The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-09-19
LABOR CAN
CRUSH ENEMY.
That Is the Statement Made By
a Labor Leader.
MUST TAKE A UNITED STAND
And Play No Side Issues, and the nish of
Hanna and the Brutality He
Represents Is In
Sight.
Special to News-Democrat.

Special to News Democrat.
! GAINESVILLE, Sept 16.-Zanesville, a hot
bed of trades unions known far and
wide as the strongest union labor city
west of Pittsburg, furnishes additional
proof every day of the strength of the
Democratic candidates with the men,
bers of labor organizations.
OF the many hundreds of GAINESVILLE
workmen who are identified with organ
lied labor, none, perhaps, is better
known nor more popular with his fell
lows than John McGrath, of the Ameri-
can Flint Glassworker's union. Mr..
McGrath was delegate from the local
union to the recent national convention
of American Flint Glassworkers. He
is the local unions delegate to the
| Central Trades and Labor council, and,
above all things else, is district organi-
ger for the American Federation of
| Labor.
'In my opinion" said John McGrath,
| to day, there is no good reason why
every friend of organized labor should
| not vote the Democratic ticket this
| fall. What's the use of me or any other
union laborer supporting a third ticket,
when the platform adopted by the Dem
ocratic state convention stands for each
and everything we have been fighting
for for so many years.
Every vital principle which union
labor, has been advocating is embodied
in the Democratic platform, and it's
poor politics to split up on it now. The
Democratic platform stands for every
thing we want. There is nothing lack
ing in it,"
| Mr.. McGrath next took up Mr.. Nc
Lean, leaving the platform for the while
| and said:
II am now Democrat. I am for
John r. Mclean for governor. 1 have
studied his past record, so far as union
labor is concerned, and 1 am now fully
| satisfied that no more steadfast friend
of the laboring people could have been
selected by the Democrats of Ohio for
a standard bearer. Mr. Mclean has,
time. and again, proved that he was a
friend of organized labor. He did it at
times when a political office of any kind
was perhaps entirely out ofhis thoughts.
He is an ideal candidate making the
race on an ideal platform.
MUST REBUKE BRUTALITY.
| 1.-THE people of Ohio who care any,
thing for honesty in politics, who care
| anything for themselves, If must say 1t
have grand opportunity to wrest the
grand old Buckeye State from out the
hands of the Republican bosses. Sena-
tor Hanna is not the laboring mans
friend, and so long as he is in control
of Ohio politics, just so long will the
I laboring people find themselves out Of
it-neglected and ignored.
| Hanna is a boss whose brutality is
proverbial. He should be eliminated
from the politics of the state, and the
only way 1 know of in which that can
be accomplished effectually and for
all time is for the laboring people of
Ohio to rally to the support Of the Demo-
cratic ticket.
United, with no third ticket to con-
fuse or divide us and Hanna's finish
is In sight. He has been a burden upon
the people of Ohio long enough.
What do think Of the war? To be
brief, 1 think it is an outrage. Ameri-
can soldiers are being murdered in
cold blood because Of mismanagement,
recklessness and general incompetency
and apparent indifference on the part
of the administration"