The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-29
TIE LABOR VOTE FOR BRYAN.
Organized WorISinGmen Lining Up
for the PeapIe,s Candidate.


1.-THE labor vote win be cast for Bryan
and Stevenson" said a leader OF consid-
cradle prominence in the ranks of organ
lied labor to a reporter for The Times this
afternoon.
Il know that Mr.. Powderly is on the
stump for Mr.. Mckinley, but Mr.. Powderly
is no longer labor leader, has no pres
tige with organized workingmen, and has
long been discredited by them. They I'M
derstand that he holds good office under
the present Administration and that he was
appointed to it in spite OF the protests OF
organized labor throughout the country.
Mr. Powderly did net dare TO go into the
Pennsylvania mining districts during the
strike and did not even so to Scranton OF
which city he was at one time mayor. Had
he attempted to speak there he would have
created more trouble than he did at Cieve-
land The miners would not have listened
to him.
The Debs movement has collapsed, be-
cause it has been shown on what organized
labor considers competent authority that
Mr.. Debs is in the employ OF the Hanna
Mckinley syndicate and that he received
$25 eco for the services which he is now
performing.
The Democratic managers at Eastern
headquarters received a despatch last
night from the State of Washington that
the Debs movement had gone by the
board and that it is no longer factor in
The campaign and that the vote OF organic
ed labor would be cast for the Democratic
national ticket.
Mr.. Powderly holds an Office which the
law says must be a bipartisan one, but
he proved himself to be very active par
tisan.
3, ia
look at the Industrial Commission. Every
member of that Commission who is not
member of Congress is on the stump and
doing active campaign work for the Repub-
Hcan party. They are Andrew l.. Harris,
John NJ. FaTquhar, Eugene D. Conger,
Thomas W Phillips, Charles j. Harris
John L. Kennedy, Albert Clarke, Charles
H. Litchman, and d. A. Tompkins.
''On the Democratic side there is James
R. Sovereign, ex-General Master Workman
CT the Knights of Labor. He is at the head
Of Democratic bureau, and practically
every labor leader who is at liberty to
speak is on the stump for Bryan
Samuel Gompers, who is at the head Of
the American Federation of Labor, cannot
Of course, take any active part in politics,
but he has put his signature to the strong
est kind Of an anti-imperialiSt document
and is Bryan man.
Look at the good work that is being
done by Big Six of New York That organ
izatioR has marked Mckinley for defeat
and by means of literature has put itself
in connection with over L, COO labor locals
and has spent $4,000 a week in promoting
the interests of the people and the peo-
pies candidate. William ]. Bryan.
Mother Jones either has gone or will
go to New York in the interest of the Re
publican party, but her efforts viii fall
fat when il is shown that she is in the
employ of the Republican Campaign Com
mittee.
IN some of those districts where great
poverty prevails among tie working peo-
pie despite these prosperous times, and
where it is suspected that the Republi-
can campaign managers will use money
freely, the word has been passed to take
the money and give the bribers the dou-
HE cross