The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-16
Leave the Democracy.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH
EEEARST'S

Suppose I had had a manager who had made a failure of my Chicago newspaper and I had put in a second manager who had also made a filure of 1t. What would you think of me if l had then put back the first mana ger and let him make a failure of it again, and if l now purposed to put back the second manager and let him make still another failure? You would say that l ought to get a new manager or else conduct the business myself, and l say to you that you ought to sup port a new party or start a new party. yourselves. If any one tells you that the demo- cratic party is a new party. with a new attitude toward workingmen, 1 stand ready to prove that it is the same old democratic party with the same old decetful attitude toward worllingmen
 When, years ago, worlkingmen were in Washington arguing for what they honestly believed to be for the best interest of themselves and their fam flies and their fellow citizens gener- ally, and MT. Bryan called them pub lie beggars." he did not show spirit in sympathy with American labor or in harmony with American ideas.
 And when MT Bryan the other day appointed as treasurer of the demo- cratic campaign fund this man Has kell, member of a secret citizens all liance hostile to labor in a mean and cowardly way. he did not show in that a spirit in sympathy with American labor. or in accordance with American fair play.
 My friends, if I were more of a politician I would stand here and de- claim and endeavor to influence your minds against these and other per formances of MT. Bryan's which have aliepated me from, his support and which truly seem to me to be un- American and unworthy of a man or a statesman, but I am not here as a politician. l am not here to attempt to influence your minds as some poli- ticians try to do. T am here to present plain facts in a plain way. I am here as one of you to give you in- formation that l have and that you ought to have.
 will not trust myself to relate the facts. I will read a plain presen tation of them from the records and from affidavits.
 On September IS, 1893, the manufac- turers of window glass and the win dow glass workers appeared before the committee of ways and means of the democratic Congress of that year.
 They came to protest against a heavy cut in the tariff on window glass MT Bryan was member of the ways and means committee.
 Mir John P. Eberhardt, president of the Window Glass Workers associa- ton of the United States, presented the case of the window glass work CTS before the committee. Mr. Eber- hardt said
 We want better wages than they get abroad; we are not satisfied to have our wives and sisters wheel coal and sand in factories; we desire to have our children attend school in- stead of working before they have even the elements of an education, as is the case of our competitors in the American market who work abroad We are not satisfied to live in houses with only bare cobblestones or Jagged floors, as many of them have to do.
 ''To talk of American workmen working and living as they do in for eign countries is un-American. Can we hope to maintain a free govern ment for the people and by the peo- pie if we destroy the spirit of indiyid- ual freedom and independence in that eople?"
 In the committee of ways and means Mir. Bryan asked MT. Eberhardt the following questions:
 q want to ask you whether the fact that workingmen live better and have shorter haurs makes their labor any more efficient during the time they work?'
 ''Yes, sir answered the glass maker q believe it is possible"
 Tn Belgium" continued MT Bryan, they work on Sundays as well as other days and have no vacations in the summer Does that tell upon their constitutions or render their work less valuable to their employers?"
 MT Eberhardt explained about the surplus of workingmen in Belgium and said that the employer did not care so much about their health. as there were plenty more to fill any gaps
 After the committee meeting the following incident occurred, which I read from a sworn affidavit:
 gro Whom It May Concern:
 This is to certify that I, James Campbell, residing at No. COS Mellon street, in the city of Pittsburg, county of Aleghany and state of Pennsyl-