Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1904-10-27
CREDIT TO ROOSEVELT
WOrkingmen of Pennsylvania Re-
pudiate Professional Demo-
cratic Campaigners.
THEY STOOD BY THE PRESIDENT
A Scheme of the Parker Machine
Which Has Not Worked Well
Here.
Especial Correspondence

tee has seen ut to employ number OF
professional agitators and to publish
what would appear to be special edi-
tions of papers apparently printed in
the interest of labor to bolster up the
Democratic campaign.
desperate attempt is being made to
swing the votes of the workingmen OF
the country to Parker and free trade
and to the Democratic candidates for
! congress who are committed to re-
peal of the tariff and to other policies
calculated to destroy the business in
! terests of the country.
While the Democratic managers do
J not hope to carry Pennsylvania for
| Parker. they have devoted their cam
paign in this state to a scheme TO get
workingmen to vote for the Democratic
nominees for congress.
| They have flooded some of the con-
| gressional districts with these news
| papers manufactured specially for the
campaign, but they have failed signally
in this undertaking.
The workingmen of Pennsylvania
| have become acquainted with the influ-
ences back of this campaign, and they
have taken steps to inform all who
might be fooled by these tactics as to
! the true condition of affairs.
| At a meeting of representative men
| of the anthracite coal regions held in
| Scranton a few days ago, action was
taken which will completely upset the
| plans Of the Democrats. A committee,
| of which E c. Patterson is chairman
and Thomas Henry secretary, was ap-
pointed to present the facts to the
voters OF the country. and as the result
of their deliberations resolutions were
unanimously adopted which have the
ring of sincerity and stamp Of truth.
These resolutions, among other
things, set forth:
Whereas, We have seen by the press
reports that an organization known as
the Western Federation of Miners has
at the cOnnivance and solicitation of
the Democratic national committee
sent some of its members through the
Middle, Western and Eastern States to
advocate the election Of the Democratic
nominees for president and vice presi-
dent of the United States, hoping to
induce other workmen to support said
nominees by their votes at the coming
November election; and
Whereas, 1t is inconsistent with the
principles and teaching Of any just la
Dor organization to advocate or give
preference TO any politician or any po-
litical party, but to be true to those
who by their actions respect. uphold
and support the rights Of labor; and
Whereas. We know from past expe-
rience, and the people Of our country
know by the press reports of the past,
that Hon. Theodore Roosevelt was i'm
bued with the American spirit of fair
play when he appointed the commits
sion to inquire into the grievances Of
which the anthracite miners and work
men complained, and by such actions
gave us a chance to show TO the people
Of our country that we had just cause
for complaint, and to ask redress for
those wrongs, as may be seen by the
report of said commission; therefore,
be II
Resolved. That inasmuch as those
national Democratic committeeman
have seen fit to hire those so-called
Western Federation men to act the
part of calamity howlers hoping there
by to impose upon the liberal minds
and tender sympathies OF workingmen
to the detriment of those entitled TO
well-meTited support, we earnestly ask
all lovers Of fair play to consider well,
before voting, the merits of the princi-
pals in this campaign, and having done
so, to vote conscientiously for the men
who best deserve their suffrages, and
consistently maintain the rights OF
American freemen, and not be led,
pulled or gulled by any base hirelings
or sychophants who dare approach
them to solicit their votes because Of
their membership in a labor union;
and be it further
Resolved. That appreciating the man
Illness, of the man who had the courage
of his convictions to at his country's
call leave all that he held near and dear
In this world and hasten to the front,
ready and willing TO yield up his life
on the altar of his country, would the
sacrifice be necessary for the liberty Of
the down-trodden and oppressed, and
who has always shown his sympathetic
feeling for the lowly and the toiling
masses of the people, and on many oc-
casions has publicly displayed his good
will for the plain people, and by his
love of fair play and justice to men ac-
cording to merits, that we, appreciating
what he has done to promote his and
our country's welfare, and knowing his
many sacrifices in behalf Of our coun-
trys interests and our own, ask all
lovers OF liberty and fair play to sup
port Hon. Theodore RoOsevelts can
didacy for the Office of president of
these United States, and show to the
world that the workingmen of this
country, regardless of partisan strife,
are not unmindful of what he has done
for them: and that we at this time and
in this way express our appreciation of
his worth, and by these presents send
greeting to the wOrkingmen OF our
country, ana 2sk all men VINO DelleVe
in honoring merit. justice and fair play
to march rcsolutely to the polls on the
eighth day of next November and cast
their votes for the election OF Hon.
Theodore Roosevelt. the friend of the
| people.
The resolutions further declare that
15O. 900 men OF this region "reiterate
their faith in the presidents judgment
and ability. and pledge to him, as an
active friend of the workingmen. our
| sincere support; and we earnestly ask
the workingmen Of all crafts through
out our country to join with us in aid
ing his election by a stupendOus vote,
as just tribute to his merits, that we
may all have in the White House man
| whose worth we apDrpCiatp and whose