Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1888 — TRAILED IN THE DUST. [ARTICLE]

TRAILED IN THE DUST.

Knights of Labor Greet a Harrison Banner with a Funeral Dirge and Lowered Flags. [Cincinnati special.] There was a sensational feature of the labor parade in this city, on Labor Day, which has a startling political significance. Three assemblies of Knights of Labor, numbering in all 250 men, were inarching down Eim street and came in sight of the headquarters of the Tenth Ward Harrison and Morton Club, where a banner with portra ts of the Republican candidates was stretched across the street. As they dr w near' it the men stopped. There were queer gestures, and rather excitable antics on the part of some, of the men. It developed that they refused to pass under the banner and were debating; what to do. The commander of the division, Captain C. C. Rouse, an old cavalry soldier, said it would be cowardice to run away from the banner, and they could show* their disapproval in some other way. Finally; the band was instructed to play a funeral dirge, the command was given to lower. flags, and, to the music of a dirge, with the star spangled banner trailing in the dust, the division marched under the portraits. One of the color bearers was A. C. Cosner, a candidate a year ago on the labor ticket for State Senator. Until he joined the labor party he was a Republican. Another flag bearer was Albert Lea, prominent in labor; circles. The men are mostly rolling-mill em-i ployes. They say they took the action they did because Gen. Harrison has been a consistent foe of organized labor and has been hostile to their interests on the Chinese question.