The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-11-04
LABOR MEN AROUSED.
III y Bitterly Denounce the Demo-
cratic Leaders.

New YORK. Oct ga staggering and
hrav, blow was struck at the democratic
part, tonight 10y Grand Master Workman
L. Y POwdPrly. He spoke 10 a large audi
enct ot The Peoples Theatre, and the scath-
ing Ditl,r and unsparng denuncatiOn
winch he heaped upon the democratic party
was cirvei with applause aud appreciation
ami echoed back by the crowd
The occasion of the gathering was bcne-
fit held for the purpO,,' Oi raising enough
funds TO enabe,the friends of organized la
Dor to bring before the Court Of Appeals tue
case OF the unfortunate labor leader. James
Hughes. of the Natonai Gtrment Work. RS
Association IT America who was tried in
June. 1891. and convicted at Rochester. of
conspiracy and eXtOriiOn, and whom Gov
Flower refused q pardon General Treas
urer. James A. Wright, of the Knights of
Labor, who made the first SIP ecl, gave a
history of the Hughes case and said:
''What are we going to do about il? Well,
the executive board of No. 231 will remain
in 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
ional Committeeman Harrty and his party.
The Knights of Labor is II political organ
learn on election day"
PowDERLY Is THOROUGHLY AROUSED.
MIR. 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, i'm reference to the refus-
al of Governor Flower to pardon Hughes:
Oh, that every one Of you had burning
within you the spirit which animates me
at this moment. II you had, you people
would carry with you 10 your homes the
conviction that those who placed the shack
les OH 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 be the friends
of laboc. 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 i'm the right OF labor to or
ganize, a singing blow in our faces when
they put Hughes behind the prison bars.
VIM. +. Harrity advised the Governor of
the State of Pennsylvania to take the action
which he did In the Hughes case and tie
action he took regarding the constitutional
amendment. In that way he has been
placed by his party at the head of the man
agement of the campaign. He is the chair
of the Democratic National Committee. and
be, who has insulted and prosecuted our
organization would now like our votes. we
go to New York state from Pennsylvania
and find our appeals for clemency disre-
garded on flimsy pretexts. Now ifyou 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
III every workingman felt as do over
this conduct of the Governor of the State OF
New York such a man as Flower would new
er again sit In the executive chair at Albany.
We made Flower the Democratic Governor
of Republican State. If you wOrkingmen
do your duty 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 a sover-
eign people, must not be insulted and
scorned; you will teach men like Harrity
that you are men of intelligence, and cannot
be deluded into voting for your enemies.
cannot say one good word of the democratic
marty, and am unable to understand how
anv workingman can vote for its ca .ddates
Mr.. Powderly was frequently and loudy
applauded FOR his vigorous denunciation Of
the democratic party.