Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-11-03
DEMOCRATS DENOUNCED.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR ADVISE WORK
MEN TO VoTE'AoAlNST CLEVELAND.

General Muster Workman Powdoriy Tells
workingmen Why They Should Not
Vote with tho Observation-Disclosures
Treatment OF workingmen Denounced.
The Knights Of Labor are mp 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
mon 10 vote and work against tho De-
inocracy 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 tho
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 10 tho court house they
found verdict Of guilty within five
minutes. Hughes was sentenced 10 a
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 tho SUI
premo 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-
tiyes. What arc we going 10 do about IN
Well, the executive board OF 23l will remain
In executive session until after this election.
We arc going TO Issue documents showing how
the laboring men have been treated by tho
Democratic governors OF Pennsylvania Ten
nesseo and New York. We will get even with
National Committeeman Harrity and his
party. The Knights Of Labor Is a political or
ganlzntion thi. year, as the Democratic party
will learn on election day.
Grand Master Workman Powderly
at the same meeting showed how
Hughes was arrested in Pennsylvania
without 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
a. secretary OF state. lie held all tho papers In
the case. lie lent no aid 10 the knights. And
now this man Harrty stands here In this city
OF workingmen daring 10 ask It's toilers, tho
fellow workers OF James Hughes. 10 vote tho
Democratic ticket Lately we have asked for
another favor from another Democratic execu-
tive. We have gone TO him In the attitude OF
Supplicants, Bringing before him, and We have
been insulted and spurned.
On Oct. II wrote 70 Governor Flower asking
him 10 intercedo In behalf Of Hughes, and
expressed my regret that he misunderstood
the language Of tho petition sent TO him, toll
ing him that the word demand" was used un-
adYisedly and thOughtlessly, and that nothing
more than request was Intended. Flower
chose 20 yentilate his anger against tho labor
organizations In an outrageous Interview given
10 tho press. feyery American workingmRn
felt as do over this conduct OF the governor
Of the state OF New York, such n man a.
Flower would never again sit In tho executive
chair at Albany.
Those who were instrumental In putting
Hughes into q felon's cell claim that thelF
party Is the party OF the poor, OF the working.
men, OF the common peoplel The Democratic
party cannot fool US longer. Wsmads Flower
the Democratic governor Of . Republican state.
II you vorkingmon do your duty here, you will
teach the Democratic party that they must
treat you as men and American citizens whom
you ask Justice; you will teach Flower that
you. ~ sovereign people. must not Be insulted
And1eornsd-- You WI teach nsn liha 4AErity