The evening times., 1900-10-09
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

| Anent the effort of a Baltimore con-
cern to influence the votes of its employees
| by distributing blank cards to be filed
| out with statements regarding the way
/, President in November. the Baltimore
SUM- saws:
No employer OF labor, either ecrpor-
ate or private. has right to influence
the votes of employees by methods which
SAVIOR Of coercion. Such compulsion is
not only morally wicked, denial to the
employe OF the most sacred privilege
which his citizenship confers upon him.
but it is also an injury to the State. It
makes it impossible to secure fair ex-
preston of public opinion On questions
which concern the welfare of the ration.
| II is an odious form of tyranny which, if
! persisted in, may lead to anarchy, with
those who devise and employ coercive
| measures as the arch-Anarchists. The
I perpetufty of this Republic depends upon
| the maintenance of the principle that all
men are politically equal. There can be
no political equality, however. when any
| set OF citizens arrogate to themselves the
|
! latter shall vote upon questions OF public
| policy and national administration.
! When this dictation is enforced by threats
| of discharge from employment or reduc-
| tion of wages or the curtailment of fnan-
| eial privileges, the coercion is of the mcst
| dangerous and insidious character. II 1t
comes to be recognized as a legitimate
weapon in political warfare the result
viii be the creation of a privileged voting
class and the practical Acknowledgement
of hundreds of thousands of workingmen. "
Hagerstown and other points in Mary
land are being flooded with Republican
campaign documents, which are being sent
| through the mails to Gold Democrats. One
of the posters contained a story entitled
Prosperity for the Farmers; or, How 1t
Has Been Brought About by Protection. ="
This with an essay on Sound Money and
Sound Business" by Thomas Hitchcock,
both published by the Republican National
Committee. New York, were enclosed with
the declaration OF principles of a sound
money league.
Several Gold Democrats who have not
yet made up their minds how they will
vote severely criticised the league or the
Republican Committee, whichever was re-
sponsible for sending out the matter. for
infiicting doctrines upon them in which
they disbelieved. The argument that pros
perity was brought about by a high pro-
tective tariff was especially offensive, for
nearly all the Gold Democrats believe in
tariff for revenue only. The farmers in
Washington county are not prosperous, and
they are in state of rebellion against the
trusts. The probable effect of the circu-
lars will be to increase Bryan's vote.
One Democrat said that while he believed
he h.
having all the evils of MeKinleyism thrus.
down his throat. and the remarks he lei
fall about the parties responsible for send
ing out the documents had they heard him
would have convinced them that they had
blundered when they attempted to influ-
ence Gold Democrats to vote for Mckinley
by using high protective tariff argument.
Henry Clay, whom some Americans
many Americans-believe to have been
great man made speech at Baltimore in
1928, from which the following is taken:
Cromwell and Caesar have recently
found apol0gists. The judgment OF centu-
ries is reversed; ng-established maxims
are overthrown, and the only genuine low
ers of liberty were the Phillips, the Cae-
sars, and the Cromwells the Mariuses and
the Syllas of former ages,
"It is time for former patriotism to
awake when such doctrines as these are
put forth from the capitol and from popu-
lar assemblies. Regardless Of all imputa-
tions, and proud OF the opportunity OF
free and unrestrained intercourse with nv
fellow citizens, / would address every man
in the Union and entreat them by their
love OF country, by their love of
liberty, Tor the sake of themselves,
and their posterity-in the name of their
Fenerated ancestors, in the name of the
human family interested in the fulfIIment
of the trust committed to their hands, to
pause. 1 would PROSTATE myself before di-
vinity and implore him, II it be necessary,
to chastise this people with the6 rod of his
vengeance; TO visit our beloved land with
pestilence, with famine with any scourge,
other than military rule or q blind and
needless enthusiasm for more military re-
nown-''
The Omaha World-Herald'' in comment
ing upon this speech, says:
But the man who gave utterance to the
above is dead. 1t is well for his fame that
he died before there came upon the stage
OF action such intellectual giants as Hanna,
Platt, Hay, Quay, Beveridge, Denby
Griggs, Gage, Roosevelt, and Dick, to dim
his renown and outshine his ability He
was big man in his time but he would,
OF course, be pigmy by the side OF the
great statesmen named in the foregoing
sentence. Well for him he died many
years ago, for We're he alive today and Civ
ing utterance to such sentiments, he would
be copperhead. a traitor. little
American 'alarmist, a tTagaI.''' -
Democratic leaders in Wilmington, Del.
assert that, according to the showing
made by the parties in the primary cleo
tions, a majority of the members of the
Legislature from that county will be Dem
ocrats.
An examination of the vote cast by the
two parties in their primaries shows that
the Republicans are ahead in the follow
ing districts for the lower house: First,
Second, and Third districts of Whining
ton, Brandywine, Christfana, Mill Creek,
and Red Lion hundreds. The Democrats
lead in the Fourth and Fifth districts of
Wilmington, White Clay Greek, Pencader,
New Castle, st. Georges, Appoquinimink.
and Blackbird hundreds. OF the latter
districts the Republicans last time car
ried New Castle, White Clay Creek, and
Appoquinimink, all by small pluralities
In New Castle the Democrats are nearly
200 ahead of the Republicans, and the de-
feat of Hushebeck, the Addicks candidate
there, is practically conceded The Demo-
Gratis are confident of winning the First
district of Wilmington, and the Repub-
licans are only 2 ahead In Red Lion hum
dred.
The primaries show, however that it will
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