The Cairo bulletin., 1907-04-22
INSPIRED BY HIS
PARTIES ENEMIES
ATTACK OF PRESIDENT ON THE
LABOR UNIONS DONE WITH
A MOTIVE.
CONTROL BY RICH MEN
! OF aNton's Affairs is Openly Asserted
NO Exclamation of Sherman
Letter-capitol Political
Gossip.

! Washington, ID. c., April IL
| Apropos Of the adop ion of rcsolu
items by labor organize ions in Chicl
20 last night criticisng the president
for his classification OF Haywood ant
Meyer officers of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Min RS. as undesirable cit
liens" II was reiterated at the White,
House today that the president would
ignore the demands for an explanation
Of his language. 1t will be recalled
that in his tier to Chairman Sner.
nan, Of The Republican congressional
committee written last August and
made public little over two weeks
Iago, in which he denounced f, H Har.
riman the railroad magma ., the
president said:
But ii shows a cyniclsm and deep.
seated corruption which makes the
nan tHarriman) uttering such SEMI
ments. and boasting no matter how
falsely of this power to perform such
crimes, at least as undesirable a cit
izen as Debs. or Meyer or Haywood ="
Air adv four or five labor unions
aaye adopted resolutions complaining
If such Characterization of Meyer ana
Haywood on the eve OF their trial for
murder and calling upon the pres.
dent TO make a statement as 10 whetl-
az rAt.n mn h aA nj
1t has seemed to those who read the
presidents letter to Chairman Sher.
man TO he superfious to call upon him
for such an ayowal inasmuch as there
II Absolutely no doubt that he allnd
to the officers of the Western FEEDER
alton in the maner described, 1t il
for this reason, perhaps that the pres
MT is resolved not to reply to tho
various requests OF the different Ia
DOR organizations thai he declare
whether or not he actually said IT,
L is not known however, whether be
will take cogni2anca Of the demand
should it be re-enforced by 80 or 40
Inions in as many cities.
Acting on the Quiet.
Republicans OF prominence. who
nave no reluctance in seeing the pres
dent confronted with an embarrassing
situation are watching the develop
nents in this case with unusual in
crest and not little qualification. 4
S. Cf course useless to expect any of /
hese men to express their opinion
publicly, but in private they say II
ooks TO them as though the pr sident /
ad made faux pas which is very
kelly TO cause him great annoyance
4 the near future. These men ex
ress the opinion in personal CONVEX
alton that before long scores of labor
EXAMINATIONS will probably take up
he Haywood Meyer matter and insist
pom an explanation of the presidents
haracterizat. ons of them, and they
link the pr sIdent will have consid-
rable difficulty In satisfying the
rades unioniss.
Some of the presidents friends have
lready begun TO suspect that the ac
ion of labor organizations is not spon
aneous, but has be inspired by
zen who hope to diminish his power
nd influence. In other words. il is
Inspected that this is one evidence of
he alleged rich mans conspiracy TO
ain control Of IN Republican party
nd nominate reacii0nary' for
resident in 1898. II may stra n the
to share this suspicion.
mt the labor unions themselves will
ave to demonstrate whether or not it
S well founded. Should the resent
nent thus far shown by the unions
pread to other sections of the coun-
~ il may possibly have some effect
pom the Ohio situation. where the op-
'onents of tn pres dent and Score
airy Taft have already hauled out
ertain decisions in labor disputes
which were handed down by Mr Taft
when he was Judge of a United States
curt. more han decade ago In
act. the two things have already been
ouplcd mp by persCns identified with
he sttae organization which the Buck
we senators control.
Tn. Idaho Case.
The case of Haywood and Meyer is
INST now agilating the labor organiza-
ions Of toe Far West, and the sym
athy Of some of the unions in the
last has been arOus in their behalf
'hese men are charged with being as
essories before the fact to the mur-
er Of former Governor ST nuremberg
I Idaho who while chief magistrate
{ The state employed he militia in
expressing labor riots They had
heir headquar.ers in C. Dorado al ID
me. but we're spirited out Of thu
tate az night and turned over % tho
daho authorities for trial They ea-
cavor TO sec re- their freedom by
INVOKING the habeas corpus. but even
be supreme court Of the TniteI
states decided agains them They
ave had on trial and are now about
D have their ec-nd.
Nearly every prominent Republican
rho comes 90 Washington these DAYS
eciares frankly that II the presid M
S a candidate for another term d.
gill have no difficulty IN securing The
next year But IL is Diff