Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-23
CAMPAIGN COERCION.
You Must Vote asl Tell You To,
or Starve.

campaign progresses IL Dtcoiieo hi'lS [
and more apparent that the heads OF 8
the great corporations are following T
Mark Hanna's advice in regard to the ,
methods to be employed to gain the
vote OF their employees. The National
Democratic Committee has been in
vestigating, and to day the following
was given out at National head
quarters:
Coercion of the most fragrant type
is being employed on AL sides to stem
the tide of p pular sentiment in favor
Of Bryan. Nothing like it has ever
occurred before in any election in this
country. The slogan OF the so-cailed
campaign Of education has COME to
he vote as I tell you or starve.'
'Mr. Hanna, knowing SO we'll the
potency of this argument, has mi
pressed its Importance on the man-
ayers Of the railroads and other cor
porations, and they are carrying his
idea Into effect IN the most shame
less and brutal u In some IN
stances the employees are given to IN
derstand that if they do not vote for
Mckinley the shop will be closed and
they thrown out of employment. In
other instances, particularly in case
OF the raill Dads, there is no m!ncIng
Of matters. and the men are told
frankly and bluntly if they do not
vote the way the company wants them
they will be discharged.
Here is the testimony Of a man
who works as a car clearer in the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
yards:
".About a week ago my foreman
came TO me md said he wanted me 10
Join a railway mems Mckinley club
T told him I took little or no interest
in politics and did not care to join.
Y He then told me plainly thai if [ didn't
s Join be would get a man in my place
who would join. There are plenty VI
men who are out of work and would
be glad to take your place he said,
and I concluded the best thing to dc
was to Join the club. I am assessed
% cents a week aud only get 81 25 q
:, day. There are 800 members of the
club, and | am satisfied the grea
majority of them have been forced
into joining just as l was
lie Superintendent Hubbell, of theC Chi
Is cago division of the Rock Island Rail
" way, found there was a strong sllve
N sentiment among the men on his owl
VS. sion, and a few days ago determined
err to give them an ''object lesson ID
discharged sixty-two trackmen VIII
were getting from 81 % to 81 SO a day
!" and put 10 their places Italians at .
al cents a day, and what made matter
o. all the more offensive was The employ
ment Of a PadroDe to boss the me
TO and get Is cents Of their wages to hos
Ter them. The Rock Island has on Il
to pay rolls twelve campaign orator
nj who are going to all points on the sy'
: tenn and hsranguing the men on tt
ID. awful results which will come to tt
workineman if Bryan is elected.
Several of the big factories OF Il
West Side are giving their men g
hour to listen to the talk OF a car
paign orator in the interest oil Mckl
rm) lev. The Crane Manufacturing Cor
pany, the Fowler Company and t
rm) Featherstone Company all give the
men an hour in the afternoon to list
to gold arguments. When a comm
fee from the Silver Club Of the TyI
ice: graphical Union asked Mr.. Crane
IL. .x;r;Iora Of having itS Snp4EE
address the men, he said he Wot
only consider the proposition on
understanding that the speeches wol
TACO be written or printed and submitted
and censorship: and so it goes; on eve
on hand M evidence Of the worst S
Of intimidation ana coercion oi t
Me- ployes in the interest of the gold tic
Tt is a form of intimidation which
effective, because it is insldlous. |
ARGUMENT tint the Interests OF
workman must be identical with t
tho of his employer is being used for
a;,, there is in it. That, with the open thre
of discharge for friendliness
and Bryan, is driving many OF the til
ones into the Mckinley camp, bu
reaction is setting in, in opposltlol
these feudal methods which will II
on the Republicans in a way they
a;d tie dream Of. The average Ameri
workman is too independent
patriotic a man to let such an 10
to his manhood 60 ~unrebuked.
IN at
riday