Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — Great Wreck—285,000 Men Lost! [ARTICLE]

Great Wreck—285,000 Men Lost!

Immediately upon the appearance of the Reportof Labor Commissioner Peck, announcing that 285,000 workingmen In New York State had hal their wages increased an average or $23 year by the McKinley bill, the Utica Observer began a search for a Utica man who bad fallen heir to $23 worth of McKinley stock. It left plenty of space in its columns and invited workingmen to come forward and announce their good luck. No one came. The Lockport UAlon followed the example und issued the same invitation. No answer. The Rochester Union and Advertiser searched Rochester and found no one of the 285,000 men in that city. The Oswego Palladium turned the search light on the workingmen in Oswego, and no man with $33 of McKinley tariff money is discovered. The Albany Argus invited every one o{ Peck’? army of happy workingmen residing in Albany to come forward and Jell of it. Nq one came. Then it sent reporters to the big projected manufactories in Albany and found no one. Other papers in New York are prosecuting the search with vigor, but with no better success. It Is now feared that Mr. Peck’s report is a total wreck and that all of the 285,000 men supposed to have been on board are lost —to the Republican party.