The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-04-12
A DEMOCRAT NO LONGER.
"A american Arms Co. Employee
Renounces the Party of
Free Trade.

lock department of the American Arms
Co., of Boston, Mass, who has been
spending the winter with his brother
in-law, Mr.. J. L. Dunning, residing
near Belview, in this county, was in
the city last Saturday, and made the
GAZETTE Office a pleasant call. While
here he related tale that is in har-
mony with that of large number of
others from Democratic sources.
II have been a Democrat all my
life," said Mr.. Handy, because I new
or believed in the excessive war tariff
set in motion by the Republican par
ty. Before the last Presidential cam
paign however, l was induced to make
a study of the platforms of the two
parties. and it resulted in me telling
the 100 or more men that were under
my direction in the lock department,
that while Grover was all right, the
platforms of the two parties were such
that it would be wise for them to vote
the Republican ticket this year. Well.
about IS of the number did not, and
l think it was in about the same ratio
that the men of the other departments
voted. To-day, sir, and ever since
last fall, when the shops of the Amer
lean Arms Co., one of the largest fac
tories in the world, shut down, every
thing is closed. Where once employ
ment was given to over four hundred
men night watch and day guard
are all that are drawing salaries from
company whose business is at a
standstill. The men are idle seeking
work wherever they can get it, and
some of them crying for bread because
they cannot work.
Il receive letters from home week
ly, and there is no sign of brighter
times, and when l see reports in your
Democratic papers that factories are
starting up cannot refrain from smil-
ing, because so few of the many have
started up, and they nearly all on the
five hours day plan, manufacturing
just enough to meet the demand, and
not for long time ahead, as was done
under the administration of Harrison.
II care not what the party is after
this, and the same might be said of
the laborers in the factories of the
East. We will vote for our bread, first;
party afterwards; and this past period
of suffering has demonstrated that for
the present the Republican party, the
party of protection and prosperity, of
Americanism, is in the right, and that
is the way the masses of the East will
work and vote hereafter. They are
restless; they want to vote, and when
they do let me tell you that there will
be a larger avalanche than the Demo
cratic avalanche which elected Cleve-
land two years ago. It will commence
at the Atlantic and it will never cease
sliding until the soft breezes of the
Pacific have been reached. It will bury
Grover and his party in the deepest
pit of political defeat, and it will never
recover until it adopts protection anc
abolishes free trade from it's platform.
Mr.. Handy has with him three gun:
made by his factory, which he offer:
for sale. He states that when nickleo
and engraved the guns cost $65, bu1
since the stagnation in the markets
the nickel and engraving have beer
omitted, and the guns sold for $35, ane
can find no sale at that price.
REORGANIZATION.
The MiScnnSin Minnesota Da Gift