People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-12-20
GDNPERS Is TURNED down.
JOHN M'1RjOE FEDERATION DIP
LARoR'S NEW PRESIDENT.
Vote, HBaIDE i,l62, GoHPERS $751;
! he New President Engineered tn,
GREAT Coat Miners strike Last sprlas
Ills Election Means the E,tab.
lshment of an Aggressive
Policy, Declare the Con.
servative Leaders

DENVER. Col, Dee. ls.-samual
Lompess, the most conservative of
the iaoor leaders of to-day. the man
VINO prevented general trouble last
summer during the great Deb, strike
oy refusing to sanction a sympltbv
strike By the Federation of L4bor
was defeated for re- election for urasi-
oent OF the National . .derltI , of
Labor to-day BY John Mcbride. presi-
dent OF the United Mine Workers and
tAe man who precipitated the great
miners strike last spring which -
suited in the defeat of the miners At
nearly all points. Conservative labor
leaders here declare that the result
Oh the election is the defeat of the
conservative policy and the establish
ment OF an era Of aggressiveness.
There was no excitement ATTENDING
the election of presit. Mt. II was
evident at the start that the question
had been settled, so far as the indi-
vldual members were concerned.
Gompers was nominated BY dclecats
Eickhotf, and the nomination was
seconded by Messrs Cohen, DAILY and
McCraith. Mcbride was nominated
by Vice President Penna of the
Miners union and seconded by Mr.
Allen.
The vote proceeded without mel
dent, except that several delegates
announced that they would vote
against Gompers by instructions from
their various unions. W. E. Klap-
etzky voted for Mcbride. but asked
to be allowed to withdraw his vote
lie said he had been instructed to
vote against Gompers and could not
conscientiOusly vote for Mcbride.
Permission was granted.
The result of the vote was: Me.
Bride, 1,l6?, Gompers 037. President
Gomrers moved to make the vote
unanimous for Mcbride, but obiec.
ton was made
Gompers at once wrote AMI dis
patched the following message to Mr..
Mcbride, who is i'll at his home:
10 John Mcbride, Columbus. Ohio.
congratulations, election president
Federation. None will be more oval
than | to aid and make your admins.
tratlon successful.
SAMUEL G0NPEHS"
For first vice president f. ]. Nor
gan OF Chicago and John McGuire of
Philadelphia were nominated The
vote was l,S65 for McGuire. 226 for
Morgan. The election was maue
unanimous.
James Duncan of Baltimore was
made second vice president by vote
OF "'lS5 to 60 for Charles Bechtold of
St. Louis, who was said to be con.
neeted with the Knights of Labor.
For third vice president James
Brettell and Rhody Keuehan of Den
yer were nominated. The result was:
Brettell, 40; Kenehan, Liza
Harry Lloyd of Boston. w u
Mahon of the street car emploves
and I. l. Elderllin of the Seamen',
union were nominated for fourth vice
president Quite Il number of Mahon
votes were changed to Elderkin after
the first roll call. The result was.
Elderkin, 1853: Mahon. EOS; Lloyd. 773-
no election. Lloyd Withdrew his
name and another vote wss ordered.
On this Elderkin vas elected.
For secretary, J. W. Brentwood of
Denver, j. Mahlon Barnes of Phila-
delphia, A. McCraith of Boston. Ricp-
ard II. Metcalf of Indianapolis, Chris
Evans the present incumbent and J.
j. Linehan of Chicago were nomi-
mated. Evans withdrew on the
ground that he represented the mine
workers. and 4 member Of
his organization had been elected
president Brentwood withdrew in
favor OF McCraith, both representing
the Typographical union. The first
vote Stood Barnes, 973: McCraith.
$685.; Metcalf, 24?: Linehan. 5O9il.
On the second vote Metcalfs name
was dropped and the result was;
Barnes. 391; McCraith. l. O9G: Lnehap.
54S. The election of McCraith was
made unanimous on motion OF Mr..
Linehan.
For treasurer. John Il. Lennon. the
present incumbent. was nominated
T. NJ. McGuire nominated Mahon. but
the latter declined on account of the
proximity of his home to Canada. and
Lennon was elected by reclamation.
GONPERS NOT SORE.
Gompers then took the floor and an
nounced his satisfaction at being re.
leased from the responsibility of
the presidency of the organization.
He said that he had been made
an old man in his comparative
youth by the burdens of the Office
but he felt that he represented
principle and would not lie down.
He preferred to be moved down
He regretted no act of his official
career, He renewed his allegiance
to the federation. If he had met de-
feat in the Chicago convention he
would have gone out of the conven-
ton broken hearted. Now he felt
differently. He read mis- telegram to |
Mcbride and said: Il meant that and !
If any man or men shall try to drag |
down John Mcbride or TO strike at |
the heart of union labor through |
John Mcbride, he will find me a |
harder fighter for him than have |
been for myself"
Gompers is member of the Cigar
Makers union and had held the DO
Sltion of president of the American
Federation of / hor. siuoa 1921 H..