St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-13
THE TICKET DOOMED.
Labor Union Men Solidly OPP
posed to Editor White
law Reid.
lis Eleventh-Hour Conver-
sion Is Denounced by
Union Printers,
After Bieng Their BittereSt
Foe for More Than Ten
Years,
&c CapituIates But Two Days
Before the National
Convention.

NEW YORK, June 12.-There are some
hings OF interest in the nomination of
Whtelaw Reid for vice president apart
from the fact that this is the second time
a national convention has gone to the
Tribune Office for candidate. The mis-
haps 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
budging has been the subject OF mar
rative, 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
dignity of 1t as political theory. AL
most continuously since then Mr.. Reid
has maintained what printers call
''rat" Office, in which non-union men
have been employed at non-union
wages. A statement comes from Wash
ington tonight, which is said to have
raliable source, that a petition IS in
course of preparation which will be cir
culated among the labor organizations
Of the country calling upon the national
Republican committee to
Withdraw the Nomination
OF Reid on the ground that he has al
ways been an avowed opponent of or
ganiZed 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 viii 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 profession in regard TO labor.
But, being himself no candidate, and
not expecting to be one, Mr.. Reid has
been obdurate. The printers who were
nghting the Tribune in 1884 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 Boy
cOtter, which has since become the
Union Printer. is a monument to Mr..
Reid's hostility to that craft. Of late
Reid Has IeIiOwed.
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 agree
ment as a basis upon which he might
proceed TO convert the Tribune into
union Office. Such paper. having
been prepared, was approved by COM
mIttee OF printers as late as last Sunday,
and the committee went to Minneapolis
with it.
The committee did not find Mr. Reid
in Minneapolis. and the agreement is
still unsigned, but now that the nomI-
nation is no longer promise, the rat Of
fee Will undoubtedly be in union hands
before the campaign is well started.
Henry A. Hicks. master workman of
Building Constructors District 253. one
OF the largest bodies of organized labor
in the city. said today: Il can't see how
any labor man can vote for Harrison or
Reid. The disgraceful proceeding of
buying the colored vote ID the cOnven-
tion presages the kind of an election we
may expect. Every labor man must
denOunce the force bill, as they do the
-PinkertOns, as being opposed to all
American principles. Whitelaw Reid.
in my opinion, Will certainly ruin any
chance Harrison may have in this state.
l have Travelled from one end to the
other, and all unions have been
drilled in
Big SKIS Difficulty
with the Tribune. and it is not likely
at moments notice they are going 10
support man who has been fighting
them for over ten years, even if Big
Six wishes it. feel certain he would
not have settled with the union if he
had not expected this nomination"
Il had made up my mind to vote for
Blaine if nominated" said Philip
Kelley, president of the theatrical pro-
tective union, ''Dnt now l shall vote for
the Democratic nominee. Putting Reid
Oh the ticket is d fatal mistake. for
labor men have not such short mem
ories as they imagine. and he ought to re-
ceive a castlgatiOn for his obstinate
fight against organized labor"
CharRs Z. Rogers, of the Reliance
Labor club of marble cutters. and ex-
president of the board of walking dele
yates, is particularly bitter against
Whitelaw Reid. II shall use my ef-
:orts.' he said. against the ticket on
Reid's account, and / think organized
abor and particularly
The Marble Workers
have good cause for it. Last year when
ae was building Ophir farm, about five
miles from White Plains. | received re-
ports that he had marble mosaic con-
;ract IabeTerS working there. l visited
the place and found two men imported
from Austria under contract. The were
receiving about 75 cents a day while
the wages here for that class of work
are 50 a day. The men were totally ig-
noIant of any wrOngdOing and offered
10 stop work if wished it, but, as they
could not speak our language and had
no friends, our union allowed them to
remain at work. The board of walking
delegates appointed committee and we
laid the matter before the immigration
commissioners. They pretended to in
vestigate it, and some time afterWard,
when the men. had completed their
work, the inspectors reported they could
ind no cause for complaint. We are
constantly fighting imported contract
labor, and am sure we shall do all we
can against man who violates the Law
and encourages It."
Cannot support Reid
Said Matthew Barr, of the tin and
lbeet iron workers: Not consistent
labor man can vote for Reid. as it would
look as if his concession to Big wa:
the price of our support. 1t has taker
him ten years to become penitent
surely he can't complain if we take
time to see if his penitence is genuine.
Chris Hill, president of the Brooklyn
board of walking delegates, is Demo
crat. Il am sure" he said, 'every
Verlxingulan with Republican views i:
disgusted with the ticket, especially al
Rpid.S name is on il. Big 6, of New
T',-nOrrorl1,iaae TTniOn No no