Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1888 — NEW YORK POLITICAL BUMMERS. [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK POLITICAL BUMMERS.

Preaching Protection In the Guise of Honest Labor. The latest device of ths managers of the Republican campaign is the employment of an army of agitators who go about the country disguised as workingmen, to preach the dootrine of protection and ring the changes on foreign pauper labor into the ears of day laborers. Jack Breitlna, a New York ward bummer, a day or two sino * blurted out to a reporter the entire plan. He said that he and many others were employed by the National Republ can Campaign Committee at #3 a day to go about the country, mingle with the workmen, and frighten them, as much as possible, Into voting the Republican ticket by holding up to them tha scarecrow of pauper labor and ruined Industries. These agitators do not work, but wear the dress of workingmen and harden their hands by rubbing them with corn-cobs or pitching rooks for fun. During the dinner hour and at night they visit the places where the men congregate and give them pointers on the tariff, Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) dispatch,