The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-10-27
THE INTELLIGENCER.
WHEELING, ocronnn -, lsen
ssnator Hanna q an EmplOysr % Labor

senator Hanna a. an Employer OF Labor
During the presidential campaign of
last year the Popocratic press was filled
with assaults upon Senator Hanna's
reputation as an employer OF labor, in
the hope OF. in some way or other, inJur-
ing the Republican cause. While the
effort had little effect. Senator Hanna
was urged by many to permit his record
regarding his relations with the en-
pioyea OF the industries In which he Is in
terested to be placed before the public,
and labor leaders who were not support
ing Mckinley, but who were ardent sli-
yer men, stood ready TO do him justice
some Of them did soLbut Mr.. Hanna re-
piled that he was not a candidate. and
that the intelligence of the country
would not Involve his personality in the
campaign.
Now that the senator is a candidate
for reelection to the senate, the Popo-
cratic managers IN Ohio have, from the
very beginning of the campaign, re-
sumed their unwarranted and unscrupu-
lous attacks. and all the falsehoods that
were put In circulation last year have
been revived, embellIshed and scattered
broadcast. Mr.. Hahnas silence last year
probably encouraged them in this despic-
able course, and they may have thought
that their conduct would be treated in a
similar manner this year.
But circumstances are different. This
year Mr.. Hanna is before the people as
a candidate for their suffrages, and the
workingmen who were willing to come to
his defense are speaking in a way that
is rendering futile all the efforts of thpse
who have sought to prejudice labor
against him.
on another page OF this mornings In
telllgencer will be found the record Of
Mr.. Hanna as an employer of labor, a
record OF which he need nut be ashamed,
and which should raise him in the es-
timatlon of every worktngman in Amer
lCd IL Is lluk a AGNbld Wy PeAA-
ticiane for an occasion, but the testi-
mony Of some OF the most prominent and
respected labor leaders in the country
many of them opposed to Mr.. Hanna's
political Views; there are also testl-
monials from the men in his employ.
They are voluntary refutations Of the
charges that he is an enemy of organized
labor, and that he has not always paid
the highest wages.
The refutations are by such men as
John James, ex-secetary Of the Miners
National Association, who shows that
Mr.. Hanna was the first mining operator
in the United States to recognize the
principle Of arbitration IN the settle
ment Of disputes, and the first to recog-
niza the miners organization; William
Warner, ex-vice president of the United
Mine Workers OF the Pittsburgh dis
trlct; Cameron Miller. ex-vice president
of the United Mine Workers Of America;
John Mcbride. ex-presldent of the
American Federation OF Labor, and Of
the United Mine workers, also editor OF
the Columbus Record, an organ of la
bor-all these and more testify as to Mr..
Hanna's treatment of miners in the coal
region, HE payment of the highest wages
and his recognition of the unions, as
many as twenty years ago and UP to the
present.
AS TO the treatment of the miners in
the iron regions OF Michigan. the result
Of an official investigation by william
Carney, vice president OF the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers. is n singing rebukc to tho
PopocratIc politicians who hold up Mr..
Hanna as "crusher OF labor" Other
men, some OF whom are politically OPP
posed to Mr.. Hanna, who add their tes-
timony, are Patrick Dolen. OF the Mine
Workers Union; the Brotherhood Of
Boiler Makers OF Cleveland; the ore dock
Iaborers Of Ashtabula; the Street Rail
way Mems League. OF Cleveland: the
president OF the Ohio State Trades AS
semby; Richard Powers, of the Sea-
mems Union, and many others.
Altogether the symposium, Of which
the article found elsewhere Is but a
summary. Is sufficient answer to the un-
warranted assaults on Mr. Hanna,
which are reaotlng 30 hard against the
political falsIhcrs who made them. The
campaign OF SANDER which has been
prosecuted against Mr. Hanna, In the
absence OF courage on the part of the
Popocrauc managers 20 meet squqrety
the Issues made in their platform, will
have no effect. Truth and justice will
prevail.
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