Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1892 — A DEMOCRATIC MANUFACTURER. [ARTICLE]

A DEMOCRATIC MANUFACTURER.

He Tells Why He Proposes to Vote for Harrison. y Florien Grosjean, the head of the La Lance & Grosjean Manufacturing company, of Woodhaven, Long Island, has announced Ins intention to vote this year for Harrison, protection and reciprocity. Mr. Grosjean has always been -a Democrat. The big factory of the company of which Mr. Grosjean is the president manufactures agate ironware and gives employment steadily to 1,400 men. Tho factory building covers six acres. The people who labor under its roof take away several thousand dollars in wages for each day of their toil, T Mr. Grosjean gives a clear reason for the faith that is in him. “I am,” he said, “very fond of Mr. Cleveland. 1 have always voted the Democratic ticket, and have done what 1 could to help elect it.. Both times that Mr. Cleveland ran I voted and worked for him, but i cun no longer antagonize my own interests, and the interests of the 1,400 men in our employ, by lending encouragement to a free trade propaganda. It is plain to me that the establishment of a free trade system would eventually force us to close our factory and throw out of work the operatives.”