The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-04
DIRTY POLITICAL WORK.
The Iron Mountain Railroad
Officials working for
Mckinley.
YOUR VOTE OR YOUR JOB.
A Pamphlet Given Out to Each EN-,
ploye as a Guide as to How He
Should Vote.

ploye as a Guide as to How He
Should Vote.
A gentleman placed in our hands
yesterday, an eight page pamphlet
entitled:
THE WAR ON THE WAGE GARNER
WORDS OF WISDOM FOR EMPLOYEES
To THINK OVER"
We have read where railway off,
cials have been serving notices on
employees in the East, that their
services could be dispensed with, if
they voted what they termed tor
free silver lunacy," but we never
dreamed that such dirty tactics
would be resorted to in the South.
Here we have reasoned wrongful
ly, for we have in our hands unmis-
taxable proof that the Iron Noun
tain road is trying to intimidate its
men and make them vote for Will
liam Mckinley.
The Railway Age, which is now
entirely 'breeches and boots" for
the sharks who are trying to fasten
Mckinley and his gold and protec-
tive ideas on the people, is author
in the main of the matter in the
pamphlet, and they are be-
ing distributed by high RAILROAD
officials of the Iron Mountain road,
to the men working on its system.
Among the men whom the Age
picks out to quote from showing
that gold" and protection" is the
way to vote, we find NJ E. Ingalls,,
President of the C. c. c. & St. L.
road; O. D. Ashby, President of the
Wabash road; President James j..
Hill, of the Great Northern; 7. P.
Fowler, President of the New York,
Ontario & Great Western John X.
Cowen, President of the Baltimore
& Ohlo President Green of the
Connecticut Mutual Lite Insurance
company; Frank A. Peavy, Mana
ger of the Port Huron Thrasher
and Engine Works, and other men
who are equally hostile to the Dem
ocratic party, and who had rather
see the Government sink than to
see a Democratic victory.
They pretend that they have the
interest of the workingmen at
heart, when in reality they want
to further their own selfish aims,
by electing men who are known to
be stock jobbers.
On the back of this pamphlet is a
'word to railroad men," Qocally)
without signature or quotation,
and it is supposed to be a warning
to them as to how they must vote,
After long dissertation as to the
country going to the dogs, if free
silver is voted on the country, we
find this passage:
Therefore, ORGANIZED This is no
question of republican or democrat,
but of your own protection as wage
earners. Organize for the preser-
walton of sound money-in defense
of your own wages--in support of
the countrys prosperity and the
country's honor! At every shop and
every division point on every rail
way in the country, there must be
Railway Mems Sound Money club.
If you, who read this, are personal
ly willing to take hold OF the work
Of organization in your locality and
the work of educating your fellows
for their and your own benefit,
write to the Railway Age, Chicago.
Until the central organization of
the Railway Mems Sound Money
clubs is perfected, we will send you
all the information and literature
you require.
Now, we want to condemn any
such "bulldozing" as campaign
trick, too small to think Of. If this
is a free country, the above exam
pie bellies it. If Mark Hanna ex-
pect to elect Mckinley with this
kind of tactics, we feel sorry for
the country when it gets such a
President by such low down meth
DDS.
We do not believe the employees
will stand such dictation, and when
the election occurs in November,
we believe they will march to the
polls and place their ballots in, to
their way of thinking, and not let
the railroad bulldo2er override
them