Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-10-18
TURNING THE JOKE.


in the game of politics. The trusts
and corporations and other large en-
ployes of labor have undertaken the
same tactics that were SO successfully
used in 1896 to accomplish the defeat
of Mr.. Bryan, namely, the coercion
and bulldozing of the workmen in
their employ. AS an offset to this
brutal and unfair method of cam
paigning the Democrats propose to
use very efectual weapon-the boy
cott-whicb shall be utilized not on
ly at this time but after the election
also. The plan has been used very
effectively in Indiana already, and it
will be extended to other States where
necessary. The committee takes the
ground that if Democrats are too IN
patriotic and too dishonest to be en-
trusted with public affairs-if they
are as great scoundrels as Roosevelt
says they are-then the Republican
manufacturers ought not to desire
their patronage in business matters.
The Baltimore Sun gives several IN
teresting incidents showing how the
new plan works. 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 and hun
dreds of the Studebaker wagons each
year. A little hint came up from
Texas that not another wagon would
be ordered from that State. The Nc
Kinley pictures disappeared and the
men have since been let alone.
A banker in Indianapolis declared
he would make no loans and 60 into
no enterprises unless Mckinley was
elected. Word was very quietly
passed around and inside of two days
Democratic depositors withdrew S4O,-
900 from his bank and placed it with
those who do not believe the country
will 60 to ruin if Bryan is elected
The gentleman caused it to be known
he had spoken hastily, but he did not
get the money back.
1t is a well-known and undisputed
fact that many of the great mercantile
firms in the North and West have
been built up and are largely sup
ported by southern trade. Yet these
same firms have never good word to
say of the South, and while privately
they are grabbing for all the business
they can get they publicly denounce
the section that supports them, They
know their Democratic customers to
be clean and honest personally and
in business sense, yet nothing is too
bad to say about them politically
The Sun tells of manufacturer
who has many desirable Democratic
customers, but who had every depart
ment of his establishment plastered
with pictures Of Mckinley and pla-
cards of "Vote for Mckinley" A
Democratic customer who came to
town to buy met all this staring him
in the face whichever way he turned.
He was accompanied by the proprie-
tor 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 opinion, the other Dem
ocratic customers of the house would
feel as he did, The proprietor thought
it over and the next day "Vote fol
Mckinley" came down.
The Democrats seem to have found
out that it is about time to observe
the old adage which says eight the