The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1896-09-30

Stevens Of the Silver party national
committee. He will talk to working
men during the campaign.
A. HI. Spindler. a u on the
South Halsted street line OF the west
Chicago Street Railway company, re-
ported at National Democratic head
quarters hat he had been discharged
by Superintendent Fuller of the West
Chicago Street Railway company de-
cause he would not wear a Mckinley
button. According to Mr.. Spindlers
statement Superintendent Fuller gave
sVery employee of the company a Nc
kinley button, and ordered them to
wear 1t. Mr.. Spindler threw his button
away, and was promptly discharged.
He states hat the barn bosses were
directed to pin Mckinley badges and
buttons on the conductors and drivers.
Mr.. Spindler has been in the employ
Of the company three and a half years.
HIS only offense was that he would not
wear a Mckinley button. p is safe
to say" aid Mr.. Spindler. that more
than three-fourths of the street rail-
way employees in Chicago are for Bry-
an. yet they are compelled to join the
Mckinley clubs and wear Mckinley
badges or lose their Jobs. know what
I am saying when I assert that three
fourths Of the members Of the street
railway Mckinley clubs, and so-called
sound money clubs, will vote for Bry-
an. They say they are compelled to
submit to coercion on account of their
families, but when they get behind the
Australian ballot-box curtain they will
avenge the wrong"
1t has also come to the knowledge OF
the labor organizations in Chicago that
a number of the railway corporations
have detectives employed whose bust
ness 1t Is to circulate among employees
and spot" those who are talking for
Bryan and free silver. Whenever an
employee becomes spotted" by this Sc
cret political inquisition charges are
trumped up against him n he is in
formed that his services are dispensed
with. In this way the corporations
hope to avoid charges Of direct coer-
cion. Yet such is the reign of espion-
age and terrorism practiced by the cor
|, porate allies of Mckinley and Wa
street that thousands of employees are
forced to stifle their convictions. joir
Mckinley clubs and wear Mckinley
/ badges for ear that starvation to thei1
wives and ba bies may be offered as {
/, brutal alternative. They will aveng
{ the insult of monopolistic tyrann!
when November comes.
~. A delegation of Chicago railway EN-
ployes called at National Democratic
: Headquarters and informed Nationa
Committeeman johnson that they hat
r been ordered to get ready n go t
Canton tonight with the Mckinley rail
a way employees excursion on pain Of be
ing discharged in case of refusal. The,
further claim that more than fifty Bry
an men q. work for the company wer
thus forced to go to Canton.
And all Of this Is free America, too
II Sue methods of coercion and intimi
dation as here described. subtle an
ID insidious, are more wicked and heart
less h I these corportions shoul'
Al take shotg,hs and seek to compel thei
employees t. go to the polls and vot
Is for McKinle, at the peril of their lives
,r The spirit OF American manhood woul
to revolt n oppose physical resistant
re on an equal footing to such an attemp
b. at coercion<s that. But 1t is a thou
ID sand times aore difficult to resist tina
more subtle and inhuman species Of in
r. tiridation tat throttles the wives an
ty children of aboring men with hunge
8, and cold AID homeless wandering,
T. they do notassent to the conditions
e. political serdom imposed. But IL thi
Of kind of coecion Is more wicked 1t
ne more effective in arousing popular In
rs dignation aainst those who resort I
ee it. An accounting will be had in du
rs time. Thee guilty corporations al
IL laying up wrath against the day {
wrath. Tn time will come when thos
who wouldset up a system of SLAYER
IL here i~mmasurable worse han ths
from whics the blacks Of the sout
IL. were nberted, at such an immen.
r. cost of bbod and treasure, will I
by brought to a strict accountability Il
IS their wicked and criminally selfis
actions.
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