Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-10-31
WORKINGMEN AROUSED
A Formidable Movement Against
Judge Yerkes.

nee of the Democratic and Union
Parties on Account of His Attitude
Toward Their Interests.
Especial Correspondence)
Philadelphia, Oct. 29.-The action
Of the labor unions of philadelphia,
Pittsburg and elsewhere throughout
Pennsylvania in urging all working.
men to vote against Judge Harman
Yerkes, nominee of the Democratic
and Union parties for justice of the
supreme court of Pennsylvania has
given the politicians of those parties
no little concern. 1t is now known
that thousands of voters are now
working to bring about the defeat
of Judge Yerkes, and that a sentiment
against his candidacy has been mani
tested which will result in many thou
sands Of Democrats voting the full
Republican ticket.
The last time the Democratic lead.
ers made the mistake of putting up a
candidate Objectionable to the labor
element. when William M. Singerly
ran for governor, they received q
crushing rebuke in the defeat of their
ticket by an unprecedented majority.
The candidacy of Judge Yerkes has
resulted in a similar condition of af-
fairs in the present political cam
paign.
The organized workingmen through
out Pennsylvania are arrayed solidly
against him. The street railway men,
the mine workers, the cigar makers,
the building trades unions and the
hundred and more other labor inter-
ests have united to administer a de-
served rebuke to the Democratic and
Union party leadership that put Judge
Yerkes in nomination.
A LABOR ORGANS PROTEST.
AS an evidence of the feeling on this
subject, the following editorial from
the official organ of the workingmen
of Philadelphia, The New Era speaks
for itself:
A great outcry is being made
by the fusionists about preserving
the integrity of the supreme court,
and it is possible that this hue
and cry. raised by the agents of
corporations and the interests op-
posed to labor organizations, may
deceive workingmen and entice
them to vote for Judge whose ut
terances and record establish the
fact that he is an implacable en-
emy of trade unions.
The important thing for voters
who sell their labor for wages to
ic hot to h.
Harman Gerkes to the working
class? If they find he has persist
emily followed the idea prevalent
in the dark ages tha' those who
gain livelihood by toll have no
rights that an employer is bound
to respect, no issues manufact-
ured by skilled political mahipula-
tors should cloud the peril wage
earners would be in If Harman
Yerkes should be elected to the
supreme court.
One OF the greatest dangers
that menaces worllingmen Is the
subserviency of our courts to the
dictation of the trusts and COR
porations. Judges are now pro-
hibiting workingmen from per-
suading their fellows to join
union, and Furnishing the refusal
to obey this judge-made law by
confiscating the property bought
with money saved from their hard
earned wages.
The trusts and the corporations
nnd 1t cheaper to own a Judge
than to pay the campaign ex-
penses of Legislative candidates,
and their tools on the bench are
not subject to the same free criti-
cism as our law makers.
Corporation judges have it in
their power to nullify any law
affecting the interests of their
masters. and the judicial ermine
protects them from the wrath of
the people they defraud.
The records of Bucks county
show that Judge Harman Yerkes
was generously lenient to the cor
porations while he was heartless-
ly severe to the unfortunate and
erring poor. His friends may say
that this is due to his judicial
mind, but worRingmer have
grounds to believe that f. was
something worse than judicial
! mind that impelled him to he len.
lent 10 the rich and severe 10 the
poor.
The honest an6 Industrious
poor man knows how hard is the
! struggle Tor existence, and ne is
| painfully aware Of the fact that
week or two of idleness may force
him to leave home to look for
work.