The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-10-15
BACK In ILLINOIS
Henry George Finds There Is No
DiminutiOn Of intimidation.
FRESH INSTANCES RECORDED
Many of the Workingmen Are TAX
Ing All OF the ".oNinley Doodle
They Can Get and will
still Vote for bryan.


Standard.
Chicago, Oct. 1.-THE attempts OF
the railroads and other large concerns
to affect the political expression and
votes Of their employees that were such
a feature OF the campaign when l was
here three weeks ago do not seem to
have been relaxed, and l still hear as
of recent occurrence OF many detailed
cases in which failure to comply In
seeming spirit as we'll as letter with
the intimations Of minor supaintend-
ents or foremen that IL would be wise
| to wear Mckinley buttons or join Me-
Kinley clubs or join In the great Nc
Kinley parade OF last Friday. brought
discharge.
Such, for instance, as that Of q car
conductor who yielded 50 far as to sign
the pledge OF q Mckinley club. and
took button offered him by the su-
perintendent, but being discovered not
to have 1t on, made the excuse that
he had lost 1t. and was given another
with a repGimaDd. but not going to q
meeting Of the Mckinley club, and his
excuse that his wife was sbck not be-
ing received, was discharged for the
alleged violation Of some trivial rule.
Such, for another instance, as an
employe OF one Of the ice companies,
| that made great display In Fridays
procession, who had also lost his
| Mckinley button, and who, when given
| another was asked II he h:td provided
himself with hat to wear in the big
parade. Making the EXCUSE that he
had found 1t impossible to get a hat TO
| fit him, he was told that he would be
| provided with a hat, whersupon ven-
turing at last to say that that kind or
q hat did not suit his politics he was.
five minutes after. told that he could
| 'ttake his time"
These are samples Of .numberless
| stories that are current am1ng work.
| ingmen here, as they were when was
| here before, and backed by the fear Of
| the dreadful black list and the terrible
| lack of employment, they explain how
| 1t was that so many Bryan men walk
| ed In the Mckinley procession, and the
| meaning of such expressions as Give
| them the con- and vote for Bryan"
What the better classes will call
falsehood and duplicity has during this
| campaign been cultivated among the
classes who are dependent for their
| opportunities to work as they never
| before have been in this country, and II
| can Judge of the sentiment among
them II is rapidly becoming, IL 1t has
not already become. that 1t Is no loss
| Of manhood to seem to Yield to coer-
| cion, or even to take a bribe. but not
ito deliver the goods" and that all
over the Central West the word has
| gone out and is still going out that
| it is the part of a patriot to punish
would-be bribers by taking all tLat
| can be got from them and then In the
secrecy Of the Australian ballot voting
| against them.
| 1t was this seeming acqubescence in
the attempts of the employing classes
| to influence voters that in the first
| place gave to the republican managers
a false security. as, among the most
astute of those who began to tell
| workingmen to take all they could get
| and then ask for more, 1t was deliber-
| ately intended to do. AS the head of
| the populists In Ohio. Mr.. Fftzsimmons,
| told me In Cleveland two weeks ago.
though he did not want me then to use
| what he said: Confidence usually
counts for a good deal in politics. but
Mr.. Hanna has begun to play 1t too
soon. We want him TO continue 1t un-
til the truth comes like an opening Of
the ground"
And have reasons of my own for be-
lieving what, the Standard from other
sources has already stated. that this
waking up has come and that the inner
chiefs of the Mckinley machine have
| walked up at last to their danger. and
realizing that a great body OF the
farmers are abandoning their allegi-
anee to the republican party; and that
the cry of protection to American in
dustry" has lost iss force, and the la
boring masses are really against them.
feel that their only hope Is to buy
labor leaders" at any price. But the
labor leader, who, in time like this.
can deliver votes Is a myth existing
only In the minds of men so ignorant of
the real workingman as to think that
walking delegates and secretaries and
presidents of trade organizations really
lead in political matters a class OF me q
| WuOIn utllcNt uO a.
themselves than do bankers or brokf rfs
and who are peculiarly jealous of any
attempt to use them for personal ad-
vantage. There are so-called "a Dor
leaders," l presume in all our cities,
for I have known them in Sar, Fran.
cisco and New York, and heard Of them
in other towns. who make a living on
the ignorance of this fact b. Y politi-
clans. and to that class belong the five
labor leaders whom ] was Il I'D when
was here before Mr.. Hanna had en-
gagged for $4,000 down and SIS each a
week. The moment any o'oe whom
workirgmen have had conii,J ence in Is
even supposed to have trady.d for per.
sonal consideration his in juence with
them his power Is gone.
| Any one who has had ny real touch
with workingmen could have told Mr.
Hanna that. as is believ ed in labor cir.
cles, In getting Mr.. P' nvderly to TAX,
the stump for Mckinl ~ even al IN,
very low rate Of 5000 and expenses. n,
was, in fact, making n very dear pur.
chase, for he was r kiiliy hurting Me.
kinley's chances-a conclusion tC