Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-09-01
NO FRIEND OF LABOR
Incidents in the Official Life Of Mr..
Cleveland-A German Editors
Opinion.
New York worktngmen Object to the
"Stuned Prophet''-Grover's Record
as Governor of New York and
President of the United
states.
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kid-gloved German mugwumps of New
York city, some of whom are connected
with large corporations which had great
favors to ask of the Harrison administra-
tion which have not been granted, are
out in proclamation advising the Ger
man Americans to vote for Mr.. Cleve-
land. They point to him as friend of
the poor and the friend of labor. There
| is another German American in this city,
Mr.. Louis Schade, who owns and pub
| fishes prosperous newspaper, which is
the organ of very large body of the
| Germans in this country, called the
Washington Sentinel. He has always
been Democrat, and was strong sup
porter of Democratic principles and pol
icy when one of the signers of this Mug
wump-Germanf circular in New York
held cabinet office in the administra-
tion of President Hayes. A few days
before the meeting of the Chicago con-
vention Mr.. Schade had these objections
to urge against the nomination OF Mr..
Cleveland.
/. The original bodies of Alliance and
third party men, who are immensely strong
in the South and West. have publicly and re-
peatedly declared hostility to Mr.. Cleve-
land. If his nomination were possible hun
dreds of thousands of Democrats in Virginia,
west Virginia, Norm SafOllnd, SeOTSid,
Tennessee and other states would bolt and
go over to the Alliance or third party, be-
lieving that n crushing defeat was inevita-
BILE. The solid South would then become a
sad memory and nothing more.
2. The soldiers have taken strong preju-
dice against Mr.. Cleveland, because, in the
discharge of his duty as President he vetoed
pension bills that he believed to be unjust
They voted soidly against him in 1883, and
they would surely repeat that condemnation
at the first opportunity
3. The knights of Labor and kindred as
sociations are intensely hostile to Mr..
Cleveland for reasons which they consid-
cred justified by his course president 1t
may be said these forms of opposition are
not warranted, and are unfair. But that
| comment does not in any way alter the sit
| uation, nor relieve Mr. Cleveland from the
| danger which at the very start would con-
| front him, il made q candidate. The man
| agers of the campaign claim with loud
! voices that he Is immensely popular with
| the masses" So they did with equal zeal
| in 1888 when he lost New York and Indiana,
and his ma jority in other Democratic states
| was cut down to beggarly pluraiites. The
| difference of a few hundred votes would
| have lost Virginia West Virginia, Connect
| icui and other close states.
| HIS LABOR RECORD.
This German editor is too loyal DEM
| ocrat to indicate in detail the objections
| to Grover Cleveland from the standpoint
| of the American workingman. But the
| public is not to be left without informa-
| ton on that subject. There has just
! been received at headquarters in this
| city leaf of the labor record of Grover
| Cleveland, which has been supplied by
! A ii. Gallahue, chairman of the Work
ingmen's Reform League, of New York
! City. This statement appears to have
been inspired by the hypocritical declar-
/ 1. a
| Square meeting, when he called atten-
ton to Homestead. where he stated that
| scenes were enacted (which mock the
hopes of toll" How much Grover Cleve-
| land is interested in the hopes of the
| Workingmen's Reform League OF New
! York City, which will soon De given wide
| circulation. 1t reads as follows:
! The free trade papers have been trying to
| poison the working man against Whitelaw
| Reid on account OF some past difficulty be-
| tween the Tribune and the Typographical
! Union, but 1t is strange they never have n
| word to say about the worst labor record Of
| any public man, living or dead, that of
| of Grover Cleveland while Governor of the
! state of New York. just read once sgain
| the powerful speech of Bourke Cochran
| protesting against the nomination of Cleve-
! land, warning the Democratic convention
that the workingmen of New York and of
the country would not vote for him.
Cleveland. while governor of New York,
! not only vetoed every bill that was any way
| favorable to the worlIingman, and signed
| every one that was against their interest,
/ but he also, while president of the United
! States, tried by every means in his power
| during his administration to have tariff
| bill enacted wipng out all protection and
| putting the working people of the country
| in direct competition with the wage slaves
| of Europe Followingis Clevelands official
record on labor Legislation while governor
| of New York:
! To the workingmen of the United States
| A circular embodying the following points
| in opposition to the candidacy of Grover
| Cleveland for president of the United States
| was issued by the representative working
men of New York State, who sent a com
! mittee to the Democratic convention at Chi
cago in 1854 for that purpose.
! Eleven reasons why worliingmen will not
| vote for Grover Cleveland.
While governor of New York he was OPP
| posed TO the following labor measures:
| He vetoed the bill establishing a depart
| mcnt of labor, and making the secretary of
said department cabinet officer.
| He vetoed the mechanics lien law bill,
| making the wages of workmen engaged in
| the construction of buildings a first mort
4 gage ON the property.
He vetoed the life and limb bill, making
| employers responsible for accidents hap
pening from imperfect machinery or infe-
rior construction of buildings.
| lie vetoed the tenemenb mousse cigar
| forbidding the manufacture of cigars in
| tenement houses.
He vetoed the bill compelling elevated
roads of New York to charge only cents
| fare.
He vetoed the printers BILL requiring all
the state work to be done by union work
| men.
He vetoed the bill making ten hours a
legal days work for all street car en-
| ployes.
He vetoed the bill abolishing convict
labor in prisons, although this proposition
when submitted to the popular vote of the
| people was carried by majority OF GO, 600.
He vetoed the child labor bill, providing
for the inspection of factories where chill
dren were employed. and prohibiting the
employment of children under IA years OF
age.
He signed the bill compelling the sta
tionary engineers of New York city to pay
tax of So per year to the police pension fund
or be debarred from following their voca.
| ton.
He signed the bill reducing the fees of the
New York harbor pilots, which bill bene-
fitted only the foreign steamship monopo'
lies. GEORGE BLAIR,
Chairman (packing-box maker),
A. F. SMITH, Sec'y stationary engineer)
New York State Labor Delegation to Chi
cago, 1884
Since the expiration of his term as COVER
nor the 5-cent car fare is a fact. All the
other measures which he vetoed have been
passed and are in operation. The engineer
tax BILL after being In operation for one
year, has been repealed. Brothers, with
this record, not of public utterances, but Of
official acts, are you willing to elect this
man to rule over US for another four years
in the interest of monopolists and foreign
syndicatesi A. III. GALLAHUE,
Chairman Workingmen's Municipal Reform
| League of New York City,