The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-18
BOYCOTT FOR INTIMIDATORs.

1890 lIley WOH ny coeICioi anu ihtlIIll-
nation, as well as bribery and corrup-
ton. Can the same methods succeed
this year? If they can the ''syndicated
president will win.
The Democrats ought to return IAN
eye for an eye" If a great corpora
ton, organized to do legitimate bust
ness attempts to control the vote OF
the men it employs, they ought to be
prosecuted by the officers of the law,
but as the officers are usually the crea-
lures of the trusts there is no hope
from that quarter. The people ought
to take their punishment in their own
hands. The Democratic National Com
mittee has requested to be advised OF
adj firms or corporations that are pur-
suing the plan of coercion or intimi-
dation with the view of letting the
honest people boycott all such con-
Germs. The Indiana Democrats are
fully alive to the necessity of meeting
intimidation with boycott and have
already put it in force. In his last let
ter from Indianapolis to the Baltimore
Sun, Mr.. F. r. Richardson shows the
determined spirit of Hoosier Demo
Gratis. He writes:
II asked Mr. Martin if there was any
fear of coercive measures by the corpo-
lions now He said they dare not under
take i in Indiana and then went on to
tell me what the committee had DONE lie
said at the outset of the campaign the
committee had served notice upon every
corporation n the State. every manu1ac-
turer and every large employer or laoor
that # any effort was made to coerce
employees who wanted to vote Tor Bryan
the strongest retaliatory measures would
be instantly put into operation. II DEM
ocrats we're so unpatriotic and so dis
honest as to be unfit to conduct public
affairs. then the people who had this
opinion of them ought not to want their
custom and they should not get it. The
committee, through it's magnificent organ
ization, can come almost in personal con-
tact with every Democrat in the State.
It was not very hard to get these to
agree TO give uO patronage W AOh "AO'
like MIR. Roosevelt. look upon them as
dishonest and scoundrels.
MAY LOSE SOUTHERN TRADE.
The committee also has an under
standing with the party organizations in
the Southern States to see to it that their
people do not deal with such men. The
manufacturers in Indiana sell largely to
ha wit Ira wa
of that trade would in many instances
make all the difference between great
profit and great loss. Southern people,
in fact, have built up and enriched many
men, not only in Indiana, but all over
the North, who never have a good word
to say of them.
There is no reason whatever why Demo-
Gratis outside of Indiana should not fol-
low the example. The Mckinley corpora
lions and employers found those who call
ed halt upon them meant business and
were in a position to do whatthey said
A large manufacturer who has many
desirable customers who are Democrats
had every room of every department of
his establishment plastered with pictures
of Mckinley and placards of Vote for
Mckinley" A Democratic customer came
to town to buy met all this staring him
IN the face whichever way he turned.
He was accompanied by the proprietor
himself, who was overwhelmed with
amazement when the visitor turned to
leave and said he guessed he would not
buy anything. Pressed for his reason, he
finally gave it, and added, in his opin-
ion, the other Democratic customers of
the house would feel as he did. The
proprietor thought it over and the next
day "Vote for Mckinley" came down.
A HINT TO A GREAT FIRM.
-Four years ago the Studebakers. the
great carriage and wagon makers, voted
their whole force for Mckinley. This
year they had the Mckinley pictures and
placards strewn all over their shops. as
before, and the same delicate limitations
were conveyed to their men that they
must vote for Mckinley. The State Of
Texas alone buys hundreds of the Stude-
baker wagons each year. A little hint
came up from Texas that not another
wagon would be ordered from that State.
The Mckinley pictures disappeared and
the men have since been let alone.
Every railroad in Indiana received
warning to keep out of politics; that if
they had any money to give to campaign
funds they would have it to pay in taxes
and at the first opportunity their assess
ments would re raised. Now they are
quiet as mice.
banker here, like some other Repub-
licans, declared he would make no loans
and go into no enterprises unless McKin-
ley was elected. Word was very quietly
passed around and inside of two days
Democratic depositors withdrew $4,000
from his bank and placed it with those
who do not believe the country will go
to ruin if Bryan is elected. The gentle
man caused it to be known he had spoken
hastily, but he did not get the money
back"
The fact that it is necessary to re
sort to such retaliatory methods shows
the necessity of putting an end to the
sway of Mckinley and Hanna. While
there has always been more or less
corruption in politics, never until 1896
did it become the open and running
sore of the body polite. Any legiti-
mate method ought to be employed to
restore the right to vote, free from