The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-09-23

4 writer signing himself Free
Silver writes as follows to the Dull
nth Herald from this city:
The Pioneer Press claims that Mr.
Towne. in his speech at CloQuet on
Sept. 9, is resorting TO faiselood when
he saws he knows of cases where men
cannot act politically as they wish.
meaning that they are compelled to
do as their employers direct. 1t is
evident the Pioneer Press is not
familiar with the methods employed
in our iron country during election.
Mr. Towne's statement at Cloquet is
perfectly true. and can be verified By
any one coming to tnls town and
making investigations
The Ely Miner of Sept contains a
column letter written sy II. B. Sturte-
want. superintendent OF the Pioneer
mine here, in which he expatiates On
the causes of our mines closing down.
and warns the worhingmen Of the
disastrous results TO the country in
case of the election of MIR. Towne and
Nj. Bryan. He makes the startling
and preposterous statement that the
mines are willing TO operate at a loss
in order to give employment TO men.
and saws that the mines have been
working for some time past without
making any profit. simply doing bust
ness out of consideration for the
laborer. As a rule. mining cempa MES
are not considered philanthropists,
but it seems we have misjudge them.
Mr.. Sturteyant is manager OF the
Mckinley and Morris club here. and
his management of it is on par with
his mining ability. which viii be
shown when our votes are counted.
His letter is plainly intended to in
fiuence in a threatening manner the
way the miner shall vote. and must
be sanctioned by the corporation
which he represents, but our people
cannot be fooled all the time" and
we intend TO cast a good vote for Mr..
Towne. regardless of the large number
of names subscribed as members Of
the Sturtevant, Mckinley and Morris
club. the majority of whom were in
duced to sign by being presented with
torches. Several of the S, NJ. and NJ.
club will not vote for Stlrteyant. Nc
Kinley and Morris in November"
FREE SILVER.
Ely, Mimi. Sept. Is.
Mr.. Free Silverite evidently believes
in free speech but does not follow the
time honored American custom, and
the custom which this country only,
vouchsafes a man TO speak as he sees
fit and back up his words with his
personal identity He VAS not con-
tent with maligning the character of
some of our citizens in a public way
but also of questioning the intel
ligence of our people. It has been
our luck to live in this vicinity for
eight years and at no election have
We seen the men ordered to vote a
certain way OF lose their jobs. There
may be such things done, but we be-
lieye it above the dignity Of either
Manager PengillE, Sturteyant or
Burt to do it. At the last national
election, we were at Tower, when it
was claimed that those in authority
at Soudan, had notified the men work
ing at the Minnesota to either vote
for Harrison or quit. The Democratic
county and state committees had sent
up several detectives TO watch the
polls The detectives staid by their
jobs under promise of big reward in
case they detected Irregularities, until
after the last vote was counted and
not one single case of crookedness was
discovered, consequently they received
no pay for their work. This proved
plainly that those who made the
statements of coercion were prevarica-
tors of the worst kind. Notwith-
standing the statements made that
the Republican party leaders were do
ing all the buying, coercing, ETC., Of
votes. it transpired that not four days
after election not less than six of the
influential foreign element of Soudan,
came to Tower and demanded of a
prominent local Democrat. the s. hats
promised them providing they would
carry a certain precinct for Cleveland
Had Mr.. Free Silyerite given his
name, which he would have done. had
be been sincere in his statements it
would have carried more weight.