Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-10-29

to Join the political parade tonight,
when the Republicans of the country
paid tribute to James S. Sherman,
nominee for vice-president.
Among the officers in the business
department, and through them the
word has been passed informally along
the line, it is said, that the plant
would likely be shut down for a year
The sales agents would quit canvass
ing old territory and developing new
and everybody would rest until the
condition of business should warrant |
a resumption of activities, provided he /
company's nightmare of Organism
proves true.
Philadelphia, Oct. Eff William
Jennings Bryan is elected President,
West Chester will lose, at least tenn
porariIy, its biggest industrial plant,
the Sharples Separator Works, en-
ploying over ], 200 men in all its de-
partments, in addition to branches
throughout this and other countries.
This is the threat made by P. NJ
Sharples, proprietor of the plant, in a
statement issued in writing to his en-
ployes this morning when they reported
for work. He also ordered them to
appear in the Republican parade this
evening to meet James S. Sherman,
Vice presidential candidate.
The order says in part:
''The blight of the possibility of
the succession of Organism is now up
on US. Letters received every day
from our former best customers, who
should be ordering thousands of separ-
ators at the present time, state that
they are refusing to place orders for
fear Bryan will be elected.
''The possibility of such dire cal
amity to us as his election seems re-
mote, but the hour we are convinced
such a thing will occur, that hour
these works will have to close down
until the stock of tubular separators
we carry is reduced by sales three
quarters. This will be done as a
matter of self preservation and with
as great regret as any employee could
possibly have for the necessity"
Mr.. P. NJ. Sharples, president of g
West Chester, Pa, factory, which
employs 600 men, has posted pla-
card about his plant announcing that
should the 'dire calamity" of MIR.
Bryan's election befall the country
in THAT hour these works will have
to close down. We believe that the
Democratic National Committee re
Gently offered So, 600 for conclusive ev.
idence of an employers coercion
against the candidacy of Mr.. Bryan
Difficult as it is to draw the line 70
the purposes of the court, between
legitimate notice concering presen
and future trade and deliberate use O.
force, it would seem that this case i
reasonably clear Mr. Sharples scorn
to take refuge behind ambiguou
works. He frankly threatens. I'm
less you beat Bryan,'' he says, ''yo'
lose your jobs. :"
This sort of bribery is more danger
Gus than the open barter and sale o
votes. because it is subtler and harde
to exterminate The Democrati
party and Mr.. Bryan have suffered
heavily from it in other campaigns
Aa weapon of political warfare, it /
: peculiarly unfair and contemplate
AS an index of commercial sagacity, l
is a reflection upon any mans intelli
gence. The man who thinks that tn
county will go to the dogs upon Mr.
: Bryan's election is simply fool. III
man who bases minatory notices t
+, his dependents upon such reasonin,
should enjoy either FOOLS esteem o
bushwacker's punishment Mr.
: Sharple's concern manufactures ser
arators. His apparent conceptio
: that the earth will stop bearing graz
when MIR. Bryan steps into the WHIT
. House is profoundinly interesting frol
= the point OF view OF Vne dliehlst-
8 Lockport, n. y, Tuesday. ~ Charlie
y J. Miller, the leading business man
II Newfane. this county, owner OF
: large separator,a coal and wood yai
It and general store, makes public az
h nouncement today that he has cal
5 celled his orders with the Sharpe
Separator Company of West Chester
Z. Pa. because he believes that the con
pany is attempting to coerce its en-
e ployes for political purposes. Al
d Miller received clipping to the eife
? that the Sharples Company had az
le nouneed to its employees that if Brys
i were elected they would be out Of