St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-02
Reid VIII Fight Organized
Labor Again Immediately
After the Election.
Another New Yorker on the
Political Situation in the
Empire State.
Press Club Entertainment
Programme = General
News Of Saturday.


didate for an Office known as vice presi-
dent is almost entirely overlooked. Why
has never been made quite clear. The
Office of vice president Is second in i'm
portance only to that of president. AS
presiding officer of the senate the vice
president YIELDS enormous power.
Moreover, he may, in nation Of
mortals, be called upon at any
moment to fill the Office of
president. This being true, it is
meet to beStuW modicum of attention
upon presidential candidates, in
stead of noticing none but the men who
head the tickets. Minneapolis held for
a few hours yesterday man who
KNOWS something about our vice
presidential candidate. According to
his ''llain, unvarnished tale," the man
who plays second trombone to Ben
Harrison should be looked over a bit
before being voted for.
X. j. Brown, of New York, an old
friend and distant relative OF A. J.
Mullen, stopped here few hours yes
tterday, while eli route East, to shake
hands with his old companion in arms.
MIR. Brown is an old printer, though he
has left the actual work of the trade.
He is now at the head Of a prosperous
Job printing business. He has spent
most of his life in New York city, and
at one time worked on the New York
Tribune, in the days before it became a
''rat" Office. Mr.. Brown knows the
career of Whitelaw Reid, .'the friend of
labor" as thoroughly as any man can.
He says he always knew that Reid,
backed by the millions of his fatber-ili-
law and assisted by his prestige as
head of the recognized leader Of
Republican newspapers and by his
unquestiOned mental strength would
one day become candidate for an office.
So he has always taken pleasure in
studying MIR. Reid. He has also watched
Mr.. Reds career, because, for years,
Reid has been one of the most powerful
of the foes of organized labor. Mr..
Brown says he cannot understand how
any friend of organized labor, or any
man who loves straightforward, fair
dealing. can think for a moment OF
voting for Reid. 49,
Why" said he. ''his conversion of
the Tribune composing room from
rat office of twelve years standing to
union Office was the boldest piece of
political jugglery ever perpetrated in
this country. For twelve years,
miEd you, Whitelaw Reid has been
the Incorporating, war-to-the-death
enemy OF organized labor, as typitied
by the typographical union, that
ever lived in America. The pleas of
the leaders of his party never mad any
effect upon him. MIR. Reid wanted no
Office then, and his stubborn hatred for
organized labor was SO great a part of
mis- being that he preferred to see the
labor vote alienated from his party be-
cause Of the antagouism of his party's
dit,rr how Fl, 81. IL.
personal war on the union. But when
he did make peace with the union, he
did it from most transparent motive.
"Believe me, the union men of New
York. the union printers of this cOun-
try, would have more respect for Mir.
Reid had he continued to make war on
organized labor than they have now
after he has made peace. We can honor
an open enemy with the courage of his
convictions and the will to execute
them; no man can admire a sneaking,
crawling, trucking mendlcant for
votes. Reid opened negotiations
with the union before the Republican
convention met here in your city; but
he didn't agree with the union until he
had secured the nomination.. 1t is my
firm conviction that had the vice presi-
dental nomination gone to some one
else Reid would never have admitted
union printers to the Tribune Office"
Mr.. Brown narrated in detail how the
negotiations with the union were car
ried on. but that is familiar to newspa-
per readers.
"But will Reid stick to the union if
defeated?'' .-etst e..f
Never in the world" was the en-
phatic denial. IN tell you why. His
enmity toward organized labor is Of too
long standing for him TO forget it all at
once. His course in making terms with
the union shows that it was done to
catch votes. If he doesn't get the votes
he will go back on the union. And [
think he'll go back OH the union even if
he be elected.
cit is not generally known that, with
very few exceptions, all of the Tribune'S
old rat printers are still i'll Reid's en-
ploy. Especially is this true of his boss
rats They had to leave the compos-
ing room, of course, when the union
Reid'S employ. 4 good many of
them are employed as reporters.
and TO make places for them men who
had been with the Tribune for years
were discharged. Still others hold po-
sltiOns in the business department and
in various lines of work in connection
with the paper where they will not come
in direct conflict with the union men.
For those who could't be taken
care of on the Tribune, Reid
has found employment in other ways.
| | am credibly Informed that many of
| them are working for the Republican
committees in one capacity and an
| other. VI by, it is an open secret that
! the Tribune will be a rat office again
inside of q year. The New York print
| erS expect it. What is he keeping all
| his rat employees around him Tor if not
| for that?
Il can tell you another thing that
may Interest you as newspaper man.
| The wages paid editors and reporters
| on the Tribune is very much lower than
Oh any other big New York daily, like
! the Herald, the Sun, the World or
| Times. When the Tribune was made a
union Office the expenses OF the compos-
| ing room We're Increased $500 a week.
| Nir. Reid made things even by cutting
| the salaries of editors and reporters
| sufficiently to make up for it. 1t
! is a fact that cannot be disputed
that the editors and reporters on the
! Tribune receive 60 per cent less for
| their work than those of the other pa
| pers. That's the sort of friend White
| law Reid is to the man who works for a
! living"
disliked in New York--by the wealthy,
cultured class as snob; by the work
ing people as their bitterest foe.
Mr.. Brown has been away from New
ork Sc long on business trip to the
! Pacific coast that he couldn't speak with
authority on recent developments in the
| political situation in New York state.
POLITICAL GOSSIP.