The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-10-06

ury, rendered me an appointment as
statistician in the treasury depart
ment: that the bureau of labor Stats
tics of New York offered me a posi-
ton in that bureau; that the Republi-
can party of my district in New York
City nominated me for senator to the
New York state legislature; that a
wing of the Democratic party also
nominated me for senator at the same
election, both of these nominations
being tantamount to an election, and
I declined. The Republican party Of
my district the next year sent COM
mittee to me, offering me the nomina-
ton for congress, saying that they
would surely nominate me If would
accpet, but that they did not wish to
be placed in the position they had
been the year before when they NOM
mated me and I had declined. Gov
ernor Hill Of New York rendered me
the appointment of commissioner of
the board of mediation, Cancellation,
and arbitration. President Mckinley
offered me an appointment upon the
industrial commission and requested
others to wait upon me and urge me
to accept it. I declined all these nom
nations and offers of appointment.
They were simply referred to, not in
any spirit Of vanity, but to ask Mr..
Littlefeld and his henchmen whether
all these things could have been pos
sibly rendered to me if were neither
a citizen nor voter.
The honest" and hard working
man Littlefeld declared that that
man Gompers never did an honest
days work in his whole life and mis-
represents the interests of the work
ing people for his own personal ag-
grandizement" OF course, I had to
meet this charge particularly before q
mixed audience. I called attention to
the fact that I had been put to Work
In factory when I was little more
than 10 years of age. Worked at my
trade for more than 26 years, up to
1886, when the American Federation
Of Labor called me from the bench
and made me president, upon a salary
of 81 200 a year, requiring me to give
my ''entire time" to the labor move
ment. I asked where Mr.. Littlefield
and his henchmen believed officers of
the labor movement came from,
whether he supposed that they were
graduates from colleges or UNIVERSE
ties. informed them an officer in
the labor movement must be wage
Garner, and If there were any gradua-
ton, 1t was from the factory and work
shop, mill or mine-the cruel univer-
sity of hard knocks"
One of the things that contributed
much to Mr.. Littlefleld's discontinue
was that at his Lewiston meeting, at
which meeting he was to reply to the
charges which I made against him,
he had been speaking for Is minutes,
discussing several things, and then
was about to land" on me. At the
first mention of my name, cheer
went up from all sides of the hall.
This made Mr. Littlefeld positively
angry and he lost his head. and then
when he. SAILED in" to me, fully 300
people in the audience at once left the
hall. Then Mr.. Littlefeld was beside
himself, and INDUCED in such vitu-
perative and abusive billingsgate such
as is seldom heard upon the platform.
LittIefieId's Nomination Secured by
Corrupt Methods.
1t is common knowledge in the Sec
ond district Of Maine that Mr.. Little
fields Influence" secured by corrupt
methods his nomination for congress
over his opponent, Mr.. Swazee, and
that the railroads and corporate inter-
ests furnished the means.
That the trusts and corporate inter
ess were enlisted in this campaign to
prevent Mr.. Littlefield's defeat is evi-
| denced by the hysterla of the hostile
press throughout the country. That
they recognized him as their plant
tool no one questions, even now that
| the election is over.
The commercial, railroad, and ship
ping trusts poured immense sums of
| me ney into the campaign and the
methods used to get" the nomination
| were amply employed to secure Mr..
Littlefield's election at any cost.
The Parry-Po st-Gripe-Nuts, Manufac-
turers' Association and so-called Citi-
| zens' Alliance had their henchmen in
the field. A Mr.. York was much in
| evidence, even though his work was
| of the dark-lantern order.
A wholesale wine and whisky house
of New York sent out letters to the
grocery men and the illicit whiskey
dealers in prohibition Maine warning
them against the dangers" of Mr.
Littlef1eld's defeat and the Invasion
OF the "demagogues" of labor.
A trust representative of Boston
sent out "conf1dentiaI' letter urging
the Interests" to stand together re-
CARELESS of party against that man
Gompers."
Trusts and Corporations for Littlefjeld
! Every species of trust influence, OF
corporate wealth methods ever en-
ployed In the most despicable and cor
rupt campaign in history was dupli
Gated If not improved upon in the eff
fort to prevent the defeat of Mr., Lit
tlefield. It is to the credit and homo,
OF the people that they aided in ad
ministering a terrible rebuke to Mr.
Littlefeld and all he stood for.
Socialists for LittIefield.
In addition to the concentrated of
fort made by all these forces and In
t1uences just referred to was the hit
ter antagonism of the Socialist party
That party had some of its hes,
known shouters at meetings. - r
printed immense numbers If looAo+.