The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-06-11

Harrison and Reid,
1t may be almost said that with the
nomination of Benjamin Harrison
and Whitelaw Reid by the Republi-
can party, the campaign comes to an
end. 1t is utterly impossible for
these two to win. Assuming that
President Harrison had a fighting
chance with the best of candidates
associated with him, he has certainly
no popular favor or confidence which
could enable him to carry the over
whelming load OF Mr.. Reid's record as
an enemy of union labor. The nomi-
nation of Mr.. Reid is n of those
mysteries no one can fathom. ,ioTiIe
denomination of Mr.. HARRISON as
unwise, but it was q party necessity.
In the first place Mr.. Harrison had
the delegates, and in the second, the
party surrendered everything in
throwing him overheard. For veal
or woe, it is forced to fight on the
record it has made in the last four
years. To begin the war by a tacit
admission that that record was indie
fensible, would have been simple sui
eide. Republicans themselves admit
that Harrison's chances were poor,
but, all things considered, they were
q little better than those of any other
Republican would have been.
But the nomination of Mr.. Reid
must be due to the promptings of that
madness with which the gods are said
to afflict those whom they mean to
destroy. From Maine to California,
from Walla Walla to St. Augustine,
it would have been impossible to find
a man more untitled to be a candi-
date for popular suffrage. The man
is hated by every honest workingman
in the country. He is hated not
merely as q bitter enemy to the cause
of unionism, but also as Il base and
INSCRIPTIONS violator of pledges. He
is hated with an intensity and vigor
that none can understand who do not
know the intensity of the union spirit
in the organized trades.
And yet it is not only the hatred of
the unions that he has to encounter.
The anti-union element is almost
equally hostile to him. BY a crown
ing act of cruelty and bad faith, he
gently threw upon the world without
ruth, the non-union printers who had
stuck to him throu-h his long strug-
gle with Typographical Union No. 6.
In anticipation of this campaign he
made terms for himself, he gave the
Tribune office to the Union. But he
made no terms for his people-for
men who had worked twelve and
fifteen years for him. He simply
''fired them out" to make room
for the Union hands, not caring it
they starved and died as the reward
Of their fidelity to him.
Mr.. Harrison may not know Mr..
Reid's record very we'll. If he did
perhaps he would not have allowed
the administration delegates to load
UIle LlChcb uOWu Will MN. buo IL
Harrison has a very bad labor record
himself, and yet the Unions allowed
him to get through in 1888. He may
think things will turn out the same
way in Mr.. Reid's ease this time. But
he is mistaken. His labcl errors or
offences were of mere word of mouth.
He was only the defender of heartless
grinding ofthe workers of the country.
But Whitelaw Reid is the arch
enemy himself. The old time vt9Ql
and beneficiary OF Jay Gould; ahe
consistent advocate in theory and
doctrine of capitalistic combinations
and monopolistic systems; in prac-
tice the untiring, uncoinpromisins
oppressor OF workmen, and opponent
of their rights and claims, he stands
before the public not only the en-
bodiment and exemplar of all that
is worst inlthe theories of the Repub-
lican party, but also of all that is in
human and oppressive in the pluto
cratic tendencies of the day.
Ii the workingmen of the United
States allow this man to be elected to
the great office of ice-President, they
deserve the slavery to which he would
condemn them ii he could.
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