The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-11-03
DEMOCRATS DENOUNCED.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR ADVISE WORK.
MEN TO VOTE AGAINST CLEVELAND.

General Master Workman Powderly Tells
Workingmen why They Should Not
Vote with the Democrats-Democrati
Treatment of workingmcn Denounced.
The Knights of Labor are up in arms
against the Democratic candidate for
the presidency and his friends and man.
ayers. General Master Workman Pow
derby and others have advised working
men to vote and work against the De-
mocracy for various reasons, but es-
pecially in regard to the treatment of
the organization by Chairman Harrity
and Governors Flower, of New York,
and Pattison, of Pennsylvania, in the
case of John Hughes, member of the
Knights of Labor, who, in June, 1891,
was tried in Rochester, N. Y, on a
charge of extortion. After being out
twenty-three hours the jury stood seven
to five for acquittal. They were taken
to the National hotel for breakfast. On
their return to the court house they
found verdict of guilty within five
minutes. Hughes was sentenced to
year at hard labor in the penitentiary
An appeal was taken, and bail was re-
quired in $4,000. The judgment of the
lower court was sustained by the SUI
preIne court, and Hughes went to prison.
Commenting on this, Grand Lecturer
Wright, at public meeting held in New
York, said:
The governor of this great state rejected our
petitions for pardon, spurned our representa-
tives. What are we going to do about 1t?
Wall tho ayepntiya hOa I'd Of ES1 will ramain
In executive session until after this election.
We are going to issue documents showing how
the laboring men have been treated by the
Democratic governors of Pennsylvania, Ten
nessee and New York. We will get even with
National Committeeman Harrity and his
party. Tho Knights Of Labor is a political Or
ganization this year, as the Democratic party
will learn on election day.
Grand Master Workman Powderly
at the same meeTng showed how
Hughes was arrested in Pennsylvania
without a warrant, and in spite of pro-
tests by workingmen Mr.. Harrity, the
present chairman of the Democratic ex-
ecutive committee, acting in his capaci-
ty as secretary of state of Pennsylvania,
refused to aid them in the least. Talk
ing of this matter Mr. Powderly said:
Harrity was there in Harrisburg at the time
as secretary of state. He held all the papers In
the case. He lent no aid to the Knights, And
now this man Harrity stands here in this city
of workingmen daring to ask its toilers, tho
fellow workers of James Hughes, to vote the
Democratic ticket Lately We have asked for
another favor from another Democratic execu-
tive. We have gone to him in the attitude Of
supplicants, cringing before him, and we have
been insulted and spurned.
On Oct. II wrote to Governor Flower asking
him to intercedo in behalf Of Hughes, and
expressed my regret that he misunderstood
the language of the petition sent to him, tell
ing him that the word demand" was used I'M
advisedly and thoughtlessly, and that nothing
more than a request was intended. Flower
chose to ventilate his anger against the labor
organizations in an outrageous interview given
to the press. If every American workingman
felt as do over this conduct Of the governor
of the state Of New York, such a man as
chair at Albany.
Those who were instrumental In putting
Hughes into a felon's cell claim that their
party is the party of the poor, Of the working
men, of the common peoplel The Democratic
party cannot fool US longer. Wemadc Flower
| the Democratic governor of a Republican state.
If you workingmen do your duty here, you will
teach the Democratic party that they must
| treat you as men and American citizens when
| you ask Justice; you will teach Flower that
you, as sovereign people, must not be insulted
and scorned. You will teach men like Harrity
that you possess intelligence and cannot be
deluded into voting for your enemies. l can
not say one good word for the Democratic
party, and ] am unable to understand how any
workingman can vote for Its candidates,
Mr.. Powderly was frequently loudly
applauded for his vigorous denunciation
Of the Democratic party.