The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-10-29
CONDITIONAL ORDER FAKES.


A manufacturing company at Co
lumbus has Joined the ranks of those
rank manufacturers OF political pre-
judiees by announcing the receipt OF
conditional orders" This year con
ditional orders" are supposed to de-
pend upon the election of Taft for
president.
This old and threadbare political
fake has been so overworked in preEf-
Dental campaigns that 1t is surPris-
ing any manufacturer or business con-
Germ could be found today with SO
little sense or scruple as to insult the
intelligence of the people of the Uni
ted States by the revival of this old
humbug,
Just a little information as to the
Columbus concern. which is now in
dulging in the conditional orders
fake, may be interesting to the peo-
pie of Ohio, especially to the work
ingmen OF the state. This Columbus
concern is known in the business
world as the Jeffrey Manufacturing
Company. The head Of the company
is j. A. Jeffrey, father of a former re-
publican mayor of Columbus. and
bitterly partisan republican at all
times.
This same J. A. jeffrey is also
known in the business world for his
hostility to organised labor and he
is today a member Of the executive
board of that organization which has
had Parry and Post forrits presidents
and now has for it's president ]. A,
Van Cleave, who has been taking an
active part in the campaign against
Mr.. Bryan.
So that when the manufacturing
concern, of which ]. A. jeffrey is
head, announces that It received or
ders Subject to Mr. Taft's election
to the presidency" II is not difficult
to see through the partisan motive
of this overworked insult to intelli-
gent citizenship.
+ A Cream Separator Company in
Pennsylvania, which has insulted the
intelligence of all the farmers of the
| United States, as we'll as working
men and business men by undertak-
ing to bulldoze its customers with
threats to close down II Bryan is
elected, another form OF the "condi-
tional order" humbug, got we'll de-
served rebuke from Marbaugh Bros,
hardware dealers at Monterey. Ind.
Marbaugh Bros. who are republicans,
in their reply informed the unpatri-
otic authors of the letter they re-
ceived from the Cream Separator
Company that I'VE will at least make
an effort to let the democrats know
that your companys threats are un-
fair and unprincipled and that your
company does not deserve the trade
4 coming from the democratic business
men" Marbaugh Bros. also say in
their letter that they viii bring the
company's insult before the next
meeting of the Ha DWARF Business
Mems association for the reason
that I'VE consider such political die
tation an insult to any American
voter who reserves the right to vote
according to his political convic'
tons"
Such an answer would tittingly ap'
ply to every unpatriotic concern
which INDUCES Id the Conditional
order fake and Its half brother, the
threat to "ahut down" as the result
OF q presidential election.
Another evidence Of the purely
partisan character of this humbug Is
furnished by the Ohio State Journal,
q republican paper at Columbus,
which contained an editorial in its
issue Tuesday, october 20. approving
such unscrupulous political tactics.