Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-08-27

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AS part of the general scheme to
bring discredit upon President
Roosevelt's administration, two
New York papers have, within the
past week, given great prominence
to articles sadly at variance with
the facts but likely to be very gen
orally circulated and believed.
The first of these appears in an
ostensibly republican paper, but
one dominated by Wall Street in
terests and pledged to defeat the
nomination of Mr.. Roosevelt at
the next convention if that be pos
sible. These stories which bear
every semblance of truth, are to
the effect that the President has
inaugurated systematic investi-
CATION of the relations between
union labor and the employees of
all the executive departments of
the Government with view TO
discrediting organized labor.
These stories are, however, en-
tirely without foundation as the
President has not, nor does he in
tend to order such an investiga-
ton. The meager facts on which
the allegation is based have been
related in the letters before. After
the William Miller case in the
Government Printing Office was
brought to the special attention of
the President, he wrote to Secre-
tary Cortelyou letter pointing out
that there was no legal warrant for
discrimination between union and
non-union labor in the executive
departments and cited the decision
of the Anthracite Coal Strike Com
mission as principal to be adopted.
A copy of this letter Mr.. Roosevelt
caused to be sent to the head of
each department for his personal
guidance, should a similar question
arise. In the course of the discus
sion of theMiller incident, ,represen-
tations were made to the President
that the cost of printing and bind
ing in the Government Office was
excessive and it was alleged that
this was due to the rules of the
unions limiting the daily output of
each of their members. Mr..
Roosevelt then instructed that an
investigation of the methods of the
Office be instituted and that in
vestigation has been quietly and
thoroughly conducted by COM
mittee especially appointed for the
purpose. The committee in the
course Of its inquiry, asked of
various members of the Cabinet,
their experience with union labor,
the request for information being
purely incidental to the investi-
cation they were conducting, and
on this fiimsy protest is based the
allegation. The whole animus in
the series of Washington dispatches
printed by the paper referred to
was shown recently when side by
side with the last of them was
printed a dispatch from Chicago
saying that the stationary engin-
eer's union had pledged themselves
to defeat Mr.. Roosevelt, in the
convention if possible, but if not
at the polls. The hope of the pub
lication printing these dispatches
is that the republican politicians
may be lead to believe that the
the President has incurred the
enmity of the labor organizations
and that his nomination would
mean defeat for the party.
No authentic news has been re-
ceived from Bogota regarding the
Panama canal treaty since the re-
port that it had been rejected, as
drafted by the Colombian Senate.
The Administration is still hopeful,
however, that the Senate will re-
consider it's action as it has been
known to do under similar circum-
stances on several previous occa-
sions.
Taken With Gramna