The evening bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1887-1905, 1896-09-26

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| Ject lessons that could not be an
swered For this reason. added to his
| refusal to wear a Mark Hanna collar.
he was thrown out of work. Mr..
Spangler owns property in Denver,
Col. and enjoys the friendship OF Hon.
Thomas Patterson Of The Rocky Noun
tain News. Hon. Charles H. Thomas,
Senator Teller, and Chairman I. ~.
Stevens of the Silver party national
| committee. He will talk to working
men during the campaign.
| A. II. Spindler, a conductor on the
| South Halsted street line of the West
| Chicago Street Railway company, re-
ported at National Democratic head
| quarters that he had been discharged
by Superintendent Fuller of the West
| Chicago Street Railway company de-
cause he would not wear a Mckinley
button. According to Mr.. Spindlers
statement Superintendent Fuller gave
every employe of the company a Nc
kinley button, and ordered them to
wear it. Mr.. Spindler threw his button
away, and was promptly discharged.
He states that the barn bosses were
directed to pin Mckinley badges and
buttons on the conductors and drivers.
Mr.. Spindler has been in the employ
of the company three and half years.
HIS only offense was that he would not
wear a Mckinley button. 1T is safe
to say" said Mr.. Spindler, that more
than three-fourths of the street rail-
way employees in Chicago are for Bry-
an, yet they are compelled to join the
Mckinley clubs and wear Mckinley
badges or lose their jobs. l know what
am saying when 1 assert that three
fourths of the members of the street
railway Mckinley clubs, and so-called
sound money clubs, will vote for Bry-
an. They say they are compelled to
submit to coercion on account of their
families, but when they get behind the
Australian ballot-box curtain they will
avenge the wrong"
1t has also come to the knowledge of
the labor organizations in Chicago that
number of the railway corporations
have detectives employed whose bust
ness it is to circulate among employees
and spot" those who are talking for
Bryan and free silver. Whenever an
employe becomes spotted" by this Sc
cret political inquisition charges are
trumped up against him and he is in
formed that his services are dispensed
with. In this way the corporations
hope to avoid charges of direct coer-
cion. Yet such is the reign of espion-
age and terrorism practiced by the COR
porate allies of Mckinley and Wall
street that thousands of employees are
forced to stifle their convictions, join
Mckinley clubs and wear Mckinley
badges for fear that starvation to their
wives and babies may be offered as a
brutal alternative. They will avenge
the insult of monopolistic tyranny
when November comes.
A delegation of Chicago railway en-
ployes called at National Democratic
headquarters and informed National
Committeeman Johnson that they had
been ordered to get ready and go to
Canton tonight with the Mckinley rail-
way employees excursion on pain of be-
ing discharged in case of refusal. They
further claim that more than fifty Bry-
an men at work for the company were
thus forced to go to Canton.
And all of this is free America, too!
Such methods of coercion and intimi-
dation as here described, subtle and
insidious, are more wicked and heart
less than II these corportions should
take shotguns and seek to compel their
employees to go to the polls and vote
for Mckinley at the peril of their lives.
The spirit of American manhood would
revolt and oppose physical resistance
on an equal footing to such an attempt
at coercion as that. But 1t is a thou
sand times more difficult to resist that
more subtle and inhuman species of in
tinlidation that throttles the wives and
children of laboring men with hunger
and cold and homeless wandering, IL
they do not assent to the conditions of
political serfdom imposed. But If this
kind of coercion is more wicked it is
more effective in arousing popular in
dignation against those who resort to
it, An accounting will be had in due
time. These guilty corporations are
laying up wrath against the day OF
wrath. The time will come when those
who would set up a system of slavery
here Unreasonable worse than that
from which the blacks of the south
were liberated, at such an immense
cost of blood and treasure, will be
brought to a strict accountability for
their wicked and criminally selfish
actions.
PlutOcracy Illustrated.