Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-03

nat Ielet. anu SHotru8n l. ~
Stevens OF the silver party nsuSn..
COMMITTEES. He Eiu talk To WORKING
men curing the campaign
A h. Spindier. q conductor on tie
South Hsisted street line of the West
Chicago Street Railway company. re-
ported ut National Democratic head
quarters that he had been discharged
by Superintendent Fuller of the Yves,
Chicago Street RailUa ny company de-
cause he would not car a Mckinley
button. According to Nr. Spsnsier >
statement Superintendent Fuller gave
every cnployc Of the company q Nc
kinlcy button. and ordered them TO
wear IT, AIR. spindicr threw his buttsn
away. and was promptly discharged.
He states hat the barn bosses were
directed to pan Mckinley badges and
buttons on the conductors and drivers.
Air. Spindier has been in the employ
II the company thr-e and a half YEAR,.
HIs only of-u~. was that he would not
wear a Mckinley button 1T is safe
- say" said Mr.. Spindlsr. that more
han thr---fourths of the street all
aay .mploys - Ia Chicago ar. for BY
an. Set they are compelled 20 JOsn the
Mckinley elubs and scar Mckinley
badges OF lose their jobs. knoN shst
I am saying hen ! ASSERT that three
tourihs Of the m-fnbcfs Of the street
railway MCKINLEY CLUES. and ~ss-csll-a
sound money clubs viii vot. for Bry-
an. They say they are compelled To-
submit To- coercion on Of fh.ir
families. but when they &c; behind the
Australian hailot-hox curtain they viii
aveng the wrong"
n has also come to the knowledge Of
sN. 4. 49, ---saa..s.r a. s~Na.--a a..
a number Of the railway co~rparsffsne
a detectives employed whose busi-
ness IL Is to circulate among employees
and spot those who are talking for
I:ryan and free silver. Whenever an
esnploye becomes ''Hpotted' ~ this -e-
crst political inquisition charges are
trumped NJ against him and he H. in-
formed that hts services arr dispensed
with. In this way the corporations
hope to avotd charges Of direct c.-r-
cion- Yet such - the reign Of eapion-
and terrorism pracsiced by the cor
porate allies of Mckinley and Wall
street that thousands OF employees are
forced to stifie their convictions. join
Mckinley clubs and wear Mckinley
badges for fear Tint starvation Co. their
wives and babies NAV d. offered a- a
brutal alternative. They will av.nse
the insult OF monopoiistic tyranny
when November om.
n delegation Of Chicago Railway en-
ployes called nj National Democratic
headquarters and informed National
Committeeman Johnson that they had
been ordered to got ready 70 TO
Canton tonight with the MCKINLEY rail-
way employs excursion on pain 80 ls.-
ing discharged In cas-. of refusal. They
further claim that more than fifty kry-
an men Mt work for the company were
thus forced to go 10 Canton.
And all OF this Is free America. tool
Such methods OF coercion and intim.-
dation ~ here described. subtle ard
insidious. are more wicked and heart
less than IL these corportior~ should
take shotcrns n seek to compel their
employees To so TO the polls and vote
for Mckinley at the peril Of thcir lives
The spirit of American manhood wouI.
revolt and oppose physical resistance
on an equal footing to such an attesnp;
az coercion as that But IL il q thou
sand times more difficult e. resist that
more subtle and inhuman sI-,ri-s of in
t~.rIidsii"n that throttics the wives end
children u laborinE men with hunger
and cold and homeless wandering. ~
they do not assent tn the conditions n;
political scrfdom imposed. hut " this
kind of coercion IL more wicked O. t.
more effective In arousire popular in
digna;ion against those who resort &C
IL. An accounting win he had IN due
time. These guilty corporations ar
laying up wrath against tho day of
wrath The tim. will come when thuse
who would set up n system of slavery
here unreasonable VOTE than that
from which the blacks Of the south
We're liberated. nj nch an ifnmens.
cost OF blood and treasure. viii b.
brought to n strict accountability for
their wicked and eriminally selfish
actions.