demo.
cratic Leaders.
WILL SHOW THEIR POWER.

New York, Oct. ga staggering and
heavy blow was struck at the democratic
party tonight by Grand Master Workman
L. V. Powderly. lie spoke to large audi
ence at the Peoples Theatre, and the scath-
in e, bitter and unsparing denunciation
which he heaped upon the democratic party
was received with applause and appreciation
and echoed back by the crowd.
The occasion of the gathering was bene-
fit held for the purpose of raising enough
funds to enable the friends of organized la
Dor to bring before the Court of Appeals the
case of the unfortunate labor leader, James
Hughes, of the National Garment Workers
Association Of America, who was tried i'm
June. 1891, and convicted at Rochester, of
conspiracy and eXtOrtion, and whom Gov
Flower refused TO pardon. General Treas
urer, James A. Wright, of the Knights of
Labor, who made the first speech gave a
history of the Hughes case and said:
"What are we going to do about it? Well,
the executive board of No. 231 will remain
III session until after election. We are
going to issue documents showing how labor
ing men have been treated by the democrat
ic Governors of Pennsylvania, Iowa and
New York. We will get back with Nat
lOnal Committeeman Harrity and his party.
The Knights of Labor is political organ
ization this year, the democratic party will
learn on election day."
PowDERLY Is THOROUGHLY AROUSED.
Mr.. Powderly had not been speaking five
minutes before he began to fire hot shots in
to the democratic ranks. Raising his hands
In the air, he said, in reference to the refus-
al or Governor Flower to pardon Hughes:
Oh, that every one of you had burning
a Gtair rit ;al,
at this moment, If you had, you people
would carry with you to your homes the
conviction that those who placed the shack
les on Hughes, those who dragged him
from Pennsylvania to deliver him into the
hands of his enemies at Rochester are the
ones who claim so loudly to bC the friends
of labor, who have always had so much to
say about their friendship for the working
man; the ones who have always told us how
carefully they were guarding our rights.
And they struck us, and through us every
man who believes in the right of labor to or
ganize, singing blow in our faces when
they put Hughes behind the prison bars.
VIM. f. Harrity advised the Governor OF
the State of Pennsylvania to take the action
which he did in the Hughes case and the
action he took regarding the constitutional
amendment. In that way he has beer
placed by his party at the head of the man
agement of the campaign. He is the chair
of the Democratic National Committee, anC
he, who has insulted and prosecuted Ou
organization would now like our votes. We
go to New York state from Pennsylvani;
and find our appeals for clemency dsre
garded on flimsy pretexts. Now if you will
do your duty here, if you will act as men
you will teach the party that the Governor
represents such bitter lesson that they
will remember 1t forever.
If every workingman felt as | do owe
this conduct of the Governor of the State o
New York such man as Flower would nev
er again sit in the executive chair at Albany
We made Flower the Democratic Governor
of Republican State. If you wOrkingmei
do your duty you will teach the deEiocrati,
party that they must treat you as men ant
American citizens when you ask Justice
You will teach Flower that you, as sover
eign people, must not be insulted an,
scorned; you will teach men like Harrit,
that you are men of intelligence, and cannO
be deluded into voting for your enemies
cannot say one good word of the democrati
party, and / am unable to understand hoy
any wOrkingman can vote for its ca .didates
Mr.. Powderly was frequently and lOudl
applauded for his vigorous denunciaton @
the democratic party.