The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-06-18
His EIrventl-HOur Conversion De.
n0unced All Along the Line
of Lalorrrs.
He Bitterly Fights for Ten Years
and Then Surrendprs Two
Days Before His
Nomination.

tlllDSS vi illtItSl III lIlb EOUll1ldtNDu Ol |
Whitelaw Reid for vice president apart
from the fact that this is the second !
time national convention has gone to
the Tribune Office for candidate. The |
mishaps of that campaign furnished Mr.. |
Reid the opportunity to step into prom
inence. How he took possession of Mr..
Greeley's chair and held it without budg
ing has been the subject of narrative.
more or less accurate, in various public
prints from time to time. About 1876,
when he had secured himself beyond
much danger of dislodgment. Mr.. Reid
began to try to degrade labor in his own
office while continuing to preach the dig
nifty Of it as political theory. Almost
continuously since then Mr.. Reid has
maintained what printers cal, rat Of
flee, in which non union men have been |
employed at non-uniOn wages.
A statement comes from Washington
which is said to have a reliable source
that petition is in course of prepara-
ton which will be circulated among the
labor organizations Of the country call
ing upon the national republican com
mttee to withdraw the nomination of
Reid on the ground that he has always
been an avowed opponent of organized
labor, and that his name on the ticket
would cause very great loss IN labor
votes to the republican party. There is
reason to believe that such petition
will be circulated. The course which
Mr.. REID has previously taken has often
proved embarrassing to the republican
| party, and candidates have pleaded with
him to make the party paper conform, at
least in campaign times, to party pro-
fession in regard to labor. But. being
| himself no candidate, and not expecting
to be one, Mr.. Reid has been obdurate.
The printers who were fighting the
Tribune in 1881 will always believe that
| Mr.. Reid's unwillingness to be fair or
| keep faith contributed largely to the loss
of this state to Mr.. Blaine. The printers
paper, the Boycotter, which has since
become the Union Printer. is a monu-
ment to Mr.. Reid's hostility to the craft
OF late Reid has mellowed. Since his
return from Europe he has manifested
really touching solicitude for the printer.
he even went so far as to ask the
printers to prepare an agreement as IA
basis upon which he might proceed to
convert the Tribune into union Office.
Such paper, having been prepared.
was approved by a committee of printers
as late as the 9th inst. and the committee
went to Minneapolis with il.
The committee did not find Mr.. Reid
in Minneapolis. and the agreement is
still unsigned, but now that the nomina
tion is no longer ii promise, the rat office
will undoubtedly be in union hands
before the campaign is well started.
Henry \. Hicks. master workman Of
Building Constructors District 2.l:}, one
of the largest bodies of organized labor
in the city. said today. Il can't see how
labor men can vote for Harrison or Reid.
The disgracefu proceeding of buying
the culured vote in the convention pre-
sages the kind of an election we may eX'
pect. Every labor man must drnouncc
the force bill. as he does the PinkcrtOns,
as being op osed To all American prin-
ciples. Whitelaw Reid. in my opinion.
will certainly ruin any chance Harrison
may have in this state. | have travelled
from one end t. the other and all unions
have been drilled in Big Sins difficulty
with the Tribune. and it is not likely at
IA moments notice they are going to sup
port man vino has been lighting them
for over ten years. even If Big Six wishes
it. feel certain he would not have set
tied with the union If he had not eX-
pected this nomination"
Il had made up my mind t. vot" for
Blaine if nominated" said Philip kel-
ley. president Of the theatrical protective
union, "but now | shall vote for the
democratic nominee. Putting Reid on
the ticket is IA fatal mistake. for labor
men have not such short memories a.
,hey imagine. and he ought to receive IA
castigation for his obstinate fight against
organized labor.
Charles p. Rogers Of the Reliance La
Dor club of marble cutters and cN-prcsi
dent of the board Of walking delegates,
is particularly bitter against Whitelaw
Reid. Il shall use my efforts" he said,
against the ticket on Rcids account,
and think organized labor and partlc
ularly the marble workers have good
cause for it, Last year when he was
building Ophir farm. about five miles
from White Plains. ! received reports
that he had marble mosaic contract
laborers working there. | visited
the place and found two me-, imported
from Austria under contract. They were
receiving about - cents IA daV whi,c the
wages here for that class of work
are - day The men were totally ig-
norant Of any wrong doing and offered
to stop work If | wished il. but as they
COULD not speak our language and had
no friends, our union allowed them To
remain al work The board of walking
delegates appointed a committee and We
land the matter before the Immigration
commissioners. They pretended to in.
vestlgate II, and some time afterward,
when the men had completed their
work. the inspectors reported they could
hnd no cause for complaint We are