Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1884 — From the Labor Signel, Indianapolis ROGER R. SHIEL. [ARTICLE]

From the Labor Signel, Indianapolis ROGER R. SHIEL.

His Attitude Toward the Workingman. The disgraceful efforts of Roger R. Shiel to defeat the telegraph operators in this city, in their strike last summer, being established by undoubted proof, has aroused the indignation of working and laboring men all over the country. The Knights of Labor of Indiana have taken hold of the matter with a vigorous prosecution of efforts for his defeat as a candidate for office, and Mr. Shiel will feel tlie weight of their opposition on the morning after electionThe Central Trades and Labor Assembly of Indianapolis and vicinity, at their regular meeting on Monday evening, Sept. 8, adopted the following: Whereas, The conduct of Roger R. Shiel,inhis efforts against the telegraph op.

eratnr* (Knigh's of LaborMn tbeir stru* * gift for common rights, in 188*. laving b en officially reported to this body, by delegates from Alpha Assembly. 17:2. K. of 1.., as also the action taken by that body in reference to the conduct of said Sbiel - and Whereas, We find, by such report, that said Roo-er R Shicl in his i eport to ■ssist the Western Union Telegraph Com-' puny against its employes in their straggle for common rights, was guilty of an open and malicious blow of opposition to the cause and interest of labor; and Whereas, We, as the representatives o labor, in central bocy organized ana assembled, deem it not only our right but our duty to denounce and repel such con duct as is reported of said Roger R. Sbiel; aDd to defeat him in any ambition or efiort he may exhibit for political preference 01 power, therefore Resolved- That we denounce the ac*s of Roger R. Sbiel, in supplying men to take the place of the striking telegraphers, in the summer of 1883, in this city , as of a character the most malicious, dangerous and disastrous to the iuterests of all that large mass who labor for a common sustenance, and who have delegated us to protect them in their co m<>n rights Resolved, That we look, upon Roger P. Shiel, as characterized by his acts, above related, as a common enemy to men and women din work, and as an aider and abetter to capitalistic and monopolistic oppression Resolved. That we eau find no better method of demonstrating our indigna tion of perfidy as his than by au expression of the ballot. Resolved, That we hereby pledge ourselves to erase his name ;rom any ticket for any office to which he may aspile. Resolved, That, as he has presented himself for the office of Treasurer of State on the Republican ticket for Indiana, we will seek every honorable means for his defeat. Resolved, That the Secretary of this Assembly is heiehy directed to communica’e this action to the various organizations represented herein, asking their co-operation and endorsement in suoh action. Resolved. That ail daily and wee ly papers of our city be requested to pnblisn a copy ol these resolutions.

Where are the Irish Elaine Men. Everywhere the Blaine appeal so Irish, and Catholic voters has failed, as it deserved to fail, Mr. Michael Dougherty wittily opposed this Republican 'dodge’ in a speech in Illinois- He said: They told me that at Macomb there was a Republican l' ub of one hundred Irishmep, formerly Democrats, l went to Macom , and they told tne the club was at Monmouth- I went tbere, but couldn’t find a single one, but was re ferred to Bloomington, where the Republican papers stated there was a Republican club of three hundred Irishmen- I went there and couldn’t tind them. A Republican alderman told me it was at Galesburg, ‘Hold on, my friend ’ I said, *1 live there.’ Weil it’s at Galena then.’ There w T as a traveling man in the hotel at the time, and he said the Galena Democrats would give a hundred dollars for an Irish Democrat who would vote for Blaine. The Eastern Republican papers say the Irish Blaine clubs are in the West; the West say they are in the East; in Missouii they ere in Illinois, and so it goes,— Bridgeport Morning News.