Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — BLAINE’S WHITE SLAVES. [ARTICLE]

BLAINE’S WHITE SLAVES.

The Plumed Knight’s Interest in Starvation of Hocking Valley Miners. Special to the Chigago Daily News. Cleveland, 0-, Sept. ,17. There is much excitement among the miners of the Hocking valley over the discovery that James G< Blaine is the leading spirits of one of the coal syn dicates that is just now eagaged ia starving its men inis revolt and im porting pauper laborers to take their places. The Democrats are making the most of the opportunity aad are sowing documents on all sides. The disclosures were made through the discovery of a copy of the Cleveland Herald, a Republican newspaper, dated Dec. 19< 1883, which contains a special dispatch from New York, saying:

Inquiries about the standard Coal and Oil company have been set «n foot here by the dispatch from Columbus saying that the company has made an assignment there. Accord ing to Bradstreet’s reports the company was incorporated eighteen months ago, wim an organized capital of $25,000,000. Thirty thousand acres of mineral laud in the Hocking valley were purchased and $2,000,000 apt nt in opening up and equipping a small part of the property. Several iren companies were brought up, and it w.-is til • evident design to absorb the various companies of the valley and control the business and production W. D. Koe, of Norwalk, O , was the original promoter ’of the schemes. Among the directors and hvrgest stock holders \ ere JnmeG. Blaine. Eugene Hale, of Maiue, and Gov. Claries Foster, of Ouio. The company was organized under the name of the Oh'o uud Western Coal and Irou comnany. The capital stock was fixed at $5,0n(>,000, and all the old stock wiped out. Specials from this points have already decribed how the syndicates of the Hocking valley deal with their miners. How much concerning the interest of Blaine and Foster in these syndic Oates Gov. floadly knew when called to the scene of the late riot is unknown, but it is alleged that his hesitation in ordering out the troops was due to his belief that the democracy's interests would be best subserved if Blaine and Foster were suffered to I settle tneir troubles with :hcir men without the aid of democratic interference. The Hockiug anil othermining regions will soon be flooded with campaigh literature, showing up Blaiue’s connection with these syndicates. The political effect cannot be underestimated, for the ena raged miners are ready to eternaily blast any one interested as a capital* Ist in the syndicates which have given them the alternative of working at pauper wages or going with their families into the streets,