The record-union., 1896-09-16
CAMPAIGN LIE NAILED.
STORY WHICH ORIGINATED AT
PORTLAND, OREGON.
The Goodyear Company Did Not
Threaten Their Employes-Can
Vote as They Please.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15.-The
latest effort to make campaign capital
for Bryan and SewaH by the misrep-
resentation of facts comes from Port
land, Or, and is going the rounds of the
Democratic press. 1t is in the form of
a statement that the Goodyear Rubber
Company caused to be posted in its
store at that place for the purpose Of in
tinidating its employees the following
notice:
The stockholders and officers of the
Goodyear Rubber Company wish to
have it distinctly understood that a
vote for Bryan and Sewall on the part
of any Of it's employees will be regarded
as an act committed directly against the
welfare of the company and its en-
ployes and any employe working for or
voting the above mentioned ticket in
the coming election may expect to be
regarded by the officers as antagonistic
to the company.
"(Signed) r. II. PEASE.
''Vice-President and Manager, per A. M.
Minott"
The truth of the matter is arrived at
by complete reversal of the published
statements. No such notice was posted
in the store, and the company never
sought to and does not desire to intimi-
date it's employees as to their votes at
the coming election.
Manager Pease, when seen at his
office in this city, said: There is alb
solutely no truth in the statement that
we sought to intimidate our employees or
that the notice referred to was posted in
our store at Portland.
Our employees throughout the coun-
try know that we, in common with all
business men, desire the election of Nc
Kinley and Hobart, for the reasons that
we do not wish to see the finances of the
country so demoralized that we would
not know the value Of our own goods.
and the markets Of the country thrown
into a chaotic condition that would
work great injury to both the mer-
chants and the customers. Early this
month / received a letter from some
enthusiastic Republicans in our employ
at Portland saying that the clerks had
discussed the notice and asked nv oDin-
ion as to the advisability of putting it
in the store. / Immediately replied that
while, of course. they knew my sem
timents as to the election OF Mckinley
and Hobart / did not approve the pro-
posed posting of the notice, as it might
be regarded as an intimidation. which
/ not only did not desire, but would not
permit under any circumstances The
men would, of course, exercise their
rights under the Constitution, to vote
as they pleased.
Upon seeing the publication in the
Democratic press l Immediately wired
our branch house in Portland for infor-
nation and received this answer:
Clerks discussed notice, but it was not
posted in the store This disposes of
the question of intimidation. I am
frank to admit that 1 would like to see
all our employees vote for Mckinley and
Hobart, believing it would be for their
best interest as we'll as ours I would
also like to see the Republicans in our
employ do all they could honorably and
consistently to induce the Democrats
in our stores to believe that their inter-
estS are the same as ours and of other
business houses. But that we attempted
to intimidate, or by any unfair or un-
lawful means sought to influence the
votes of our employees. is a reflection
upon us as American citizens and also
upon our judgment as business men
which is not borne out by the facts