Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-10-31

sideration however important and ma
terial to the welfare of the wage earn
ers. He is willing to have return
of the conditions that existed III 1896.
so elouuently described by him at that
time, If only he can secure what he re-
CARDS as the proper legislation con-
cerning injunctions. He proposes to
abolish injunctions in industrial dis
pntes where the injunction is issued to
protect the business Of person whose
business is injured by the laWless acts
of working men and this by statute.
He also proposes to legaliZe the sec
ondary boycott, although many trades
unions have distinctly renounced the
use of the secondary boycott as an in
strumentality in industrial disputes
which is unrepublican, un-American
and which is certain to react upon the
user as boomerang with disastrous ef-
feet.
"President Roos welt in a letter to
Mr.. Bryan has inquired Of him whctl-
er the Democratic platform is TO be
taken as favOring this plan of MIR
Gompcrs. which Mr.. Gompers asserts
to lie the fact, saying that it was
agreed between Mr.. Gompers and Mr..
Bryan that what the labor interests
had beer demanding from Congress
should be q part of the Democratic
platform. Mr.. Bryan has refused to
answer Ar. Roosevelt's questions, and
therefore we may take it that he is
committed to Mr.. Gompers' program"
After expressing the belief that the
legislation which Mr.. Gompers pro-
posed would be unconstitutional, Judge
Taft concluded:
THE charge that | ever sentenced a
man without a full hearing or made
an order affecting his wages without
a full hearing, is altogether unfOunded
and false and it is one of those ISLANDERS
circulated at the end of the campaign
for the purpose of awakening the pre-
judices of ignorant or uniformed per
sons.
Il wish here to say that no matter
what Labor may do under the influence
Of Mr.. Samuel Gompers and those as
sociated with him in this campaign, il
am successful the political position of
labor organizations will not deter me
In the slightest from doing what | can
to aid proper legislation in the future
and will not in any way diminish NY
constant interest in the securing to
those who earn their livelihood by the
sweat Of their brow as near an equal
opportunity for progress towards bet
ter things as human society can afford
them. | am confident that many of the
wage-earning class will support the
Republican ticket, because / know their
intelligence and l am sure that they
are able to determine their real inter-
ests and will not be led away by the
fustian and buncombe of such appeals
as those which Mr.. Gompers is now
making to his supposed followers"
At the convention hall meeting, Taft
took up the Standard Oil subject. Mr..
Bryan is greatly troubled" said he,
About my attitude toward the trusts
and even more so by the announce
ment that Mr. Rockefeller is for me-
If the Standard Oil Co, were anxious
to bring about my election | should
take it that the last thing that would
be done would be to advertise it's sup
port of me Therefore this publication
which Mr.. Bryan is now making so
much of, it seems to me, has but little
significance in attempting to show
that the Standard Oil or any other
trust, because it hopes for immunity
from me, is supporting. That isn't the |
way things are done.
There is gentleman from your
city with a very lively Imagination
growing even more lively as the re
sponSbility OF the campaign grows |
upon him. He has conceived the idea
that the Standard Oil Co, contributed
a large amount to the Republican cam
IN,
with great emphasis that neither the
Standard Oil Co, nor anyone connect |
ed with its management has con-
tributed a single cent"
In comparing the remedies for the |
evils in trusts proposed by the Demo-
cratic policies, Mr.. Taft said: The |
administration is prosecuting the |
Standard Oil Co. and it intends to
continue the prosecution until that |
part which may be evil is stamped |
out"
The meeting at Utica today between |
Judge Taft and James S. Sherman and |
the magnitude and enthusiasm Of the re- |
ception the Republican Presidential cam |
didate received in this city tonight were |
other features Of the campaign Judge |
Taft is making in northern New York. |
although at Batavia, late this afternoon. |
he left his car in a driving snow storm |
to speak to many thousands OF people |
who had come to that town from miles
around. Buffalo has two enormous meet
ing places. Concention hall and the
Broadway Arsenal. Two hours before the
time set for the meetings these two places |
were packed and on the outside We're
for admittance enough to fill |
the speaking places a second time. This
was Taft tag day in Buffalo and polit-